The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography

[leo-rcc]

“Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public. Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file
sharing.”

http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-lo...hy-110709/

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Pretty smart tactic if you ask me. The best way to plug up all those tubes for sure.

[Autumnlicious]

Just shows how cynical, unethical and opportunist they are.

While Lulzsec was making fools of the FBI, the copyright lobby (MAFIAA, Media and Film Industry Association of America, a perjorative given to the MPAA and RIAA's joint activities) took the opportunity to try to push forward the PROTECTIP act, even though hacking and cracking had absolutely nothing to do with intellectual property (IP).

As I said, cynical, unethical, opportunistic assholes.

[Zen Badger]

I have a vague recollection that Adolf Hitler once claimed you could justify any legislation, no matter how repressive, as long as it was to "protect the children".

[theVOID]

I have TOR! They'll never catch me sharing movies!

https://www.torproject.org/

[Autumnlicious]

You can't use Tor for bittorrent... unless you're an asshole. Really -- the network was never designed to handle the load bittorrent induces and when you can get a stable connection, you'll get shitty download rates.

Also, child pornographers and the like use Tor heavily, which, unfortunately, will place you under additional scrutiny from anti-CP advocates and Law Enforcement via profiling. Which, if you want to fly under the radar, indulging in heavy data transfers that bittorrent will induce will raise alarm. So the act of transferring copyrighted content illegally on Tor will land you in more hot water than if one simply used an alt DNS, protocol encryption and DHT.

[Violet]

Most child porn is completely legal, and I like it. They are called 'asians', and you divide their age by half. 30yo asian is child porn. 36+ is kosher.

[Koldaramor]

Child pornography should be prohibited. Child pornography is a crime.
But in some countries the Internet is completely expurgated oppressive. Governments say they have child pornography on the Internet. However, they are preventing the evolution and philosophy websites.

[Violet]

Child pornography should be prohibited. Child pornography is a crime.

If it should be prohibited and is a crime... why is it one of the most beloved categories? Think of the old men!

But in some countries the Internet is completely expurgated oppressive. Governments say they have child pornography on the Internet. However, they are preventing the evolution and philosophy websites.

So?

There's also child porn available in the streets. Really easy to abuse, children. Really. It's amusing in some sick way.

[Autumnlicious]

Last I checked, the manufacturing of child pornography was a crime for the harm it does to the minors who produce it, not for the tautological virtue of 'it is'.

CP is an issue of informed consent, which minors are incapable (legally) of, and of contract law. Ergo, the manufacturing thereof is upheld to be widely illegal. Additional arguments over the morality of such are superfluous.

However, I find the anti-possession laws to be of questionable standing, as it reeks of the very same thought crime that, in some jurisdictions, bans The Anarchist Cookbook. The 'justification' for such anti-possession laws is under the thought that if the commodity is criminalized, manufacturing of such would face a limited demand, preventing scaled operations.

I find economic arguments to be quite weak in face of stronger legal precedents, like contracts and informed consent.

The weaker the argument, the more nebulous the gray areas and proposed legislation against such.

This makes it easy for malicious and self-interested parties to pass legislation under the guise of "think of the children" with little opposition.

Case in point - the copyright lobbies and their cynical, if not outrageous, use of the Child Pornography platform to enforce their completely unrelated agendas.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

You can't use Tor for bittorrent... unless you're an asshole.

I don't understand.Does it restrict you to being a leech? I have no problems with that.I never upload any illegal material.

I've heard all sorts of conflicting things about just how useful Tor is. It's moot,because I can't get it to work. I use only Peer block and 'trackmenot' (a Firefox add on)