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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'."

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  1. Re:I Guess The Children Did Work by schnits0r · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:I Guess The Children Did Work by notany · · Score: 5, Informative
    Hitlers party was National Socialist Party by name. Hitler was fasist all right. By modern definition fascism is not the arian thing only. It is method to get into power:
    Paxtons definition of fascism: "... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." -- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
    Buy using above definition, fasicsm is again threathenig us with religious face on.

    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

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