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After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"

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we're getting sopa in ireland in the next few days. kinda slipped out yesterday and is trending on twitter in ireland at the mo. http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html

so for any irish folk who frequent hackernews; http://stopsopaireland.com/

Wow. How can something like that just get pushed into law by one minister?

well the minister involved just tweeted that it's not going to happen. not sure if i believe that or not. https://twitter.com/#!/seansherlocktd/status/161600885435281...

but irish law can be funny. after years of terrorist activities certain laws can be pushed into place with little outside discussion. for levels of stupidity i usually recommend the book;'this great little nation' which contains a list of scandals that beggar belief. http://www.amazon.com/This-Great-Little-Nation-Kerrigan/dp/0...

Their report is 13MB big (32 pages only!) and uses pdf instead of html.

A good illustration of how the industry can't understand easy sharing.

I don't understand what is so wrong with any of their demands. What does the interent want exactly? To be able to download any song they want for free? I mean I completely agree that we shouldn't censor the internet but infringing sites should have repercussions in a court of law like any other entity that breaks the law.

It is so obvious that sites like megaupload and rapid share make NO effort to prevent infringement -- a simple cross check against music artists/television shows would prevent many infringement cases.

If it were only that, it would be simple. The problem is that most of the laws and methods used by the music industry are... overkill. DRM has, in its many forms, been inconvenient and/or invasive, and chock-full of false positives. SOPA/PIPA was ripe for abuse with its overly-broad provisions and shoot-first-ask-later style. There's no reason to think that any of the requests on this new list will be any more elegantly implemented.

For bonus points, all of the IFPI's requests involve lumping an awful lot of extra work on the Interet's middlemen, with the possibility of shutting down plenty of not-infringing-but-simply-annoying sites.

It is so obvious that sites like megaupload and rapid share make NO effort to prevent infringement -- a simple cross check against music artists/television shows would prevent many infringement cases.

They really shouldn't have to. Why should that burden fall entirely on the storage service provider, and how do they deal with legitimate uploads from those music artists/television shows (e.g. record labels have been rumored to "leak" albums on purpose for promotion)?

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