The new law allows for digital piracy of films, music and computer programmes from “unfriendly countries”, Deutsche Welle reported.
  • Zerush
    7·
    2 years ago

    It should be legal also in cases of unethical companies.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind
      61·
      2 years ago

      So, most if not all publishing corpos. Certainly for all members of RIAA, MPAA, polish ZAiKS and similar lobbiysm and extortion organisations.

      • Zerush
        5·
        2 years ago

        I would leave it at the vast majority of companies. Ethical behavior is certainly only found in some small ones, but certainly not in large multinationals.

      • Zerush
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yes, the copyright. Did you know that you can’t post a photo made by yourself of the Eiffel Tower at night lit up? Because it has copyright. Also that until 2 years ago you can sing Happy Birthday again in public, without being fined for violation of copyright that a record company held? Copyright laws certainly require a thorough review, as they protect certain companies more than the authors themselves and in some cases they are tremendously absurd and unfair, designed by bureaucrats who think art is the image you see on a dollar bill.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      52·
      2 years ago

      Belarus in particular should be following this path given that they claim to have retained the communist system.

  • d-RLY?
    3·
    2 years ago

    The only part I don’t like about this is the asset forfeiture stuff. If it is used like it is in the USA, then it will get used to shake down tourists (no matter how super minor of a supposed offense). Though I can understand if the persons are actively fucking around and harassing folks.

    But that is without having read beyond the article. So maybe it is more focused than what I said above. Always down for being able to import or pirate stuff though. lol

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      82·
      2 years ago

      There aren’t any functional international justice systems last I checked. For example, US does not abide by the international criminal court, and its soldiers can’t be prosecuted for many war crimes they commit around the globe. The west seized Russian foreign assets without any legal basis. US does unilateral sanctions against countries it doesn’t like without any basis in international law. NATO regularly invades countries just because it feels like it. I can keep going and going here.

      Clutching your pearls over Belarus not respecting western copyrights is a really weird hill to die on given that the west is doing far worse vigilantism that’s responsible for countless millions of deaths around the world each and every year.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          72·
          2 years ago

          All Belarus is saying here is that it doesn’t respect copyright from countries it doesn’t have relations with. And if this promotes more people to start treating all copyrights as irrelevant that’s only a good thing.