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- crystalskull, on 05/22/2009, -2/+211Well with the overwhelming success of D.A.R.E., how could this possibly go wrong?
- slickjer, on 05/22/2009, -3/+138A respecting copyright merit badge? Damn, I remember when I had to do stuff that could save someone's life some day for a merit badge.
- bromac, on 05/23/2009, -3/+130I want a pirate merit badge with the Jolly Roger on it. You only get it with a digital media library of 1 terabyte or more.
Arrr, matey. - hiphoc, on 05/23/2009, -8/+129As a musician I think copyrights are important. But what is happening now is that corporations are using intellectual property laws to censor and stifle our right to communicate.
Music labels today engage in the subtle art of signing musicians, singers and rappers that have amazing quality work just to "shelve". They do this just so they can pump out endless mediocrity and make a descent profit and control the artist. There is amazing music, screenwriting and playwriting out in the real world. But if you dont go along with the corporate message you will never get heard.
Art should lead the way and speak about what people are speaking about on the street. 640,000 people are losing their jobs every month and rappers are still talking about how they wipe their asses with 100$ bills? Look at the '50s 60s' 70's and other decades. Art spoke for the masses. Labels, newspapers and other info outlets are dying cause we are tired of the *****. Music of the depression tended to be uplifting, happy. It made people want to forget about their troubles for just a moment.
Brainwashing kids in school will not work. What about math? Sciences? Are schools turning into corporate mind washing institutions? Are the Boy Scouts being turned into little RIAA Youth, MPAA Youth? Some of them already wear brown uniforms so maybe its a good start.
Do not question, one man cannot make a difference, obey, procreate, pay tax, snitch on your family and friends, corporatism is good, war is peace. We have always been at war with Iraq, that is until we were at war with Iran. Then we have always been at war with Iran - kz26, on 05/23/2009, -6/+80I would just love to be the smart-aleck kid, contradicting every BS statement that comes out of their mouths.
- bromac, on 05/23/2009, -5/+79It'd be tough. Taking them to some executive's mansion and showing the kids how small the swimming pool and guest houses are because people are stealing the execs profits wouldn't have quite the same impact...
- warp99, on 05/23/2009, -0/+68Don't copy that floppy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4 - inactive, on 05/23/2009, -7/+57If I was running DARE It would be one class long. We would walk through the ghetto, and into the booking room at the police station and show the kids all of the crackheads and alcoholics, and have some of the more tame ones greet the kids and point out the one they looked the most like when they were a kid.
I don't know what I would do with the copyright kids, maybe take them to a lame lan party, point at the fattest, ugliest person there and ask them "Is 99 cents REALLY to much for a song?". - Platypus3333, on 05/23/2009, -6/+49Uh, copyright serves a valuable role by providing a mechanism for creators of intellectual property to ensure they are compensated for their efforts. Make no mistake, copyright itself is necessary. Arguably, the current issues are (1) that the current protections afforded intellectual property rights are too great and (2) these rights are generally in the hands of abusive third parties, rather than the creators themselves.
- inactive, on 05/23/2009, -6/+45OMG.. they should just hand out a corporate greed badge in stead!
- bromac, on 05/23/2009, -0/+37Thar be a production run o' one matey. Ya'r 'spected t' forge yer own t' prove yer nay a scurvy landlubber.
- whatthefu, on 05/23/2009, -4/+38Copyright isn't ALWAYS a bad thing and piracy isn't ALWAYS justified. I'm just saying.
- KRG12345, on 05/23/2009, -2/+33Holy ***** *****..
Best....comment.....ever - MofS, on 08/13/2009, -0/+31Must be for countering the pro-pirate children's propaganda;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI - DoctorFaust, on 05/23/2009, -2/+33And it'll be that much easier to tell who the cool kids are.
- OrangeTide, on 05/23/2009, -3/+25I use a D.A.R.E. magazine to prepare my weed.
- wikinerd, on 05/23/2009, -0/+22Aye, matey. Where can I get it?
- NavS, on 05/23/2009, -1/+22I wish I could digg you 100 times.
- medlakeguy, on 05/23/2009, -0/+19you can try to convince the kids its wrong all you want, it doesn't change the fact that an album's 10 bucks and torrents are free
- absurdist, on 05/23/2009, -0/+19www.csdp.org/news/news/darerevised.htm
www.time.com/time/education/article/0,8599,99564,00.html
www.fcda.org/trimble.htm
www.fcda.org/dare.html
Those are just the first four that come up when you Google "D.A.R.E. failure." So you're not only a condescending *****, you're a hopelessly misinformed condescending *****. - digitalArtform, on 05/23/2009, -4/+22You can reform copyright without doing away with it entirely. It doesn't have to be a choice between crushingly oppressive or a total free for all.
- Gloogle, on 05/23/2009, -1/+19My lil bro, took dare classes like three years ago, and he knows everything about illegal drugs. He knows their chemical make up, how they look, and how lethal they are. Even how they act in the body, he recommended me to try weed instead of any other drug. He was 11 when he told me that. lol
Kids will probably find ways to take advantage of the information given to them. Kids nowadays are not dumb. - Evilblobs, on 05/23/2009, -8/+25The RIAA and MPAA may be full of *****...
...but pull your asses out of your head, people work on their content (whether its 'horrible shallow mainstream rubbish' or otherwise), and when you come along and take it free... its piracy.
