I’m sure they have ideas in mind, but they’re just not sharing them until they’re force to. They’d be foolish to announce, “We have a model where you can keep downloading and we’ll remain filthy rich, just not as rich as we were.”

legalizing the creation of trojan horses: dummy mp3 files and whatnot on filesharing sites that will destroy the computers of anyone who downloads them without paying for them from the artists’ own sites.

I’m not sure the punishment fits the crime there. Erasing your entire hard drive because you downloaded a Brittney Spears song? I’d rather take the big fine.

However, it is happening worldwide, and it’s hard to fight against such a powerful trend. But, to make things interesting, I would support dropping laws for prosecuting downloaders, and legalizing the creation of trojan horses: dummy mp3 files and whatnot on filesharing sites that will destroy the computers of anyone who downloads them without paying for them from the artists’ own sites.

Trojan horses are not viruses as such, in that they don’t spread. Only the perpetrator suffers. The risk factor alone would encourage people to at least make a one-time payment to artists for their creative product.

Thank you, DC++, for destroying my interest for pointless entertainment.

Still Finns value creativity don’t they, that’s why they are happy to allow the current situation.

What’s the point of making music or writing books or anything else if somebody else can just rip off your copyright with tacit state approval.

I am totally against monopolies. However, patents and copyrights are forms of government intervention that favour society in general.

The attitude amongst many Finns I know is “interesting” they will rip off foreign artists, but they will pay for music recorded by Finnish artists. Its all a bit like the Nazis, who managed to get Joe public to boycott Jewish products

Apparently they are assuming that people would buy as much as they donwload those stuff. But that’s not true.

…based on what?
Do they really think that the pirates, especially teens, would or could buy everything they download? Heck, I could have bought maybe a single boring record per month at 9th grade. Most of the downloaded games are crap which are deleted as soon as people realise how sucky the game really is. Thank god people didn’t have to spend their money to find it out. What about the advertising effect of warez, it’s enormous! Succesful titles are often bought and people are telling each others how good it is - buy buy buy!

Warez is a part of our lives nowadays, you cannot get rid of it. Besides, we’ve had C-casettes, why didn’t everyone put half the people to jail for piracy back then? Do we really wan’t to punish all the pirates? We’d have third of the country locked up for good, or worse.. in debt for rest of their lives. The copyright holders wouldn’t just lose their hallucinated millions, but the whole country would be bankcrupt. Think about third of the population with huge debts.

Some game developers have already realised this fact - it’s simply too wide spread activity and only a few copies would actually sell if there’d be no piracy, instead of the millions. One of these are the developers of Galactic Civilizations II, which immediately made it to the top selling titles list. They’ve publicly acknowledged that piracy will continue to exist regardless of laws or copy protections. They’ve taken a realistic stand on piracy - they’re trying to get the benefit of it instead of uselessly fightning against it.

This is not about defending piracy, but about having a realistic approach against it. It cannot be fought against by laws or punishments, that’ll only hurt everyone, including the producers. The bad effects of piracy are most often grossly exagerrated.

False. The goverment would still continue to grow, gradually consuming more in overheads, and discouraging more efficient free market solutions from being invented.

The way to downsize the goverment is to:
(1) Use every legal means available to you to minimise your taxes, and (2) always insist on paying for high quality private services in place of free (and inferior) public ones.

It goes without saying that one should not accept any public grants, awards, subsidies, welfare payments, etc. All those are payed out of confiscated (=stolen) money, and therefore come with very bad karma attached to them.

Grants and awards from private funds are ok, of course. And this, by the way, is how you change the society ethically if you happen to have some extra cash. Set up a fund or program to privately support a cause that matters to you.

The government is like a cancer. The way to deal with it is to not feed it (give tax money), and simultaneously gradually shrink its living space by refusing to accept any of its “free” services.

The effect of this approach to you, personally, will be an improved quality of life. The effect to the society will be that entrepreneuring inventors will get a chance to introduce more efficient and higher quality solutions to the problems that goverment failed to solve with its bureaucratic programs and silly laws.

Music downloading is a good example. The only effort so far to have had any dampening effect on illegal downloading has been iTunes. The solution: Just make paid downloading more attractive than stealing. Problem solved.

I do have a few downloaded movies but i’d rather just buy them.

…I haven’t seen that information pack, but I would expect, that as everything in Finland: it’s way too subtle in it’s approach & the reader falls asleep before reaching the points that matter the most…

If everyone would purhcase goods with a receipt, downsizing the “grey economy” effect, we’d have much lower taxes & more money to spend.

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