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Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation
iman1003 writes "According to an article on Wired, the Senate may soon pass a bill labeled HR2391, a bill which lumps many other copyright bills. If passed the bill would "would criminally punish a person who 'infringes a copyright by ... offering for distribution to the public by electronic means, with reckless disregard of the risk of further infringement.'" In addition the bill would "permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited." The bill would also punish people "who bring a video camera into a movie theater to make a copy of the film for distribution" with up to three years imprisonment and fines. If any of this worries you please contact your Senators and Representatives and voice your concern."
This nonsense can be laid at the foot of corporatism. Corporatism is not only the driving force behind this latest bit of corporate slavery, but it is also behind the lack of universal healthcare in American (about the only industrialized nation not to have it), and the war machine that has been creating bloody, murderous unnecessary wars since after WW2. It is also why this country is going backwards while countries like Sweden and Denmark and Belgium are going forward.
Now, you may say, Oh, it is the Republicans doing this. Well, maybe they are in the lead, but it is really the Democrat's fault for going along with it.
I say, the way to stop Corporatism is not to attack the lead dog pulling the sled (the Republicans), but instead to starve out the party that is supposedly the opposition--the Democrats.
Now, I am a hardcore liberal, a lefty. But I am no longer voting for Democrats, except in exceptional cases. Instead, I will vote for Republicans, in order to put the Democrats out of power compeletely. I will vote Green Party when the race is not close.
Once the Democrats are out of power almost completely, then it will be a lot easier to reform the party as a true leftist party.
STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT, MY FELLOW LIBERALS!
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man, you nutcases crack me up. +5 insightful? are you kidding me? Does anyone who is reasonably intelligent actually believe that some shitty copyright law will make the US implode? or that all politicians seek to enslave the american people? So if politicians seek only to serve corporations, how do you explain those who advocate stricter pollution regulation? or those who won't vote for this bill? Oh, wait a second, that doesn't fit in with your retarded wet dream that america has become a fascist dictatorship.
The people who voted for Bush, naturally. Obviously, you need to lower your standards more.
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Only a republican adminstration would prevent people from skipping ads in their own home! Money...money...money...someone has to fund the DOJ's prosecution of infringers...
Jax
Thank you for that apocalyptic sentiment. Fact of the matter is that the US can't just go away. I don't think anyone's being enslaved. Granted, the system is problematic.
It's very obviously broken... at the moment. It's been broken before.
But throwing America away and saying to hell with it is not a solution to the problem, or even sensible.
Things have been harder since the republicans have been in control. Things have gone to hell, and they're only going to get worse over the next four or so years.
But they will get better. Americans are optimists, problem solvers. You may think that there's nothing we can do to change the system, but you're wrong because it's a fundamentally good system. As such, it was designed for change.
The American dream is alive and well. And as long as it exists, there will be people fighting for it.
So shut the fuck up!
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I see your point, many "creative" types are Democratic and support Democratic agendas. I am more concerned that including a provision in this bill which sets forth that a person can not skip over ads in their own seems so relaint on the money ads generate(usually ad execs will only pay for spots where they are promised a certain viewership)...hence...the companies can promise that viewership at the cost of a person's choice which appears partisan to me.
Jax
Well aren't you special?
God it's like talking to a genius who feels compelled to mention his genius status.
You. are. a. god. damn. elitist. idiot.
And, yes. Commercials. do. change. your. opinion. about. products. you. don't. care. about.
I live in a giant bucket.