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

Dr Bob Jansen (in Korea) bob.jansen at turtlelane.com.au
Mon Jan 27 12:59:15 AEDT 2014


Kim,

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