Why intellectual property is such a confusing concept

[PabloLuna]

Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud  
The Oink site was closed down in October 2007
A man who ran a music-sharing website with almost 200,000 members has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown Court.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/8461879.stm

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Comment on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8478764.stm


The whole matter of copyright is about protecting a business by containing ideas.  Dictatorships are containment of ideas too, this is what repression is about.

Normally, having such a bright kid who could hack such a system would be a great thing.  But in the world of business it is a risk to get in trouble.
Unfortunately, those who try to make unhackeable stuff are challenging the very nature of humans.  Tell humans sky is copyrighted so they are not allowed to fly, tell humans south pole is copyrighted, tell humans the moon is copyrighted and you can't land on it, tell humans that outer space is copyrighted, and you will find someone who will hack through...


The entire history of human invention and exploration is about hacking nature.  Now it comes copyright to set artificial limits to people to protect the business of a company.

I sincerely think nature finds the way. It is unwise to challenge nature, for it is deemed to fail eventually.

So I ask... Are we entering an era when invention and exploration is forbidden because of copyrights?

What if Einstein was accused of copyright violation after "remixing" an enhanced  formula copyrighted by Newton?  Is copyright and IP the hi-tech version of modern repression?

[PabloLuna]

Piracy letter campaign 'nets innocents'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8481790.stm

EU to assess piracy detection software
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8480699.stm

How to make money with such antipiracy scheme?

Make a song of your own and share it, it does not matter if it is crappy or not, add a license restriction to the shared file so no authority or company could play that song.

Make such file that is named after some material that seems like pirated material.

When the legal claim comes, argue that the file name is not a sign of piracy, so the one suing you should prove it actually contains pirated material.   When they do so, you have two was to make money:

1.Sue the company for piracy and violation of license of use.
2.Sue the company for suing you.

[Saga Musix]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property