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Obama has vowed to kill off piracy with an extensive action system designed to protect the intellectual property of US citizens, reports DailyTech.
After some extensive lobbying from the RIAA and MPAA and a report on net piracy the Obama administration is now making efforts to eliminate illegal file-sharing online.
The administration claims it received over 1,600 public comments detailing the problems that piracy cause, and that it has identified 33 “action items” to combat intellectual property theft, which fall into six categories: leading by example by not using infringing products, being transparent, improving co-ordination to improve efficiency and effectiveness, working with foreign governments to enforce rights overseas, securing the domestic supply chain and collecting better data.
Victoria Espinel, who drafted the report, gave a stark warning to illegal downloaders: “We are committed to putting you out of business.”
In a hyperbolic address, the US Vice President Joe Biden compared downloading a song online to stealing jewellery from an expensive New York jeweler: "This is theft, clear and simple. It's smash and grab, no different than a guy walking down Fifth Avenue and smashing the window at Tiffany's and reaching in and grabbing what's in the window." We suppose he believes that an illegal download of a 99 cent song should warrant the same punishment as the robbery of millions worth of jewellery.
He added that piracy hurts the economy, saying that there are tens of billions of dollars of lost private sector profits. However, a study from the Government Accountability Office earlier this year revealed that there was no evidence to support millions of lost revenue that the entertainment industry claims, suggesting that the Obama administration may be using the recession to garner support for its new proposals.
He also said it hurts our health and safety, which is an unusual concept that has not been broached before. To explain his point he talked about the broader scope of fake products, including car parts, semiconductors, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals. That is a whole other problem compared to downloading music or movies, we reckon.
The US government was not very clear on how it plans to enforce its proposals, but there was mention of increased monitoring of file-sharing websites and pressuring foreign nations, particularly China, into taking down infringing websites and prosecuting the people behind them.
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Not that it justifies illegal download, but saying it hurts the economy, that's a ridiculous argument, MAFIAA stile.
For the record, pharmaceutical couterfeiters should burn in hell, hurting economy or not, they are mass murderers.
friends? And Pres Obama has been a big disappointment.
Being naive', I believed his campaign rhetoric. I had hoped He could reign in Mr. Biden who was and is a big supporter of Artist's rights to their fair share. For the 'record", I own no music of any form. I hummed "Over The Rainbow" when I was 12 once. Where do I send the check? Why does the music business hate us?
Again, Pres Obama is flip flopping and giving the finger to his voter(me).
Being a Wedding Photographer I know my work will be copied and price acccordingly. Bringing a Bride's brother to court because He copied proofs may be right but it's the kiss of death for my business. So I live with it . A thief hates to be called one.
Fuck the recording companies, Fuck Hollywood, and Fuck Washington D.C.!
There is a fundamental and important distinction between physical property and what we call intellectual property. Biden is wrong when he says sharing files online is equivalent to breaking into a store and stealing physical objects. I can see many benefits to sharing intellectual property, which the Obama administration fails to take into consideration. In my honest opinion, I think this is just another instance of the influence of corporate greed at work.
Article 1 section 8 of the United States Constitution provides the power to congress enact laws to ensure copyright/patent/trademark protection for Intellectual Property creators.
Long story short. If you have a brain. You are capable of creating a piece of Intellectual Property. If your idea is a good one... you could elect to develop a business opportunity from it. Certainly greed is out there but there are plenty of ordinary folks who have found a way to earn a modest living off of the fruits of their labor.
I honestly can't see what is wrong with paying 99cents for a song to add to your music collection. Is everyone that broke and can't afford it? When I was a kid in the 80's I would spend quarters like crazy on the arcade games. Frogger and Pacman was like... 25 cents for a mere few minutes of entertainment. But I worked odd jobs to earn money and it was never an issue. My guess is that people had more money back in the day.
For me it would be fair if the artist gets a one-time fee for his album/song and uses his songs to create a fan-base which will pay for his concerts to watch him play and buy his merchandise. That's how he should make his money.
I'm not willing to pay for songs of a band I've never heard of and will listen only once before throwing it away because it is utter crap. Or will I get my money back if I don't like the artists material?
Not to mention that going to one store to buy a product would be illegal if another store also had the same product, because the other store could have had your money if you would have bought it their instead/too. Logically, this 'potential profit' thing makes zero sense. Not to mention that pirates are basically free advertising through the use of word of mouth. They might tell their non-pirate friends to buy something good, or even donate to the authors themselves. You may not like it, you may dread the thought, but the current copyright laws are broken in regards to this.
The sad thing is that most artists make virtually no money off of the sales of their music anyway. This may be an extreme case, but when The Beatles first started selling their albums in the U.S. , they made half a penny for every record sold (keep in mind this is an extreme case). You may at first think that since they sold so many albums it doesn't matter, right?
Well for artists as popular as The Beatles it didn't, but for independent artists it is, as almost all the money from album sales go strait to the record company. Not only that, but only the songwriter (not the band) gets paid whenever their song airs on the radio.
Most artists rely solely on touring to pay the bills, and there even are cases when the artist or band encourages the sharing of their music (or "pirating") because they make enough off of touring anyway and it grows their fanbase.
The only people who have a right to complain about pirating are the artists who's very livelihood depends on their record sales; not people like Metallica, who's only injury is of their pride.
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