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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Re:I Guess The Children Did Work

[leereyno]

Stalin was the ruler of the USSR, the United Soviet SOCALIST Republics.

Hitler was the leader of the National SOCIALIST party in Germany.

Both men may have been many things (murderous thugs for example) in addition to being socialists, but that doesn't change the fact that they were socialists.

Lee

Re:I Guess The Children Did Work

[Smallpond]

"How many bills had Bush vetoed?"

You have to be able to read them to veto them.

Re:The Corporatism Here....

[Radish03]

Sadly, I don't even think that revolution will work, since there are too few people concerned with Freedom and Liberty, but instead concerned with "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Survivor".

I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. It seems to me that as the current administration builds this fascist state, it passes more and more laws to make the Entertainment Industry larger, more profitable, and more powerful, which serves an important purpose for such a state: keeping the masses placated. When the government passes laws which blatantly favor the media companies, the message that I, the citizen, get from the government is "Go watch TV."

Re:I Guess The Children Did Work

[freedom_india]

You are a sick fuck to think Hitler is a good guy. May you never reproduce.