Too bad you can't get your facts right. An Australian Federal Court ruled against Men at Work for clearly stealing the distinctive flute riff used in the song and not compensating the author. BUT even so, they only have to pay 5% of royalties. And only on royalties since 2002. Seems reasonable. Unlike your claim that they were losing 90% and leaving out that it was only royalties since 2002. Since it was a number 1 song back in 1983, this is NOT a huge payout to the owners of the original song's copyright. http://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2011/10/07/men-at-work-lose-kookabura-copyright-suit/
Yes, I happen to think it's right to pay artists for their creative efforts and that it is wrong to buy or sell copies of their work for which they aren't compensated.
I find it fascinating that a song writer gets paid forever for there work and yet the guy who invented CD players is probably getting nothing because EVERYONE can make CD players (same goes for movie studios and DVD players). Further more on DVDs specifically, ever herd of "free trade". I as a consumer have a right to buy an item at the lowest cost even if that means importing it from another country. Region locking of DVDs, Bluerays and Games inhibits this right. So basically, your going to fuck with my rights and try to charge me twice as much as I could get it from in say the US (LEGALLY, through somewhere like Amzon) then fuck you Im going to feel no guilt when I download it.
Nope, Copyright doesn't last forever and the inventor of the CD player owns the patent for 20 years. As to Region codes, sure you want to rationalize why you are stealing, go ahead, but you are still stealing.
A company in breach of the trade practice act is required to pay HEAVY fines to there customers (look at the QANTAS case, the Visi case etc), the ACCC has innumberable times stated that region locking is a restriction in trade which is illegal under the Trade practices act. The fact that the government has chosen not to prosecute is irrelevant.
No, it wasn't. They listened to people who understand how to make money by maintaining a system of near indentured servitude for the artists and a system of rental disguised as ownership for the fans of those artists. If they had listened to people who understand the actual problem they wouldn't have come up with a law that was impossible to implement in the real world. And I don't just mean heavily biased towards achieving tangential aims such as censorship, curtailing free speech and preventing progress in the fields of content delivery. I mean literally impossible to implement fairly or legally. Not to mention the proven mathematical impossibility of preventing unauthorised copying. If a medium can be decoded for consumption it can necessarily also be copied. There are proven ways to reduce piracy, so the people who designed and support the act are either blithely unaware of them or intentionally ignoring them because they threaten their anti-competitive and exploitative way of doing business. And just because anti-competitive behaviour and exploitation are loosely enforced (if at all), it doesn't mean everyone should wholeheartedly get behind laws which claim to do one thing but actually just shore up a given unsustainable business model. It's bullshit, and even it's supporters wouldn't believe it if it didn't come from fellow corporate fascists. The bill will do more harm to non-pirates than it will pirates, and while pirates will easily adapt (because the methods used were proven time and again through theory and practice to be ineffective against the simple expedient of programmers using logic and math), the non pirates will be saddled with the burden of paying for redundant and ineffectual systems of protectionism.
"Stealing" does not have the same meaning as "license infringement". Stealing deprives the rightful owner of their property. The mafiaa like to conflate the terms, but they know, and you know, and I know, that they are not the same thing.
"licence infringement" as Asguard described it, where instead of buying the DVD he pirated the video and indeed enjoyed the work that it took to make the DVD, did in fact cheat the people who produced the DVD were entitled to. You just want to quibble on the term used to describe this though.
You know at one stage they wanted to ban lending books, so if you owned a book and you let anyone else read it you were a criminal. Supposedly because there were 6 people living in our house we were supposed to buy 6 copies of Harry Potter. How they expected to enforce this is beyond me
Many of them aren't compensated for their studio work. At least, not in the sense of earning a positive amount of money based on the work they do. By this point it may even be most of them. Artists make their money from concerts, guest appearances, merchandise and peripheral earnings. Many artists who go "gold" end up broke or in debt to the distributor. If you had, for a change, been interested in having your knee jerk assumptions challenged, or even just collecting enough information to make a fair and balanced appraisal of the situation, you could easily read any of the articles written by actual content creators (creators, not distributors) about that very subject. It's been common knowledge and a virtually unanimous belief among those you were sanctimoniously affecting to defend for decades. Probably longer, but the artists I know or have read about weren't around then. So how about, before you go shooting off at the mouth, you trouble yourself to actually find out about the thing you've chosen to be contrarian about. I mean, everyone needs a hobby, that's fine, but at least give yourself a fighting chance.
Again, what are these proven ways that you claim were ignored? http://a2im.org/2012/01/18/a2im-on-copyright-protection/ http://www.allianceofvisualartists.com/ <== supports SOPA http://www.afm.org/ <== supports SOPA http://www.publishers.org/ <== supports SOPA http://www.aimp.org/ <== supports SOPA 3M Company ABRO Industries, Inc. 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You mean to say you didn't even try to find out? Quelle fucking surprise. The first and most obvious one is to invest in content delivery systems which are actually useful and convenient to people, instead of investing in making them less useful and less convenient in the idiotic belief that inconvenience will stop criminals. It won't. If anything it encourages them. Look at the the biggest competitors for online piracy; systems like steam or kontiki or netflix. Another option (not one I expect the distributors to ever accept) is to produce high quality content that people want to consume without having to be prompted, rather than concentrating on lowest common denominator rubbish and then having shove it down people's throats by deluging everyone (but especially the young) with advertising. Yet another option is to put some of the lawyers fees and politicians bribes into actually catching the people who rip and upload, rather than the technologies which are used to do it with (since it's impossible to make a computer which can't be used for that and have it still be a computer.) Yet another option is to be honest about what people are buying when they license content, to make sure they understand that they don't own it in any legal sense. There are plenty of ways, (if those several aren't enough of an answer to your appeals to ignorance, let me know and I'll give some more) but unfortunately most of them don't protect the distribution cartel's untenable business model, so they are unlikely to gain broad adoption until the situation reaches a head.
I was getting to that. Thinking takes longer than regurgitating foxnews style propaganda, so I'm at a disadvantage from the point of view of speed.
Then why pretend to be on the side of the content creators? Why don't you and the cartel just say "we support whatever is most profitable, and we don't care if it's the people doing the work who get the profit." It might not be popular, but at least it's not a premeditated lie designed for emotional manipulation to distract from the actual issue.
Total BS They already exist. Anyone can search for and legally buy any content they want to with almost no effort at all. What's that argument: It's ok to steal, that will teach them to make better quality stuff? Actually just BS, the content is already high quality. The music and movie industry is vibrant. Yet nothing in SOPA does anything to any piece of computer hardware. Not sure that's a problem. Sure isn't to the people running the offshore sites making money from pirating content. They are quite aware of what they are doing. And yet you didn't come up with one concrete way of doing anything to actually stopping piracy. Indeed everything you posted is oriented on simply convincing people not to do it. As you can see from Asguard's post, that doesn't work because he claims he has a right to do so.
BS, many of them were groups of content creators. The point is that it is broadly supported by content creators.
So if there are 350 (heavily interconnected) companies whose management either support or don't openly oppose SOPA, how many does that leave? I mean, there must be at least 355 companies in America. What? More than that? By orders of magnitude? Oh but there's no point looking at them because they don't regurgitate the right brand of corporate fascism? Right you are.