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DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar

sconeu writes "Seems as if the DOJ is not particularly happy about HR 4729, the 'Copyright Czar' bill. The Deputy AG told Congress that the current structure works quite effectively. 'Panel members also expressed concern over Section 104 of the bill, which would allow a copyright owner to collect statutory damages for each copyrighted work that is stolen. Detractors fear that this provision could result in protracted lawsuits ... Section 104, however, would penalize criminals on a per-song basis, so if someone pirated a motion picture soundtrack that had songs from 12 different artists, the pirate would be charged with 12 separate offenses and be subject to exorbitant fees.'"

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  1. SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    DOJ open to idea of a goatse czar

  2. GOD doesn't like idea of yOUR world controlled.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    by a handful of greed/fear/ego based murderous corepirate nazi felons.

    in the end, the creators will prevail, as it has always been. the of gaining yOUR release from the hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in.

    some memories we'll dream of forgetting;

    for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it?

    we're intending for the nazis to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather'.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

    meanwhile, the life0cidal philistines continues on their path of death, debt, & disruption for most of US;

    gov. bush denies health care for the little ones

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/bush.veto/index.html

    whilst demanding/extorting billions to paint more targets on the bigger kids

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/12/bush.war.funding/index.html

    all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven

    whilst (yOUR elected) president al gore (deciding not to wait for the much anticipated 'lonesome al answers yOUR questions' interview here on /.) continues to attempt to shed some light on yOUR foibles;

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3046116.ece

    still making his views known worldwide, whilst many of US keep yOUR heads firmly lodged up yOUR infactdead.asp(s) hoping (against overwhelming information to the contrary) that the party LIEn scriptdead pr ?firm? fairytail hypenosys scenario will never end.

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available after the big flash occurs.

    'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

    whois it that said that trolls cannot evolve?

  3. Re:It this passes... by KillerCow · · Score: 1, Troll

    politicians wanting to use the federal government resources to help primarily large businesses


    Welcome to fascist America.
  4. what you said was true by circletimessquare · · Score: 1, Troll

    except for the hardcore highly addicting and highly inebriating (so that excludes nicotine) drugs like heorin and the opiates, methamphetamine, and cocaine

    marijuana should be legal, it's not worse than alcohol. lsd and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) should be legal: not addicting. of course you can't take that and drive

    but the highly addicting and highly addicting trinity of meth, crack, and the opiates, especially, must forever be fought in drug war

    simply because although all of the lessons about prohibition applied to these drugs as well, the effects of legalization of virally addictive substances is simply worse than prohibition

    see the diagram: illegality for the red, legality for everything else. the substances in the red have effects which are worse than all of the prohibition effects you can list

    the effects of easy viral addiction and the permanent waste that lays to lives (and freedoms: a drug addict is not free) means these substances must be permanently verboten, forever. in the name of freedom: freedom from the slavery of addiction

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  5. Re:All Pau... by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 0, Troll

    Movie, music, and TV executives, I just want you to know that the parent poster doesn't speak for everyone. Please don't stop making crappy music, tv, and movies just because of the original poster. Me and a lot of my friends love your crap, no matter what you put out. So keep putting it out in droves, because the thought of us reading a book or experiencing nature frightens and revolts us.

    Signed,
    The Public

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    Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
  6. you should observe more, pontificate less by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    ever hear of hillbilly heroin? it's oxycodone. prescription oxycodone. no mafia, no illegality

    and yet there is still addiction, lives being ruined, crime in the seconday market, etc.

    why?

    because of addiction. you need to learn to appreciate what that concept does to your point of view on the opiates

    all of the lessons of prohibition are eclipsed in negative value by the sheer extreme addictiveness of the opiates, and outweighs the lessons of prohibition in relation to the opiates

    and you have the audacity to talk about free men, when confronted with what opiate addiction does to free men. as in: slavery, zombiehood. talk about blindness

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it