A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about an extremely important case that was being considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court. The central question was wheth…

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that merit a prison sentence, an evident absurdity.

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.

  • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is so stupid since several thousand devices can use one IP address. NAT exists.

    If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?

    Anyway I hope I hope online artists, and authors are able to use this to sue AI companies for stealing their copyrighted works.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?

      This sounds like the kind of grassroots activity I might be interested in.

    • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A good question… I suggest we all start torrenting new release movies and video games exclusively through Starbucks, because I want to know

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    What am I missing, here? If you do something illegal, they can try to find out who you are? So if the girl I am currently cyberstalking were to go to the police, they could work with my ISP to figure out who I am?

    I’m going to move to a VPN pronto!

    • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      is cyber’stalking’ even illegal? there’s something incredibly harmless about scrolling thru someone’s instagram that showing up outside their house repeatedly doesn’t seem to compare with

  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    lmao copyright isn’t important

    if copyright were abolished worldwide today, we’d be in a happier place. people who buy things generally want to buy from the official source anyway, those official sources might even have to cut prices or (god forbid!) have to make their services better to compete in the market