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If we want a controlling regime we'll vote for the Talliban. The government is voted in by the majority of the citizens not by the RIAA and the like. Maybe the government should pressure the movie/music into providing content without rootkits and without copy restrictions when users expect that they can play it on all their devices (that they purchased from the same companies in many cases!).
What's next? Phone companies asked to listen in to people conversations just in case they might be plotting a crime? Companies to employ a security guard for each photocopier to enforce copyright laws there? Give me a break. the sooner they come up with a viable encrypted P2P the better - just to p155 off the RIAA bullies.
Here's the message the RIAA (et al) just don't get - Work with the people to give them what they want and they'll pay a reasonable priceand buy lots. If you work against them they'll take want they want and resent you for it.
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It's only a matter of time before the copypigs push this here in Australia. When this happens, my message to Australia's ISPs is this:
You know as well as we do that you don't want to lose your customers, and if you follow this regime, you will lose them in droves. But the flaw in this legislation is that you don't give out the cutomers' details to the copypigs. So you can easily just tell them that you've cut off the customer without actually doing so. There's no easy way for the copypigs to check.
Even if there is, and the worst comes to the worst, you can simply cancel the current account and sign the customer back up under a new account - for a small once-off fee of course (just make sure the copypigs don't see any of that money). I'd be willing to support such an account-shifting fee system in the fight against these greedy bastards.
Since about two years ago, I've refused to buy any major-label CDs and DVDs whatsoever. I will continue to refuse to buy them. I don't want my money being used to sue filesharers and force oppressive laws through government. I urge other free-thinking citizens to join this boycott. Don't give the copypigs your money because they'll use it to sue and oppress you.
So come on ISPs, work with your customers on this one. Together, we can overcome the copyright tyranny, force the copypigs out of their luddite ways and update their dinosaur business model.