It was a little-noticed story in the Entertainment section and Oddities: GCHQ uses his spy network to help the copyright industry to prevent "unauthorized distribution of creative works" - meaning ordinary people who share interesting things with each other. Yes, this spy network that was supposed to prevent the horrific terrorist attacks, and only to prevent the horrific terrorist attacks, to protect our lives as a last line of defense, is now in the copyright industry service.
In what is almost a joke of history, the BBC reports that GCHQ tracked down what looked like a leak of a Harry Potter book somewhere on the Internet and alerted the editor to her. It turned out to be a fake version. Yet the media turns the whole story in a joke and to laugh with GCHQ spokesman and commenting. "We do not comment on our defense against the dark arts"
"We don 't comment on [GCHQ’s] defense against the dark arts. "
This is not a joke. Not at all.
We know from the outset that the copyright industry has been extremely extremely , hostile to privacy. Across Europe, the industry stressed the need for the Directive on the retention of hated data, which was then nuked into orbit by the European Supreme Court, citing . basic rights to human privacy the copyright industry knows that its obsolete distribution model can not survive in the face of civil liberties supported - in particular, the right to communicate anonymously in private. - to the industry is doing everything possible to erode and dismantle this basic civil right
If you do not believe, or do not want to believe that, look where the Irish branch of the Association of the record industry sued Eircom, the largest ISP in the country, for the right to install wiretapping and censorship equiment in the deepest ISP switches to prevent unauthorized transmission of music. Yes, it is a demanding industry seriously not only the right to wiretap a whole country, but also to make himself the right to determine - and enforce! - What can and can not be disclosed. You realize the gravity of this situation? The absolute shameless audacity The idea that stupid round pieces of plastic, shipped using outdated methods, are more important to society than the most basic freedom of speech - and that the authorities and the courts are actually action in the general direction of this idea?
now you have the NSA, GCHQ and similar that were originally set up to spy on the Soviet Union, and later changed a mission to spy on enemy of the day , which is said to be terrorist plots. Horrible, horrible terrorist attacks, to give you much of your essential freedom. (Actually, you do give up this freedom, you were forced to do it, it was taken from you but still ..) Politicians were literally scare the public by allowing wiretapping authorities well, everything. In the name of "security." In the name of "security."
And now he is in the "laughing stock" section of the mass media, there has been a change of mission to spy invasively also on behalf of copyright the industry, to prevent ordinary people to share interesting things outside the monopoly of the expected distribution. Why no outcry and outrage over the shock and revulsion that creep mission?
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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