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The entertainment industries are growing increasingly frustrated with major Internet platforms that, in their view, are not doing enough to tackle online piracy.
This was also the topic of a speech given by MPAA chief Charles Rivkin, during the TPI Aspen Forum yesterday.
[...] "I want to address one of the most vibrant and interconnected ecosystems in human history. That, of course, is the internet. And as we meet, the healthy and vibrant internet that we all want is in serious jeopardy," Rivkin says.
[...] While the complaints about Internet piracy are not new, the MPAA ties piracy in with more recent debates about fake news, election meddling, and hate speech. From Cambridge Analytica to Infowars.
Rivkin calls for a national conversation on how to return the Internet to a place of vibrant but civil discourse. A place where fake news, hate speech, and piracy are properly dealt with.
Eventually, this leads the MPAA's boss to Silicon Valley. Rivkin sees a major role for Internet platforms to do more to stop piracy and other types of abuse. If that doesn't happen voluntarily, the US Government could step in, he suggests
[...] The widespread problem of online piracy is a sign of worse to come, the MPAA chief suggests.
"Online piracy is also the proverbial canary in a coal mine. The same pervasive theft that my industry faces is part of a continuum of toxic developments that harm all of us in this ecosystem – consumers, creators, and commercial operators alike," he says.
In his speech, Rivkin refers to the "broken windows" theory to illustrate his point. This theory suggests that an atmosphere of lawlessness is created when small crimes are left unpunished. Seeing broken windows in the streets makes it more likely that others will start vandalizing as well.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-the-internets-canary-in-the-coal-mine-mpaa-chief-says-180821/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @05:03PM
You're either a troll or a jackass moron. I can't quite tell from your post, so I'll assume jackass moron simply because there are more of those on the internet.
I think that's the biggest load of horse shit I've ever seen. Hold on, I've gotta grab the 9/11 Commission Report and take some measurements...
Do you know how I know you're not a good author? I take it in your world nobody is writing new orchestral music, seeing as how there's so much good classical music out there already. Why should they when there are so many songs by Bach and Beethoven (and others) available in public domain?
Not posting the author's name? You're full of shit. Either the author isn't as prolific as you claim, or they're a figment of your imagination. Post their name (published name is fine if it's a pseudonym) or STFU.
Or, much more likely, because he's a shit writer and couldn't give away his books. But we don't know because we don't even know who you're talking about. Again, post his name or STFU.
Some people are good at certain tasks, some are not. Anyone can write computer code. Very few can write efficient and secure computer code. Anyone can use a pencil to make marks on paper. Very few can actually make those marks resemble something meaningful. The same holds true for writing. Some people are good writers and some just can't make a story flow to save their life. If you weren't such a jackass moron you'd realize that.
Let's move on to something other than your word salad. I present to you the story of Kimba the white lion. A piece of public domain work that was copied and slightly modified by one international crime syndicate (guilty of crimes against humanity, which is what current copyright laws are) commonly called Disney. If someone tried to copy the Kimba story again and add a small amount of original content (just like Disney did) Disney would lawyer them to death for copying their story "The Lion King." Even though they didn't copy Disney's story, they copied the public domain story that Disney copied. In the end it doesn't matter, nobody else can take the same easy route Disney did, and nobody will ever be able to in the future because Disney has a copyright that is, for all intents and purposes, perpetual. If copyright terms were sane that easy route would be clearly available again a few years from now.
Take a look at Disney's back catalog. A large amount of their work is copied from public domain. Once that public domain work is copied it's possible for Disney to claim that any new copies of the public domain work are copies of their copies, thereby actually removing that work from the public domain. That's another thing I'd change: make public domain infective the same way GPL is infective. If you copy public domain work, your new work automatically becomes public domain. Create new or GTFO.
I'll leave you with this: Why should I pay part of my tax money to protect your precious authors when I will see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in return for my taxes? Public domain was what I was supposed to see in return. As the laws were originally written, after the copyright expired, I got free access to that which I paid to protect previously. As it stands right now we're socializing the costs to protect the privatized profits of your oh so precious authors. Sounds like welfare handouts to me. That's worse than socialism: it's fascism. We're living in a corporatist kleptocracy and it seems like you don't have a problem with that.