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RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn'
watchful.babbler writes "Having largely failed to galvanize public and political action against P2P systems, the RIAA has mounted a campaign to link P2P systems with child pornography (NYT, reg. required). The result is H. R. 2885 (available via Thomas), which has the remarkably clear and honest intent 'To prohibit the distribution of peer-to-peer file trading software in interstate commerce.' Amongst other things, the proposed law will require the creation of 'do-not-install beacon products' (do-not-ask, you really don't want to know), force P2P apps to include warning labels that users may be exposed to pornography, and require P2P developers and distributors to obtain and store users' personal information -- ostensibly for age verification, but one can think of other reasons that the RIAA might be interested in that info. Worse yet, even given the 'operation exemption' (Sec. (4)(b)(1)(C) in the bill), applications such as AIM and iChat appear to fall under these provisions."
It means that the RIAA has finally realised that it can't stop people sharing music over P2P. Thus, knowing that no one in power would dare stop anything that pretends to combat something as vile as childpornografy, they change their aim - at least to outwards apperance.
Lets tell it to the politicans; the RIAA has no legitimate reason to stop people sharing childporn. The only semiofficiall organisation in the US that may have a legitimate reason to do that is the MIAA, and then only for childporn made by their members (which could lead to a lot of akward quiestions later...).
The focus of the RIAA is to prevent people from swapping music, thus making people buy overpriced CDs instead. Everything else is just blue smoke and mirrors.
As for the pedophiles... well, I guess a bullet in the head will 'cure' their sick lusts...
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
And just what is the kiddie porn doing on the internet anyway? I'm sure you agree that it must be eradicated.
BOO! TERRO
And, as before, they'll just use their diminished profits as evidence of a vast piracy problem.
That homeless crack addict downtown will bitch about society keeping him down, too. But we all know that it is going to take him breaking his addiction before he'll be able to turn his life around. He can complain about this as much as he wants, but until he actually changes his own ways, he's going to be out on the street with little or no hope. (yes, I know it's more complicated than that, but it fits for argument's sake)
Perhaps the RIAA needs to experience this for awhile before they realize that they're bitching about the wrong problem. Screw them! They can go completely bankrupt for all I care.
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Can anyone deny now that these Mormons need to be dealt with. They control the FBI (Ever wonder why the FBI so fucked up and inept?) Mormons are the people behind SCO. Now Hatch is going to try and push this through while we still don't have secure borders and are being taken over by illegal aliens out here in California. I hate to sound bigoted but this shit has got to stop. Fuck these dammed religous zealots and their rich friends.
Go ahead mormon boy mod me down and I'll just repost. You can't stand have anything that might make you all look bad. I know you will because you did this last time I pointed out how out of control you people seem to be. You are entitled to your religon but not entitled to make me a second class citizen or infringe my rights so you can look good to your elders and get rich and give tons of money to your stake.
As you can see I don't care about my karma.
Disclaimer: I am neither affiliated, nor a satisfied customer. I prefer getting my daily dose of "child porn" for free.
Disclaimer N2: 8 y.o. is an arbitrary limit. In fact there is nothing wrong about selling pictures of even younger kids. I remember there was a photoalbum on sale at Amazon with pictures of extremely young kids (a few year olds, may be).
Child porn should be legalised. It is definitely wrong to abuse people (children or adults), but posing for photos or even having sex does not equal abuse. There should be no limit for porn or for having sex in RL. There should be only one requirement - consent and no harm. The idea of equaling "informed consent" with certain "age of consent" was a horrible one, we can safely admit it today.
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