Comments on: DRM ‘violates Canadian privacy laws’

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:06:08 +0000

In reviewing your source, we find that you are tracking from wordpress.com

and they are tracking from google

_uacct = “UA-98756-11″;

Boy is this the kettle calling the pot black? guess p2pnet.new may want to block all traffic from Canada, as they may be breaking a law

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:16:47 +0000

As for me, it looks like copyright laws are rather being ABUSED these days to perform racket-like actions, keep illegal sound-recording monopolies alive, etc.

Sound recording companies are dinosaurs of pre-digital era and should die by horrible death.However they’re inventing crippled stuff like DRM, invading to the privacy and trying to slow down the progress instead.Effectively harming everyone.Why somebody have to pay for zero-cost duplication many years again and again?Yse, 20 years ago it was a problem to record CD-ROM on my own and sound recording monsters were reasonable.Now everyone can record CDs on his own.So what they’re doing?Performing racket-like actions to continue old-style business which is not needed today?Great, yep.We do need bunch of racketeers and technology saboteurs for sure, othervice life is too boring!Great methods!Racket instead of honest competition.Sounds cool, yep?:)

Why they’re allowed to brutally break into private life?If I bought something it is up to me on which device to watch\listen it.Directing me “you can not use this on device X because we decided so” is breaking into my private life! :E.Argh, I can pirate then, you say?I’ll reply: innocent unless proven guilty.That’s how law works.So DRM is really semi-illegal itself.

By: lame_dude

lame_dude — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:56:12 +0000

If you eat the sh*t, and agree to pay money, why someone have to improve their products?Just stop buying DRMed crap.Problem will disappear then.
P.S. it is strange to see but democracy miserably fails.Those with lots of moneys are allowed to invade into the privacy, perform racket-like actions, bribe(argh, they calling this giving gifts), spying, …
Actually some of these things are serious crime so it is often DRM creators or RIAA-like media gangsters who is REALLY should get jailed.However looks like law works in simple way: “These who pays lots of moneys to right persons are legal no matter whatever they doing.They can’t be illegal.So these semi-criminal companies are going on.

By: Rafael Venegas

Rafael Venegas — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:37:43 +0000

AMAZING, ISN’T IT?

While the source of income of the drug lords and other racketeers are “protected” because of “right to privacy issues”, music companies can collecte all kinds of information, even when there is no justification or reason, such as when a personal computer Internet use is investigated to see if tou share or download certain types (today music, tomorrow, who knows what type) of files.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:20:31 +0000

I’ve sort of expected this and wondered either when the major labels would think of something like this or when it would be reported that they were doing such. I mean look at Sony and think a minute about it while I give you another example that lead me to this conclusion when the Sony Rootkit came out.

There was a big deal over paying for tickets and live concerts where the singers weren’t actually singing. They were spending all their energy in dancing for the show and no one seemed to remember that the thing the fans came for was to hear the music. The dance routine was secondary. Yet another occurred in a TV broadcast live where the wrong music was played and the group wasn’t playing to the tune and the singer wasn’t mouthing the right words. (I think that was Ashley?)

When it came down to the reasons, no one on the technical staff understood why it was such a big deal. They had done it so long in the studio that it was considered standard practice. None of the technical staff had a clue why anyone was upset to find out that the singers and the group weren’t actually performing live but rather acting live.

Well, this may be what you consider circular logic in a way but Sony had the same troubles as to why anyone would have a problem with their rootkit. They had taken the next standard practice step in their path. Done so long on the other stuff that they could not “get it”.

I’ve gotten to where I sort of expect this sort of behavior from corporations and freebees. Because of that, you won’t catch me on a social site. I’m sure it’s a lot of fun but I resent the spying that goes on and the datamining for sites and for programs.

If and when I use something like this it’s on a computer that will not connect to the net. It won’t be calling home, it won’t be datamining and sending back results, and it won’t be getting on the net for some trojan or bot net. It seems to be the only solution. I surf with an econo box that is a cheap machine while my better box never sees the net.