tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post4936637166845515277..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Pirate Party Plans for Copyright ReformMarie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-14705623584556987432012-08-21T02:57:57.297+01:002012-08-21T02:57:57.297+01:00Piracy is been a big problem in the Philippines. T...Piracy is been a big problem in the Philippines. The government had to put up a department to deal with this alone. The Optical Media Board is what it came about and fortunately they have been doing good. Less pirated movies and records can be seen on the street. Lately they focused on illegal use of software and found out that even some companies practices such. An instance which happened last week where a call center company Garrett & Talon which has an in house account - JUSTFLOWERS was raided by the authority because of illegal use of operating system (windows). When OMB raided the company they found out that only 1 OS was legally bought and was used to run 100 or more PC's. The case is now on going. Kudos to OMB!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-70914486527623127712012-05-22T08:25:57.868+01:002012-05-22T08:25:57.868+01:00"Guess what, in recent years, online piracy h..."Guess what, in recent years, online piracy has decimated the company I worked for and it has all but ceased to exist and all those people are now out of a job."<br /><br />Youve just assumed that have you? That there could be no other reason for you business running downhill?<br /><br />Take it you didnt see the recent study which showed that piracy had either no effect or actually increased record sales?<br /><br />http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-7805711999620738832012-05-22T01:29:40.994+01:002012-05-22T01:29:40.994+01:00I wish those interested in copyright would learn t...I wish those interested in copyright would learn that the income earned from intellectual property rights doesn't just keep the 'author' off the breadline but thousands of little people who all work in the world's entertainment industries and actually enable you or I to enjoy the various creative endeavours that are protected by copyright laws.<br />I worked in a small independent record company for a number of years. Without the ability to license rights and earn money from them for the company and the artist within a regulated commercial environment, I and my colleagues who did everything from admin to PR to artwork to distribution wouldn't have been able to earn our meagre wages.<br />Guess what, in recent years, online piracy has decimated the company I worked for and it has all but ceased to exist and all those people are now out of a job.<br />Piracy isn't just about big corporations or mega selling music/movie stars, you know.Jessicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-40265608699324096332012-05-21T21:33:28.069+01:002012-05-21T21:33:28.069+01:00I looked at the sites to which the 1709 Blog linke...I looked at the sites to which the 1709 Blog linked for the German Pirate Party. They have so skewed the topics that any creatively global solution to the real problems of copyright online is obstructed. To start, how to solve these inevitably global problems on a purely national level in the purely national categories the German Pirate Party proposes? At a minimum they'd have to talk in terms of EU codification, if not international treaties. Note that I've no place on the Party's sites to make this critique.Paul Edward Gellerhttp://www.criticalcopyright.com/noreply@blogger.com