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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yep, in between banging my head against the wall i'm laughing.  i agree that these idiots probably think that the cd tray is a cupholder. but i worry that as a result of their ignorance even more people will be unjustly penalised (the people who *aren't* hackers, and therefore don't know how to protect themselves from invasive and fundamentally flawed "IP protection" schemes...). because they're the ones setting up the new laws and deciding how to track things and how to punish them... and they're legislating on things they clearly don't even have a basic understanding about. |
That is the major problem. Hackers and the informed will just use SeedF**cker when it reaches maturity, or they'll VPN with SSL on Usenet, or fall back to IRC, private trackers and media-deposit sites. It's the young kid who uses Bearshare or one of those terrible P2P apps to download a few tracks and then ends up having to pay fines to these criminal cartels. Or maybe it'll just be random hurt, because the technology they laughingly use to track 'illegal' downloads is more or less guesswork and shouldn't be usable in a court of law. Hopefully the hackers are busy at work modifying their tools so that all the IP's tracked are those of the lawmakers and media moguls.
I believe the best thing to do is make Copyright pointless at the base level. Creators need to start dumping their stuff immediately into the public domain without any thought of copyright. When something is totally free there's no way to restrict that freedom for anyone, no way to legislate against sharing that which is freely shared. We as creators and audience need to wrestle our culture back from the hoarders of IP and make sure it never falls into such disrepute again.