Re: Request for Comments - Especially from Australian GPS Users
- From: John Tserkezis <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:40:35 +1000
Dennis Pogson wrote:
o Governmental Copyright of mapping products
As the Copyright Laws of most countries are being ripped assunder by
countless individuals who copy and pirate mapping and charting products for
their own use, surely it is time that governments saw the light and stopped
trying to "hold back the tide".
Not going to happen. It's akin to a shopping centre saying "since everyone is stealing our stuff anyway, we've decided to now give it away for free".
File-sharing and other "illegal" activities are making a mockery of
Copyright Law, and not just in mapping and related products, so the US
Government's attitude is the only sensible one in the circumstances,
A different story altogether. People have been copying and duplicating stuff they shouldn't for eons. The only mockery that's happened so far, is with the RIAA, and that's only because of the media coverage.
unless we want to shut down the Internet.
Not going to make a squat of difference. The market uses the best available technology to transfer it's data. If not the Internet, it will be BBS's. If not that, it will be CD's and DVD's. If not that, colour printed paper. If not that, black and white. If not that, a compass and your wits. There's only so far you can go before making it so bloody useless that you may as well kill the industry because the technology that made it viable has been banned.
The proliferation of copied charts and maps across the developed world has
to be seen to be believed, so why not legalise a situation where the dubious
"holder" of the copyright, much of which was acquired at the taxpayers
expense (i.e. stolen in the first place), frees up all of his data which is
not deemed to be a National Security risk?
Sure, but let's go on example shall we? This situation already exists in at least several countries, and they're STILL paying for their taxpayer-funded mapping. So who cares what _should_ be happening, because the only thing that counts is what is _actually_ happening.
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