Paving the path to the Big Brother community

[lopanas]

Since the folks behind The Pirate Bay has been taken to court, accused for assisting copyright infringment, the swedish newsprogram Aktuellt had a special about illegalfilesharing this week. And it seems that Hollywood and it's lobbyists are trying to make it possible for IP owners to directly get access to information about who is behind an IP-address, something only prosecutors and the police are permitted todo today. And another discussion is if ISPs shall be enforced to check their networks for copyright infringing activities. This is not only impossible, but also idiotic. Because if other than the police can get access to IP-addresses, this will be abused and innocent people may be affected. Forcing the ISPs to hunt down and report pirates will only take away both their and the police attention to more deserving things. Such as stopping paedophilias and real crime. And it's impossible because of 1.4 million of 9 million is filesharing illegal material here in Sweden, are they going to put 15% of Sweden in prison for a crime which in the public eyes are less serious than walking against red light(Which isn't even a crime in Sweden). This is just another step to increase Hollywoods power and an Orwellian society where you're watched werever you go. We aren't against IP, but were not pro 1984. Big Brother is created thru American greed today, not Communist occupation.

[lopanas]

I'm sorry that I may have misused the word orwellian, but my point is that the suggestion to force ISPs monitor networks doesn't just include those who actually pirate stuff, but everyone. And when already filtering out piracy, then stop kiddieporn, and why not start filter out criminal activities, and then antidemocratical views, and so on. Filtering out piracy may not be a danger alone, but when people start accepting more and more government control over their lifes than already is, then we're on a dangerous way. I'm not saying we should be free todo whatever we want, the state must have some form of control and authority over people, but you have to find the golden middleroed.