War on Piracy EU and BG

My country Bulgaria is no less famous of being the mecca of corruption in Europe. Where White and Black mafia merged in seamless symbiosis after the, already 18 years, of transition. I am still referring to a transition, however not because of the little progress my country made but for the half way there to the goal. Final destination, Democracy. It is ironical that after the significant economical progress for open and sustainable economy I feel we are back on ground zero. This same goal democracy somehow stayed elusive to the masses, simply because it changed different color and face but yet it had the same old taste. The taste of the same people’s mentality, ruling during the Soviet Era.

Although, Bulgaria clearly had some way still to go to join the ‘elite’ democracies of the west, it was mutually accepted as official EU member as of 2007. But I must agree, it is better earlier than latter. The final reformation push will come as a political pressure from EU, one the current social party (ex Communist) clearly started to feel.

Now, let’s go back to my topic. The war on piracy, a war continuing already cumbersome 18 years. And it takes no BRAIN.nl to figure out what is going on.
BRAIN is a Dutch, EU founder, organization which delves into the operation of the dark ‘file sharing’ cartel. Namely, teenagers hosting search portals for a peer-2-peer network file sharing. And the premise for shutting-down the endeavor, as you might already guess, illegal Copyright content. Before I challenge this assumption, of only illegal content. Otherwise I do not see any constitutional right to shut-down a private public service rather than request for, or forceful, elimination of such a ‘particular’ content. Let me tell you something so deliberately, how? ,exactly torrents are in the source of all the evil. Back in 2005, the ’specialized anti-mafia’ police started busting, storming, private homes destroying local copies of CD/DVDs and confiscating any computer hardware from the administrators of these torrent-network sites.
I was concerned then, when these misrelated to the core of the issue events took place. But now I am even worried, since EU is nothing but helping these same anti-mafia methods unfold. So according to the kleineBRAIN, network protocols such as BitTorrents, eMule, Gnutela are nothing but an illegal, somehow by default underground activity on the Internet. They helped officially the Bulgarian police in identifying the scam on the net. So somehow these 0 value (still high $), mostly remakes of old themes or actual old films, as most recently “When The Earth Stood Still”, copied Hollywood movies and distributed for non-commercial purpose are the sole manifestation of Piracy in Bulgaria? How come, the EU, and even the Dutch BRAIN, pretend to be unaware of what all Bulgarians are fully aware of, for more than a decade now. The black pirated copies of 10 000 $ and more CAD engineering software on the central street market “Slaveikov” square, see Google maps, where market stands are selling it for a 5-10eur a piece, or for about a 20eur a combo box “All in one combo CAD! All the best, in RUSSIAN covers?”. Of course, you can get for the same price a Bulgarian edition of a top training book too, from the neighbor stand or local library.

These same file.torrent sites are not hosting the actual illegal content ,with hosting servers not even located in Bulgaria, yet these guys got busted? Well I do not think it is a piracy we are fighting here, big Blue, it is yet another pointless WAR which in this case help to sustain a big BLACK market share.

But let me go further and go back to the drama of sharing “illegal” C-opyright material. First, not all of the shared content, is proved to be copyrighted. More and more artists become aware of what a limitation Copyrighted laws impose on the authors themselves. So Creative Commons licensing came for the artists as a clear C alternative. But let’s assume it is a ‘marginal’ adopted license for now although CC > C.
Copyright laws, in the first place must be defended in court to hold still. Many ‘illegal’ assumed content is simply hard to prove so, expired copyright contracts, lost ones, and simply hard to defend from any label, take even deceased artists as example and the natural ‘public domain’ transition. If that might be hardly the case with movies, and their corporate interests behind, it certainly holds true for music in general.