* you are required to enter your social security number upon registration of most major websites

* most websites only work with Internet Explorer

* a man was arrested for posting his conspiracy theory, criticizing the government.

* and now this!

It’s a double bladed edge knife, it cuts both ways, UNLESS you create a game which still sells millions or a movie like Transformers 2 which sells $365 million so far, even people who have a pirated copy of the movie still go out to watch it!

If they done this in OZ with the iSPs, i’ll just get rid of my two iSP connections all together which is work around $960 each per year, and that’s only myself with this connection, what about ALL the other subscribers out there with the same plan? Times that by at least 50,000 across OZ from just one company alone equals 48 million a year, even if it was half of that, it’s still a lot of money to a company to loose if everyone just got rid of them!

The police say targeting youngsters is unfair because the parents are usually unaware of the illegal activity, and then desperate to come up with the money, the kids resort to theft or other crime to come up with the settlement money demanded by copyright holders.

Is Skype for voice over internet protocol? If so, that’s not what I’m suggesting. In any case, I’m pretty confident there are or will be open source alternatives.

If the big companies and commercial “artists” (note the quotes) win over file-sharing, they may also win huge in leveraging the net in creating potentially-huge financial gains at everyone else’s expense.
So I see this file sharing issue with greater concern and as a matter of a few issues. Consider the company that bought, or is trying to buy, Pirate Bay, or how Napster got “Borgged”.

“If we can control online file-sharing, we can also control online distribution and therefore control big financial rewards.”

“Encryption and VPN’s may work both ways. Let them create the technology for us that we then take over.”

Somewhat paranoid perhaps, but I like to think it’s a healthy paranoia.

Younger pirates, etc., may want to consider politics and law themselves, and/or get out of or avoid these kinds of “non-commissioned information” careers and consider tried-and-true brick-and-mortar type kinds… organic family-owned farming (corporate farms– now there’s another nightmare); architecture, etc..

All for one and one for all.

How the hell can you think that this is a good law?

Starcraft as everyone should know is insanely popular on TV in SK. The intros, use copyrighted songs. Shut down an entire industry/profession? Don’t think so.

Many people record themselves playing a computer game with FRAPS. They add background music.

SK offers symmetrical 100/100 speeds for between 20-30USD. On a fiber network, might I add. In 2012 this will be 1.2gbps symmetrical.

Nobody will be using their internet for the speed they will be getting. They’ll be using kbps for pages, and some 1-20 mbps for SK sites(Have you seen any of them?).

Even them playing a game does not use the entire 100/100 connection.

Just a little rant why I doubt this is going to be terrible.

This oppression and fear of guilt is worse than doctrine spewed by religion.

People do not like to be puppets out of. I dare these bastards to push the public, I will end up messing them in end and then I’ll laugh.

This is cool because now all these anonymizing tools will become very popular in sth Korea.

Cool! it will accelerate the evolution of it. Now they will be more of them, more choices, more speeed, more security and better anonymity and privacy.

Trolltrolltrolltrolltroll

No, people think they can do whatever society thinks is acceptable, but then the government says they can’t because someone bought a new law. What’s the point in having a democratic regime if we can’t have the laws the majority of us wants?

Intellectual monopoly is hurtful to society and to the global economy. It has no advantage at all besides making a very small group of people richer. Fuck that. Our freedom is much more important than rappers and CEOs driving lamborghinis.

Unbelievable. Pirate think they can do whatever they want, and when the government shows them that they can’t, they cry that democracy is going down the drain. How that South Korean law is crazy is completely beyond me.

Oh, and it’s South Korea, not North.

Difference in culture. Why blame a country for its culture?
You know that the whole world was eating dogs right? They just banned it (or made it a Taboo) in western countries after.

so sad that some big corporations can get this much power with money… they will rule the world some day, just becuase of copyrights…

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/canada-we-actually-want-to-hear-from-public-on-copyright.ars

Every canadian interested in this issue should express himself now.

North Korea?

Aigoo!

You really do have some serious reading comprehension problems, don’t you?

And by the way, “protecting the interests of copyright holders” comes at the expense of everyone else. Including the artists.

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-group-prosecuted-for-failing-to-pay-artists-090722/

Anyway, the only thing this insane, overbearing copyright law ultimately means is that the next advances in online anonymity will come out of South Korea. That is, if it even manages to survive the initial backlash.

I don’t know, my friend.

But I will say something to you:

USA is causing a lot of damage in South America (Latin Amrica). USA is indirectly supporting dictators of tendency communist here in South America who have made (and do) a lot of damage. Now, why? I don’t know.

I really wish that the fu.cking USA goes to the hell!!!!

And after they (USA) don’t understand why the majority of the people on the world hate them.

I don’t know, my friend.

But I will say something to you:

USA is causing a lot of damage in South America (Latin Amrica). USA is indirectly supporting dictators of tendency communist here in South America who have made (and do) a lot of damage. Now, why? I don’t know.

I really wish that the fuck.ing USA goes to the hell!!!!

And after they (USA) don’t understand why the majority of the people on the world hate them.

And when Koreans start rioting over the bull crap politicians will suddenly realise its not worth their political skins.

Instead banning and other shit law they create they should think of a alternative with both customer and company will benefit ohh wait the big music,movie company only care about they’re selves.

This sounds REAL thus:

Are we all decrying North Korea for protecting the interests of the PARASITES copyright holders from USA?

The answer is: Yes.

USA, a damn country of evil and greedy people.