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mitcheypooJul 23, 2010
Woa, permission to torrent something? I dunno man... feels weird.
Also, the Yes Men are absolutely awesome!
fdsa1342Jul 23, 2010
Was thinking the same thing. . .granted there is a good amount of stuff that I doubt people would care about. Automotive manuals etc.
ajh16Jul 23, 2010
I know one of them (was one of my college professors) and have met the other. They are good guys if a bit odd. Unfortunate to hear they are being sued. I wish them luck.
forcenJul 23, 2010
Magnet link just in case. Just paste in your browser.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:FPUARRKLGPAX5VVC7A4WIBFFEFJL6MCH
tektrixterJul 23, 2010
direct torrent link:
http://vodo.net/media/torrents/The.Yes.Men.Fix.The.World.P2P.Edition.2010.Xvid-VODO.torrent
Closed AccountJul 23, 2010
HACK THE PLANET!
Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
Worst. Saying. Ever.
Ever.
glassagateJul 24, 2010
Okay, now you've given me the bug. Now, where's that DVD....
pontiacJul 24, 2010
THEY'RE TRASHING OUR RIGHTS!!!
ayeroxorJul 24, 2010
It's in the Gibson's garbage file!
hodgertonJul 23, 2010
I know its a Friday night, but instead of getting extra sides and a bottle of coke with your takeout dinner, donate $10 to The Yes Men.
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ingenuseJul 23, 2010
But I only have 10$ for food....
briandeloachJul 23, 2010
Starve.
hbrohiJul 24, 2010
who orders take out on friday nights?
ayeroxorJul 24, 2010
People that don't bang the ceiling from the basement to have their mommy bring them a sammich
glazJul 24, 2010
Why don't you donate 20 dollars and stop telling people what to do, white knight.
ymegJul 24, 2010
Stop telling others what to do
glazJul 24, 2010
Flawed logic, kid.
glitch017Jul 23, 2010
"This is very embarrassing for you" ... well said
fonziefonzJul 23, 2010
This press conference turned into a clusterf**k real fast.
gwaggy12Jul 23, 2010
The Yes Men are great. If you haven't seen their documentaries, then you should, if nothing else than for the giant inflatable phallus and recycled food.
jmac9Jul 23, 2010
If the chamber of commerce are suing them....they must be doing something correct.
Republicans destroyed america.....the basic premise of american capitalism = profit is more important than you....all of you.
bloodwineJul 23, 2010
It must be sad to live in constant fear of the big bad right-wing boogeyman.
do you honestly believe you can neatly blame one group of people for the fall of a society?
diggerlaterJul 23, 2010
The politics of capitalism is based on the ethics of egoism, not blind greed.
elfprince13Jul 23, 2010
Your grasp of history is hilariously poor.
haberman13Jul 23, 2010
Blah blah blah blah
Any statement of great complexity reduced to 1 = 1 is ALWAYS wrong. Always.
gregloireJul 23, 2010
Umm, like what you just did?
ovironJul 23, 2010
How clever of you to pick up on that. Don't you know that "all generalizations are false".
honoredmuleJul 23, 2010
Most generalizations are /true/, except for the part where people refuse to understand that counterexample proves nothing nor even calls a /generalization/ into question.
vitriolandangstJul 23, 2010
If you can't actually refute something, it's best to make it sound ridiculous and then call it a "generalization."
You can't really say that ALL BEES are going to sting you --- just the ones you sit on. And not EVERY Nazis wanted to help Hitler take over the world.
NOT ALL Republicans supported Corporatism -- MOST were just ignorant and thought saying; "supply and demand, let the rich people have money so they can create jobs, we don't need to hinder free trade, social programs never work, we don't need regulators on banks, on the environment, we don't need unemployment insurance, we don't need Universal health care, we need to drop the bomb on Iraq before they attack us with remote controlled drones... deterrence,... blah blah blah" made them sound smart.
greevarJul 23, 2010
"If the chamber of commerce are suing them....they must be doing something correct. "
I agree, nobody can effect change by doing what's comfortable.
"Republicans destroyed America"
No, I think you need to throw a much wider net than that.
"the basic premise of American capitalism = profit is more important than you....all of you. "
This statement, has more truth than it implies.
