Big “Ooops!”
p2pnet view - P2P | Music | MPAA News | RIAA News :- Earlier today I was working on a story highlighting the latest dirty dealings by the RIAA and MPAA, but because of continuing vision difficulties following a stroke I sustained during a recent quadruple bypass operation, I hit the ‘publish’ button sooner than I’d intended, for which I apologise.
I’ll try to do a better job in a follow-up.
In the meanwhile, it now appears the RIAA and the MPAA are teaming up in a collusive “Memorandum of understanding” for ISPs, which calls for the signing ISPs to assist the Big 4 record companies and the Big 6 motion picture companies in enforcing their copyrights, in ways never contemplated by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, says my friend Ray Beckerman in Recording industry vs the people, going on, “I haven’t had time to analyze it yet (it’s 36 pages), but at first glance it made me kind of ill, in that it appeared to:
- violate the antitrust laws of the federal government and of various states,
- constitute abuse of copyright,
- expand the lawful copyright monopoly into an unlawful monopoly,
- overlook the First Amendment,
- overlook the fair use defense and other defenses afforded by copyright law,
- conflict with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.”
Ray in turn credits Bruce Gain, an investigative tech writer.
The Age also as has a post on the memorandum.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
July 15th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Jon, don’t flog yourself for this ‘publishing error’. You’re doing us all a massive favour just working on p2pnet at all. Many weaker people would have just given up and retired.
Thanks again.
And yeah, why doesn’t it surprise me that Big Media are behaving just like Big Mafia. Are they one and the same? I can see civil unreast being stirred up eventually over all this.
July 15th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
There’s no difference. The Mafia And entertainment cartel hoods are of the same ilk.
July 15th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
It’s nice to see that Mr. Beckerman’s blog has not been completely abandoned.
July 15th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
No chance of that
July 16th, 2011 at 8:14 am
So, the ISPs are looking to alienate their customers? Fine, so be it.
WE are going to win this war with the content cartels and the rest of the authoritarians that want to track and trace everything that everyone does online.
How? Technology. Anonymizing P2P systems are being worked on at a record pace. New, encrypted, anonymous networks are forming. Developers are VERY busy. I know several of the big names in the P2P world (and I am close friends with one of the top designers, a veteran of the industry, who lives right here in Toronto), they are not dumb people, and they see the big picture.
It’s just a matter of time and money, and with the content cartels terrorising the populace, they are creating the market that is needed to fuel development of alternatives.
Checkmate is coming for the authoritarian loons, and they are too short-sighted to see it.
July 16th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
This is what Ray Beckerman have to say about this:
I haven’t had time to analyze it yet (it’s 36 pages), but at first glance it made me kind of ill, in that it appeared to…
-violate the antitrust laws of the federal government and of various states,
-constitute abuse of copyright,
-expand the lawful copyright monopoly into an unlawful monopoly,
-overlook the First Amendment,
-overlook the fair use defense and other defenses afforded by copyright law,
-conflict with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
-be against public policy, and
-contradict net neutrality.
Of course these corporate parasites will continue to buy gov members judges and juries to have their way therefore we have to forget about the law and kill them all.
July 16th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
@UBB
Any chance down the road some kind of widely available darknet could rise up that would bypass these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN ?
July 16th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
… as noted in the post above
July 17th, 2011 at 11:07 am
I see these constant ‘gimmes’ coming out of government and I think of the corporate welfare, of which this is a big one, being passed out at the expense of the populace. What really bothers me about that is it is a rerun of the beginning of Nazi Germany. The German people heard them saying what they were intending to do but no one believed they actually would. Reduction of jobs, corporate welfare, reduction of freedoms, reduction of rights, everyone to be identified, unrestricted searches of homes, people, and property, everything was given to the corporation and in return the corporations helped keep them in power.
The one big difference this time looks to be there are no jobs around. Corporate money isn’t being spent for new equipment and jobs.
Another thing that bothers me with this bit of ‘gimme’ is Obama got involved with this. It was hinted to the major ISPs to agree to it or they’d make a law. One of the big problems we have here is the rotating doors. A politician works for the entertainment industry until he gets back in office. He leaves office then the door opens up again with a job. This is very similar to the nuclear industry and Japan. We know where that went.
The first 4 accusation can’t be fought according to what I’ve read. It’s only the last two and they will cost you $38 every time. Only 6 different reasons can be used for defense. None of them include the item you are accused of violating copyright being public domain.
There is a whole bunch wrong with this agreement. Then there was a whole lot wrong with the Patriot act that allows the government to spy on its citizens too.
Should I get one of these, the very first time I will seek VPN. Let em suck on that.
Hadopti isn’t doing very good either. They’ve not enough infrastructure to pull it off. I suspect our internet costs will go up to support the extras it will take to process this crap. All in all another poorly thought out action that will be hard to enforce.
July 17th, 2011 at 11:50 am
@Monkey
I think that is one of the ultimate goals. Certainly anyone who develops a practical way to do a secure decentralized censor-proof DNS-like system is going to be rewarded with a pile of money, so long as it is secure and reliable enough to use for commerce.
Right now they are doing amazing things with new topology overlay and routing techniques (virtual networks within a network.) Very interesting things are happening.