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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."
Further along the horizon is legislation that will require all citizens to actually buy the products that the see advertised. Being exposed to an advertisement and not purchasing it is a breach of contract, punishable by large fines or death.
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well, I guess that now is the time to declare war on P2P networking.
That'll put a stop to it.
Jonathan Lamy, spokesperson for the RIAA: "(...) Intellectual property theft is a national security crime."
Soon we'll see P2P users referred to as terrorists ;))
Wait till the law against using the bathroom during commercial.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Simple. the RIAA (just because they like to do these kinds of things) will dispatch a legal representative (and secretary [at your expense of course]) to each and every home with a VCR or DVD recorder, then whenever you fast-forward they will have the power to hand you a press-play-and-desist order. Failure to respond to this will result in the immediate seizure of your remote control, whereby the lawyer will tow your VCR to the impound and force you to make an over-inflated out-of-impound settlement.
You don't think they haven't already thought this through?
bypassing the networks sponsors is not QUITE a victimless crime, as the networks are losing money by it.
And damn you if you don't read every ad in your newspaper. If people did, the paper would get paid more for them. You selfish bastards.
OK, I'm going to record an MP3 reading of the Intellectual Property Protection Act (all 200,000 pages) and intersperse commercials in support of the bill throughout the MP3. I will share it on my network (there's no place like http://127.0.0.1) and present you with a dilemma. You can stream the reading off my network and break one part of the legislation. Or, you can choose not to listen and thus disregard my commercials and break another part of the legistlation. Don't worry, it's not supposed to make sense, unless your IQ is less than the average Hollywood filmmaker.
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The funny thing is that Edison did get involved in a huge commercial/patent war over the delivery of electricity with Westinghouse, who was using Tesla's AC power delivery system. one side effect was the invention of the electric chair, when Edison tried to "prove" that AC was deadlier.
More's the pity...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Not only is stupidity not illegal, it can frequently get you elected.
Check out the full text of H.R. 4077, the one that says: "To enhance criminal enforcement of the copyright laws, to educate the public about the application of copyright law to the Internet, and for other purposes." ...in the abstract.
Okay, now: skip all the text, and jump right to the bottom- "TITLE II--MISCELLANEOUS." Section 201, the designation of national tree.
"The tree genus Quercus, commonly known as the oak tree, is the national tree."
Can someone more informed in the ways of law tell me what this is all about?
"What could be less harmful to society than me lying by the river on a sunny day puffing a joint and reading a book?"
Are you serious? What could be MORE harmful?
By lying by a river you are engaging in sloth, which is not just a deadly sin, but more importantly means you are not contibuting to the economy. You live to work, dammit!
By smoking a joint you are altering your perception of reality, you are opening yourself to alternate ways of thinking which could be at odds with the status quo. Free thought leads to dissent, dissent leads to revolution, revolution leads to communism. You aren't a communist, are you?
By reading a book you risk being exposed to "radical" thinking - the kind of thinking that suggests lying by a river puffing a joint and reading a book might be more enjoyable than working, for example. What if everyone did that? The economy would collapse.
Thank you for your time and attention,
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Yes, when they read this bill off, they should start by making a nice long lengthy advertisement for every corp. that sponsored this bill. Maybe they'll get the idea.