Thinking about breaking the law? UNDER ARREST

[Broletariat]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18815


The White House's vision is perhaps a prelude to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which will go before Congress later this year. The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement. It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government. The bill also makes it a criminal offense to bypass DRM.Here's my favourite line from the article though


According to the Obama administration, the RIAA, and MPAA, the world economy is pretty much doomed if we don't start prosecuting pirates at home and abroad

[maskerade]

If we uphold copyright laws and intellectual property laws most of the world's population will probably be doomed.

Economy > human life? business as usual I suppose

[Antifa94]

Fuck this shit. This is madness.

p.s. I'm in the mood for a this is sparta response.

[Os Cangaceiros]

RIAA and MPAA

Dinosaurs must die.

[Rusty Shackleford]

looks like im going to be working overtime until this is passed

[Psy]

If we uphold copyright laws and intellectual property laws most of the world's population will probably be doomed.

Economy > human life? business as usual I suppose
It is not like pirates are sitting on significant stockpiles thus even if this totally stopped piracy it would probably not increase demand as most of the pirates can't afford to consume their products anyway all it would do is reduce the consumption of utility that comes piracy.

[Foldered]

Copyright laws are so archaic.

[Broletariat]

Copyright laws are so archaic.
Just like property laws

[Foldered]

Just like property laws
Of course.

[Broletariat]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20009348-261.html

it starts

[chegitz guevara]

This is what will start the revolution. Angry teens wanting their MTV.

[Revolutionair]

This is what will start the revolution. Angry teens wanting their MTV.

Don't hate on me and my fellow rappers.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

So does this mean I should download all the illegal shit right now before this law gets passed just in case.

[Robocommie]

This is what will start the revolution. Angry teens wanting their MTV.

"Damn these kids and their baggy pants!" :p

[MilkmanofHumanKindness]

Funny, according to the RIAA the Pirate Bay has stolen nearly 46 times more dollars than actually exist on earth at $382 trillion dollars. (Note: This does include stock, actual dollar bills, banks etc.

If we took this amount and cashed out in $50 bills the stack of money would reach 518,976 miles high, that's enough to reach the moon.... twice.

http://www.cracked.com/funny-4003-the-pirate-bay/

[Robocommie]

Funny, according to the RIAA the Pirate Bay has stolen nearly 46 times more dollars than actually exist on earth at $382 trillion dollars. (Note: This does include stock, actual dollar bills, banks etc.

If we took this amount and cashed out in $50 bills the stack of money would reach 518,976 miles high, that's enough to reach the moon.... twice.

http://www.cracked.com/funny-4003-the-pirate-bay/

Jeez, man. If only we could torrent food, clothing and housing. :lol:

[Broletariat]

Jeez, man. If only we could torrent food, clothing and housing. :lol:
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR?

Hell fucking yes I would, that always struck me as a stupid argument.

[ckaihatsu]

This is what will start the revolution. Angry teens wanting their MTV.


You gotta fight... the right! ...for your right ...to paaaaaaaaaaarrrr-tyyyyyy...!


x D


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[Qayin]

Angry teens wanting their MTV.
Hi,I'm your video DJ!
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go....

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

That son of a fucker... it's about time he shows his damn progressive side that seeks, like all forms of progressivism, to limit and ban free thought and ideas. First off, how the hell do you prosecute someone for a thought? I would have thought that America would have learned after the Salem witch hunt that when you enforce thought crimes, people cry wolf against the people that they can't stand... Also, what damn right does the government have to prosecute those who create torrent software when torrents are used for legal means... And with the second quote, what fucking right do we have to go to another country and prosecute their citizens when in several cases, America has been ordered by the world court to hand over people for prosecution of international crimes... Nice to know that we could be seeing witch hunts occur just because people like Obama want to protect archaic copyrights... :mad:

[Adi Shankara]

Dinosaurs must die.

You know how you know when your "democracy" isn't democratic anymore? when corporate bodies with more money and power than an average citizen can ever dream of are given a voice in forming policy.

that right there is the beginning of fascism, i.e, twinning corporate power with the state while allowing those corporations to maintain their profits and positions.

America is beginning to suck more and more everyday. I know it'd never happen as long as the majority of the American public is brainwashed to believe that communism =evil, but we need to find a way to nationalize resources and literally ban anyone who ever held an upper management position in a registered corporation from holding political office.

