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Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged
xbsd writes "John Stedman, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in charge of IP violations, testified in front of the Senate Homeland Security committee that some associates of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah may be involved in copyright violations. According to CNET's Declean McCullagh: 'Even though Stedman's evidence is circumstantial, his testimony comes as Congress is expected to consider new copyright legislation this year. An invocation of terrorism, the trump card of modern American politics, could ease the passage of the next major expansion of copyright powers'."
I say each to their own, but what does that have to do with the topic?
Socialists *love* to control as much of people's lives as possible using State power.
This is just one more example.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I guess according to you holland is ultra-right then?
Socialism is not the privileged domain of the right.
Anyone who takes my money to pay for programs that would be better performed by charities (i.e., welfare) is also a socialist, despite their left-leaning politics.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
why was this modded interesting?
How about they legalise the use of GPL source in proprietary software? After all, if EVERYBODY could do that, it wouldn't be just the Bad People.
Oh! How about making it legal for people to kill anyone whose fashion sense they don't agree with?
Because slippery-slope arguments make just as much sense as circular reasoning...
NB: YMMV. IANAL. Take the above with a grain of salt.
Democracy has NOTHING to do with freedom.
It means a bunch of people with no power get to "elect" people with power and then submit to their orders.
Sweden = socialism + democracy is no different than the US = capitalism (actually STATE capitalism) + democracy. Except that Sweden is too weak to attack the rest of the world in the name of "democracy".
There aren't two people on this board who know what freedom is. And I'm the one. The rest of you are punks who just BOHICA whenever someone tells you to and then spend the rest of your post justifying it to yourself.
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