Talking of copyright, Imagine what progress we would not have had in the world if such common everyday items as the housebrick, shoes and the wheel had been copyrighted. I bet TPTB would love to have had a revenue stream coming in from all those things...

sharing files to millions of people by uploading to the internet against the wishes of the creators of their art is illegal ... they create and they need to get paid like anyone else.  

We need to fight back in the way the internet can fight back in these cases.

Every U.K. politician needs to have their home addresses and personal information revealed with all their family's information.  A downloader sentenced to 10 years in jail will certainly have his children's lives profoundly disrupted.  Why shouldn't the politicians who enslaved their fellow citizens receive double this same treatment?

Oh by the way, undobtedly their was some payoff or inducement for politicans to sell out their fellow countrymen to these tyrannical corporations.  Let's get busy identifying and disrupting everly single one of these politicians - in 3 times the way they intended to imprison us.

Their horrible attacks on us WILL CONTINUE, until they are afraid to bully us again.

People who go into the field of art to fund their lifestyle generally do not do it for the money.  There is some intrinsic value in the art itself.  & nbsp; If I buy art from a street vendor, I pay the artists directly for the work.   The artist is free to charge what they want and I am free to buy it or move on.  But with music, there is an entire industry of extremely high paid managers, presidents and vice presidents, mostly all non-value adding entities (to the music anyway).    To buy musical art under today's structure I am forced to fund a whole side industry of hangers on that do little or nothing to further the music.   I cannot choose to reimburse the artist for their music, I must fund the industry first.  Copyright laws are there to protect the artist, as they should be.  But to demand that I fund the industry of hangers on that spring up around and feed off the artist is somewhat irritable.  The facts are many people cannot afford to fund the lifestyles of so many ultra rich people at the price of .99 a song or more so they download the music and don't pay for it.     This law protects mostly the industry, not the artist.  & nbsp;So remember before you buy, is it worth funding a side industry willing to throw someone in prision for 10 years for downloading one song?  Are these the kind of people you want to freely give your money to?  10 years of prision at 50K pounds per year is a half million pound cost of incarceration.    For one song?   Wow, it better be a really good song.

The only people that are in any way having their interests protected by this act are those who exploit the creative people that produce the music or art, namely the corporations and their "banksters." I work in engineering design and my small company does a lot of RD work we had a large corporation ask to use one of our developments and when we asked them to contribute to the cost we were politely told to f@%k off as they already owned the patent. Thats how it goes!

Ok, lets do like this. You lower the house pricing by half, and pay my wage to a private company in my name so that I only pay 20% tax in the UK. Then,maybe I will afford to buy original stuff.

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what I wonder is how long Hong Kong is going to let Press TV in their country pushing the Islamic agenda?  Now you have protesters in China.  Press TV quit letting you have Freedom of speach. RE ABOVE: Presstv, the 'voice of the voiceless'. One of the few stations with an alternative view. That's why it's deemed too dangerous in the UK., people might start hearing an alternative message than that spewed out by the corporate media. A move that almost certainly guaranteed increased viewing figures through other means. It's got nothing to do with an 'Islamist agenda', as you put it, it's all about getting away from mainstream garbage.

what I wonder is how long Hong Kong is going to let Press TV in their country pushing the Islamic agenda?  Now you have protesters in China.  Press TV quit letting you have Freedom of speach.

Funny how they can call sharing stealing. Copyright can't be claimed if copies are being shared noncommerically. But the masters of the universe want to own everything, even dna.

Invading people's countries and taking their resources, is that sharing in their upside down world?

It's funny to hear people justifying stealing. lol Oh, but it's not stealing, it is helping the artist become popular. lmao

But 10 years is ridiculous and the UK and US governments are hardly in a position to be preaching morality to anyone.

if copyright is given only to the artist, i can fully support it. but such "information" is now used by a group of useless people calling themselves music company. they are same as pimps selling other peoples' talents. i cannot understand their "rights". someo ne downloading something from web is same as someone looking at other man's wife. can you regulate that?