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Cringely On Civil Disobedience

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-the-fight dept.

Sauron23 writes "Robert Cringely over at PBS has his usual weekly Pulpit out. This weeks it's a follow up to last weeks discussion of one of the enforcers of the DMCA, BayTSP. He clarifies some of the issues surrounding a planned bust in October for P2P users sharing movies and makes perhaps an unusual request for civil disobediance from P2P users. I don't know what 10 million pirated copies of "Debbie does Dallas" would be worth either Bob. Probably more than the courts would want to handle. Worth the read." Some of the stronger parts of the column, IMHO, is the commentary on the e-mails people sent in.

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  1. Hey, does this work?? by ader · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah, an' if we all go out and KILL someone we don't like - Hilary Rosen maybe - then They'll make murder legal to save the hassle of ten million criminal trials! Plus, it will be hard to identify an actual murderer anyway when Hilary has ten million bullets in her.

    ...Wait, aren't you guys already planning to do something like this with the Iraqis?

    Ade_
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  2. Re:not effective by Stonehand · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What, their right to block traffic, set a ROTC building on fire, sabotage firefighting equipment, vandalize buildings, hold a prohibited demonstration during a state of emergency, and throw rocks at the National Guard?

    Yup. All legitimate forms of "protest", nothing violent there...

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