This is truly a bad day in european history!
Despite the fact that Article 13 of the copyright
plan will definitely lead to an uncontrollable
censorship of free opinion and free speech…

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Aereo, known as Online Stream Cloud service, allowed people
to watch TV shows via Cloud recording. Even timeshift was
possible which meant to advertisers loss of “customers” as
TV ads could easily be skipped by the touch of a button.

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Mess with the best, die like the rest. In today’s case, this is what Google could
have said to the french government that has planned a fee for linking to
media sites containing multimedia and press content. France has just dis-
cussed such a fee as Germany already has set up plans for the government.

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When it comes to Copyright and filesharing, the music industry is taking every
attempt to cross borders. In this case, the german Federal Court has confirmed
that ISPs have to issue private data from persons who violate the copyright.
That means, if a copyright owner files a lawsuit against a user from whom he…

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When it comes to free speech and censorship, it’s mostly the USA, China and
islamistic countries that limit these as far as needed. Also Twitter is affected
by this and the new transparency report shows the amount of requests for
tweet removals have been issued within the last 6 months.

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So anorher early SOPA-Fighter has left the copyright-fanatic army. Paul
Brigner, who has initially been engaged by the music and movie content
industry to enforce the rollout of SOPA, finally turned against it when he got
laid off his position again.

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It seems as if Apple takes user complaints serious now. As there are Apps
which seem to misuse the UDID (Unique Device ID) to send unsilicited Ads
and spam, Apple has now updated their privacy policy. So are Apps now
no longer allowed to use the UDID for advertisement mechanisms.

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According to the blog entry from yesterday (read here), Wikipedia has indeed
put Wikipedia into blackout. Where you would usually see the main page of
Wikipedia, there’s now a black page criticizing the new legislation about SOPA
copyright and the attempt to put the free internet “behind bars”.

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How do these words relate, you ask? Well… it sems as if the mayor members of
the  Copyright Association have finally decided to push thorugh the SOPA.
SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act and in this Act, there are several points
to censor the internet in many ways. Not only in the USA but worldwide!

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Or how the IFPI wants us to believe why controlling the internet is good. The argument:
Child pornography. And whenever that term is evolved, some sites get on an index of some
ISP’s that block the access in total. So wht’s the most efficient way to take a site down that
publishes copyrighted material? Right: Accuse that site of broadcasting child pornography!

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