Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

What? Are they gonna ban every device ever

By that logic pencils are banned since you can plagiarize copyrighted text with them. Can't teach kids to write, because writing is a tool of piracy.

That's literally everything. Every. Single. Thing. What an idiot.

Damn, well it's been fun using digital electronics everyone

You could use a typewriter to copy any book, so they’re about as dangerous a technology as it gets.

Lol.

Lmao, even.

RIP my prescription glasses.

So, reactionary extremist endorses radical sweeping policy without considering consequences?

The AAPA’s somewhat radical standpoint is a call to outlaw the production, marketing, and distribution of any such device.

That's not "somewhat radical", it's absolutist insanity. They want full control of everyone, so they can extract maximum profit, individuality and freedom be damned.

Let's ban computers then. Oh you can share content from these various technologies ? Ban them ! Your CPU is able to process data of any kind ? Banned ! You made a code project that is able to process and share data ? Banned !

This whole trend of banning things that "can" be used to make any illegal activities is ridiculous. VPNs are widely used by pirates and criminals to share illegal content on the web but it is also a very powerful tool to escape censorship and obtain a certain of privacy on the web. Tor also falls into it, while ironically being made by the US army, is also a very good free tool for activists of all kind to express their claims and evade censorship as well. Torrent was made to transfer files of any kind as a peer to peer technology and is still very useful outside of sharing illegal content.

If we start banning every tools used by the common people for normal (and legal) practices because a small group of people use them for illegal purpose, everything will be restricted, banned or heavily regulated.

grandpa got his pacemaker to run doom? straight to jail with him

Oops! Now pens and pencils, and computers and paints and such are outlawed because they can all be used to duplicate copyrighted materials and infringe upon IPs. 🤷🏻‍♂️

They are going to feel pretty damn stupid when nobody can buy/rent/watch/listen to their content and products...

Because, ya know... any product which can play any form of media, has the potential to infringe on IP....

I say, give them EXACTLY what they want. Give them, a week or two with zero profits, and see how quickly they change their tune.

She probably wrote that quote in an email with the signature "From my iPhone".

what a dolt.

I’ve got a better idea, let’s just ban human beings!

Let's ban writing! Return to monkey!

So computers and phones should be banned too then? These people are absolutely clowns lmao

This is the stupidest thing I've read this year LOL.

She should start by banning her eyes.

Time to ban all computing devices.

Maybe one day people will wake up and realize that it is somewhat odd to think you could own ideas. Intellectual property is a bullshit concept.

Don't these pirates know that their illegal schemes to make unauthorized copies and recordings of things causes EUR 3.19 trillion in financial damage to rights owners every year? It seems they will never learn, so we will need new laws. Mandatory client-side scanning for copyrighted material must be built in to all cameras and phones, or our whole economy will surely collapse.

So, everything

Maybe instead of trying to blame the tools, why don't we blame the system instead?

Copyright shouldn't be a thing in the 21th century.

Shut your fucking cake-hole Sheila. It might reproduce copyrighted content.

This might be the dumbest shit I've heard in a while.

You'd better ban fingers too.

And all kinds of cameras and recording devices.

Laptops. Computers. Smart TVs. Ban it all. We'll play with a hoop and a stick and be happy.

Sounds like she needs to go off grid completely because clearly she doesn't understand that a large percentage of the world is made up of tech. Might as well ban her phone, laptop, television, vehicle, etc. Let her become a tree fairy.

Obligatory c3 video: The coming war on general computation.

After reading the article this is yet again the same argument that if nothing is done, artists and creators are the one being hurt by the piracy.

Except that it is not.

The claim for banning anything and everything that can be potentially subverted to facilitate access to protected intelectual property is ridiculous. The world would grind to a halt if such request was to be actually enforced, as anyone participating in this thread has already stated.

But what if we were to actually jump on this band wagon?

By definition, any word spoken on a podcast, any video on a video platform, any word or sentence jotted down on any social platform, is intelectual property if by any means can be monetized.

Let's claim our share of the revenue gained from our intelectual property. Let's demand that by definition every individual is protected by copyright law, even if we need to create associations to collectively represent us.

How would that work against this pile of idiocy?

I'm just going to go outside and check the seedbox running on my Tesla roadster before I rip and upload a couple of episodes using the computer on my refrigerator and then post them from my Smart TV.

Checkmate copyright whores.