[Ecommerce] Norwegian New Digital Copyright Law

Sun Feb 13 17:48:00 2005

Is there a copy of the proposed law available in English somewhere?

Sarah

Sarah B. Deutsch
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Verizon Communications
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                      "Manon Ress"
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http://linuxreviews.org/news/2005/02/11_03_bye_bye_freedom-New_Norwegian_Copyright_law/

Norwegian Proposal for Now Digital Copyright Law is even worse than
feared, yet the same laws mark the end of Copyright area and the
beginning of true freedom.

LinuxReviews, Oslo

The Norwegian The Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs today presented
a law proposal for a new New Digital Copyright Law that will effectively
outlaw fair use of MP3s and other digitally stored media.

The new law is claimed to be intended to harmonize the Norwegian law
with the European Union rules, but the proposal is far worse and
fascism-like than than anything anyone has tried to sneak into the law
without debate in decades.

The Norwegian The Ministry of Culture claim to take fair use into
considoration, this is why it is very important that you read the actual
proposal before you take that lie as good fish.

The laws would allow three years in prison or fines for engaging in the
vague term computer piracy. The USA recently did something similar and
called their general term terrorism.

The music and film industry immediately celebrated what they think will
give them immense power. These industries fail to realize they need to
provide a better alternative than peer to peer if they want to make
money. People want, they prefer, the divx video format, the ogg/mp3
music formats and peer to peer programs. These things allow fair use. It
is not a matter of money.

People are willing to pay for divx and mp3 files, but they industries do
not allow people to so. Instead, they point them to idiotic and stupid
solutions who do not allow fair use (or use at all on Linux, for that
matter..) because of copy-protection.

This is why the use of anonymous peer to peer protocols like I2P and
FreeNet is exploding. This limits the risk of doing anything on the net
because the nature of the systems prevent anyone from finding out who
you are or where you are. It is not possible to know who is doing what
on these anonymous peer to peer networks. So Copyright and Law ALREADY
LOST to Freedom of Speech.

It is VERY BAD that it had to come to this.

I am sad it had to come to this.

Freenet and I2P evolved at the point in hour short history where our
current system of society for the first time in history really proves to
be a huge failure. Our current dominant form of rule, very indirect
democracy voting for governments who now are completely powerless in the
face of huge influential multi-national multi-billion dollar
corporations is not working. Humans have had the same brains for fourth
thousand generations.

The industrial revolution begun in 1710 when a man named Thomas
Newcomen, a Devon blacksmith, made a steal pump that pumped water out of
the English cold mines more effectively. This was the dawn of the
industrical area and corporate rule (called democrasy and capitalism).
The humans have damaged the earth more these last three hundred years
than we have done in the fourth thousand generastions where we have had
the same intelligence as we currently have. And this is only one of the
many damages of modern capitalism. Other systems, like Communism, have
also been tried. It is also a failure and dead end.

The horrifying through is that the human species can not live
sustainable on this planet apart from nature ? in essence, it means any
of the popular modern day government inevitable will be judged as a
failure by history.

But there is no alternative, so we have a system where regulations on
Freedom of Speech tries to co-exist with Freedom of Speech, we try to
balance. So Freedom of Speech, pressured in the restrict limits of
corporate-given laws, has now evolved it's own unstoppable way of
presenting itself even more power-full than ever-before in history:
EVERYONE can now say or do ANYTHING on the Internet and there is, sadly,
nothing to do about it or the content placed on the anonymous networks.
(!).

In short: The new Digital Copyright Laws proposed in Norway is what will
be the trend around the world. It is not a proposal, the Norwegian
government is in reality a powerless joke in the face of corporate
power, the EU or any other entity for that matter. The Norwegian
parliament will pass the law as early as July 1st. Gisle Hannemyr of the
University of Oslo's Department of Informatics responded "We are going
to be a nation of lawbreakers if this law is passed in its current form."

This is also why everyone will turn to secure anonymous means, the code
is out there, it is not going to go away.

All copyright laws are now reduced to insignificant jokes because they
where judged by history to be too mind-controlling and too evil.

The seeds of Freedom, the code, is out there. May the code be with you.

--
Manon Anne Ress
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