The mandate of the EU force has been expanded recently to allow attacks on targets on the coast. The German Bundestag had approved on Thursday the expansion of the operation. Just a few days ago, a Greek tanker pirates with over 100 million barrels of oil on board hijacked. So far they have taken such actions with millions of dollars in ransom. It is believed to hold around 300 pirates currently 17 vessels.

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The Witcher 2 game developer, CD Projekt RED stated that they would never wear a safety system or digital rights management (DRM) in their games in the future. It is said to live by Marcin Iwinski, CEO of CD Projekt RED in a speech at the GDC 2012.Iwinski was very vocal in the application of DRM issues which he said ”failed”. Even Iwinski also had to run the program ”piratehunting” by CD Projekt RED itself is ultimately fatal, and it finally stopped.

In his speech at the GDC 2012, Iwinski said that the use of DRM will only complicate the gamer. According to him, DRM who at first was to prevent piracy, instead it affects the increase in piracy. Iwinski ago revealed that the piracy actually Withcer 2: Assassins of Kings comes from retail copy of SecuROM has a safety system. In fact, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is also available in a digital copy that does not have a security system from Good Old Games gaming portal also widely circulated.

Iwinski assume that the presence of DRM in a game, it will increasingly make the pirates, especially the crackers can be excited and proud to say ”We have to crack this game.” Instead copy that has no such DRM version of Good Old Games will never be touched by the hijackers.

Iwinski and closed his speech by saying that DRM will not be able to protect the game and challenge other game developers whostill ”believe” the DRM to prove that DRM could actually protect the game they make from the hijackers. If it is proven to be effective one day, maybe CD Projekt RED will rethink about the application of DRM. But for now, Iwinski CD Projekt RED says that would leave because, according to Iwinski DRM, DRM would interfere with the buyers game legally.

- What kind of book is it?

- Uhm.. this… Dostoevsky. “Crime and Punishment”.

- Why do you want to buy it? We have that book.

- Really? Which folder?

- Why folder, here on the shelf.

- Ughh, but that is a paper book!

- So what that it is a paper book? I read it when I was your age.

- Yeah, when you were at my age… There isn`t a search function in it. How do you think I`m going to find the quotes? No audio playback, no animations. Only the text, for which you can`t even change the font. Are you kidding me? I`ll be the laughing stock of the whole school. You can read that yourself.

- Fine. Here`s a DVD. I bought it like 15 years ago.

- Whaaat? a DVD? And how am I supposed to use that antiquarian? You better give that to a museum! Good thing you didn`t offer me Dostoevsky on SD memory cards…

- If you`re so smart, you could have downloaded it from the Internet for free.

- Download a book for free!?

- Yeah, how else then? The copyrights on Dostoevsky are long gone, it was written such a long time ago. It`s probably somewhere on the web.

- Are you joking? Maybe you guys at the beginning of the century could download everything for free Don`t tell me you didn`t know that for already five years all of the copyrights are given to the American Book Publisher Association? You want me to go to jail for life, like some kind of Dotcom?

- But Dostoevsky isn`t an American, what does he have to do with some American publishers?

- What`s the difference? Dad, are you some kind of anti-globalist?

- What? No, of course not! But understand me that it isn`t that simple to give 100$ for a file. Ask some classmates, someone probably has the file. You will help them when they need some of the files that you already have.

- Hah! And if they give me Dostoevsky, where do you think I`ll be able to read it?

- What do you mean? They will read on their computers and you can do it on yours.

- Wow, you really are behind time. A book can be read only on the computer, where it has been bought. And the polarization will be different anyway… Don`t be ridiculous dad, give me the money, I`ll buy a normal book.

- Eh, OK. Here is a code for 100$ of our account. In my time it was a lot of money.

- OK, I downloaded. Thanks.

- Well, show me… Hey, what kind of picture is that? I don`t remember anything like that from when I read it…

- Oh, those are the banners, without the advertisement banners the book costs 699$

The opened file glimmered with various flashing ads: “Axe Professional 2018 – Contemporary axes with laser sharpening”; “Beauty Salon ‘At Goldies’ we won`t let you look like oldies!”; “Psychological Help Center ‘Porphyria’”; “RASKOLNIKOFF.COM – playful grannies anywhere in the world!” …

- Listen, son. Where is the text of the book? Do you have to wait for the banners to disappear?

- Have you fallen of the Moon recently? You`ll wait for an eternity! Of course, you have to read the text with the polarized glasses. Without those you can see only the ads.

- What? Why?

- What do you mean – why? So only the person who paid for the book would be able to read it, of course! Imagine, I buy the book, but someone else can read it over my shoulder…

- That sounds stupid. And what if I wear the glasses?

- Oh my dad, really? The file is tuned only to my glasses. Other glasses have different polarization code.

- OK, give me your glasses. I`ll check the book.

- How will you check? My glasses will not recognize your cornea. You will not see anything else, apart from the message that you have put on the glasses. OK, enough fooling around, I have to read it quickly, before the license ends, otherwise the term will have to be extended or the book will self-destroy. Stop disturbing, I have to read.

Three hours later…

- Uhh! Alright, I read it!

- What? All of it? “Crime and Punishment” in three hours?

- Of course, I would have read it sooner, but there are commercials after every half an hour.

