<story><title>Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector</title><url>https://themarkup.org/blacklight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>I feel like we should unify the copyright and privacy laws.&lt;p&gt;If I copy a Disney movie without their knowledge and then extract value from it, for example by watching the movie without paying, everyone agrees that this is theft. And punishment is generally strong to excessive.&lt;p&gt;If a website copies my private data without my knowledge or even after I decline permission by sending DNT headers, that is somehow considered completely fine.&lt;p&gt;But to me, the value of my private data is vastly higher than the value of watching a copied movie. And the potential for financial damages stemming from a stolen identity is also much highest than the real damages from someone downloading an mp4.&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we classify the secret collection of private data as theft.&lt;p&gt;Edit: With my wording, I was referring to this old pro-copyright ad: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; for example by watching the movie without paying, everyone agrees that this is theft.&lt;p&gt;No.  Very few would equate this to theft, especially lawyers.  There is even a debate to be had as to what &amp;quot;watching a movie&amp;quot; even means.  How about a youtube review of the movie?  What about a clip incorporated into something else?  What about my IronMan costume for halloween?  Intellectual property is not like land or objects.  That is why it is subject to very special and very specific limitations on when and where it can be applied.&lt;p&gt;There are even a few disney movies that, soon, will be out of copyright.  Steamboat Willy falls out in 2024.  Superman in 2031.  &amp;#x27;Sherlock Holmes&amp;#x27; fell out of UK copyright in 2000, so too &amp;#x27;Gone With the Wind&amp;#x27;.  Brits can print those books all they want.  Americans ... will have to wait a few decades.  Copyright violates are a totally different game than traditional understandings of &amp;quot;theft&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector</title><url>https://themarkup.org/blacklight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>I feel like we should unify the copyright and privacy laws.&lt;p&gt;If I copy a Disney movie without their knowledge and then extract value from it, for example by watching the movie without paying, everyone agrees that this is theft. And punishment is generally strong to excessive.&lt;p&gt;If a website copies my private data without my knowledge or even after I decline permission by sending DNT headers, that is somehow considered completely fine.&lt;p&gt;But to me, the value of my private data is vastly higher than the value of watching a copied movie. And the potential for financial damages stemming from a stolen identity is also much highest than the real damages from someone downloading an mp4.&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we classify the secret collection of private data as theft.&lt;p&gt;Edit: With my wording, I was referring to this old pro-copyright ad: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raspyberr</author><text>Why would you unify two unrelated things? I think privacy is a right and copyright is so overstretched it literally works against its original intention.&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the only part of &amp;quot;Intellectual Property&amp;quot; as an idea that I agree with is the right for an author to claim that they authored something. It shoudln&amp;#x27;t give them a right to control how its distributed or what people do with it. Why would you compare the rights of people to the &amp;quot;rights&amp;quot; of companies? Why would you defend enormous corporations? Disney doesn&amp;#x27;t have &amp;quot;knowledge&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s not a person.</text></comment>