How the ITU could put the Internet behind closed doors. Just giving you guys a heads up on something I heard about today.
Certain ISP's are all ready throttling back the intarwebz and since the internet is need of a flag I guess it going to get one Eddie Izzard style. Warning NSFW Do you have a flag - Eddie Izzard - YouTube
I'd be more worried if the ITU had made any declarations that had actually become binding or followed by any of the engineers and scientists that actually develop modern technology.
Six strikes allegedly kicks in at the end of the month. AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites | TorrentFreak “Six strikes” system goes live this fall, appeals to cost $35 | Ars Technica Six strikes event in NYC, Nov 15 - Boing Boing
This. Remember the SOPA and CISPA bills? If they got vetoed, chances are this one will get vetoed, too.
The Six Strikes scheme is an agreement between rightsholders (like the MPAA and the RIAA) and the major internet service providers. Nothing more. Hopefully, people won't put up with this shit and switch to a smaller provider if it's possible for them. Either way it will likely end up being a disaster, with false positives, IP address issues (open Wifi, anyone?), lawsuits, and customer complaints through the roof. My feelings are pretty simple: a free and open internet means more to me than Big Media's disgusting desire to censor and police the internet in the name of their copyright. They (and the ISPs) are trampling over their own consumers in their desperate state of denial and refusal to adapt their business model to fit the times.
What exactly do they consider "copyright infringement" anyway? Downloading? Uploading? Watching a YouTube video? I never use torrents and I buy all my music through iTunes. However, I do watch videos on YouTube. Are they going to start sending me notices?
The last 3 or so attempts at controlling the internet have failed horribly. Politicians don't understand how the internet works, so they are unable to draft bills that aren't incredibly stupid. Until that changes, nothing is ever going to actually happen.
It seems the main focus (for now) will be on torrents, but yeah, all of the above (minus buying an album on itunes) would be considered copyright infringement. But no, you shouldn't get notices for streaming. I'm sure they would love to send them to you though - to them, the entire internet is made up of copyright infringement. Copyright has become such bullshit thanks to these corporations.
Okay, what exactly are the reasons for people (Ipod had people as Brooke ) being so damned hellbent on censoring the Internet? I almost imagine it as a bunch of people who went on the Internet, got trolled, got butthurt and now they have the power to complain louder than others. That's totally wrong I know but I like to think of it that way Also, what's this six strikes?
It's always all about the piracy. Nevermind the fact that the very concept of "lost sales" is flawed on the basis that it assumes that every single person to ever pirate a product was definitely going to buy it if it wasn't for the pirate option alone. There's also the fact that the media pundits always try to appeal to politicians who tend to be rather ignorant of information technology with ideas like "series of tubes"; they try to make it look like piracy is just like physical theft where the stolen item is actually lost. It also falsely assumes that the content creators are somehow given a percentage of all the sales ever. While this is true in some cases, it's usually a commission work; you get paid to do this thing and that's it; the big media corporations then proceed to reap the rewards. The only party that suffers from piracy are the distributors, and with all the money companies like Disney or Fox has in their pockets, piracy is just trying to empty a lake with a single bucket. The only people who actually do suffer the effects of piracy are the small distributors with niche audiences with limited resources to begin with. Now, if we're talking about piracy like the Chinese bootlegging business where they actually try to make money off someone else's product and the money probably goes into some rather nefarious purposes anyway, that's a whole different ballgame.
