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MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism
GuyMannDude writes "[Yesterday's] Oversight Hearing on "International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism" featured the MPAA and Microsoft testifying that software and movie DVD counterfeiting is an acute problem, with criminal gangs operating factories in Russia, Malaysia and other countries that have weak copyright laws. They further claim that intellectual property piracy is a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror." There's another article about the hearing at Infoworld.
What makes you believe that Bush will stop at the border? When time is right, he will just annex Canada, the same way that Germany annexed Austria. All in the name of "fight against terrorism", of course. Y'a know, those dudes that wanted to blow up the Space Needle in 2000 came over from Canada. Oh, and it will be a good excuse to whack the Freedom in Québec too...
"non-US citizens pay for this with their lives."
As well as the US citizens that the government doesn't feel like dealing with that whole "due process" for. Good thing that Enemy Combatant trumps the former highest law in the land, the Constitution of the United States, or the gov't might actually have to start providing evidence and letting US citizens they have had locked up for months without trial go.
Shawn
Because you gotta bitch
Representative John Carter, a Texas Republican, suggested that college students would stop downloading if some were prosecuted and received sentences of 33 months or longer, like the defendants in the DOJ's Operation Buccaneer. "I think it'd be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids," Carter said. "If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody's got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials."
Last I heard, no one from Enron has done any prison time at all. Does this dickhead really believe that Napster users deserve prison time more than the real pirates
Just like Bush uses terrorism as an argument for killing thousands of people, MS decides its millions just isn't enough and want to take the bread and butter from a few poor people in the world where it isn't illegal to copy software.
Someone obviously didn't graduate, and doesn't understand what a dictionary is. Or a spell-checker.
First, it's spelled "Democracy". As in "rule of the people". This is defined in the dictionary as either "direct rule", as in all citizens vote on all issues, or "rule by representation", where the people elect someone to represent them on issues.
"Republic" is defined as "A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president."
So, the United States is a "Democratic Republic", meaning that the head of state is not a monarch, and is elected by the people. We are also classed as a "Representative Democracy", meaning that instead of directly voting on EVERY measure, law, treaty, etc, (which would take too much time to be effective), we elect people to represent our interests and vote for us.
Note this difference. Iraq is technically a Republic, as Hussien is not a monarch. However, You can't really claim that it's a Democratic Republic, since no one actually voted him in to office. And he obviously doesn't have the best interests of "the people" in mind.
I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you.