[RebelDog]

There is an old Scottish fable about property. It relates the story of a old fife miner, walking home one evening, carrying some illegally poached pheasants to feed his family. Suddenly, the local landowner appears at his side and demands he hand over the peasants:

"Don't you know this is my land and these are my pheasants," brays the landlord.

"And where did you get it?" asks the miner.

"I inherited it from my father," replies the landowner.

"So where did he get it?"

"From his father. This land has belonged to my family for 500 years."

"And where did they get it from 500 years ago?"

"They fought for it."

"Well then you bastard," says the miner. "Take off your jacket and I'll fight you for it now."

[Chambered Word]

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR?

Hell fucking yes I would, that always struck me as a stupid argument.

I thought about this with a comrade not long ago. Seriously, if you could convert a car into electronic packets of data, how much bandwidth would that use up to download? It'd be fucking massive!

[Hexen]

You know how you know when your "democracy" isn't democratic anymore? when corporate bodies with more money and power than an average citizen can ever dream of are given a voice in forming policy.

that right there is the beginning of fascism, i.e, twinning corporate power with the state while allowing those corporations to maintain their profits and positions.

America is beginning to suck more and more everyday. I know it'd never happen as long as the majority of the American public is brainwashed to believe that communism =evil, but we need to find a way to nationalize resources and literally ban anyone who ever held an upper management position in a registered corporation from holding political office.

The U.S. never really was a democracy but it always was and always will be (as long it exists) a republic which is basically a "democracy" for wealthy elites not the "subjects" (as the founding "forefathers" really called the working classes which pretty much explains how they really view us which is carried down the bourgeoisie today). Thus why we have electoral colleges since voting is just nothing more than a sham and everything else about "freedom" is just a illusion since as long we live under capitalism and class society in general the only people who truly have freedom is the capitalists themselves while the proletariat have no rights the same reason that slaves/serfs have no rights and such.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

The holy extension of rent to new sections of the economy is the only way to make it appear to grow when every aspect of real-economy contracts. I for one welcome the collapse of the capitalist world economy- too bad "intellectual property" is not the most important of the various frivolous forms of property on which it depends.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I thought about this with a comrade not long ago. Seriously, if you could convert a car into electronic packets of data, how much bandwidth would that use up to download? It'd be fucking massive!

Try our new WinZipRL! Buy out product and unpack data into real matter! Thanks to *some physicist* we can now send real objects as information!

*warning! do not use living biological material with this program as the corruptibility of that data may lead to either comical or fatal disfigurement of the matter after sending and unpacking!

Id imagine what WinZipRL could look like... because... you know... its zips!

http://www.fatiguesarmynavy.com/images/items/isralelimossadduffle888.gif



Speaking of sending material over teh interwebs, a string theory physicist was on colbert report yesterday talking about the potential for teleportation within possibly a century. he said we already succeeded in teleporting 1 atom.

[Urko]

we already succeeded in teleporting 1 atom.
that's cool
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I really don't see the point in fighting piracy, Shutter Island for example is the most pirated movie lately. And paramount is still got millions of it ... No company is loosing anything because of piracy, just getting couple millions less (which is not a problem considering how much they get)

maybe they should start thinking why are people downloading copyrighted material.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

that's cool
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I really don't see the point in fighting piracy, Shutter Island for example is the most pirated movie lately. And paramount is still got millions of it ... No company is loosing anything because of piracy, just getting couple millions less (which is not a problem considering how much they get)

maybe they should start thinking why are people downloading copyrighted material.

Their absurd speculation of losses are almost always based on the idea that every download is a lost purchase, which quite frankly is preposterous and utterly imbecilic, but still seems to be commonly accepted by incompetent governments unwilling and unable to resist the claims of these vile corporate lobbyists - though obviously this is not surprising, the bourgeoisie state is but the extensions to the sludge-drenched defiling tentacles of capital. The interests of intellectual property often use various governments as tools in the global struggle for further absurd attempts by them to control all aspects of creation and distribution for the sake of profit.

[IllicitPopsicle]

Hi,I'm your video DJ!
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go....

Dead Kennedys/Jello Biafra reference FTW!:thumbup1::laugh: