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20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television
Macki writes "As previously mentioned, the Broadcast Flag is back before congress. There are 20 law makers currently supporting the bill. The insane thing about it is the fact that no one supports the bill except a handful of entertainment companies. Probably not even the employees of the entertainment companies. It's bad enough they want to break our televisions, but the way that they are subverting democracy is just astounding. Danny O'Brien at the EFF has done a spectacular job deconstructingthe MPAA/RIAA's efforts to ramrod this through, and more importantly, the motivations of the members of congress who are helping them."
It's a good thing that you posted AC (as I am about to).
This is *Slashdot*! Copyright only applies to the GPL, and not to evil greedy corporations that want to deprive us of our right to be entertained for free as in beer. We're sticking it to "The Man", you see, by ensuring that nobody ever gets paid for any digital form of entertainment. It's the new paradigm, and the dinosaur corporations just don't "get it".
We PAY for Internet access (well, my Mom does), and all digital music and movies are, really, are a sequences of bits, and who wants to pay for ones and zeroes?
Besides, it's all commercialized crap anyway, and none of us would have bought it in the first place.
And they charge too much. We'd probably pay for it if it was cheaper.
You're probably some evil, greedy, Capitalist, aren't you?!?
You should be ashamed of yourself, posting such things here. The pro-copyright infringing, everything free as in beer crowd are going to hunt you down, and rightly so!
Insightful my eye.
Parent displays open, unadulterated bigotry, and you idiots mod it insightful.
I notice that you didn't touch on the abortion issue. Babies are people too.
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In all fairness, Frist is R, he's supposed to be evil. Barbara Boxer is D, and she's supposed to be on our side.
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As opposed to socialist Canada, which has a higher wait and mortality rate than the US?? Fuck off you socialist scum!
They're only on the side of those with access to them. Republicans give access almost exclusively to their corporate bribers. Democrats are forced to pick from among who's left. Which leaves lots of competing interests, including those corporate bribers who can't outbid those bribing the Republicans. So while it's easy to distrust the Republicans (unless you've got a phat corporation), that doesn't make it easy to trust the Democrats.
The false dictomy hides a governing duopoly, and the lesser of two evils is still evil. I say nothing to defend Boxer in that post (though she has taken risks to lead in the face of overwhelming sabotage by Republicans of our country). I merely point out that anyone who cries "fox" in a henhouse, while ignoring the slavering Frist in the Senate, is on the side of the foxes.
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No shit, Sherlock. That's because she's a Senator, not a Representative.
Be assured that she is firmly in the pocket of the Hollywood fat cats on this. In fact, she co-sponsored the bill in the Senate.
Democrats have historically been more servile than Republicans to the entertainment industry moguls, despite their pious declarations of support for the interests of the little guy, and their campaign donations reflect this.
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