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- Linguo, on 09/26/2008, -1/+66Why don't they just invent robots and assign one to every person to watch over them at every moment?
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 09/27/2008, -3/+67***** the Copyright Czar.
- gatewaydrug, on 09/26/2008, -3/+58If its like the drug czar's office, this is going to be a blast!
/sarcasm sometimes doesn't flow freely in the tubes - inactive, on 09/27/2008, -2/+52This is great for anyone wishing to compete with America. With a third of the population in prison the American tax system will have to pay sudo "welfare" for every single person in jail and suffer from the lost productivity potential that each case brings. Add to that the court time and costs being lost to a person downloading a few music tracks and there you have it, a substantial portion of the countries GDP will be spent making sure the bald Mazarati driving sugar daddies of the Music and Film industries can afford to keep getting cocaine to stuff in their faces. And at the end of the day when these people get out you can look forward to traumatized, depressed, suicidal and ultimately angry people mixing around in society.
Anyone remember the butterfly effect? - monkeystick, on 09/27/2008, -1/+48Great timing. They swept this right past us while we're all distracted by the economy. =(
- throop77, on 09/27/2008, -2/+46Does the government ever get smaller?
- Tenbatsu404, on 09/27/2008, -1/+38It has become too expensive for the corporations to fight piracy so now they're going to throw their problem on the back of the American taxpayer just like everyone else.
Disgusting. I ***** hate what this country has become. - impei, on 09/27/2008, -0/+35Russians maybe, but not communists. The communists overthrew the czar.
- OmegaWolf, on 09/27/2008, -1/+35How the hell does this hope to stop a teen from downloading music to his computer and sharing it with his friends? Even if they crack down on torrents, they can't stop people from sharing via IRC or over IM networks.
- jasonbalmforth, on 09/27/2008, -3/+35They'd tell you that if you don't agree to be observed at all times by the Homeland Patriot Protector 5000, then the terrorists will win!
- fokov, on 09/27/2008, -0/+31Copyright Czar
War Czar
Drug Czar
What country is USA trying to become again? - btschul, on 09/27/2008, -1/+27Hmm. I still won't be removing the 15 active downloads currently in my BitTorrent client. ***** you, Mr. Czar.
- astracner, on 09/27/2008, -2/+23Not that hard. Just make file sharing and downloading a federal criminal offense like drugs, and I am sure parents will magically start enforcing what their kid does on the internet....and thats about all they can actually attempt to limit with any chance of possible success to some degree.
Of course our drug policy hasn't worked, what makes something even more popular anywhere near stoppable. Instead of the entertainment industry's money being used to crack down on filesharers, it will be our own taxpayer money. - navidh, on 09/27/2008, -1/+21The Copyright War should be a resounding success just like our current Drug War.
- inactive, on 09/27/2008, -2/+21Whatever, like this will stop any kind of piracy
- Nintendesert, on 09/27/2008, -1/+20I'm so glad the Democrats control congress. So much has changed since they took over.
- smotpoker1, on 09/27/2008, -1/+19Why hasn't the FBI investigated the senators who push this bill?Everyone knows they been paid off by the riaa/mpaa.The bill is useless because no one agrees with the bill and all they are doing is criminalizing people civil unrest for laws that should not been made and cannot be enforced. America will be the laughing stock for trying to enforce it on the world.Oh yeah ***** you riaa.
- 4321234, on 09/27/2008, -0/+18Copyright Führer .
- oxdeltaxo, on 09/27/2008, -1/+17If it's like the drug czars office it will only cost the tax payers for a pointless invasive service, to protect your liberties by taking them away.
This is not the time to be adding more expense to the budget, when the economy is already being bailed out. Sometimes I think politicians think money grows on trees. - SubjectiveC, on 09/27/2008, -1/+16Stephen Soderberg will one day make a revamped version of Traffic, this time featuring the new Copyright Czar who deals with the burdens of his job in a daily basis only to discover, late, his daughter's extensive .mp3 collection and the entire seasons of her favorite shows in .avi files scattered all throughout her drive. These kids, what have they done to themselves?!
Wait, what? A copyright czar? But that's stupid. - OrangeTide, on 09/27/2008, -1/+16it's always been about the little guy paying taxes to support corporations and special interest groups.
- idc5, on 09/27/2008, -2/+17Don't give the gov't ideas
- inactive, on 09/27/2008, -0/+14The Drug War is a massive success. We bust tens of thousands of people every year and put them away for minimum mandatory sentences in facilities where they become slave labor for Dell and Starbucks and Microsoft. It's an excellent variation on the old plantation system.
