Well then, perhaps you shouldn’t have started off calling my comments “ignorant” since the general attitude towards infringement is exactly to what I was referring in the post that got you spewing thoughtless venom. You obviously read my comment asking if the Social Atmosphere of the nation was making the market for industrial design as difficult as that of Venezuala, and put it in your presonalized defensive context. Next time try to comprehend what’s being communicated instead of seeing it the way you want to see it and jumping to conclusions.
You could have just said what you did here in a civil manner:
Since the Brazilian market was opened to foreign goods by president Collor in the early 90’s, no corporate entity has violated copyright issues in such a blatant manner, especially within the context of Industrial Design.
… but instead you go off on a self-righteous defensive tangent.
Again, I am not concerned about street vendors…
Then you shouldn’t have responded to my question at all since, again as I’ve shown, they’re a big part of what I was wondering and asking about.
I also don’t see YouTube.com making a concentrated effort to ban and/or censor copyrighted material on their site. Last time I checked, YouTube was a US company.
They are, as it turns out, following the letter of the law (the DMCA). They remove content when contacted by copyright owners. That’s all the law requires. They don’t police the uploads and they’re not the only company using the DMCA as a shield in this way. Now if the people holding the copyrights want to go after the uploaders, then YouTube will, I’m sure, provide relevant information to their legal representative.
The US is currently at the other extreme protecting intellectual property to the extent of infringing consumer’s rights to what they purchase and how they use it. Ever sit down and read what is in the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)?
Yes. And given that you weren’t aware of how YouTube and others hide behind it, I suggest you go back and give it another look yourself.
You know, I was looking at the Top 100 over on Pirate Bay the other day. Out of the 100 titles in the movie list, 99 were made within the greater Hollywood system (by that I include films shot in English studios as well). No Brazilian films. No Swedish films. No Chinese films (I would have expected a couple actually). Just U.S./British. I’d say there’s a good reason why the U.S. is at the other end of the spectrum: U.S. companies invest in creating these movies and the rest of the world downloads them for free… too lazy to make their own popular movies.
Which extreme would you rather be at? At least the Brazilian government seems to be taking the side of its citizens consistently rather than the side of corporations.
If the side of the citizens is to let them be parasitic, feed off another culture to the detriment of their own, and minimize the growth of their own entertainment and software industry by turning a blind eye to piracy, then you got me.
Personally, when it comes to things that are not necessary (healthcare is necessary - you did notice that I said I agreed with some things the Brazilians were doing, right?), and music and movies are not necessary, then I think the government is doing the people a disservice in the same way parents who spoil children don’t help them.
This is the biggest shortcoming of this country - everything is either black or white; right or wrong. Unfortunately the rest of the world operates in shades of grey and will continue to do so for a long time.
And that’s a big shortcoming with you imo: you don’t read as you obviously missed where I agreed with some of what Brazil was doing. I saw the grey. But you couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to that before you slapped the label on.
Jump to conclusions much?