Herr Hillary to write Iraq's copyright laws(!)

[konichiwa]

TheRegister:

Hillary Rosen, Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America...will almost certainly...want to stiffen [Iraq's current] penalties for infringement:- one hundred dinars, or three hundred for repeat offenders. Maybe she will shoot for something closer to the $97 trillion the RIAA has claimed as damages from the file-sharing students back in the Homeland.

Greeeeeeaaaat.

 

[43st]

It should be Fraulein Hillary, not Herr Hillary. But judging from her demeanor I can understand your confusion.

Iraq will be the Special interest group's pot of gold, no doubt.

 

[Spyro]

I find that hard to believe.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yup there's a thread about it somewhere around here already.

 

[ConclamoLudus]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
TheRegister:

Hillary Rosen, Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America...will almost certainly...want to stiffen [Iraq's current] penalties for infringement:- one hundred dinars, or three hundred for repeat offenders. Maybe she will shoot for something closer to the $97 trillion the RIAA has claimed as damages from the file-sharing students back in the Homeland.

Greeeeeeaaaat.

Be careful with that topic name, I thought you were talking about Hillary Clinton. I wonder if this is how the RIAA will finally take root: Jump into newly liberated countries and pound them with their copyright laws. Maybe this is what the war was about all along. Lets get our hands in there before Kazaa does.

 

[Alistar7]

You cannot stop the internet, LMAO, good luck, have a nice day, can't wait for that new
J-Lo to come out, keep working hard....

Does Israel recognize US copyrights? Even if every country agreed, there are still offshore concrete "islands" (platforms) that are in international waters, servers for lease. Alot of the online gambling, especilly those being run in the US are based there along with the kiddy porn crap of course, I would suggest bombing it due to that, but they would just build more. The people that own and run them obviously have no moral qualms over the content, I don't think they would be beyond allowing P2P networks to lease central servers there. Napster would still be going had they based themselves from there, perfect location for a centralized server setup like they used.

Their fight is self defeating. What is music? sounds. Can sounds be recorded. yes. how do they make music? THEY record sounds. how do you hear the music? you listen to the sound? if you can hear sound can you record sound? We already covered this, they want to stop people from "recording sounds", ban recording and find a new job dumbasses. See if your opinion on the war makes the news when you're delivering Za for Papa Johns.



Intellectual property in general, and copyright protection in particular, have suffered from a piecemeal approach in Israeli legislation.

"The copyright law in effect in Israel today is the 1911 law signed by King George V and absorbed into Israel's legal code with the termination of the British Mandate in 1948. Although some minor amendments and changes were made over the years, a total revision, that would be in accordance with the changes brought on by the digital age, as well as those necessitated as a result of international treaties, is long overdue. Yet, Israel has been slow in amending its copyright legislation, its enforcement of copyright has been inadequate, and the new copyright law has been in the making for years."

Imesh runs out of Israel I think. Have they been targeted? Canada doesnt even recognize all of our intellectual and digital property rights. The US cannot make any country recognize US law in their sovereign nation, they have to be willing.

What are they going to do, FILTER every piece of activity on the net?

Did people blame the industrial revolution for putting the blacksmith out of business?