RIAA targets ISPs

[Darth Avlectus]

Yet, some people here fail to understand this seemingly obvious point.

 

_EW_

Some but not all.

--Don't pull out your hair begging the question... Professor House.

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Yar-El, for the record I am pretty sure I understand you, and so does "House" (I think). However I ask you to elaborate because the differing job/persons/perspectives is probably drawing a blank with others.

 

That apples are not oranges and vice versa, hence different people+different jobs=different perspectives: You were saying how protection to some is greed to others. So your point here (Can I guess?) is that protections are necessary to prevent our market from becoming stealing-wheels where the market flatlines. Or have I missed something?

 

I completely agree that works ought to be protected. I want you to ponder, though, the fiasco I pointed out above. This is an example of both protection (albeit a slightly differing "protection" than from the subject at hand), AND a proverbial double edged sword because it has spilled out and in order to protect one group, another group has potentially been harmed (though at this point nothing has happened YET). Frivolous lawsuits of a company vs people whose video content may have had nothing whatsoever to do with any of their materials.

 

I know I am beating a dead horse here: if protections are going to work they must be effective. That means not only enforce the laws, but make sure you aren't using a hatchet to kill a fly.