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US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the god-bless-america dept.

Dr.Hair writes " Soon to be ex-Secretary of Commerce Don Evans speaks out on 'piracy' just prior to his last trip to China for negotiations. 'That means criminalizing the laws as opposed to (having) just civil laws...You've got to start putting people in jail.' The article points out that this lust for prosecutions extends from Evans to his successor, the American Chamber of Commerce, and the US Senate. "

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  1. yep by t_allardyce · · Score: 1, Funny

    I totally agree - we've got to start putting people like him in jail...

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  2. Sauce for the Goose by overshoot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, as long as they're consistent. Looks like maybe Bill Gates will be doing some hard time for the Burst patent violations, right?

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    1. Re:Sauce for the Goose by jandrese · · Score: 3, Funny

      Martha would complain if the Truffles were overcooked or the Caviar wasn't properly garnished.

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  3. lovely. by LordNokia · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's just great. Put me in with the rapists, murderers, high level drug dealers... do what you've done to low level potheads for years. Throw me in with the rest. Though I'm not a criminal now, when I come out, I will be. "and I say to myself... what a wonderful world" (I was going to rant about this. I restrained myself)

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    1. Re:lovely. by Stanistani · · Score: 3, Funny

      >"and I say to myself... what a wonderful world" Pirated from Louis Armstrong... You have the right to remain silent...

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  4. hmmmmmmmmmm by mwhahaha · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The bottom line for us is prosecutions, prosecutions, prosecutions," Brilliant said. "That is going to require getting into local provinces and addressing some of the corruption that exists."
    developers, developers, developers?
  5. Re:Right Alongside by MrRuslan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea.. Marijuana smokers are so dangerous that everytime my freind gets busted by the cops they take his weed and go smoke it a few blocks away.

  6. Re:Right Alongside by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pothead: *takes a drag from joint* "Hey kid, what are YOU in for?"

    Pirate: "20 years. The new Britney Spears album."

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  7. The Evolution of Crime by handy_vandal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we can fill up our jails with even more people who are as dangerous as marijuana smokers...

    Oh, that's fuckin' great -- IP violaters and pot smokers, cheek to jowl in the showers.

    God only knows what kind of criminal masterminds are breeding in those prisons ....

    -kgj

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  8. Re:Right Alongside by revscat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like we better hope that no one patents a strain of marijuana. You'd get the freaking death penalty for violating that.

  9. Re:Right Alongside by Phisbut · · Score: 4, Funny
    Let's not forget:

    Pothead: "Hey guys, what are you in for?"
    Pirate: "20 years. The new Britney album."
    Dad: "25 years. I stargazed with my kid."

    Way to go America!

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  10. Re:Right Alongside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Aiding and abetting the distribution of any Britney Spears album should have an automatic dealth penalty. That crime's vile enough that it would drive even his pacifistic pot-head cellmate to give him the shiv!

  11. Re:Right Alongside by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Funny
    Pothead: *takes a drag from joint* "Hey kid, what are YOU in for?"

    Pirate: "20 years. The new Britney Spears album."


    Real Convict: "You're both my bitches!"
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  12. Re:Right Alongside by DikSeaCup · · Score: 2, Funny
    As I commented in a similar, earlier slashdot article ...

    Anyone who'd pirate a Britney Spears album should be put in jail.

    For bad taste.

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  13. Re:Put everyone in jail! by Sheetrock · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why don't we just run razor wire along the coasts and borders, and declare everyone incarcerated?

    I have no doubt that should this come to pass there is a sizeable group here who would firmly believe that we have finally tried the rest of the world, found them guilty, and thrown them in the clink.

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  14. Re:Right Alongside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Posts on slashdot, gets beat up and posts on slasdot about getting beat up. Nice to see your ok Pointdexter.

  15. Re:Right Alongside by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    China has "got to start putting people in jail" to...

    expand the Walmart workforce.

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  16. Speaking of "the bitch" by serutan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cellmate A: robbery, assault with deadly weapon.
    Cellmate B: downloaded Eminem on BitTorrent.

    Figure it out.