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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'."
Fucking socialist bastards.
This has nothing to do with socialism. Socialism includes state housing, healthcare, and welfare. What you are thinking of is right wing authoritarianism, also known as facism. Please use proper terminology when trying to state a flame war over political ideology.
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The comment that the war on terror is socialist is wrong. Its fashist thinking that wants to take away our civil rights with the bush & co. constant thinking of new ways to take away our rights and bring in new laws that get modify the copyright to copynot etc, all given the okay by Disney & co. These entities don't like left wing ideals like it's not right for companies to take all your rights away and how companies don't like p2p stuff because it could affect their massive proffits and how they want to squash p2p and substitute DRM technology such as the new Intel/microsoft/hollywood DRM enabled motherboards.
Stalin was a communist
Hitler was a fascist
Geez those those failed history are doomed to relive it. Stalin centralized everything, and kept it for himself. Socialists don't limit it to one person. Tony blair can be kicked out of office.
Hitler wanted everybody but blond haired, blue eyed people dragged out into the street and shot. he considered the USA's treatment of native indians a good move, just without enough force.
I am driving to Canada see you at the end of the world Bash. Why Canada nobody every thinks to invade Canada.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Joe Stalin was dictator and he got his education in Tiflis Theological Seminary. Stalin used communist party to get into power and then killed all hard line commie competitors like Leon Trotsky during Great Purge. After that the proper name of his rule was Stalinism
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Call it "liberation" all you want, you are still violating intellectual property. Are IP laws perfect? No. But they do have a legitimate reason to exist.
Well, call it property all you want, but it's still has nothing to do with property rights and everthing to do with controll. Are copy monopoly laws perfect, no they're like the old soviet era whose time has passed.
Everybody in the world is not obligated to distribute their work for free to anyone who wants it. Sorry.
Ahem. No one ever said they were obligated to distribute copys of their creations for free. No just obligated to GTF outta the way while everyone else does it. :)
(gpl rant deleted)
PS: please quote the part of the GPL that says you can't profit from it.
I prove my case. Among The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party were:
- 11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
- 13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
- 14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
- 15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
- 18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
When Hitler had his power he abolished unemployment in half year. Is that socialist enough.Dyslexics have more fnu.
Communism and fascism are the same thing?
Idiot.
(And an NRA sig. Loser.)
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Al Capone was convicted for Tax Evasion laws. That doesn't seem to far from a real possiblilty.
Fascistic socialism is just communism.
Have you even read Marx? Communism is an economic system in which the people themselves collectively own the means of production; communism is *NOT* the strict authoritarian regimes you've come to know and hate. Fascistic socialism is Fascism. Communal ownership of factories and fields is Communism. I have no-the-fuck idea where you pulled *your* definition of communism from, but it sure wasn't from Marx, nor any valid political scientist.
Did anyone RTFA? Oh wait... this is Slashdot, nevermind. The "copyright violations" in question involve the fashion industry, ya know... making counterfeit watches, purses, etc. They aren't referring to P2P, filesharing, warez or anything of that sort.
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Socialism is a form of economic production and distribution of wealth. It is not a form of government. Hitler was a totalitarian ruler. His economic policy may have had socialist retoric but what it accomplished was the aggrigation of wealth by the select few, hardly socialist in practice.
Also, don't be an idiot and say Nazi's were socialist because they called themselves socialist. Do you beleive everything the Nazi's tell you?
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not sure whether it's firefox or the html, but here's the actual link to the archived video of the testimony
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http://hsgac.senate.gov/audio_video/052505video.r
Try "bush vader" "darth w bush" or anything similar in google.
You're not the only one.
Another interresting line:
"So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause"
"Nazi" stands for "Nationalsozialismus" in German: IE, "National Socialist".
Yeah. So? Do you think the Democrats and Republicans are arguing over whether we should have direct or representative government? National Socialism was a name not a description. Hitler wasn't a socialist by any reasonable definition.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
e.g. Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
chapter 2:
Discussing points 11,12,13,14,16,18
"These demands had been put in at the insistence of Drexler and Feder who apparently really believed in the "socialism" of National Socialism. They were ideas Hitler was to find embarrassing when the big industrialists and landlords began to pour money into the party coffers and of course nothing was ever done about them".
You may be unaware that Hitler was well known for lying to anyone and everyone in order to get into power.
Looks like America always needs an enemy
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
--James Madison
The fire-bombing of Dresden.
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