http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/us-entertainment-cartels-turn-into-the-mafia/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/us-entertainment-cartels-turn-into-the-mafia/comment-page-1/#comment-28862 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:48:13 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=7445#comment-28862 I would only go along with this proposal if anyone who gets their computer locked up and is then found not to be a pirate is allowed to claim for 1% of the company’s anual turnover as damages plus all costs, including loss of earnings. Plus the head of the relevant department gets prosecuted under the relevant computer abuse act, with the possible sanction of going to jail.
Piracy is wrong, but such an OTT approach requires OTT safeguards.

]]> http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/us-entertainment-cartels-turn-into-the-mafia/comment-page-1/#comment-28637 Mon, 27 May 2013 15:50:44 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=7445#comment-28637 The problem with all this talk of pirating music is that practically everything you do with music is illegal anyway. Buying a second hand CD is technically illegal; ripping your perfectly legal *brand new* CD to iTunes (or anything similar) it technically illegal; lending your friend your CDs is illegal; burning copies of your CDs (unless it’s for yourself I think..) is illegal – so really it all is a bit of a minefield. There is no way that any of this can be enforced, and there is no government that will want to enforce it. When it comes to online stuff, they will talk tough – like above – but I can’t see anything realistically coming of it. Still, a scary thought..

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