Digital copyrights are back on the congressional block once again as a new bill was introduced yesterday which "prohibits the sale or distribution of nearly any kind of electronic device — unless that device includes copy-protection standards to be set by the federal government".
I can see nothing good coming of this legislation. Don’t get me wrong — I’m all for protecting the rights of artists, but I’m not in favor of digital media copyrights under the system we have in place now. It’s tragicly flawed and tiled away from the very ones who work and slave to creative for too little compensation and instead tilted in favor of the corperations who are mearly looking out for their bottom line (so it comes as no suprise that Disney and News Corp. are major backers of the bill).
Maybe if these people opened their minds and took a look at what the future of music distrubution could (and I think should) be they would see how wrong some of what they propose is. Then again, I guess it’s kind of hard to see anything when someone is waving greenbacks in your face.
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