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Carlos Ayala wrote:
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I think RIcardo was saying -as he said it as an answer to my former
mail- is that it would be dangerous that people finally think of
circumvention of laws as a solution against harmful laws/court
judgments. Not only because of becoming criminals shouldn't be found
acceptable -as I said in my former mail, not only using but even just
having DRM-circumventing tools is considered a crime against common
law-, but if people find themselves comfortable with that idea of "<span
style="font-style: italic;">no problem if X law/court judgment does
not allow me to do Y, I'll circumvent the prohibition</span>", I think
they won't probably be worried anymore about the true problem: the very
existence of that law or the reasons for that judge to release that
judgment.<br>
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Yes, this is a serious problem.<br>
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For example, many danish pirates do not see the blocking of TPB as a
serious issue because they know it is trivially easy to circumvent.
They do not realize that IFPI probably likes that it is easy to
circumvent right now because it causes less protests, and that in a few
years IFPI is going to demand censorship that is harder to circumvent
(and a lot more expensive for the ISPs).<br>
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And today I had to give up on arranging a demonstration against the
internet censorship. Problem is that without the danish pirate group
(piratgruppen.org) I can only find half a dozen people who want to
participate. The danish pirate group does not want to participate in a
demonstration because they think some other things should be done
first. One of these things is to set up a web site educating people on
how to circumvent the blocking of TPB.<br>
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course we can find the best metaphors to make people understand the
dangers of censorship, the dangers of privacy loss, etc; however, <span
style="font-weight: bold;">what if</span> -and I say this not just as
an hypothesis, but because this has already happened to us in Spain- <span
style="font-weight: bold;">people answer us</span> "<span
style="font-style: italic;">indeed, <span style="font-weight: bold;">you're
right,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">but who cares</span>?
while I can find CDs without levies/ways to circumvent DRM/ways to
access Pirate Bay/etc, it's not my problem anymore</span>".<br>
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Same problem here in Denmark. Very few blank CDs/DVDs are sold here.
Instead people buy them in Sweden or Germany (where the levy is lower)
and think they pay no levy.<br>
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I believe that's our challenge: we should be able to make people
understand that now is the time to stop traditional politicians,
preventing them from setting and consolidating within the society
liberticide laws, preventing them from creating case laws; because if
we don't prevent them to do such things, in some years from now it will
be extremely difficult, and today's ways to circumvent such harmful
laws/judgments will be mercilessly forbidden and punished -with also
most of society not finding anything worrying in that ... because as
years pass they become habited to such laws/judgments-.<br>
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This is very important.<br>
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Circumvention is not a solution; it's a part of the problem.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
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Ole Husgaard.<br>
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