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U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft
bblazer writes "Reuters is running a story about a new US effort to stop intellectual property theft. From the article "The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday outlined what it called its most sweeping crackdown on bootleg DVDs, fake designer goods, illegal music downloads and counterfeit drugs." It also goes on to say that media (movies and music) is highly affected, but so are products like batteries, baby food and Viagra."
Go US government! Save us from those knock offs. Oh and F/P bitches.
how good America is at winning wars
drugs,terror,vietnam,iraq are all splendid examples
Get ready for a big split.
Asskroft is setting himself up for a fat megabucks job once this Nazi regime gets kicked out of office by Kerry. And what precipitated this little MPAA/RIAA ass kissing episode of a news article? The massive butt whipping Kerry put on Bush laat night in the debate. As soon as that debate ended, Asskroft wrote up this little press release, humming to himself, no doubt, about the megamillions he would rake in while heading up the MPAA and the RIAA, etc.
People, when are we going to start treating our renegade employees like Asskroft as the criminals they are?
eat shiat and bark at the moon
You can pull hypothetical shit out of your ass all day long, but I *still* don't see anyone but Reuters and you calling it a "War on...".
Even if you might agree with that, it's unmitigated flamebait and should be moderated down as such. But then again, this is Slashdot, where it's chic to rail against The Man(tm).
Once again, every post so far expresses the exact same tired opinions.
Anti-RIAA, anti-protection of intellectual property, anti-America, anti-government, anti-law enforcement, pro-illegal drugs, pro-bitch moan and complain.
I wish some of you would hurry up and graduate college so you can go out and see how the world really works.
America is not Intellectual?
Who invented the Airplane, Car, first electric computer?
I think America is pretty damn intellectual and for that I'll stand up for my country.
Our governmental system isn't retarded. The people that are in office are. There's a difference. ;)
Oh, and the people that either:
- Voted them into office,
- or failed to vote.
When it comes to Americans complaining about our elected officials, if you were old enough to vote and didn't, shut the fuck up. You failed to do your duty as a citizen.I talk about stuff.
>Psst.... I don't know if you noticed or not, but just last weekend, Afghanistan held open, democratic elections for the first time. And the US, so far, hasn't made any moves toward Iran, other than diplomatic posturing. I'll give you Iraq though.
Psst.... I don't know if you noticed or not, but Americans have no clue what "open, democratic elections" are.
The fact that you got midded up as "5 insightful" reveals the intellectual dishonesty and self-congratulatory wanking that that permuates through slashdot.
Oh my god! He just identified the US Government as the world's leading terror organisation! WANK WANK WANK WANK WANK. What a fucking legend. He's sooooo insightful; if only more people displayed his level of intellectual and moral superiority. WANK WANK WANK WANK WANK. Wait a minute, if I agree with him, that must mean i'm intellectually and morally superior too! WANK WANK WANK WANK WANK.
Would be great to see the US Army choose the right target for once.
The U.S. has decided to opt out of the world economy by its protectionist stand.
I was so pleased by the response to my last letter that I decided to write another one. Don't worry; I have plenty of new stuff to say about John Ashcroft and his helots. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter, but the conclusion's general outline is that John maintains that he is omnipotent. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that he says it is within his legal right to spew forth ignorance and prejudice. Whether or not he indeed has such a right, the concepts underlying John's gloomy tricks are like the Ptolemaic astronomy, which could not have been saved by positing more epicycles or eliminating some of the more glaring discrepancies. The fundamental idea -- that the heavens revolve around the Earth -- was wrong, just as John's idea that skin color means more than skill and gender is more impressive than genius is wrong. When a mistake is made, the smart thing to do is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that John stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to convince me that he should feel ashamed of himself. Let me rephrase that: He can't possibly believe that going through the motions of working is the same as working. He's stupid, but he's not that stupid. I have a misty, inchoate suspicion that John will trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry before the year is over, and that's one reason why I'm writing this letter. As my mother used to tell me, "Everything John writes is littered with spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, missing punctuation, irregular capitalization, false statements, and incoherent thoughts and sentences." I know that I'm emotional now, but it is not uncommon for him to victimize the innocent, penalize the victim for making any effort to defend himself, and then paint the whole insane affair as some great benefit to humanity.
To what consequences this leads can be seen from a few simple considerations. First of all, a real fight against bitter heathenism can be undertaken only if a basic change in social conditions makes it possible to embrace diversity. Do I blame society for this? No, I blame John. He equates non-cooperation and solitariness with individuality. I kid you not. At the risk of sounding hopelessly brain-damaged, I wouldn't judge his trucklers too harshly. They're just cannon fodder for John's plot to increase people's stress and aggression. One cannot help but notice that John has no real regard for other people's rights, privacy, or sanity. So please permit me to appropriate and paraphrase something I once heard: "John is intellectually dishonest in everything he says and does."
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world without the most obstinate dunderheads you'll ever see? When I was a child, my clergyman told me, "I unmistakably can't stand John or his stooges." If you think about it, you'll see his point.
He has never gotten ahead because of his hard work or innovative ideas. Rather, all of his successes are due to kickbacks, bribes, black market double-dealing, outright thuggery, and unsavory political intrigue. Although we can occasionally tie the retailers of macabre new claims to older fabrications, there is unfortunately no shortage of new rumor. For the purpose of this discussion, let's say that I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, libidinous world run by useless, irritable bozos.
If we're to effectively carry out our responsibilities and make a future for ourselves, we will first have to give the needy a helping hand, as opposed to an elbow in the face. Snotty, inane mouthpieces for anal-retentive boosterism have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. In fact, I have said that to John on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until he stops trying to spread snobbism all over the globe like pigeon dr