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November 20, 2009 by RawmeatCowboy
Filed Under: Nintendo in general
Software pirates beware...you could be hunted down and taken out by the Pirate-Finder General! Of course, that's if some changes go through on the Digital Economy Bill over in the UK. If those changes do happen, get ready for these new additions.
1. The Secretary of State would get the power to create new remedies for online infringements.
2. The Secretary of State would get the power to create procedures to "confer rights" for the purposes of protecting rightsholders from online infringement.
3. The Secretary of State would get the power to "impose such duties, powers or functions on any person as may be specified in connection with facilitating online infringement."
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Yet one more step toward corporate fascism. Protect the corporation's rights over that of the individual.
Honestly, here's what needs to be done with piracy: if you're distributing pirated stuff, you get locked up.
This gestapo crap meant to strike "fear" into the pirates isn't going to help anyone. The only people it's going to hurt are innocent people caught up in the whole thing.
Honestly, you don't need some secret task force to deal with people who operate in the broad open daylight 99% of the time. I actually knew a guy online who distributed pirated movies on DVD FOR PROFIT in the UK to help pay bills. He made no secret about it, either.
Honestly, here's what needs to be done with piracy: if you're distributing pirated stuff, you get locked up.
This gestapo crap meant to strike "fear" into the pirates isn't going to help anyone. The only people it's going to hurt are innocent people caught up in the whole thing.
Honestly, you don't need some secret task force to deal with people who operate in the broad open daylight 99% of the time. I actually knew a guy online who distributed pirated movies on DVD FOR PROFIT in the UK to help pay bills. He made no secret about it, either.
@Wiggymaster
" The only people it's going to hurt are innocent people caught up in the whole thing."
The innocent people illegaly downloading?
" The only people it's going to hurt are innocent people caught up in the whole thing."
The innocent people illegaly downloading?
@palancas7:
Innocent parents who have no knowledge that their children are pirating music/games. Innocent people who have infected computers being used as backdoor FTP servers. There's lots of examples.
Regardless, the point is that creating "new laws" is unnecessary when the old ones aren't enforced, or when the pirates are too wily for law enforcement to catch. As I said, when people are able to sell pirated movies via Ebay and other online trading posts without any kind of repercussions, I fail to see the need for new laws which do nothing but further strangulate personal liberties, and will end up only affecting the least malicious.
Innocent parents who have no knowledge that their children are pirating music/games. Innocent people who have infected computers being used as backdoor FTP servers. There's lots of examples.
Regardless, the point is that creating "new laws" is unnecessary when the old ones aren't enforced, or when the pirates are too wily for law enforcement to catch. As I said, when people are able to sell pirated movies via Ebay and other online trading posts without any kind of repercussions, I fail to see the need for new laws which do nothing but further strangulate personal liberties, and will end up only affecting the least malicious.
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http://www.snigglezone.com/images/hook.jpg
and another:
http://www.openobject.org/p2pfm/wp-cont ... pirate.jpg
and another:
http://home.flash.net/~dadis/pirate/Pirate.jpg
... do I get the job? =P