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Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband
slyjackhammer writes "France is purporting to take a hard line on copyrighted media (movies and music). According to timesonline.co.uk, a new measure approved yesterday by the French Cabinet would kill the Internet connection to those caught downloading illegally. 'There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone," President Sarkozy told his Cabinet yesterday as it endorsed the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme that from next January will hit illegal downloaders where it hurts. Under a cross-industry agreement, internet service providers (ISPs) must cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders.' Google and video site Dailymotion have refused to sign up as consenting participants, and the state data protection agency, consumer and civil liberties groups and the European Parliament are all kicking against the goad as well. France may be pioneer in this kind of legislation, but they sure have their work cut out for them."
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If democracy actually worked, copying software, audio, video and other things would be 100% legal. Because lets be honest here, more than half of all people on the world are currently thieves (me included).
And it should be legal. Because if product/album/movie is actually GOOD, people will pay premium to support the author and/or receive support from author (in case of software). Crappy products will die, which is good.
search news.google.com for marijuana:
99% of it is about law enforcement TAKING peoples land because of grows. People say, Legalize marijuana and the state/country will make money from it but isnt more money made FOR government by busting growers and sellers and taking all of their property, cars, drugs, etc.? Read history and discover how a lot of law enforcement RESELL the dope and the history of CIA involvement in drugs. Private prisons are in business to get repeat customers.
Non-violent pot smokers are sent to prison to be anally raped and have diseased gangland semen injected into their rectum and may face a life ending disease just because they wanted to smoke a weed. Datura, Foxglove, and other plants which you could smoke could kill you quickly but they are legal, isnt that fun? Marijuana is illegal today because governments profit from it being illegal. Just like with alcohol prohibition. See LEAPs website, Law Enfocement Against Prohibition for some good information, and MPPs website. It doesnt matter whether people want to smoke pot for recreation or as medicine, it should be legal and they should have the right.
It is illegal now only in places where the people are too scared to stand up together and shout, NO MORE! so they grow in closets and pass their money to people on the street who may be buying who knows what with the money they receive. Anyone who condemns a marijuana user is either a member of law enforcement who profits from it being illegal, ignorant, or both. There are plenty of pretenders on-line who are members of law enforcement or collaborators/informants who participate in such discussions as this and try to spread F.U.D., dont listen to them. Marijuana can and will be legal when the people stand together and say, NO MORE! Big Pharma and their liver rotting pain killers and tons of meds with side effects are the real drug dealers, and guess which agency protects them? You guessed it, the same agency which raids marijuana growers and clinics.
Its all about money in the land of the free, where sharing and community is evil, and stepping on the back of your fellow man to make a buck is the law of the land.