tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post6911534689952497655..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: PRS gone mad?RevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-7993310980648576182010-07-16T18:25:18.675+01:002010-07-16T18:25:18.675+01:00So based on this if a shoplifter stole a DVD from ...So based on this if a shoplifter stole a DVD from a shop jumped into their car and drove home based on the theory above the local authority should be fined for allowing copyrighted material to pass over their road!!! What happens if they use public transport!!!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505044467796417053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-51259172257212904892010-07-16T01:09:22.087+01:002010-07-16T01:09:22.087+01:00well, if the ISP's are to be fined, surely the...well, if the ISP's are to be fined, surely the ISP's won't be the ones doing the monitoring of this, so who will? of course, if it *did* happen, then I would be 100% up for charging these people for bandwidth if their site(s) are accessed over the network.<br /><br />second, if this was to get through, can we not use the same thing with telemarketers (legal or not). I do not want the calls, the calls come through my service provider (whether that be AAISP, BT, TalkTalk, etc, etc) can we fine them for telemarketers being able to contact us? maybe this would make the Gov. actually do something about it! (yeah, ok, that made me laugh too....)Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15433960551945208728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-31844902929701039392010-07-15T19:49:32.955+01:002010-07-15T19:49:32.955+01:00Let's not forget that in order to show that an...Let's not forget that in order to show that an individual has downloaded material for which they don't have permission from the rights holder, then some form of checksum is required to make absolutely sure what that file is, and this presumes the file hasn't, in some way, been re-encoded.<br /><br />Simply using P2P does not prove that unapproved copyrighted infringement has taken place. There are many legal ways to use P2P and more and more people are seeing the benefit of distributing large files this way, and that's before you get to typical lawful users downloading Creative Commons music, images, movies or GPL and FOSS software like Linux.<br /><br />The PRS (and their RIAA counterparts) are just trying to make yet more money. The PRS' job is actually to manage royalty payments to relevant artists, but without proving exactly which music has been pirated, then they can't prove who the money they're hoping to claim will need to be paid to. So just who is going to get all this extra cash windfall? The PRS themselves of course. They have historical 'form' for not paying dues to artists and they are reportedly sitting on a huge cash pile which legally doesn't belong to them. And what's more, they are using that cash to lobby for expanded laws which will directly benefit them financially.<br /><br />The deeper you dig, the more they look like mobsters.M-REShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10298124329005123678noreply@blogger.com