It is looking like the EU might be getting ready to bring in crucifixion as a punishment for P2P first offenders.
The policy, which we made up, would be on the wish list for the Music and Film industry if they had our imagination. Mind you if they had our imagination, they would be making money and Justine Bebier would not be making records he would be flipping burgers or cleaning supermarkets like ordinary teens.
Governments have been increasingly giving into the demands of big content, but the latest trend is becoming a little scary.
It seems that Big Content is sending its lawyers to work for the various government authorities to advise them on policy.
It is basically like lobbying, only the taxpayer has to pay for it.Big Content often seems to operate sleeper units within governments. Take for example the European Union's new head of copyright policy is Maria Prat (no really).
On her CV is a job directing "global legal policy" for IFPI, the global recording industry's London-based trade group.
She has been back in the EU for a while running DG MARKT, which sounds like a canine ebay for the dyslexic, but actually makes sure that EU countries don't enact illegal barriers to halt the free movement of service professionals like doctors. Dull and nothing to do with copyright.Now she suddenly responsible for copyright matters.
While the EU can safely say - well her time with the IFPI was a long time ago, she was young and she didn't inhale - that is not how others are seeing the appointment.
KEI, a nonprofit which works on trade and copyright issues, Jamie Love (no really), said that when Prat was at the IFPI, she was a hardliner who wanted strong copyright protection.In 2003, during her time at IFPI she was quoted as saying the recording industry is fighting on three fronts: enforcement, the formulation of a new business model, and pleading for strong copyright protection.
She argued that “private copying had no reason to exist and should be limited further than it is”. Prat thought that private copying was against the Berne copyright convention.Earlier she had moaned that a lack of a re-assessment at European level of the private copying exceptions in light of the digital environment is particularly regrettable.
Obviously she is now in a position to do something about that.
Liberal Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake and Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström have written to the European Commission, questioning how such an obviously partisan person could be appointed to such an important role.
The letter wondered if the Commission felt that such an appointment would help to build confidence with the European Parliament and the general public that the Commission can be trusted to handle copyright-related issues in a fair and balanced manner
Writing in his bog , Engström was furious. He said that the European Union was becoming a place where the big business lobby organisations are calling most of the shots at the Commission, and where citizens are just seen as a nuisance to be ignored.
He said the only thing unusual about this case was that they don’t even bother to try to hide it any more.
Within The Present lies Reality which encompasses the spiritual dimension, a realm which all non-thinkers weave in and out without a first or second thought but one denied to those who are constantly thinking about the past or the future. Relax for a moment and see if you could stop thinking. For almost all, not only is this impossible but the variation of thoughts are literally mind boggling. When one is dwelling within one’s Past or one’s Future, one cannot be within The Present, a simplicity which eludes. Now, should The Present exists and is in fact one’s true reality/Reality, what then? Of course, The Present, in its essence, might be a myth but that myth would be dispelled should there be those who are able to exist within this dimension.
The subject is truly mind boggling and vast but in operation, it is very simple if only because should there be an entity [of expression] who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, collectivised as Infinity/Complexity, to reach us, He-She has to be Simplicity too. As such, in order to perform all the bodily autonomous function, say, we only need to recognise their existence and they will keep the heart beating in regularity and longevity which awes and astounds the egomanics driving them to desire ownership of the “thang” as well as vision, breathing, digestion, nourishment and so forth. All the bodily autonomic functions are “present” activities, not subjectable to control nor demands by any TDorH.
Which then propels us to the present topic of bullseyerelevancy, The Father Mother. This nut-cum-screw, be it known as Feminism, Righting Zist und Zat, Health & Safety, lesbianism, rationality per se, sympathy, cunning, and infinitely more has an opposite but equally attached alterego, The Mothering Father. For this screw-cum-nut, being immortal is the goal as he saves, postures, greens, loons, gays, concerts, intellectualises, theorises, finger-points, and so forth. With this two unwitting accomplices of The Bookie, the modern world will be hunky dory as all are labelled, digitised, abortised, right-ised, decontaminised, ad infinitum.
Should the above be true [99.51%?], spirituality will not only be an imagination but a reality which is a deadly enemy because the religion of the material-intellect demands that what it cannot see, cannot be true and must be controlled if not wiped out. Institutions of Excellence, Explosiveness, Perfection, Science, Technology, Rights of The Living Dead, and more will “globalise” all towards proper behaviour where not a word of defilement would be heard. All well and good, but whose version should that be? Nothing that another world war will not resolve, of course. Afterall, the weaponry is more efficient and the demarcations/limits are better defined [which happen to be unlimited until the job is finished]. “Yessir ah mean ma’am, there will be minimal collateral damage”.
The Fathering Mother is a very dangerous tool of The Bookie because she lacks conscience, having newly acquired that wonderful toy called intellect. Just look at all the current misery, control/abandonments and how they will pan out. C’mon, a little future ‘finking/projecting can’t hurt that much. For those who are able to witness a little of the madness in, say, “Health & Safety”, “Carbon Emissions” & “Animal Rights”, be comforted that Divinity exists and He-She is at the moment, constructing He who will sort out all the madness that the lunatics and their idiotics are fabricating, the dumb stupid tools of The Bookie, driven by their imaginations of self-righteousness, a religion no less virulent and destructive than those organised ones that went before but are being neutered for their falsettos. The Present lacks thoughts of the past and the future but are full of thoughts of the present except that they are not thoughts but realisations. To know without knowing-about/being-supported by the junk/myths from the left or the right, the Enlightened/thoughtless Left being Love and the Enlightened/thoughtless Right being The Pure Attention. There, another mountainous pile of drivel to sift through/bin.