Please read my post on Law School 101 to effectively participate in this forum. (you will have to scroll down a bit)
—“How about taking things on your own shoulders and do something like I’ve suggested further down this page which I notice you have not responded to. This is your property so you should be in the first line of defense in protecting your assets. After all you would hardly leave a large sum of money in your house/unit and then go out leaving everything wide open and expect it to still be there when you returned would you?” (HAL 9000, 03/19/05)—
Please be patient – I am trying my best to combat all your valid arguments. However this is exponentially growing out of my control, ironically. I seem to be alone here, as no one is on my side (well maybe except for Microsoft, and the music industry).
POINTS OF INTEREST TO CONSIDER
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All I want is for ISPs to stop hiding and actually use their powers to aid law enforcement. We can not police this problem without the help of the people who control the internet.
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ISPs can help the police and provide them with a road map to the front door of all the cyber geeks out there who think they can intimidate the police officers and the musical hippies with their technical knowledge on how to steal stuff.
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We need to take action as piracy is climbing and industry is falling.
ISPs control the internet and police need to work with them just like they do with hackers, viruses, spam, child porn, and other criminal actions. All they need to do is use this existing relationship to start a new crusade against internet piracy and force this growing figure back around the other way!
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I don?t want control, I want co-operation (maybe a little utopian for this world). But as I have said, we need governance; the internet is in our society as much as we want to hold it as another dimension way back in the corner of our psyche.
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People use the streets, police use the streets, people use the internet…
Police use the internet?
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I don?t care about the music industry?s pitfalls, I am more interested in software piracy, and image piracy (like image re-production, child porn, etc). It is just that the music industry have the biggest voice on the issue. The point I am trying to make is that people are stealing their music and that is a FACT that does not require discussion here.
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I agree people should be responsible for their own work and take civil actions toward internet piracy, however why should we do the work of the police. We should be more concerned with using the full potential of our creative freedom than worrying about thieves that scare us from publishing our work.
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I would like to hear Michael Moore?s opinion on the issue. Maybe just like when Michael Moore went to the head of Kmart and stopped the sale of bullets which are used to kill people, he should go to the headquarters of the FBI with a few music industry people and demand they take away the ?bullets? of the internet which are used to steal our property!
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FORUM BRIEF
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I have been an advocator of file sharing communities for a long time. However as a digital product designer I am very frustrated when people steal my work. I am inclined to now agree with the music industry on piracy, however while still keeping to the advantages of file share communities and the power of the Internet.
One solution that seems to have been adopted heavily throughout the industry is this WMA format and other file protection systems. However this is very frustrating especially when you try to copy the music to a non-compatible device like Apples iPod.
My solution is to pass legislation to make network administrator and ISPs implement at least some sort of filtering process into their firewalls. They should take some actions toward what content their users are sending throughout the internet. This does not have to require millions of dollars in infrastructure and man power. Instead, automated policing software could be implemented into firewalls that randomly check public information on hosts (such as Limewire file sharing) and network administrators and ISPs could detect their users breaking company policies by advocating internet piracy. ISPs could send email notification about disabling their accounts if they do not remove the offending content.
This would be a simple solution to internet piracy and make network owners and ISPs to a certain degree help law enforcement take action for their user?s content. This could potentially have the ramification of finally thwarting the use of internet piracy and providing government with a police presence on the internet.
Maybe we need a new organisation that ISPs can join to bring organisation and standards to the industry?
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BRAIN TINGLER
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The government governs technology of which people use, people are also governed by the government and people use the government for protection from the use of technology of which people use.
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RELATED DISCUSSION: Stop Internet Piracy! Software Developers Should Help
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