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Congress Creates Copyright Cops
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Not satisfied with pitiful potential penalties of $150,000 for infringing upon a $0.99 song, Congress is proposing new copyright cops in the "'PRO IP' Act of 2007, specifically the creation of the Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative (USIPER). They also feel that the authorities need the authority to seize any computers used for infringement and to send copyright cops abroad to help other countries enforce US laws. MPAA boss Dan Glickman praised the bill saying that, 'films left costs foreign and domestic distributors, retailers and others $18 billion a year,' though Ars points out that it allegedly costs the studios only $6 billion."
Oh bugger off. I haven't EVER pirated a movie. If I'm not willing to pay $10 to see it in a theater, or $15 to buy on DVD or $5 to rent it or whatever, I DON'T WATCH IT. EVER. I know, it's a novel concept - either pay what the owner is charging for the product, or don't buy it. Don't presume to know what I do with my time and my money, and don't accuse me of doing something based solely on a smartass remark I've made in passing. What, do you work in the movie industry or something?
Just think about it. You can get a Netflix subscription for 3 movies at a time for $18/mo. So that is about $6 per movie. What does it cost to download and burn a movie? The DVD doesn't cost much but on average it takes about 30min to download (~700Mb @ 2.5Mb/s) and then another 30min to burn. Unless you are making minimum wage $6.30 ought to be way less than an hour's worth of your time.
I'm all for fair use and limited copyrights. I just find it interesting that in most cases it is probably cheaper to buy music/movies than it is to spend the time to download/rip/burn the same thing.
And just a few posts back, the blame was cast at Republicans, the evil dujour
/. mobology, its all up for grabs
And to all you dipshits, proprietary information is property and the only exception is where the author of said intellectual property deems it not to be.
But of course all you whiny pussies are worried about is downloading the "crap" and "shit" (movies, music etc) as you call it, for free.
You should be worried about china and others stealing it since they have no regard for our laws and that ultimately leads to war, as one party deems its interests are being plundered.
Where is the line drawn, how about your home, your car, your identity?
Under the so called
The best part, your all gonna lose your jobs anyway, to some open source penguin fucking noodle eating freeloader who had to steal much of what his modern world is built on.
And guess what, your helping him by allowing it, participating in it, plundering as you go you selfish little pricks