It's reprehensible by the law and apparently a fair part of society. I'll keep pirating, but it wont be in the denial of me as some sort of valiant fighter of corporate oppression. - FTLJohnson, on 05/23/2009, -0/+17*** It's the all new merit patch! Apply once per day to ween yourself off of doing anything meritorious. Being virtuous, generous, and having a respect for the choices of others is a dangerous addiction you need to kick immediately children. Get your merit patch today. ( Available in plain colors, or now with pictures of your favorite bureaucrats to show your loyalty and true lack of spirit or individuality. ) ***
- mysql101, on 05/23/2009, -0/+17At the end they say you can copy the video.
As soon as i try to copy the video, a guy from the MPAA shows up and starts rapping about not copying videos. ugh - mst3kcrow, on 05/23/2009, -1/+17You wouldn't steal some pussy would you?!?!
- RPGmaster, on 05/23/2009, -0/+16If they're going to start doing this then I think we need to start teaching kids about Creative Commons too!
- Billions, on 05/23/2009, -0/+16It says 'merit patch,' not to be confused with the official 'merit badges' of the Boy Scouts.
- MtheoryX, on 05/23/2009, -0/+15I'll give you an example when it is justified... or rather, the justification I used recently:
I was looking to replace a Tool album I had on CD that was so scratched up that it couldn't import well into iTunes. I got maybe half the songs in, but the other half were all ***** up.
So, still really wanting to listen on my iPod and whatnot, I decided I would just go to iTunes and buy the album... again.
Not listed on iTunes as a download.
Considering myself a rather decent person, I decided to at least look around. I checked Amazon.
Not listed on Amazon as a download.
Now I'm pretty *****, so I go to the band's official site.
Not sold on their site.
Sitting here, money in hand, wanting to pay for something I have already payed for, and now, can't even find the ***** thing...
*****'em, I downloaded it from TPB.
Bear in mind, the album is Lateralus, released in 2001. You don't exactly find that sitting around on the shelves of Best Buy and Walmart anymore.
So, smart ass, you tell me, what the ***** else was I supposed to do? - wild, on 05/23/2009, -1/+16I am glad your comment agrees that copyrights are important, but that they are being abused.
People say copyrights need to go away, but as an artist, that should never happen. I have a right to protect and control what I created. - bobbi21, on 05/23/2009, -2/+16Kids are just dumb in different ways.
- bromac, on 05/23/2009, -4/+17I'm so glad I'm not a condescending douche like you. If I woke up and saw such a big douche looking back at me in the mirror, I'd slit my throat with my shaving razor.
- Virgule, on 05/23/2009, -2/+15INDOCTRINATION
- Bajeda, on 05/23/2009, -0/+13Zero evidence to suggest it was a failure?
The government commissioned its own study into DARE and the research committee concluded that it had been a massive failure. Of course, this wasn't widely publicized.
If you want evidence, there is an entire book that came out in 2008 that focuses solely on the claims make by the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) called "Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics". You can guess what the conclusions are (and its written by two respected academics, so don't go bitching about bias solely because of the title). - spoon088, on 05/23/2009, -4/+16Yeah the cool kids being on their computers so much and downloading tons of stuff while arguing over the internet. So much pussy is gonna head our way.
- aznegglover, on 05/23/2009, -2/+13Did someone jam a stick up your ass last night or something?
- Jamminn, on 05/23/2009, -4/+14As a Brit there a few things you Americans do that wind me up, and im sure the opposite is true.
There are also things that impress me.
However your education system, from my perspective, seems pretty ***** up. - WoollyMittens, on 05/23/2009, -1/+10copyrights need to be redefined
- xtinamo, on 05/23/2009, -1/+10You never know.. when my boyfriend began downloading any movie, album, or television show I could ever want, I was turned on beyond belief. The whole illegality makes it feel somewhat naughty and the possibility of getting caught, as small as it may be, becomes sort of a thrill ride. Seriously, seeding is so hot that when the upload ratio is above 5.0, I can hardly control myself.
- danc256, on 05/23/2009, -2/+11The reference to Iran was less about war and more about the use of propaganda:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four - maz2331, on 05/23/2009, -1/+10Wow! A reasoned and intelligent post on Digg!
Kudos! - noahgelman, on 05/23/2009, -1/+9We'll add '***** the CA' to the '***** the ____' List
- MrUploads, on 05/23/2009, -2/+10Remember, when less money is made, the executive never suffers. It is always the bottom of the company that get *****.
- Gloogle, on 05/23/2009, -0/+7No the ones who will tell you that they found a loop hole, from the information they were given, or the ones that extort the information to download ***** safer.
#1 rule Of being cool, being able to live without pussy. - TinfoilHats, on 05/23/2009, -5/+12A. no it doesn't. open a dictionary.
B. oh yes the consequences of paying for goods and services are mind blowing!!! - Platypus3333, on 05/23/2009, -1/+8I don't exactly think I should freely distribute it without your consent either.
- MtheoryX, on 05/23/2009, -0/+7The Pirate Bay are not "hard core pirates."
Perhaps you don't know the meaning of "pirates" or you don't know what The Pirate Bay did? Either way, you're wrong.
Spot on with the length of copyright ***** though. - inactive, on 05/23/2009, -6/+13no reform will EVER be that you can buy something and then share it with millions of people for free.
Nor SHOULD any reform include that. - Frostek, on 05/23/2009, -2/+8@WoollyMittens
This word you keep using. I do not think it means what you think it means. - Waiting2awake, on 05/23/2009, -4/+10No, Dig is merely a microcosm of what young adults think - and they have moved passed the archaic notion of copyright and see it as the outdated solution to a problem. Much like people saw the horse and buggy as an outdated solution to a problem and evolved the automobile. ....
Can you imagine a world were the evolution of the car was tied to the well being of the horse and buggy makers? Sickening, and yet EXACTLY what is being done today. -
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