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P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle
geekee writes "CNET posted an article claiming you could be liable for $250,000 in fines and up to 3 years in prison for p2p file sharing. This is due to an obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) act passed in 1997 (signed by Bill Clinton). Although the Justice Department has not prosecuted anyone under this new law, some members of congress have asked John Ashcroft to begin prosecuting. In response to the request, John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said to expect some NET Act prosecutions."
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ummmm hey dude, read your constitution....we are not a democracy but a republic. so sorry to burst your dream of American democracy
YOU cost P2P a bundle!
Who said the U.S. (I assume you meant U.S. when you said "America") was a Democracy? "...to the flag and to the *REPUBLIC* for which it stands..." (pledge).
Think "mob rule" works? I dont.
-Jhon
My dad used to ask me to bring my cub scout friends over to our house all the times. He also wanted a picture of my no-no spot!
I am glad that America is not a democracy. If we were a democracy, democracy is mob rule. Had we been a democracy, things like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 never would have been passed.
..[Eventually], the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public Treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy. . . The world's greatest civilizations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage."
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
--John Adams
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
--Andrew Tyler Fraser
A democracy is not the same thing as a representative democracy. The founders of the United States never intended for the U.S. to be a democracy. You're not from the U.S. so I can't expect you to know this. But those modding the parent up to 5 should probably take a U.S. government course.
... the public must be approved by important changes!
every one of the Camp X-ray inmates were captured during operations in which they were fighting our troops.
Well, if the government said so, it must be true, my Saudi friend.
Well, there is also the fact that half of those detainees were sent over by the Pakistani government for trying to cross the border......of course refugees would never try to cross the border....
So.. if I'm gnapstering via fiber optics, it's not electronic and the law doesn't apply to me. Wahey! (Too bad this logic prevents me from doing e-business or sending e-mail, however the photonic p-equivalents are fine.)
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
at least he is only being held and not being tortured, disfugred, shot and forgotten.
Hmm, you ask why does half the world hate the US, i ask, who cares?
when your the strongest guy out there, i think you deserve some respect, and now that more and more contries are developing nukes, i think id rather put the resposibitly of adverting global nuclear warefare in the hands of the US rather then some 'rouge nation' like Iraq or North Korea. at least the government in the US can theroitically be held accountable.
So.. it's peer 2 peer. but what is up with this??
http://www.kingsofchaos.com/page.php?id=117523
It's weird I think
That's interesting. I thought thought-crimes have been Universally condemned as the primal base for Totalitarian rule. Maybe you like living without a system in place to insure (or at least attempt) justice. I do not.
Hey, wait a second, you live in Saudia Arabia. You must be an extremist rag head. How dare you pretend to be an American while living outside of her borders.
P.S. Your original claim, as disproved by other posters already, has no base in reality either. Just because your commander told you they were caught "fighting our troops" does not make it so. Any more than intelligences sources saying, see, look, Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destructions. Oh wait, you want proof? Sorry, we can't show you a thing to back up our claims. You'll just have to trust us.