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Is Neelie Kroes right? Do Europeans pirate movies and music because it is not easy enough to download them legally?
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Hi, @renaldob!
I hope I won't put my foot in now, but I really have an ax to grind with quite a few things in Germany. Being German myself, I was raised there for the first 20 years after which I started traveling and finally moved out from Germany because of the red tape that is almost impossible to get through and just about prohibits everything.
Who has an issue with cloud computing and their data protection act? - The Germans.
Who has an issue with downloading music and videos? - The Germans. And it's NOT to protect the German public from black and violent stuff, no, it's for some institutions that want to earn the last penny for even a video or music clip.
As some of you might know, I've produced 3 innocent little videos with my animals on our farm in Spain. I used music clips (here comes the stupidity!) that my husband downloaded legally in Germany and then he brought these little music clips (most of them only 1 or 2 minutes long and they are meant as samples I guess) on a memory stick to Spain.
I then used these music clips when I produced these little animal videos and proudly (they were my first ever videos) sent them to all my friends in the world, including Germany.
Low and behold, the videos CAN be seen in every country in the world, but somehow some German institution has a hold on YouTube and prohibited that my videos are seen in Germany. It says so when my friends in Germany click on the link. The UMG prohibits it.
And who is this UMG? No idea! And I'm willing to research a lot of useless things, but I won't research or write on the UMG. Simply because I don't really care whether any German can or cannot see my or any other videos, it is an issue the Germans have to sort out themselves, but most of them are not even aware of the problem.
Same goes for the German Data Protection act.
I think most other European countries don't have these problems of legally downloading movies and music (at least we never had a problem in the UK or Spain), so they probably won't have to resort to pirating.
And websites like the following wouldn't even exist if there weren't completely unrealistic laws concocted:
http://www.ehow.com/list_6458230_federal-music-video-downloading-laws.html
How can we overcome these issues and become a real global community???
I hope I won't put my foot in now, but I really have an ax to grind with quite a few things in Germany. Being German myself, I was raised there for the first 20 years after which I started traveling and finally moved out from Germany because of the red tape that is almost impossible to get through and just about prohibits everything.
Who has an issue with cloud computing and their data protection act? - The Germans.
Who has an issue with downloading music and videos? - The Germans. And it's NOT to protect the German public from black and violent stuff, no, it's for some institutions that want to earn the last penny for even a video or music clip.
As some of you might know, I've produced 3 innocent little videos with my animals on our farm in Spain. I used music clips (here comes the stupidity!) that my husband downloaded legally in Germany and then he brought these little music clips (most of them only 1 or 2 minutes long and they are meant as samples I guess) on a memory stick to Spain.
I then used these music clips when I produced these little animal videos and proudly (they were my first ever videos) sent them to all my friends in the world, including Germany.
Low and behold, the videos CAN be seen in every country in the world, but somehow some German institution has a hold on YouTube and prohibited that my videos are seen in Germany. It says so when my friends in Germany click on the link. The UMG prohibits it.
And who is this UMG? No idea! And I'm willing to research a lot of useless things, but I won't research or write on the UMG. Simply because I don't really care whether any German can or cannot see my or any other videos, it is an issue the Germans have to sort out themselves, but most of them are not even aware of the problem.
Same goes for the German Data Protection act.
I think most other European countries don't have these problems of legally downloading movies and music (at least we never had a problem in the UK or Spain), so they probably won't have to resort to pirating.
And websites like the following wouldn't even exist if there weren't completely unrealistic laws concocted:
http://www.ehow.com/list_6458230_federal-music-video-downloading-laws.html
How can we overcome these issues and become a real global community???
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http://www.ehow.com/list_6458230_federal-music-video-downloading-laws.html
my very own opinion
http://www.ehow.com/list_6458230_federal-music-video-downloading-laws.html
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