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Default Re: If You’re Campaigning Against ACTA, You’re A Terrorist

More times than I can count, the copywrong gang seeks any method that sounds like it has some realism to it (whether it does or not) as an explanation why they need more laws. Doesn't have to have facts behind it, just has to sound reasonable. Something like downloading is a lost sale is one as an example.

For what seems to be the last decade, the copywrong gang has been trying to get government to spend the money fighting file sharing instead of them. So how do you do that? Obviously the point is to show the Justice Department that something illegal is going on. After all, if the other guy is making lots of money, or if they are taking your business away; there must be something about it illegal. This is a very common viewpoint to those industries when they are threatened by technological upsets.

So how do you get the Justice Department sicced on file sharers? Why claim it's illegal of course. What's more illegal than terrorism? This has been tried with criminal gangs are making money, it's been tried with terrorism is selling counterfeit movies to finance their 'war', it's been tried with music and someone is profiting because we aren't; no where can they actually produce the evidence showing money transfer is happening to support this wild idea. It was done with Limewire but that fell flat on it's face for lack of evidence. It was tried early on with cyberlockers. No creditable proof was ever turned up on that. Merely the accusation and nothing else.

It's all about the money and control to be the gatekeepers. In a choice between those two, they will always pick control as the most important, even if it costs them money.

ACTA is mainly about IP protection. You know what? None of that would be necessary if the music and movie houses would license file sharing sites. Doing so would take away their control and they will hang on to that thought till their dying breath.
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