Re:"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders
by njharman on Thursday March 18, 2010 @01:32PM
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"There is no difference with going into a store and stealing Pringles or a handbag and taking this stuff"
Other than shoplifting is probably a misdeamenor with small fine and maybe 30-90 days in county jail. Whereas copyright infringment does such violence to (USA)society that it's been deemed necessary to punish with 5yrs in (federal) jail and $250,000 fine per instance of infringing. So, actually physically stealing CD == wrist slap (first time offender). Threatining out of date industry's business model 75 years and 3.75 million dollars (15 song CD).
"International Chamber of Commerce which argued that 1.2 million jobs could be lost in Europe as a result of copyright infringement by 2015"
Is a meaningless metric unless compared to the number of jobs that could be lost in Europe by 2015 due to the ever expanding and insanely broad copyright protections.
I personally have had a career in IT due to pirated versions of DOS/Windows (20+ years ago, gotta start somewhere) and other softwares along the way. And btw by becoming a professional I've recommended, got purchased & installed way, way more $$$ worth of software than I have ever pirated. Studies have been done showing similar effects for music.
Of course these days cause of absurd DRM, EULA's, et al I recommend / work with Open Source almost exclusively. So, it's really your own paranoid control fetishes that are destroying your industries. Not Sexsay Pirates.
Other than shoplifting is probably a misdeamenor with small fine and maybe 30-90 days in county jail. Whereas copyright infringment does such violence to (USA)society that it's been deemed necessary to punish with 5yrs in (federal) jail and $250,000 fine per instance of infringing. So, actually physically stealing CD == wrist slap (first time offender). Threatining out of date industry's business model 75 years and 3.75 million dollars (15 song CD).
"International Chamber of Commerce which argued that 1.2 million jobs could be lost in Europe as a result of copyright infringement by 2015"
Is a meaningless metric unless compared to the number of jobs that could be lost in Europe by 2015 due to the ever expanding and insanely broad copyright protections.
I personally have had a career in IT due to pirated versions of DOS/Windows (20+ years ago, gotta start somewhere) and other softwares along the way. And btw by becoming a professional I've recommended, got purchased & installed way, way more $$$ worth of software than I have ever pirated. Studies have been done showing similar effects for music.
Of course these days cause of absurd DRM, EULA's, et al I recommend / work with Open Source almost exclusively. So, it's really your own paranoid control fetishes that are destroying your industries. Not Sexsay Pirates.