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Originally Posted by CrkMStanz
lol - talking to you is like talking to my EX's (or giddyboy) - you just spin anything to an extreme to try and justify your beliefs.
thousands of officers in every city is not required, tasked with their own personal website to monitor - just a central global agency with the authority and jurisdiction to act upon submitted DMCAs (or whatever new form is devised) - they can keep a record on infringers - and enforce the removals (if the infringer is not cooperating) - and identify repeat infringers through a central database so that their asses can first pay monetary compensation, and in extreme cases, get their asses thrown in jail somewhere.
it is called - needing to force people to be responsible for their actions - and be accountable - cause the fuckers obviously can't do it themselves.
don't try to make it seem to be something it is not
unless you are giddyboy's fake nick - that I would understand.
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... So you want to create a whole new section of the government that handles copyrights.
I guess that wouldn't be anything like the current U.S. Copyright Office?
... Then you want the police to file a civil case of copyright infringement against someone for you. Because you feel somehow a police officer doing it for you will somehow turn the case in your favor?
... Or you simply want copyright infringement to become a criminal case instead of a civil case. So you can focus the attention of the police force (who are already obviously up to their neck in REAL work) to put copyright infringers behind bars.
... And of course, you say yourself it would be utterly impossible for someone to police the global net and enforce their copyright. But some how, making copyright infringement criminal instead of civil. Will just automagically make it possible to sniff out the copyright infringers and find them. Then, it will also automagically make it easier to have them arrested and thrown in jail.
Is that the basis of your great idea?
Right now, copyright infringement is a civil case. A copyright holder, must seek out infringement of their copyrights and then take action through civil court.
You think,
1. There's too much internet, and no person could patrol the vast majority of it enough.
2. Somehow, legal action isn't effective and people committing copyright infringement get away.
3. Copyright infringers need to be put in jail, rather than pay the monetary compensation for the copyright infringement.
Now, you claim through new laws.
1. There would suddenly be less internet to patrol. Or that a police force would somehow be able to just "know" that a piece of digital material on a website, was copyrighted, and to someone else somewhere. They would also some how know who that copyright would actually belong to, and then be able to work up the documents to prove this, and then arrest the person.
2. With the new law, it would suddenly provide better jurisdiction. Because you feel the legal system can't get to people through civil actions. But it would somehow be able to get to them if it was criminal instead. Because the legal system only works with criminal action, the civil side is just all screwed up.
3. Somehow committing copyright infringement shouldn't mean monetary compensation to the copyright holder. It should instead cause for the person committing it to be put in jail. Since obviously, if the law makes it criminal with jail time as the consequence. The crime will end and no one will ever commit it again.
I mean really, your idea just makes so much sense. I can't find any inconsistency in the logic of it. Surely we should petition the U.S. Copyright Office to make the changes you've mentioned. It'll fix the problem overnight!