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Story: France pushes ahead with 'three strikes' internet law

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It is amazing how deep pockets can lobby politicians into . . .

thinking that every technology BELONGS to "content providers".

The reality is that they did not come up with ANY of theese technologies.

The record player: NO.
Radio: NO.
TV: NO.
Taperecorder: NO.
Audio cassettes: NO.
Video cassettes: NO.
CDs: NO.
DVDs: NO.

However: They claimed they were going into total loss of all business when:
Radio came along: Nobody will ever buy a record again.
TV came along: Nobody will ever go to cinema again.
Taperecorder: This is almost the END of selling music!
Audio cassettes: This IS the END of selling music! They wanted audio casettes to be NON-recordable.
Same with Videocassettes: They INSISTED they had to be playback ONLY! If not they would loose ALL film revenue.
CDs and DVDs: Same story again!

Every time a new technology came along they cryed their tears about loosing ALL business, but ended up getting MORE than before!

May be it is time to say: Enough of this whining!
Let us SUSPEND all copyrights for one month.
Then figure out a set of copyright laws once again, and this time REMEMBER what the reason for copyrights were and how they were supposed to protect artists AGAINST unscrupulous publishers.
Theese copyrights were granted as PREVILIGES by the PUBLIC (via governments) to protect against publishers and NOT the PUBLIC !

The public was never expected to protect them against the public!
Anyone that really thinks that, needs their head screwed back on.

Why on earth should "content provides" rule all the rest of us ?
It is simply PERVERSE !

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