Comments | hinodeh: Spreading awareness

hinodeh

Spreading awareness

Aug 15, 2010 10:53

Read this. If this comes through it could potentially have disastrous consequences for the availability of medicine in third world countries and fandom ( Read more... )

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strawberries_85 August 15 2010, 09:16:27 UTC

This is absolute bullshit. So much for freedom - thank you, government. -_____-

hinodeh August 15 2010, 09:20:12 UTC

It hasn't come through yet and we'll see if it will.

Check the second link so you can help in a really easy way.

strawberries_85 August 15 2010, 09:21:32 UTC

I've already read through the second link. Is this being posted on forums? It should be.

hinodeh August 15 2010, 09:25:15 UTC

Then please keep the tab open so that google search for this will go up.

I dunno. Go ahead and post this on BA and anywhere you can think of.

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arcadiasilver August 15 2010, 10:05:11 UTC

Where there is freedom, those with power will seek to supplant it with their control. The internet's always been a thorn in the side of big businesses and industries. OneManga's closing is a good example of the battle that has given birth to something like this.

hinodeh August 15 2010, 10:08:47 UTC

Yeah, but this is going to far. Especially the third world country thing is ugly. That's the worst part, of course, but this could also lead to fanfiction becoming an illegal activity.

So this shit not only would ruin our fun but be responsible for God only knows how many deaths. Nasty.

arcadiasilver August 15 2010, 10:19:51 UTC

Fanfiction, fanart, iconing, role play, AMVs, using images for blogging, panel recolorings - it would all be heaped upon the pile of "copyright infringement" and make criminals out of people without trial. You would get a criminal record for your IchiRuki fic or your fanart.

Oh, you can have fun! Just have to pay the right people for it first, and it has to be "approved" fun that doesn't violate nearly totalitarian standards of allowable use.

strawberries_85 August 15 2010, 10:22:52 UTC

Cos we really make a shitload of money out of fanart and other fan activities, while the poor creators are starving and saving every last penny just to survive.

Over here, there's apparently some new council law which states that photographers (and others, average people) have to pay to take photos of iconic places such as Bondi beach. So I guess pretty soon everything will be copyrighted. Fuck this world.