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Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy
Da Massive writes "Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it's complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, 'the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright by using BitTorrent file sharing technology.'"
>>>And what if the criminal also had been armed? What if the situation was escalated?
He'd be dead. Which is preferable to having either me or my girlfriend dead (as often happens to unarmed citizens). To quote the founders of the Democrat and Federalist Party, respectively:
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves." - Thomas Jefferson. - "Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense." - John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787-88
I will Not walk around like defenseless sheep waiting for the wolves/thieves to attack me. This sheep is going to be armed and when attacked, shoot the wolf dead. The Right to Self-Defense (a defense of the Right to Life) is one of our most-important rights.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
I weigh 110 pounds. You are asking the impossible.
Easier to just pull a trigger.
Besides what difference does it make if this hypothetical murderer dies now, today, or a few years from now from old age? He's still dead. It's still the same end result.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
Which is why I'm not moving to the European Union any time soon. Rights belong to the People. They are an innate property (so argued the Greeks 2500 years ago, and the Scots 400 years ago) and can not be taken-away by government.
Government only exists because the People allow it to exist, and the People can disband the government any time they feel like it. My Right to Life, right to free speech, et cetera comes from within; it is not something the Swedish government can take away and if it tries, it should be disbanded & replaced with a new government.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
Yeah well.... I don't care.
I have a Right to Life and a right to protect it from thieves/murderers. Even if I have to carry a gun illegally, I will continue to do so. I will NOT walk around like a defenseless sheep waiting to be attacked by the wolves. I will NOT be a photo on the front page about how police found me dead.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
So now it should be legal to kill people because it's easy? What a wonderful world we would live in if you got your way.
The difference is by hurting him more then necessary you're making yourself guilty of assault and by killing him you're making yourself guilty of manslaughter.
...who says you have a creator-given right to life?
"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." -Peak Performance
You might wish to avoid advertizing this fact, because doing so increases the chances that any wolf attacking you will simply shoot you dead from hiding.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
No, it should be legal to kill people because it's often the only practical way to stop an aggressor. Sure, I could knock someone down or restrain them, but I'm 200 lbs, and it's hard to do (try it some time). If the other guy has a knife or a gun, I'm going to shoot him.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"