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- n0c0ntr0l, on 05/24/2008, -0/+159Don't be fooled, this is the prelude to censorship, I hope you guys can see it now, because what is needed to enforce this will be censorship.
- GreenChaos, on 05/24/2008, -0/+113Hell, like half, or more, of the internet would be in violation. Let's just scrap the whole thing and start again, shall we? /*sarcasm*/
- GeekyGerge, on 05/24/2008, -5/+106***** The ACTA.
- whatthehell9, on 05/24/2008, -3/+81damn politicians answer to everything is always more Government, more Government, more Government...
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine - LtXenodite, on 05/24/2008, -5/+80Silly government. The Internet is for kids!
- TH3W1R3D, on 05/24/2008, -0/+66***** the ACTA is a scary bill.
- acidbathfan, on 05/24/2008, -3/+56A 1000 years from now I wonder what people will say when they study the fact that more money and resources go into preventing the average citizen from getting a free copy of "Sex and the City" than is allocated to prevent the spread of child pornography or pedophilia in our little global village.
- OmegaWolf, on 05/24/2008, -1/+52***** these money-hungry bastards! The Internet is our personal playground and we will destroy them if they try to change that!
- smurf22, on 05/24/2008, -0/+50If digital piracy ever stops ( which it wont) analog will still be there. Kids will go back to recording the music from another device then put it on a cd. I hope these companies will soon realize you can't stop piracy.
- JasonCox, on 05/24/2008, -2/+52God damn government, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
- zarvensha, on 05/24/2008, -1/+48So why does anyone need a 60gb a month Internet account?
Go ahead, kill filesharing, kill the Internet, kill the ISP's, and guess what, will anyone start buying half the crap you say you are losing money on?
Idiots, don't know how to move into the future so want to drag everyone back to the past............ - ciaran036, on 05/24/2008, -0/+45The internet is the last bastion of free speech so cling onto it and don't let anyone EVER try and control it.
Outside the internet, I can't say very much without being arrested or ridiculed. The mass media are there to smear and ridicule me. The police are there to lock me up for terrorism and the sheeple are there to laugh....
The internet is the only place where we can have no limits global discussion with all sorts of people from almost every background!
Don't EVER give it up. Don't give in to the law. Just because it's illegal does not mean you can't do it. - lordmetroid, on 05/24/2008, -0/+42Governments hates the freedom of internet.
- ricree, on 05/24/2008, -0/+32I would really love to know when it became more acceptable for politicians to protect the rights of Mickey Mouse than those of the people they are supposed to represent.
- CptGreencoat, on 05/24/2008, -2/+31***** it, Dude. Lets go bowling.
- MasterGrief, on 05/24/2008, -0/+25I do enjoy hating acronyms
- starmanjones, on 05/24/2008, -3/+26the reality is scarier than the first glance. it would be very difficult to find a computer that didn't have copyrighted stuff on it. that email that got forwarded to you... that email you sent your grandmother about getting drugs cheaper in canada or mexico... or the recipe you copied from a web page. the song lyrics. if you tried to sanitize your computer you couldn't do it with any certainty.
the powers-that-be are giving themselves a warrant to search and make anyone a criminal... make that everyone a criminal. this is the equivalent of the gun or knife that gets thrown down by the police at the scene of a crime. there is no reasonable assurance that if the-powers-that-be can't put stuff on your computer if they want you. not only that... but they could or maybe already have data mined the Internet and have every stupid comment you made... every time you told your fiend you'd send them that mp3. its not beyond reasonable that they could have every mp3 you sent. all they have to do is want it.
before anyone says, "aawww they wouldn't do that," remember the deal in the U.S. made with ATT to catch terrorists... thats not caught a single terrorist. why do you think it was so easy to get ATT to break the law and invade everyone's privacy? its because ATT thinks the internet poses a significant threat to their "control." if legislation and the police don't get control of this technological revolution then... we will continue to figure out how to use them for our benifit. everyone has a wireless router. we can all down load a firmware upgrade. now my router talks to all my neighbors all across the world. my linksys internet phone is free to call anyone from anywhere... in my car... in the next town. ATT is gone.
an SOP exploit is to inject it into a data stream... read that... stick words in your email that make you part of a giant world wide terrorist organization. knock- knock... they already can make you disappear and hold you forever with no legal council and no explanation to anyone about what happened to you.
i've been saying this for several years and i'm always surprised that nobody gets it... the term "pirate" is fun but the-powers-that-be don't get the joke. its given them an easy visual for law makers and anyone else that needs convincing P2P is criminal. "they call themselves pirates... criminals." its time to get serious.
file sharing is as pure a form of civil-disobedience as there has ever been. this isn't about free music. its not about catching terrorists. its not about the Internet per se. its about who controls information. the citizens of the world and their right to know. their right to find out anything they want to know. this is the next gen follow up to civil rights of the 60's.
access to information is power and is a civil right. period. non-negotiable. the current system is old and has died. it won't be pretty and nobody knows exactly how it works but access to information is a civil-right.
the-powers-that-be have mobilized all the old guard... the brick and mortar companies, the people that have controlled distribution until a few years ago and the less than knowledgeable legislators that see arresting "pirates" as a no lose vote to secure these new technologies for them.
if everyone said... ok... ya this illegal... i won't do it... then the new technologies, access to information and control of communications are being handed to the old old guard. here... take my freedom. here... listen to my conversations. here... give my medical history to the insurance companies. here... know where i am at all times.
this is civil-disobedience in its purest form. i am certain Gandhi and Martin Luther king and all the other great civil rights leaders are on the side of the people of the world.
this is about civil rights. access to information is a civil right.
file-sharing is an act of civil disobedience. you have an obligation to use these technologies to force legislation to be for the good of the citizens of earth. period. we already know what the-powers-that-be will do if we don't stop them. they will deny access to information, communications... and freedom. this is non-negociable. - Shawshanksr, on 05/24/2008, -2/+25no it isnt
- georgemason01, on 05/24/2008, -0/+22World Wide Wiretap is now in effect.
