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RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police
Sydney Weidman writes "RIAA has given testimony before the House Appropriations Committee asking for more federal money for Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property investigation teams. You can find RIAA's side of the story here and a Cnet story is available as well. Apparently, RIAA is not satisfied with the current deployment of CHIP teams since they have been more involved in anti-hacking activities than in anti-piracy. My favourite Hilary Rosen quote: "Piracy is not a private offense, it hurts everyone by diminishing the incentive to invest in the creation of music." I guess Rosen won't be happy until each and every pirate is charged with crimes against humanity and convicted by the International Court of Justice"
It hurts and stuff.
-- temporarily boycotting T(H)GSB
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - TLC rap singer and convicted arsonist Lisa "Left Eye'' Lopes was found dead in a car in Honduras this morning. It's not clear whether her eye condom caused her to crash. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her work, there's no denying her contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon. She will be missed :(
If I had mod points, I'd mod this up.
Sad death yes. Truly an american icon no. Mostly manufactured pop star yes. RIAA: Slashdot must think very little of the mental capacities of its readers to throw such a bad slippery slope argument at them as the teaser for this article. for shame!
Well... AFAIK, CHiPS spends most of their time chasing stolen cars. I had no idea they were stolen by hackers. But I'm glad they're still around. Erik Estrada is so cool!
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
Recipe for a Slashbot First, take a teenage boy (not like that, Katz does that later). Next, give him a "C for Dummies" book and then get his folks to cough up enough cash to send him to university. Simmer with annoying teens of a similar ilk until enough pent up sexual frustration allows the boy to feel rebellious towards his country and all the laws that have got him to university in the first place. Next, add a dash of commie ideals and force repeatedly down with generous helpings of the Linux operating system. Now that the wannabe "hacker" has had his mind filled with backwashed rubbish, add in a dash of anti-Microsoft sentiment. Pay particular attention at this stage and make sure that said boy also uses a dollar symbol for every iteration of the Microsoft trademark. When complete, prepare the "Source". Mix a little piss-poor C code with a hint of Perl. Stir with adequate helpings of MySQL. Now add emacs and vi - just enough to add spice and future raging flame war material. Now shake until a large mess of fucking awful "Source" is produced. Most of these "I hack the kernel" wannabes cannot and will never code to a good standard. While simmering the "Source", open the boy up and stuff him full of bullshit ideology. Recommended ingredients are:
- "Freedom of Speech" : I can trade copyrighted MP3s because information wants to be free.
- "Free the Chinese from internet monitoring by Big Brother" : I completely ignore the fact that they have a right to live with their own culture, ideals and values as is stated in MY OWN FUCKING CONSTITUTION.
- "The government is out to get me" : Start working with Linux distributions such as Tin Foil Hat and then post completely raving non-sensical rubbish about how 'the NSA has been bugging me for years'.
When "Source" is ready, open a PayPal account and hand over a few dollars to a bunch of useless chimps who can't spell. While waiting for the boy to come to the boil, peruse Slashdot. Find hundreds of arrogant comments posted by "I'm a student and I know Linux so I must be a fucking computing god and don't you dare argue with me" types, print out and stuff into boy. 30 minutes later, your slashbot is complete. Finish off nicely with a side-order of Debian CDs, unwashed Linux t-shirt and ThinkGeek gift certificate. Your final result should be : An arrogant, paranoid, smelly know-it-all with basic UNIX capabilities, fuck-all programming ability and appalling social skills. You will find that the result of your labours will be the first to shout out about freedom of speech, but will quickly moderate down anyone they disagree with. DON'T FORGET TO MOD ME DOWN!!And I'd just be happy if Sharon were taken to one. But I guess the same country which refuses to arrest him would only be demonstrating an extension of its own misguided logic if it makes civilian massacres less worthy of punishment than playing an MP3.
not trying to be an asshole... just trying to help you out...
it's "physical" not "fisical"
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"What do you want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? Cause I'm married."
I had a fiscal CD once but the telemarketers got out of hand trying to recommend this stock or that stock. Oh well. I guess that is what you get for stealing a fiscal CD.
Would'nt it be funny if Jack Velenti was caught with...say... child porn!
haha
I may get modded down for this but ...
Have you noticed anytime a post begins "This will probably get modded down" it in turn gets modded up?
Sorry guys, but *THEY* need to police this themselves. NO WAY should our taxes cover piracy of THEIR software. We can send in the police to do the arrests, but if they honestly expect us to pay to scour the net for them they're on crack. They need to take some of those billions they're making and start hiring people. I know, you might spend money, and it goes against their every wish, but if they want stuff policed, they gotta learn to do it themselves.
Mmmmmmmm. I love Baked Alaska.
Fortunately the USA is going to have to bitchslap him if the Gulf War II is ever going to happen.
They are doing the good fight against terrorism. The deaths are all caused by terrorists intentionally using civilians as human shields.
You are a victim of antisemitic propaganda.
Yeah, fill slashdot up with more American crap...
I know, I know, I'm just another whiny non-american anonymous coward... blah, blah.
Beautiful troll, sir. You managed to get 7 unique first-level flames (thus far), several of which erupted in nerdwars.
This one needs to go in the trollbot.
Now quit being AC.