Time to pay for the net: Rupert Murdoch
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- ACTA — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement — is of deep interest to anyone who’s the least concerned about the net.
Last week, “the United States met behind closed doors with dozens of other countries in Seoul, South Korea to consider a global agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights,” said KEI and Public Knowledge, going on:
“This agreement, though named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), implicates changes to international intellectual property norms far broader than its name suggests.”
ACTA has also been called the Hollywood Dream.
But movie moguls, not to mention Big Music, aren’t the only ones watching its progress.
“ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.,” said the IDG News Service recently.
However, as p2pnet has often observed, “Promoted by America, Yes — but on behalf of the entertainment industry.”
The Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net ‘initiative’ touted around the world as individual government plans, “is nothing but a part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to turn governments into copyright agencies funded by local taxpayers, and ISPs into copyright police, acting against their own customs,” we said.
Now, not surprisingly, Oz zillionaire and Fux owner Rupert Murdoch (right) Rupert reckons net access content is worth money.
Lots of money. And who better to mine it?
But why should net users, who’ve always enjoyed free content, suddenly have to pay for it?
Easy, says Rupert, “They shouldn’t have had it free all the time.
“I think we’ve been asleep.”
So now it’s time to for Rupert to give us a rude awakening.
And make himself even richer in the process.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
KEI and Public Knowledge – Missing Safeguards in ACTA present risks to consumers in the United States, November 9, 2009
Hollywood Dream – ACTA, the Hollywood dream: CIPPIC, May 27, 2009
IDG News Service – Trade Talks Hone in on Internet Abuse and ISP Liability, November 3, 2009
often observed – Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA, November 4, 2009
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November 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Then we’ll make it worth nothing, and avoid the internet, going back to simple conversations.
Think of all the $$ currently made with free content all gone! Think of all the movies you won’t go to, all the DVD’s you won’t buy, all the news papers you won’t buy and read, all the news (like Fox News or CNN) you won’t trouble you head with, all the music you won’t have to download or buy or buy in a store, all the sales online of clothing, cars, tshirts, electronics components, software, etc…
Just think of all those currently generated $$ via free content of the Internet, GONE!
Murdoch, even your heart attack from watching your financial worth plummet, will only be known to those who were there to see it, as few will converse about such things outside your circle.
You should get glasses to remove the $$ in your eyes! Short term extreme gains means unsustainable short term income. You’ll lose, the masses won’t care either way!
November 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
“Short term extreme gains means unsustainable short term income.”
All corporate philosophy is built around the first part of that phrase, and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the second part.
And, these people don’t care about you or even the world they leave behind for their own children in that quest.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Good riddance!
I wish all mainstream media became paid.
This would give more “shelf space” to those who actually gather news – bloggers, twitter users…
November 10th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Asshole Murdoch wants to kill fair use!! What a retarded idiot, he needs to go away, we dont need people like him online!
November 10th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Riper Murder?
Talk about a parasite!
Pest killer please!
November 11th, 2009 at 1:26 am
It’s worthless assholes like Murdoch (dinosaur-aged dick) that make me proud that I will never spend a dime on digital content ever again.
Yeah, Murdoch, you mention “we’ve been asleep”, from the looks of it, you might be soon asleep permanently.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:49 am
So the governments and cartels want to lock down the Internet? That’s fine with me. I can store the entire inventory of a video store in a small package and transmit it to folks in my area without any damned Internet, and the funny part about it is that any hacker worth his or her salt can do the same. Rupert and the likes are going to cut their own throats as well as that of millions of innocents just to try to force their outdated model of control. To tell you the truth, I don’t download their crap simply because I don’t like their product. I maintain channel subscriptions just for my family, and they are getting tired of the crap that is being shown. I subscribe to Internet service simply because it is a way for me to communicate and exchange information. When or if it becomes impossible for me to use the Internet to do that without being ripped off at every turn, then I will simply cancel my Internet service. Many others will do the same. However, the free exchange of information will continue even if it is at a more latent pace.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:16 am
So just because you can get by with these things, Cyberscan, and a select few others, the rest be damned eh? Also, I’ll remind you that the free exchange of information, in many cases, is useless unless it comes in a timely manner, i.e. in time to do something about what they might pertain to.
Folks like Rupert conveniently forget that the internet was designed and paid for by the American taxpayer and then stolen, just like our federal government itself.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I wish that Murdoch would take all his “content” off the net and see if anyone is willing to actually pay for any of it.
He seems upset that he can’t control Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the Blogs. And somehow that very much pleases me.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
these guys just dont think long term do they? a huge portion of the population will just turn their backs and not pay for anything,or use the products. short term profits will be made but in the long run they will lose billions as theyve alienated millions of people.
rupert is one of the most evil reptilian jew on this planet right now.