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Anti-P2P Law Looms over the Horizon
Adrian Lopez writes "MIT's Technology Review has a piece by Eric Hellweg about pending legislation known as the Intellectual Property Protection Act. According to Hellweg, IPPA could make it illegal to skip past commercials and could 'criminalize the currently legal act of using the sharing capacity of iTunes, Apple's popular music software program.' More information on IPPA is available at the Public Knowledge website."
you americans kill me. you let the big stuff slide but pay attention to nits because some chick with big hair mentions it on the evening news.
No, I'm sorry. I don't see dope smoking as a victimless crime. Society is a victim. Self is a victim.
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Same goes for tobacco use. Sure, it is not a crime because it had been a staple of our society for so long. However, municipalities et al. are doing what they can to restrict its consumption such that they can eradicate its use. They want it to be a crime. Why? Because the society costs are so high in terms of health expenses, etc.
Personally, I like the idea of returning felony to its original meaning.
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
So jailing people during prohibition was legitimate punishment for that subversive behaviour? I think the big dealers should be nailed, that's a given, but if someone chooses to sit there on their own property they should be able to inject pretty much whatever they want into their bodies. I don't need old, grey men thinking for me.
Mind you, I'm in Canada so you can write me off as a filthy Leftist
Trolling is a art,
As RMS put it: USA policy is not to fix problems, but make others suffer too, if they can't do that, they start considering how to fix the problem.
I too come from a small country, Austin, Texas. We are a spot of deep blue lost in a sea of red. We had our congressman taken away by the republicans. We are having our rights as thinking, intelligent, free people taken away.
Until such time as Free thinking individuals in the United States are willing to stand up to the bible beating, neanderthal like, backwards thinking, far right, southern baptist mullahs, they will be trampled down, rights will be destroyed, books will be burned and pi will be set at 3 because that's the godly way and it must be enforced.
Until we are forced to learn as slaves of the machismo, fear mongering, two faced Liars of the Republican party, that power DOES grow from the barrel of a gun, then we will continue to be trampled by their jack booted thugism.
Until the BLUE in America is willing to take up arms and say to the lock step march of the right that YOU have gone FAR ENOUGH and no farther we shall all be poorer.
And mark my words, there will be a second civil war in America, and perhaps sooner than might be thought. because there is no way to assimilate or live with people that refuse any intelectual debate, and choose to blame the person bringing them the bad news for it or to discredit anyone thinking differently. These people have no concept that there are Billions of people in the world that want them dead not because they are jealous as many Americans would like to believe. There are billions that want them dead because they see them as DANGEROUS. They see them as children playing with gasoline and matches.
Soon the Republicans will have their own tiny backwards nation in which they can pass all the fanatical state religion sponsored legislation they want, and we Americans can undo some of the insane mess that they have created, and get a reasonable copyright and patent law system.
Reality is all that stuff that doesn't care if you believe in it or not.--Solomon Short