Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Imagine an enforcer committing the same offence he is supposed to enforce

In Malaysia, it is too common and the public do not pay much attention. For eg. seeing a police patrol car speeding along the highway, above the speed limit; police car indiscriminately parked; and so on.

I admit, I am infringing copyright just by showing the pic below...

'Canipre, as a company, offers to track down people who are illegally downloading copyrighted material from record companies and film studios. According to their website, they have issued more than 3,500,000 takedown notices, and their work has led to multimillion dollar damages awards, injunctions, seizure of assets, and even incarceration.

"[We want to] change social attitudes toward downloading. Many people know it is illegal but they continue to do it... Our collective goal is not to sue everybody… but to change the sense of entitlement that people have, regarding Internet-based theft of property.”

Here is a screenshot of the front page of the Canipre website as it appeared when I visited it this morning.


The image you see in the background is this self portrait, by Steve Houk.

I contacted Steve and asked if they had sought permission to use the picture. Steve said, "No. In no way have I authorized or licensed this image to anyone in any way."

Oh, dear.

So, just to be clear: Canipre has written "they all know it's wrong and they're still doing it." Referring to copyright theft. On top of an image that they are using without the permission of the copyright holder. On their official website.'

More:
http://www.vice.com/read/canadian-copyright-canipre-images-without-permission


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