- I don`t believe you! For example, who is Svidrigailov?

- Who?

- I see, who is Luzhin? And Sonia Mameladova?

- Wow, slow down! How am I supposed to know? I read just the Home Edition. There was some kind of Raskolnikof killing a grandma with an axe and then went to confess his doing. For others we would have to buy the Professional or even Enterprise edition! We don`t have that kind of money.

- Oh, wow, madness! In what kind of hole are we falling in to?

- We already have fallen. You should have thought of it 15 or so years earlier!

The United States has had copyright laws since 1790. In 1978 a new copyright law went into effect. Under it, the creator of a work can obtain a copyright without waiting for the work to be published. In most cases the copyright continues for 50 years after the creator’s death. If the work was commissioned by an employer, the employer may hold the copyright. Such a copyright lasts for 75 years from the date of publication or for 100 years from the date of creation, whichever is shorter.

Permission to use a copyrighted work is usually granted on payment of a fee. Every time a disc jockey plays a song on the radio, the authors of the words and music must be paid. When a play is performed, the producer must pay the playwright. Authors of books receive payments for all copies of books that are sold. These payments are called royalties.

Using copyrighted material without permission is a form of stealing. The owner of the copyright can sue someone who does this. But there are exceptions to the law. Films and plays may be presented for educational purposes if tickets are not sold. Teachers may make a few copies of a work for class use, but whole books may not be copied in this way.

The laws of one country do not protect authors if their work is used in other countries. Two treaties provide such protection. They are the Berne Convention of 1886 and the Universal Copyright Convention of 1952.

Copyrighted material available over the Internet and in other digital forms is particularly vulnerable to theft. Laws such as the United State’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 regulate how such material can be used.

The symbol © or the word “copyright” appears on all copies of a copyrighted work. In a book this notice is usually on the back of the title page. On the Internet, it is usually at the bottom of each Web page.

Copyright Symbols (Photo credit: MikeBlogs)

ACTA is of course, not a bill like SOPA, but an international trade agreement that sets standards for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.  Unlike SOPA, the focus of ACTA is enforcement of larger-scale copyright infringements.  So while it is not a law that says who can and who can’t be defined as theives of intellectual property, it encourages those that sign it to create such laws, and crack down harder on those who break them.

Surely if the United States had signed such an agreement we would have heard about it, right?  Nope.  The United States signed ACTA on it’s day of birth, on October 1, 2011.  Citizens were not informed of this not because of some distraction such as SOPA or the Occupy Protests, but because the various governments that signed it decided it was better to keep it a secret.  It was only during the turbulence of SOPA when ACTA was exposed to the majority of the citizens of the countries who signed the agreement.  Some other governments who have also signed include Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and 22 members of the European Union.

Protests have already sprung up across the globe, with the most fierce gatherings in Europe.  This also comes to show why internet activists are still so up in arms about the copyright issues with protests such as Black March.

ICE has found a loophole in the law which allowed them to seize the domains of over 300 websites which were suspected of intending to stream the Super Bowl or sell Super Bowl merchandise. They have been grated the power through section 2323 of the United States Code to seize any domain or website which they “think” is distributing any copyrighted material with the ease of obtaining a search warrant. ICE does not need to give ANY prior notification to anyone running a website that such action is going to take place. Only after the site is shut down can a person file a case with the court system. A writ of replevin would need to be heard before the court to prove their site was not used for the distribution of copyrighted material.

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The broad interpretation and enforcement of these laws opens the door for any agency enacted by the government to seize anything from your homes which may have. Let’s explore a scenario. You go to E-bay and bid on a used copy of Star Wars on blue ray. You don’t know it but the person you bought it from sold a bootleg copy of Steel Magnolias a year ago. Under the provisions of these laws, ICE would be able to seize your entire blue ray collection, your computers and any other electronic device related to entertainment from your home without prior notification or your consent and you would have to convince a judge that you did not purchase any of those items illegally or with the intent to distribute them illegally.

I know this sound a little too much like “Big Brother” watching over us, but this is how they were able to shut these sites down. How long will it be before they decide to expand the enforcement of these laws to shut down people that see these things going on and decide to write about it?

Sources

Legal Information Institute (2012). 981. Civil Forfeiture. Retrieved from http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000981—-000-.html

Wehner, M (2012, February 3). Super bowl bust: US government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights. Yahoo News. Retrieved from http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/super-bowl-bust-u-government-seizes-307-domains-230823821.html

Below is a promotional poster spread across the internet by supporters of Black March.

They plan to achieve such a lofty goal by boycotting all copyrighted consumer goods, such as music, movies and books.  As described in the promotional image above, this will give “all governments an economic hit that can be visible”.

So is this actually possible?  Will it actually do something?  There are a couple very good arguments that say no.

First, how many people will actually give up buying copyrighted material for an entire month?  I’d like to think we all have the self-discipline to take on such a task, but unfortunately many of us don’t.

Second, won’t these companies experience a boom when this is over?  Everyone who participates will no doubt have a few things in mind to blow all that saved up money on when April comes.  This could overwrite any damage that is done.

Whatever the case, it is good to see people willing to give up some of their entertainment and consumerism to make a difference in the name of freedom.  Whether or not it does make a difference in the end, I will be participating in Black March, and I would urge the readers of this article to do the same.