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- IDoNotExist, on 04/12/2008, -1/+36Damn right! These damn corporations and lawyers trying to tell private businesses how to operate their companies. Screw that, man.
- JMilton, on 04/12/2008, -1/+26He will probably tell Bush to invade Norway in order to start a war on internet terrorism and bring freedom to Norwegian ISPs.
- Kasot, on 04/12/2008, -0/+23The police won't help him (he requested that the police would get more involved before trying this), and now the ISP's won't help him either. I wonder what he's gonna do now.
- regression, on 04/12/2008, -1/+22No one has said it so...
***** the RIAA! ***** the MPAA!
I feel better now. - Vodd9, on 04/12/2008, -2/+20Motion Picture Association of AMERICA
Get your *****!ng @ss out of Norway. - LANjackal, on 04/12/2008, -1/+17If only our ISPs would do the same to suggestions that they become copyright policemen. AT&T, I'm looking at you.
- dbrisinda, on 04/12/2008, -1/+16Finally ISP's are getting smart (at least in Norway), and banding together to resist the threats of the MPAA & co. They are realizing that it is not their prerogative to police the internet, and that it is not in their financial interest. Precedent has been set.
- Persian5Life, on 04/12/2008, -1/+13to hell with the MPAA and the RIAA. i hate both organizations wih great passion.
- WaterDragon, on 04/12/2008, -0/+8And what a sharp and crisp slap it was! The SLAP heard round the world.
(I was wondering what that pleasant cracking sound was, the other day!) - mecharabbit, on 04/12/2008, -1/+7I heard that the pirates were going to make the ISPs walk the plank if they cooperated with the MPAA. ARRRRRGH!
- aetherane, on 04/12/2008, -1/+7They will probably ask for US trade sanctions against Norway
- Khast, on 04/12/2008, -1/+7RIAA and MPAA need to get something through their thick skulls:
ISPs are NOT a "Content Provider", they are just a means to connect to other computers around the world.
If your Cable TV advertised Unlimited Commercial Free movies, and the MPAA disapproved, that would be one thing, If Sirius had a channel for Music, which was unpaid for, that would be one thing....
But, seeing as any computer on the net can theoretically be a web server, the Service Provider is the individual computer, rather than the ISP. The ISP by the rules set, is just a gateway to connect. - dafunkmonster, on 04/12/2008, -0/+6Yes, because as everyone knows, when you download pirated content, you're funding Middle Eastern Terrorism.
- xirtap, on 04/12/2008, -0/+5I love my country.
- EarlOfLade, on 04/12/2008, -1/+6No problems. Norway can dump all the shares they own in US corporations through The Government Pension Fund, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Government_Pensio ...
It is approx $400 billion and is the second largest in the world. Then MPAA can wipe their ass in worthless dollar. - bagelmaster, on 04/12/2008, -3/+8Get the ***** out of America too. We don't want you here.
- xlneoMAXlx, on 04/12/2008, -1/+6***** THE MPAA.
- Baltoche, on 04/12/2008, -1/+6Trade sanctions against Europe would not be in the best interest of the US.
- OrangeSoda31, on 04/12/2008, -0/+4Heres to hoping that COX will adopt this kind of policy.
- hexydes, on 04/12/2008, -0/+4Just a personal hint, but if you tone it down just a bit, people would probably be more likely to take you seriously. For example, I agree at least partially with what you're saying, but you come off as such a nutjob, I have no other choice but to bury your comment.
- bagelmaster, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3The more ISPs bend to the will of the RIAA and MPAA, the more it opens the door for an ETHICAL ISP to come along and offer an unrestricted and unmonitored service. Spying on your customers is just bad business.
- jon30041, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3I kinda love it, too. You... you think it'll go on a date with me?
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2Marg bar RIAA!
- dawnraid101, on 04/12/2008, -2/+4Exactly I was just about to say that, ***** off you dont own the world. btw your aloud to swear all you want like "***** ***** crap ***** ***** ***** bastard" and my all time favorite "donkey raping ***** eater" etc.
- hexydes, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2While I dislike our major ISPs as much as anyone else, I think you fail to realize just how deep the pockets and wide the portfolios of these companies are. Most of these companies could afford to not do business for a decade, and then go buy most of Norway's ISPs.
- AvangionQ, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1"In a constitutional state, the police and the prosecuting authority have the job of investigating and indicting, not lawyers and communication engineers. Most of the big ISPs in Norway are members of IKT Norway and we will support the various ISPs as best we can against what we see as a preposterous demand from Simonsen" ... [REPEAT POST] These lawsuits are annoyances that the MPAA and RIAA should discontinue immediately -- several statistical studies have shown that file sharing has no demonstrable effects on overall sales profit, and works quite well as a source of free advertising and word of mouth -- these corporations should discard their antiquated business plans, embrace the P2P technologies, and figure out a way to increase their profits from the effort, while doing so publicly will simultaneously gain a large degree of support from most of their client base ... [ADDENDUM] Creating your own BitTorrent based server that hosts DRM free versions of your *entire* collective archive of movies, music and games and then offering an unlimited download access on a monthly subscription package with some sort of perks/rewards for assisting in upstream seeding would be your best way out of what seems to be a downward death spiral of obsolescence ...
- arplayer2k, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1I think hes gonna go all Hollywood and blow somebody....
- dacheetah, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1Well since a post office needs 3 forms of photo id before they will let you send a letter, just in case it contains intellectual property, or explosives filled with poisons, for the purpose of track... oh, wait, no they don't, because a post office is not responsible for what people post, and nor is an ISP.
- hexydes, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1And what makes you think they care at all about that? You don't think they're ignorant, do you? They're perfectly well aware of reality; they're just able to distort it in such a way that it makes reality appear to be something it is not...which suits them just fine.
It's up to you to educate everyone you know, so that when the RIAA and MPAA spout their nonsense, the average Joe will call them on their BS. Until then, it doesn't matter what reality is, because reality is what the MPAA and RIAA want it to be. - battybattybatt, on 04/12/2008, -1/+2If the US ISPs don't start taking this tac, Norwegian ISPa will be able to afford to buy American ISPs (failing due to their soft backbone, bend-over way of doing their customers)
- hexydes, on 04/12/2008, -1/+2Heh. COX.
- C0MF0RTABLYnumb, on 04/12/2008, -1/+1Jaja
- DestroyFascism, on 04/12/2008, -3/+3More like ranting bullying American Extremist corporate behavior. Fascist bastards are so used to paying out politicians and using America's corrupt and inept courts to make the immoral, impossible and unbelievably selfish law.
- hh190, on 04/12/2008, -0/+0its important
- nigdef, on 04/12/2008, -1/+1who the ***** do the mpaa think they are...com eon round to my house you lawyer bastards and i'll gie ye a slap
- cliffski, on 04/12/2008, -5/+2stop ***** stealing AMERICAN copyrighted material then dumbass
- Grooblle, on 04/12/2008, -7/+3***** THEM! YEAH! ***** YEAH! WOOOOOOOOOOOO
more beer - RHA0, on 04/12/2008, -6/+1DURR DE DURR DURR
HUUUURRRRRRRRRR
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