http://techdirt.com/ often covers this stuff. A good read on copyright and patents and their effect on the industry.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://bit.ly/9v4F0W > > This is happening NOW. It isn't something in the works, or down the > line. Governments and businesses have found a way to block and control > the internet and the way we use it under the guise of 'Copyright' > protection. > > "In the US, the MPAA and RIAA (American equivalents of the MPA and the > BPI) just submitted comments to the American Intellectual Property > Czar, Victoria Espinel, laying out their proposal for IP enforcement. > They want us all to install spyware on our computers that deletes > material that it identifies as infringing. They want our networks > censored by national firewalls (U2's Bono also called for this in a > New York Times editorial, averring that if the Chinese could control > dissident information with censorware, our own governments could > deploy similar technology to keep infringement at bay). They want > border-searches of laptops, personal media players and thumb-drives. > > They want poor countries bullied into diverting GDP from humanitarian > causes to enforcing copyright. And they want their domestic copyright > enforcement handled, free of charge, by the Department of Homeland > Security. > > Elements of this agenda are also on display (or rather, in hiding) in > the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a treaty being drafted > between a member's club of rich nations. They've turned their back on > the United Nations to negotiate in private, without having to contend > with journalists or public interest groups. By their own admission, > they intend to impose this treaty on poor countries as a condition of > ongoing trade, and in the US, the Obama administration has announced > its intention to pass ACTA without Congressional debate. > > I'm not such a techno-triumphalist that I believe that the free and > open internet will solve all our socio-economic problems. But I am > enough of a techno-pessimist to believe that baking surveillance, > control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices > and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hell. > > Chekhov wrote that a gun on the mantelpiece in act one is sure to go > off by act three. The entertainment industry's blinkered pursuit of > its own narrow goals has the potential to redesign our technology to > be the perfect tools and excuses for oppression." > > This is all happening very quietly, out of the spotlight of the Media. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316102 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
