[LINK] Graduated Piracy Response Coming To Australia, Or Else

[David Boxall]

On 12/07/2011 11:18 PM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Correct ... only the copyright holder has rights of suit, and rights to remedy.
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> There is NO obligation on any third party to enforce those rights for the copyright holder.
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> What AFACT and the music and movie industries are trying to do is to either get the ISP's to pay for enforcing their copyright, or get our politicians to make changes in copyright law so that the Australian government (read the Australian taxpayer) pays to enforce their copyright.
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> Either alternative I'd suggest is not tenable.
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> They own the copyright, they can pay to enforce it. Otherwise, the government should socialise the profits of said companies ("No problem, we'll do what you want for 30% of your gross take to cover our costs"), which I'd guess is not something the copyright holders would come at.
> ...
A more businesslike approach would be to do it at cost, plus a 
reasonable profit. Say, 200%. That's less than a quarter of what private 
enterprise would charge.

> ...
> I'm planning to publish some e-books over the next couple of years ... and I'll do it cheaply and conveniently for my readers on the Net, I'll do it without embedding any copy protection, I'll ask for a reasonable payment (probably under $5), and I'll encourage people to 'pass it on'. I figure that's a reasonable business model for me, and I don't figure to make money out of same for time immemorial. I''ll take about 50-70% of the proceeds of each transaction and the publishers and service providers will take the rest.
> ...
I like Cory Doctorow's take: "my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity". 
The text he prefixes to the novels he makes freely available is worth 
reading in full. <http://craphound.com/>

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