The corporate mandate is to put profit above all other priorities, even the public good. If they can dump arsenic into the local water supply, make triple profits, and get away with it, you're darn tootin' they'll do it. The right thing and the wrong thing is a matter of which costs them less. They don't make ethical decisions, only business decisions.
honoredmuleJul 23, 2010
It's up to policy makers to ensure that business decisions are forced to align with ethical decisions. That's probably the foundational basis for viewpoints like "Republicans destroyed America." Ultimate responsibility always falls upon humanity as a whole, but then there are cases where responsibility has been explicitly delegated, and then there is justification for narrowing one's focus.
greevarJul 23, 2010
Policy "used" to regulate the highest motive of corporations, which was to promote the "public good". Nothing was to take priority over this. Somehow, after corporations fraudulently claimed human rights, they overturned the mandate that the corporation was to operate in the public good. Unfortunately, policy makers don't think about what's best for their voters, but what will get voters to re-elect them to office. This, paired with a overly abundant amount of lobbying money, is what ensures that we will have a hard time getting policy makers that will do what's right into office.
denizen42Jul 25, 2010
Which is why, lobbying is probably the unwisest social decision in history.
suricouJul 24, 2010
Actually that's the basic premise of all capitalism. The idea is to use people's natural greed as a benefit. Where there is a demand, someone will meet it. Where two suppliers exist, the superior one will succeed.
For the most part it actually works extremally well - and that's quite an achievement, getting billions of independant agents each acting in their own interest to, through some emergent process, also benefit themselves collectively.
For the most part. There are plenty of times when it hasn't gone as it should - or worse, has gone exactly as it should, and lead to stable monopolies or success for those willing to resort to sabotaging the competition or 'cheating.' Microsoft is an example of both - the first in the way it remains on top because of the inherent advantage of a popular operating system recieving widespread support, the second in the way it effectively destroyed some competition (Netscape, Winamp, various email clients) by bundling competing products with it's operating systems.
apeirophobiaJul 23, 2010
Awesome. These guys are great!
I downloaded their films off torrents anyway.
Maybe I'll give them some money for a coffee.
sweetneo85Jul 23, 2010
This is why net neutrality is such an important issue.
paulpachJul 23, 2010
sure, government is going to prevent government from censuring people that are critical of it.
geniusjJul 23, 2010
The Chamber of Commerce is not a government entity.
laminacJul 23, 2010
okay I"m curious. So they were able to post a view critical of the government on the internet, and get their message out... We need net neutrality why? It seems pretty neutral to me.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
lllsecretchimpJul 23, 2010
You and your damn facts. We can imagine the problem, so we need to regulate NOW!
mikephoenix22Jul 23, 2010
its more about protecting from corporate interests. The Comcast P2P filtering incident proved that the big telcos are able and willing to slow down or block specific protocols based on their interests and not the interests of the consumer. Unfortunately here in the US we do NOT have the ability to say to the company "we don't like what your doing so cancel my service" because most cities have only one or MAYBE two ISPs to choose from and internet service has become so critical in our daily lives. The CEOs of more than one telco has stated how they hate being considered dumb pipes and would like the ability to prioritize all web traffic, so they could charge you different rates for things like VOIP calls, HTTP, and streaming. Imagine the impact of this type of control on any sort of new protocol. A new protocol would not be prioritized very high and would end up being slow and sluggish. This would make any adoption of new tech take longer, regardless if it is better or not.
THAT is why we need net neutrality.
honoredmuleJul 23, 2010
Net Neutrality has nothing to do with this.
carstanJul 24, 2010
i'm a 70 year old congresman and what is this?
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$$$ oh i $ee, net neutrailty i$ bad. who say$ otherwi$e i$ a terrorist
aitironbirdJul 24, 2010
HE MUST DIE UNLEASH THE NINJA LOLCATS!!!
generalobviousJul 23, 2010
You can sue someone's ass?
Hm.
honoredmuleJul 23, 2010
...for distraction leading to loss of earnings, I would presume.
skin__Jul 23, 2010
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
stormwernJul 23, 2010
Great! Been trying to buy the second movie for a while, but couldn't find any local vendors.
zomgwafflesJul 23, 2010
GET IN THE TURTLE POSITION!!!
This survivaball is hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dizy8A9zY4
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PatriceBeaulieuJul 23, 2010
Wow,Torrents Ftw!
tektrixterJul 23, 2010
http://vodo.net/media/torrents/The.Yes.Men.Fix.The.World.P2P.Edition.2010.Xvid-VODO.torrent
asimpledadJul 23, 2010
Liberal 'ends justifies the means' tactics, beautiful. Forget an honest discussion of issues, instead lie, pretend to be someone else, do whatever you have to to reach your goals, because your goals, you beliefs are more important than everyone elses. No censorship here, just no one wants to give such a scummy stunt airtime.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
ianzuJul 23, 2010
What's liberal about them? I'm not following you.
danj484Jul 24, 2010
Dad's a Manichaean, and liberalism is the evil faction in his worldview.
zihuatanejoJul 23, 2010
It's parody, lighten up. Just because you don't agree with their viewpoint, doesn't mean it's not humorous.
