We aren’t all pirates? July 10, 2006
Then why do we all get treated like pirates? IPac has a post on the LA Times article “We aren’t all pirates” that talks about the entertainment industry’s efforts to keep their dusty old business model afloat in the new world of the Internet, and computers, and all those filthy pirates.
From the IPac post,
“The Hollywood cartels want complete control over every and all digital device that is capable of playing back media in any form. PERFORM would cripple satellite radio and Internet radio. SIRA would also cripple Internet radio. The Broadcast Flag would cripple HDTV. The Audio Flag would cripple digital radio. And IPPA (DMCA 2.0) would throw every file trader in jail for 10 years.”
And from the LA Times
“In 1998, [Congress] gave copyright holders broad power to block legitimate uses of works, even those in the public domain, through the use of electronic locks that impede copying of digital products. And that same year, it prolonged the public domain’s starvation diet by extending copyrights an additional 20 years, to 70 years beyond the death of the creator.”
There is also an interview with Hilary Rosen, former “Recording Industry Association of America bogeywoman” on Wired, Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song? I don’t think she has changed her tune much but you can read it for yourself and decide. One of the hands that feeds her these days is XM Radio who is being sued by Rosen’s former buddies at the RIAA over new features on satellite radios that allow people to record songs for listening to later. While that sounds like fair use and while we may have had that right in the past the members of the RIAA want that to stop.
- Posted in : Fair Use Rights, DRM, Broadcast Flag, Audio Flag, Pirates!, RIAA
- Author : fairuseday
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