[2016-7-19] European Union States Bitcoin and Tor Encourages Property

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European Union States Bitcoin and Tor Encourages Property Infringement

In a cooperative investigation with multinational consulting firm Deloitte, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) recently discovered that anonymity technologies including Bitcoin and Tor are encouraging infringement of property and illegal reproduction of content.

After a so-called thorough analysis on 25 different infringing business models, EUIPO Executive Director Antonio Campinos claimed that Tor and Bitcoin are providing online criminals and their customers an infrastructure that is undetected from the authorities.

“[infringement] more and more relies on new encrypted technologies like the TOR browser and the bitcoin virtual currency, which are employed by infringers of IPR to generate income and hide the proceeds of crime from the authorities,” said Campinos.

http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/european-union-states-bitcoin-and-tor-encourages-property-infringement/

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[Karartma1]

I would be surprised of the opposite. Whenever I read these news I feel like I did the good choice when I informed myself about BTC for the first time.
Probably, BTC has been my best investment so far in terms of knowledge, freedom and, of course, money.

[Carlton Banks]

The only viable way to keep intellectual property inviolable is by never disclosing the details. If you tell everyone a secret, what right can you reasonably expect that other people won't use the secret themselves?

This "intellectual property" garbage proves only one thing: creative people genuinely expect to be able to charge money, ad infinitum, for something that's already well known. It also proves that these people throw their lot in with the "might is right" mentality; the same mentality that caused a large music publishing corporation to scout out restaurants with patrons singing happy birthday to each other, so as to sue them for an unauthorised performance of copyrighted IP.

Everyone has known since the dawn of time that you can't make money out of something that's too easily copied. Fuck them and their law.

[Karartma1]

Everyone has known since the dawn of time that you can't make money out of something that's too easily copied. Fuck them and their law.

Hell yeah!

Bitcoin works regardless of their laws or approval, to quote Antonopoulos Bitcoin never asked for approval and it never will.

It simply works. Probably, for them, this is very hard to accept.