Thanks to Horse for this Register link “SOPA is dead, are you happy now ?”
I’m for fair IP Copyright licensing. Fair is a tough question – but I’m for answering it.
I’m against bad legislation – Duh, who isn’t, that’s what bad means, let’s improve it.
There is already legal enforcement of copyright in most democratic mixed economies, what new arrangements need to cover is how it’s enforceable when it crosses national boundaries via intermediary services. If people don’t make fair effort to comply, and knowingly encourage and enable others to break IP terms, then I can’t see any defence.
Half the rants seem to be anti-authoritarian – against mis-application of the legal powers of enforcement – ulterior motives of the establishment to use the cover of such legislation to trample unfairly over otherwise legal but inconvenient uses of internet communications – see fair.
The other half of the rants seem to be anti-capitalist – against any tendencies to make “loadsa” money (or even any money at all ?) out of selling fair use of copyrighted content – see fair.
Fair ? In a mixed-economy democracy ? These are the clues.
Previous threads
https://www.psybertron.org/?p=4099
https://www.psybertron.org/?p=4063
https://www.psybertron.org/?p=4059
Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly argues:
What’s extremely discouraging to me right now is that I don’t really see how we [the tech world and the US Congress] can have a nuanced, technically-informed, respectful discussion/debate/conversation/working relationship.
Instead all we get is the media industries engaging in back room lobbying to get bad bills passed while the tech world shotguns abuse until Congress capitulates. Talk about a dysfunctional relationship.
[Ha – Megaupload were not averse to a little illegal capitalism then, magic.]
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