 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | Ummmm. ISPs do not have to be sensitive to CONTENT at all That's an issue we hope not to have to address. There's been, as you pointed out earlier, a real movement toward ISPs assuming a more proactive role in dealing with online piracy in constructive way that's sensitive to their subscribers, that's sensitive to privacy, that's sensitive to content, and that is frankly responsive to their needs in terms of network congestion and offering good consumer experiences to all their subscribers. No, ISPs have a DUTY to their subscribers and owe jack squat to content.
I don't want the phone company telling Sears that I make catalog orders with JC Penney. I don't want my ISP telling Amazon what I buy from CD Baby, and if ASCAP sends my ISP a notice that the recording of my family singing "Happy Birthday" violates someone's 70-year-old copyright, I would hope that they leave the matter between me and ASCAP lest they want to underwrite the copyright case of a century of corporate and legislative excesses!
COPY RIGHT -- it's the people's RIGHT to COPY. That's what it is, in fact and in history! RIAA needs to realize that The People are largely on a different page and if they want The People to recognize appropriate exceptions in the COPY RIGHT (and I think they would respect them), then they need to work to restore reasonable exceptions in the law.
Right now the COPY RIGHT law is so turned around against The People that many people just don't care anymore.
And if they think that's just insane -- ask them, what happened to the 55 MPH speed limit?
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