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posted by chromas on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-wouldn't-download-a-speech dept.

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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/


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday August 26 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday August 26 2018, @10:38PM (#726720) Journal

    Also, if you want to see what moral protests look like, as well as ethical uses of civil disobedience, you might have a look at stuff like Thoreau and Martin Luther King and Ghandi discussing civil disobedience. You protest an unjust law by targeting that law in particular.

    Yet I suspect that despite your claims to the contrary, even if everything created in 1989 and before went into public domain tomorrow, you'd still want to pirate a bunch of stuff. Right? Be honest. Isn't that true?

    (Lastly, I should note that I think we need more significant copyright reform too. I don't know the 1790 act could be workable anymore either. But arguing for copyright reform is different from arguing for lawlessness and punishing creators who didn't make the laws.)

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:51AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:51AM (#728178) Homepage
    A decade or so ago, at least in Europe, the biggest consumers of illegally copied IP were actually the largest purchasers of IP too. Piracy actually *helped* content creators.
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