American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12

I remember a video posted in one of the threads of this forum, which mentioned a point that was interesting to me, in that apparently in Canada, they charge an additional tax on optical media, in which a portion goes to the A/V media owners. By doing so, it apparently is not illegal to copy any media in that nation. Not certain how that would work here, but it sounds a lot better than the way things are going now.

It should be kept in mind that once a tax is created, there is no real way of controlling it. That is why I would prefer a tax on media, rather than on the internet itself. A media tax should be dedicated, and not placed in the general fund to get "lost". No internet tax for me.

bigdog2626 said:

i say the same thing man tax us and move on leave the net alone,free & uncensored

If they do this, the complete opposite will happen. You're asking the same idiots who are meddling now to gain even more control? "Free and uncensored" doesn't exist in their world.

Why on earth do people trust bureaucrats?

Colonel Travis said:

bigdog2626 said:

i say the same thing man tax us and move on leave the net alone,free & uncensored

If they do this, the complete opposite will happen. You're asking the same idiots who are meddling now to gain even more control? "Free and uncensored" doesn't exist in their world.

Why on earth do people trust bureaucrats?

It depends on the country. After that, some people have an instinctive need to hold irrational faith.

TanyaC said:

I don't condone piracy, but I wonder if there might be another dymanic to it.

Here is Australia we are wayyyy behind in some TV series, and some movies never get released on DVD here. There are also lags in getting access to stuff.

An example, The Jesse Stone series of TV movies are not available where I live. Department stores won't order them specially for a person, they have none on the shelves. I can't rent them from video stores in my area (because they just don't have them), and because DVD/BD player manufacturers have made the players region encoded, and for many players "hacks" don't exist, then I can't buy it from Amazon or such, because my player won't play it - wrong region code.

My freedom of choice is already overly controlled by big brother, and my freedoms are being eroded every day.

It's not a matter of willingness to pay for it - availability is also an issue.

So I jumped on a few torrent sites, and usenet sites, and sure enough, there are all seven movies. Sitting there ready to solve my problem. I won;t download them because they will probably be poor quality, or have hardcoded foreign subs., but you get my point.

Even eBay doesn't offer a solution all of the time, as a lot of the stuff is not region 4 DVD or Region B Blu-ray.

I fear that for some, this is incentive enough to get upset enough to download pirated stuff.

The lack of freedom, privacy and availability is infuriating. I wonder if faster and wider availability would help some people resist the urge to pirate?

Just a thought
Tanya

This is one of the main reasons why pirating happens. Availability is just non-existant in some places.

Having no income is why some people pirate as well, but not as high as the reason above.

No matter what the movie/music/game industry does, there is always going to be pirating, and they just need to face the fact that limiting it is only going to make it worse, yet they're dumb enough to keep forcing people to pirate their crap because their greed is overwhelming. (Greed = Fear of being poor, that's what Greed basically is).

Richardc269 said:

TanyaC said:

I don't condone piracy, but I wonder if there might be another dymanic to it.

Here is Australia we are wayyyy behind in some TV series, and some movies never get released on DVD here. There are also lags in getting access to stuff.

An example, The Jesse Stone series of TV movies are not available where I live. Department stores won't order them specially for a person, they have none on the shelves. I can't rent them from video stores in my area (because they just don't have them), and because DVD/BD player manufacturers have made the players region encoded, and for many players "hacks" don't exist, then I can't buy it from Amazon or such, because my player won't play it - wrong region code.

My freedom of choice is already overly controlled by big brother, and my freedoms are being eroded every day.

It's not a matter of willingness to pay for it - availability is also an issue.

So I jumped on a few torrent sites, and usenet sites, and sure enough, there are all seven movies. Sitting there ready to solve my problem. I won;t download them because they will probably be poor quality, or have hardcoded foreign subs., but you get my point.

Even eBay doesn't offer a solution all of the time, as a lot of the stuff is not region 4 DVD or Region B Blu-ray.

I fear that for some, this is incentive enough to get upset enough to download pirated stuff.

The lack of freedom, privacy and availability is infuriating. I wonder if faster and wider availability would help some people resist the urge to pirate?

Just a thought
Tanya

This is one of the main reasons why pirating happens. Availability is just non-existant in some places.

Having no income is why some people pirate as well, but not as high as the reason above.

No matter what the movie/music/game industry does, there is always going to be pirating, and they just need to face the fact that limiting it is only going to make it worse, yet they're dumb enough to keep forcing people to pirate their crap because their greed is overwhelming. (Greed = Fear of being poor, that's what Greed basically is).

That's the thing with DLCs, additional game content for MOAR money. Correct me if I'm wrong, Mass Effect 3, content on there that needed unlocking by paying AGAIN for the game.