The alphabet soup of copyright

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The alphabet soup of copyright. I added on to that for you =)

Reminder for all that 9 out of 10 times, the people who make a shitstorm about morality and ethics are the same people who don't abide by them and actually do worse things.

This number increases to 10/10 with anti-pirate collectives as they have been observed and proven in these past few years of:
a. Drug trafficking (Vytas Simanavicius case)
b. Defamation (Prenda and Malibu Media)
c. Uploading torrents and copyright material themselves unlawfully (Megaupload case, file-lockers, and honeypot schemes).
d. Breaking the 8th Amendment of the USA under the justification of example making. (The story of Aaron Swartz)
e. Actual cyber-crimes of spreading malware and trojans on the Internet (ACS:Law)
f. Unwarranted and unlawful incarceration beyond what the law regards as a legal period by filing new charges after a great time span. (Piratebay founder Gottfrid Svartholm)
g. Bribery, blackmail and perversion of the justice system (TPB Trials, US Gov & Holders Vs Kim Dotcom, Mississippi General Attorney Jim Hood hired to go after Google)
h. Wasting more tax-payer money than artists lose to piracy over unlawful use of police forces (Kim DotCom's mansion raid and the Nuke proof datacenter raid to take down TPB) when the police could be saving actual lives... So anti-pirates are also potentially indirectly responsible for civilian deaths due to siphoning police reserves.
i. Filing millions of false DMCA notices and taking down many legitimate sites while hurting many businesses in the process. (Censorship)
j. Supporting the economic crisis by indirectly propagating and supporting one of the main reasons that lead to it (Lack of availability & Internet censorship in Australia aka Digital Discrimination)
k. Fraud and embezzlement. (SMAIS scandal and Snæbjörn Steingrímsson admission of guilt)
l. Misappropriation of funds and being worse at lying than a 12 year old (Pedro Farré (SGAE) case scandal in Spain]
m. Falsifying statements and signatures of various artists in order to gain support for several anti-piracy measures including a pirate-levy.
n. Attacking the freedom of speech and the freedom to report and inform of newspapers and censorship of news sources.
o. Extorting over half of the income of artists and more even though the publishers/companies/3rd parties don't create anything, and subjugating them to insane contract offers while playing a "defender" of artists against piracy which is a justification to protect the extortion money.
p. Projecting losses of income due to piracy in order to create money out of thin air and evade taxes. (Perfect 10 scandal)
q. Influencing supposed neutral agencies to favor their organization demands above others (MPAA's influence in ICANN)
r. Forcing Internet Providers to implement easily circumvented blocking tactics to protect another countries financial interests while forcing the local ISP's and citizens to foot the bill. (ISPs must pay to block TPB)
s. Injecting anti-piracy curriculum into multiple schools to persuade our children to protect their corperate interests above civil liberties (MPAA wanting less fair-use material in educational curriculum)
t. Perversions of fair-use and allowing content to be removed from the public domain and placed back under copyrights.
u. Creating questionable business tactics and actively pursuing them. (The Speculative Invoicing scandal)
v. Systematically targeting open sourced projects to prevent the innovation of file-sharing. (Popcorn Time forks)
w. The film industry hiring digital-hitmen to DDoS file-sharing sites.
x. ISPs become the digital police as civil liberties to privacy become diminished. (Wanting ISPs to spy on their customers)
y. The silent introduction of new laws that are vaguely worded to allow legal perversion of the judicial systems. (SOPA, PIPA, & SOPA 2.0 that got passed as H.R. 4681, Section 309)
z. The participation and contribution to an ever growing copyright-enforcement industry that neither supports the artists nor fuels innovation. (The Copyright Enforcement Group and the 1000's of similar agencies that turns piracy into profit)

Plenty more can be added, but I ran out of letters...

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