More Stupidity on Copyright
The drive to "protect" intellectual property is getting dumber, and it's not limited to the US - Look at what's happening in New Zealand:
The Government's Copyright Amendment Act comes into force today and anyone caught downloading copyrighted content illegally could face fines of up to $15,000 and have their internet cut off.
So say you run a Starbucks in New Zealand, and someone decides to download a few songs via bittorrent while they have a latte. That leaves Starbucks open to the penalties.
The unintended consequences of this are going to be really, really bad.
Comments
Re: More Stupidity on Copyright
[Bruce Hobbs] September 1, 2011 17:43:43.576
What makes you think the consequences are unintended?
Re: More Stupidity on Copyright
[James Robertson] September 1, 2011 19:49:44.464
Oh, I know what you mean. I just expect even worse :)
Re: More Stupidity on Copyright
[anonymous] September 2, 2011 4:50:49.326
It is just evolving to the situation where actually robbing a store and stealing the music/movies is considered less "evil" (and will be punished less) than downloading said music/movies.