And maybe we should ask ACORN or Shirley Sherrod about how conservatives try to get people to agree with their viewpoint. Now those are some "scummy stunts."
asimpledadJul 23, 2010
So we lift up the discussion by allowing things to sink to the lowest level? It wasn't a parody, they were pretending to be someone they weren't, not to highlight lameness on the other parties part, but to confuse the issue and misrepresent them. Clean coal is bulls**t, and they could have made a humorous point, but all they did was pretend they were someone else and pretended to speak in their name. That's just a dick thing to do.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
mokacoffayJul 24, 2010
he mad.
hotrats76Jul 24, 2010
"Thats just a dick thing to do" Nice argument there.. you might want to put a /s on your comments because you are clearly not serious.. Either that or you are completely and willfully ignorant of what the people you support have been doing for the past 30 years..
iignotusJul 23, 2010
I'M A REPUBLICAN AND EVERYTHING IS REAL AND SERIOUS AND THE MOST IMPORTANT AND HORRIBLE THING IN THE WORLD AT ALL TIMES.
asimpledadJul 23, 2010
I'm iignotus, I can't debate a topic, so I support people who instead of debating, pretend to be someone else and misrepresent them. I also then just criticize and make for of people I don't agree with in order to try and be little them for having a different point of view than I do.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
mokacoffayJul 24, 2010
He mad.
ymegJul 24, 2010
Just about everything in the Western world is more liberal that the point of view people like you have.
ymegJul 24, 2010
than the*
iignotusJul 24, 2010
Reality has a liberal slant.
lifeandtimesJul 23, 2010
What an important story, thanks Digg. I am so glad I know these guys are using BitTorrent. My life will completely change now.
malexJul 23, 2010
If only.
dushJul 23, 2010
If only vivoleum had caught on we wouldn't have this BP nightmare.
jurassiknickJul 23, 2010
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Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
Torrenting it right now. I am excited to watch their movies.
firewall1Jul 24, 2010
awesome film - just downloaded it.
As good or better than any Michael Moore flick.
412e9400fa59454Jul 24, 2010
Read any of my comments and you'll hate me. It's because I speak the awful truth about ourselves. I've been a member of the yes men for years now. Please look yourself in the mirror and join.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
burton3660Jul 24, 2010
Are you a wizard?
412e9400fa59454Jul 24, 2010
10th level!
SoCalLongieJul 24, 2010
The Yes Men are some brave dudes. I saw a documentary about them on HBO. It was excellent.
bigp3rmJul 24, 2010
http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/
audioslave176Jul 24, 2010
Stick it to the man. Show us what goes on behind Obama's closed doors.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2010
after watching the first 30 seconds, I decided to seed for a very very long time
altorJul 24, 2010
I watched the whole thing and felt embarrassed on their behalf. It would've been impressive if they hadn't been caught and the story got picked up by some news networks or something.
Instead, they get shut down half-way through a press conference in which they say, "We, *fingerquotes* the government */fingerquotes* have decided to reverse decades of policy decisions because... uh... (mumble mumble...)". Only maybe 20 reporters were actually gullible enough to attend apparently, and I didn't recognize any of the names of the news organizations they were supposedly representing.
Then, finally, at the end a single reporter tries to sort out the clusterfail and the guy's like, "uh... well... uh... gosh I was hoping I wouldn't have to justify my position on any of this... uh... can I get back to you? I need to take my social anxiety pills, this is too much pressure coming from one young female reporter not even making eye contact."
Weak, just weak.
Closed AccountJul 25, 2010
You know what, I felt the same way after actually watching the entire movie, pretty weak stuff going on, and I'm pretty sure that lawsuit will nail them hard.
glassagateJul 24, 2010
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/research-optimal-copyright-term-is-14-years.ars
As far as copyright goes, I'd like to see a "Copyright Plan B", one where the artist would
not be tied down to the regular copyright, which is continually being extended by corporations
like Disney.
So, if someone applied for "Plan B", and said that they wanted it to last 15 years, after
that amount of time, no matter what happened to the traditional copyright law,
the copyright piece would enter the public domain.
phpadamAug 4, 2010
I watched it, its confusing and has no plot.
Now for Toy Story..