Comments on: Entertainment industry hubris http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131/comment-page-1#comment-25248 Reader's Write Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:39:47 +0000 #comment-25248 For the past 2 weeks the big hadline story in the local press is what happened in the Puerto Rico legislature. In steps this is the story: 1. The legislature get funds from American Homeland Security Department to install video cameras throughout the legislature building for allegedly security purposes. 2. A Senator is captured on video saying goodby to a lady in the parking lot with a kiss in the cheek. The legislator belongs to a faction of the statehood party that supports the president of the senate. 3. Legislators from another faction of the statehood party that wants to have the president of the senate removed and control the security department (and their videos) in the legislature, in a press conference say they have seen the video and in the video the Senator is shown to be sexually attacking a women. This other faction wants a former governor of Puerto Rico to be president of the Senate. A contracted advisor to the former governor was the person who allegedly obtained the "sexual attack" video and started the whole thing. 4. Because Homeland Security funds were used for acquire the video equipment, the FBI is now involved after a complaint has been filed by the director of security at the legislature. She claims that she was pressured by a political leader to cover up what had hapenned. 5. A Senate comission has been set up to investigate the use of the videos for political and defamation purpose by well known political figures and their employees. No video showing showing a sexual attack has been found. The director of security has testified that she was pressured by a political leader to cover up what had hapenned. The meaning of the story: No one can be trusted to handle collected data (or videos) of the people. It can be used to blackmail the people by unscrupulous individuals, even elected politicians. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com For the past 2 weeks the big hadline story in the local press is what happened in the Puerto Rico legislature. In steps this is the story:

1. The legislature get funds from American Homeland Security Department to install video cameras throughout the legislature building for allegedly security purposes.

2. A Senator is captured on video saying goodby to a lady in the parking lot with a kiss in the cheek. The legislator belongs to a faction of the statehood party that supports the president of the senate.

3. Legislators from another faction of the statehood party that wants to have the president of the senate removed and control the security department (and their videos) in the legislature, in a press conference say they have seen the video and in the video the Senator is shown to be sexually attacking a women. This other faction wants a former governor of Puerto Rico to be president of the Senate. A contracted advisor to the former governor was the person who allegedly obtained the “sexual attack” video and started the whole thing.

4. Because Homeland Security funds were used for acquire the video equipment, the FBI is now involved after a complaint has been filed by the director of security at the legislature. She claims that she was pressured by a political leader to cover up what had hapenned.

5. A Senate comission has been set up to investigate the use of the videos for political and defamation purpose by well known political figures and their employees. No video showing showing a sexual attack has been found. The director of security has testified that she was pressured by a political leader to cover up what had hapenned.

The meaning of the story: No one can be trusted to handle collected data (or videos) of the people. It can be used to blackmail the people by unscrupulous individuals, even elected politicians.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131/comment-page-1#comment-25237 Reader's Write Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:45:08 +0000 #comment-25237 "Telcos and ISPs must retain fixed and mobile traffic data, including location data and internet log-in log-off, for 6-12 months." How much will this bumb up the price of broadband monthly rental costs? Thats a hell of a lot of data. We all know realistically this is not going to prevent terrorism. Use of proxies, encryption and other tools will make this data useless. I fear this will be used to keep control of the general public who don't make use of such tools. “Telcos and ISPs must retain fixed and mobile traffic data, including location data and internet log-in log-off, for 6-12 months.”

How much will this bumb up the price of broadband monthly rental costs? Thats a hell of a lot of data.

We all know realistically this is not going to prevent terrorism. Use of proxies, encryption and other tools will make this data useless. I fear this will be used to keep control of the general public who don’t make use of such tools.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131/comment-page-1#comment-25232 Reader's Write Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:55:34 +0000 #comment-25232 Here's the The Open Rights Group apeal on P2PNet - http://p2pnet.net/story/7088 Here’s the The Open Rights Group apeal on P2PNet – http://p2pnet.net/story/7088

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131/comment-page-1#comment-25231 Reader's Write Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:27:11 +0000 #comment-25231 Watch the Open Rights Group as well: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ A couple of recent posts on their site about this: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/11/23/music-industry-tries-to-hijack-serious-crime-legislation-in-europe/ http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/11/24/data-retention-another-step-closer/ Keep spreading the news about this. If your country is a member of the EU, write to your 'representatives' in the European Parliament. Don't sit back and allow your rights to be taken from you, especially now Big Music is trying to hijack it for their own ends. Watch the Open Rights Group as well: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

A couple of recent posts on their site about this:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/11/23/music-industry-tries-to-hijack-serious-crime-legislation-in-europe/
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/11/24/data-retention-another-step-closer/

Keep spreading the news about this. If your country is a member of the EU, write to your ‘representatives’ in the European Parliament.

Don’t sit back and allow your rights to be taken from you, especially now Big Music is trying to hijack it for their own ends.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131/comment-page-1#comment-25230 Reader's Write Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:15:43 +0000 #comment-25230 I much agree with the sentiments stated here. The enterainment industry's concerns do not rank up there with security issues. The actions of the cartels have done nothing to enhance my experience with any of their products. In fact, the exact opposite has occured. That doesn't smack of finding an alternative business model, especially when this is reflected by increasingly more prospective customers being turned off by the likes of DRM, spyware, malware, and other tactics that the cartels seem bound and determined to use. Add to this inserting barriers to the customer experience when they purchase, the wild embracing of law suits with a sue'em all campaign, and the wholesale attack on legal systems through influancing lawmakers to provide special status to the cartels and more and more I am inclined to reward them less and less. Nothing in their news of the day is ever what I consider good news. (or it is so rare as to be almost nonexistant) The cartels pet organizations such as the RIAA and the MPAA are failing disasters as far as convencing the public the cartels are worthy businesses with products that are a good value for the money. So far I see very little returned for the money and the cartels are wanting to change that so they can increase the product price. In the news lately have been mention of attempts to once again change laws and insert new ones. This one and the one in particularly that want to make the attempt to download an illegal action does nothing to bring me the idea that the cartels product is worth the money. The main reason it seems to me that the cartels would want such a law is to remove the need to prove an action happened such as a download that infringed on one of their products. If they don't have to be held accountable for proving the claim, then the doors are open for wholesale legal actions. From that point on everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Whip up a list from someone, the ISP gets the numbers wrong and claims you were the one who did it by mistake, and your busted. With having to only make the claim and not having to prove you got anything in, even unusuable bits could be the basis to sue you. How would you know what you got was even an infringement? Mostly getting bits of stuff in isn't usable in any form to determine if you got a newspaper article in, a song, or a free program. No way you yourself can check, certainly. You have to have the whole banana in to assemble it to find out just what it is. Until then it is just a string of 1's and 0's and of no use to anyone. Does this mean the next time I go into a record store, look at an album cover, and leave it there without buying and walk out I could potentially break the law? After all I still retain memory of the cover contents.... I much agree with the sentiments stated here. The enterainment industry’s concerns do not rank up there with security issues. The actions of the cartels have done nothing to enhance my experience with any of their products. In fact, the exact opposite has occured. That doesn’t smack of finding an alternative business model, especially when this is reflected by increasingly more prospective customers being turned off by the likes of DRM, spyware, malware, and other tactics that the cartels seem bound and determined to use.

Add to this inserting barriers to the customer experience when they purchase, the wild embracing of law suits with a sue’em all campaign, and the wholesale attack on legal systems through influancing lawmakers to provide special status to the cartels and more and more I am inclined to reward them less and less. Nothing in their news of the day is ever what I consider good news. (or it is so rare as to be almost nonexistant) The cartels pet organizations such as the RIAA and the MPAA are failing disasters as far as convencing the public the cartels are worthy businesses with products that are a good value for the money. So far I see very little returned for the money and the cartels are wanting to change that so they can increase the product price.

In the news lately have been mention of attempts to once again change laws and insert new ones. This one and the one in particularly that want to make the attempt to download an illegal action does nothing to bring me the idea that the cartels product is worth the money. The main reason it seems to me that the cartels would want such a law is to remove the need to prove an action happened such as a download that infringed on one of their products. If they don’t have to be held accountable for proving the claim, then the doors are open for wholesale legal actions. From that point on everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Whip up a list from someone, the ISP gets the numbers wrong and claims you were the one who did it by mistake, and your busted. With having to only make the claim and not having to prove you got anything in, even unusuable bits could be the basis to sue you. How would you know what you got was even an infringement? Mostly getting bits of stuff in isn’t usable in any form to determine if you got a newspaper article in, a song, or a free program. No way you yourself can check, certainly. You have to have the whole banana in to assemble it to find out just what it is. Until then it is just a string of 1’s and 0’s and of no use to anyone.

Does this mean the next time I go into a record store, look at an album cover, and leave it there without buying and walk out I could potentially break the law? After all I still retain memory of the cover contents….

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7131/comment-page-1#comment-25229 Reader's Write Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:13:50 +0000 #comment-25229 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/25/data_retention/ keep watching The Register, they're on this as well, saw it on Friday TT http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/25/data_retention/

keep watching The Register, they’re on this as well, saw it on Friday

TT

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