- RandomGorilla, on 09/27/2008, -1/+15Too late. The bailout already makes it look like we're socialists.
- zombiedepot, on 09/27/2008, -1/+15I can't wait for mandatory minimum sentences.
- roodammy44, on 09/27/2008, -1/+14How many more people do they need to throw in prison before they release they're fighting against the rising tide?
Do they really think pirates are killing the US economy when the financial industry and war are doing so much worse? - btschul, on 09/27/2008, -1/+13As soon as we get a 3rd party candidate into office.
- zeppo, on 09/27/2008, -0/+11***** obama and mccain for supporting ***** like this.
- palewook, on 09/27/2008, -0/+10this congress sucks and swallows.
vote them out in 08. - fluxion, on 09/27/2008, -0/+10"Senate Passes Bill to charge tax-payers for RIAA anti-piracy crusade"
- palewook, on 09/27/2008, -1/+11yeah ***** anyone that has made a mp3 and violated the DMCA, take their house. thats smart.
up yours too.
upvoting anyone on this thread not acting a tard. downvoted the troll that started the thread though. - BradHAWK, on 09/27/2008, -0/+10Sudo welfare. For when regular user privileges just don't qualify you for government assistance.
(The adjective you are looking for is pseudo. Just sayin'.) - jabelar, on 09/27/2008, -0/+9How about we call him Copyrightatollah then?
- BradHAWK, on 09/27/2008, -0/+9Well look at the bright side. At least *they* weren't distracted by the economy :o/
- palewook, on 09/27/2008, -1/+9It doesn't stop much of anything. Just wasting more of our money on programs and legislation bought by PACs for their special interests.
SSL will become real popular over the next 5 years. - palewook, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8the nsa has scripts and boxes on the backbone. close enough for you?
- randumbusername, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8only when it collapses.
- Qeveren, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
- andydread, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8There will be blowback. When Sony went on its rampage to class all their customers as criminals I was one person that will never forget that. Everthing I owned was Sony powered. I subscribed to Sony Style and setup many a Sony home theater systems for my customers. I will never ever recommend another Sony product nor will I be installing any Sony products for my customers. The media and software companies are squeezing their customers with DRM from one side and purchasing draconian laws from our clueless senators on the other side. People will wake up eventually and revolt against this draconian system. They will quit giving their money to these media goons which use it to buy laws from our politians criminalizing us and they will swich to open source software rendering this copyright czar useless. It will take time but the alternatives are starting to stand up.
- Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7Corporate welfare FTL
- synapz, on 09/27/2008, -1/+8People that create an idea have no ownership over it. They do, however, have control of it. It's their responsibility to protect their idea from usurpation, not mine through my tax dollars.
- thatguy331, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7So the white house (Bush) actually opposed this... The Democrat controlled Senate passed this... Will Digger's heads explode from this news?
- blacktriangle, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7How about the Ayatolla of Copyrightolla?
- throop77, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7I'll write in RP if you do.
- syndustry, on 09/27/2008, -1/+8One of the principles of capitalism is adapting to changes in the market. This is our government, again stepping in to help old, larger businesses afraid of adaptation, entrenched in the old way of doing things.
If a movie is good people will pay to watch it on the big screen regardless of it's having been pirated...case in point "the dark knight"
If a band is decent pirated music will increase awareness about them and drum up merch sales and ticket sales.
a Copyright Czar does one thing, protects mediocre content by punishing regular, decent citizens - ATLien74, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6Oh boy, more bloated government to ruin our lives. Pretty much any kind of Czar can ***** off.
- e68895f, on 09/27/2008, -1/+7And doing so they have fixed the economic crisis, ended the war in Iraq and solved the energy independence. Hurray for the new Czar !
- CandidateZero, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6The entertainment industry hates piracy because it gives consumers a choice.
THEY want to be the sole gatekeepers and want you to get content only from THEM on THEIR terms. Then, they can choose which artists get big and which stay obscure, just like the good ol' days. Don't like their ***** DRM? Too bad, you've got no choice in the matter. Here, buy this heavily restricted media there's no alternative for 'cause piracy's dead.
Piracy takes power away from the gatekeepers. That's why they hate it. - dweeb79, on 09/27/2008, -2/+8masaks:
My mistake. It happens from time to time so there's no reason to be rude. Just pointing it out is enough. -
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