- TheIguana, on 05/24/2008, -2/+24Hollywood, you suck.
- DestroyFascism, on 05/24/2008, -0/+20Washington's lobbyists are like locusts eating up the freedom we enjoy to screw people out of money. America should think about what such intents will do to their "Land of the free and brave" after money is jammed into the pockets of yet another spineless, coward of a politician.
- inactive, on 05/24/2008, -9/+29 Whats' wrong with a Police State Internet, it would just match the streets. Anyone who can't see the Police State developing has their head up their arze. So, since most people are apathetically sitting by as their freedoms are slowly being intruded upon, why should the Net be different?
- MasterGrief, on 05/24/2008, -0/+20It was mostly out of place here, but I just cannot bury a Big Lebowski reference.
By the way, nice marmot. - mCanada, on 05/24/2008, -3/+22For a not so simple answer as to why governments and "information givers" are freaked out about P2P (especially bit torrent) I might suggest Steal This Film II http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3636669624 ... . Their response to our right to copy is nothing new. When the printing press was developed the same issues arose hundreds of years ago. Remember by virtue of communicating you are copying!
- iticu, on 05/24/2008, -2/+21In a thousand years i'll doubt they give a *****.
- PopcornDave, on 05/25/2008, -1/+17Mickey pays more.
- bieber, on 05/24/2008, -1/+16That's like saying "Damn executives' answer to everything is 'more management, more management.'" Of course they want to expand government: it's what pays their salaries. It's our job to keep it in check...
- wannapiece, on 05/25/2008, -0/+14***** them, and their quest for more money
- evil-doer, on 05/25/2008, -0/+14user made free content is becoming easier to make and more popular every day. if anything they should be going the other way with making commercial stuff more available. they are killing it with their greed.
- sarge96, on 05/24/2008, -0/+13Sorry to comment jack, the actual doc is here:
http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/acta-proposal- ... - mfc5200, on 05/25/2008, -2/+13hehe yea I'm making fun of Obama and anyone who thinks that the government is the solution to our problems.
- iticu, on 05/24/2008, -0/+11Because the only thing copyrighted on the internet is music.
I'm gunna sue you next time you download that image off google. Take that! - Okari, on 05/24/2008, -0/+11Memes! Learn them!
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -2/+13no. its for porn.
- TheRealJMX, on 05/25/2008, -2/+12Again with this crap? Amazing they can spend more time and effort on this than--say--capturing Osama Bin Laden.
- mfc5200, on 05/25/2008, -2/+12Yes we can, change we can believe in!
- sryan8913, on 05/25/2008, -0/+10ya but now they get Mickey cash and our taxes
- fac3less, on 05/25/2008, -0/+10Don't mind if I do!
- noen, on 05/24/2008, -2/+11Your sarcasm detector is a bit off today.
- hobbitontherock, on 05/24/2008, -1/+10What exactly is the difference between an illegal counterfeited movie and a legal copy of a movie illegally downloaded? Not much. And they have to start eroding the freedom of the internet somewhere. Once they take something, you won't be getting it back.
- Arcueid01, on 05/25/2008, -0/+9The Internet is an important place where true news is reported. The sanctity of this world of information must never be regulated by government and must never be controlled by the Mass Media. IF that happens we will basically have another TV. Personally, I think that the Internet is going to be the telescreen from the Orwellian Dystopia. Face it, we won't have cameras watching us in our TVs. However, we might have NARUS STA 6400 at hub units of the Internet performing deep packet inspection of all Internet connections. The ramifications of this are that your VoIP calls, emails, searches etc. all are monitored by the government. Effectively thought can become a crime. Now I realize that you need the actus raes and the mens rhea for every crime, however, it is only a matter of time before we have legislation, created for a purportedly noble purpose, that changes this elements of our jurisprudence.
- whahaa, on 05/24/2008, -0/+9i think what he was trying to suggest is that if we all spent as much time bowling as we do on the internet, which we would have to do if the internet became a police state, we'd all be as good at bowling as The Dude.
- lolcat23, on 05/24/2008, -3/+11http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet
maybe something like this would be the answer, but then they would try and make that even unlegal.
there is an alternative to darknet, cant remember what its called though
[EDIT] found it, its called freenet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet - sadisticmind, on 05/24/2008, -0/+8if we go bowling, the terrorist win! and by terrorist, i mean the government rule on us.
- specialK16, on 05/25/2008, -0/+8God damn it.
I see nothing good on my future :( - Notquitesane, on 05/25/2008, -0/+8actually half the internet is porn
- EllipsisAeon, on 05/24/2008, -1/+9This has got to be the strongest choke hold attempted by the corporate government I have seen.
We really have to keep things like this out in the open for everyone/anyone to be knowledgeable about. -
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