[LINK] Privacy dooms digital copyright (and vice versa)

[Kim Holburn]

On 2014/Jan/27, at 12:59 PM, Dr Bob Jansen (in Korea) wrote:

> Kim,
> 
> not sure why this means copyright is dead. As a cynic, I would assume 
> that privacy will be gone.

That was my take too, as a pessimistic cynic.  Although lots of internet engineers are looking to give us privacy using technical means.  If they succeed the result will be the loss of copyright.

> After all, the powers that be don't want 
> whistleblowers, a free press, wikileaks, etc. In conjunction with the 
> real powers, ie. the large corporations, they'll get rid of privacy as a 
> 'good for society' thing and copyright will thrive as a by product 
> continuing to make them lots of moolah.
> 
> bobj
> 
> 
> On 27/01/14 10:47 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> http://torrentfreak.com/why-the-copyright-industry-is-doomed-in-one-single-sentence-140126/
>> 
>>> Any digital, private communications channel can be used for private protected correspondence, or to transfer works that are under copyright monopoly.
>>> In order to prevent copyright monopoly violations from happening in such channels, the only means possible is to wiretap all private digital communications to discover when copyrighted works are being communicated. As a side effect, you would eliminate private communications as a concept. There is no way to sort communications into legal and illegal without breaching the postal secret – the activity of sorting requires observation.
>>> Therefore, as a society, we are at a crossroads where we can make a choice between privacy and the ability to communicate in private, with all the other things that depend on that ability (like whistleblower protections and freedom of the press), or a distribution monopoly for a particular entertainment industry. These two have become mutually exclusive and cannot coexist, which is also why you see the copyright industry lobbying so hard for more surveillance, wiretapping, tracking, and data retention (they understand this perfectly).
>> 
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