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Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad.
Jamie found a Boing Boing story that will probably get your blood to at least a simmer. It says "The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to 'national security' concerns, has leaked. It's bad." You can read the original leaked document or the summary. If passed, the internet will never be the same. Thank goodness it's hidden from public scrutiny for National Security.
The internet will never be the same...
You mean you no longer can download your copy of Photoshop from wares.
For the most part it is an attempt to curve software piracy globally. And it will basicly keep the internet running as it should just curve some deviant behavior.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I think it is really funny that you separate Hollywood from big business. Hollywood/media companies in general are big business. I will admit that I am extremely disappointed in this. I didn't vote for Obama but I kept telling people to give him a chance. Well using national security as a reason to keep a copyright treaty secerate is just wrong. I really don't have a problem with going after file sharers since I think pirateing is wrong. What I will not be willing to over look is the destruction of due process.
Obama I am willing to give Obama a bit of pass on some national security policies. I would like to think that he is wise enough that when he got into office and found the world wasn't what he thought it was that he adapted. BTW I voted for McCain. I honestly think he was the better candidate picking Palin was stupid and I was hopping he would have picked Rudy for the VP but that is history.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
*cough* yes, I voted Ron Paul *cough*
...and these are the same people / same administration / same federal gov't that we are about to give control over our health care issues and how they (we) are treated.
Does not compute.
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
of course you arent getting the facts. this is slashpirate, where copyright infringement is a GODAMMNED RIGHT!
Here are the facts:
1) it costs a fortune to make entertainment products of the quality people demand
2) The people making that content deserve to be paid
3) people who take that content without paying are freeloaders leeching off the backs of everyone else
4) pirates are in total heads-in-the-0sand denial about this.
5) pirates are total drama queens who compare having bit-torrent throttled to Nazi Germany.
You will get zero unbiased reporting on this topic. Geeks love to find a way to justify theft, however badly they do it.
How's that "hope and change" working out for you?
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Wow, you're a little nuts aren't you. I've said not what is, but what I'd want to be. I don't want my friends to take my songs and mix them. I'm fully aware that it's legal today. I don't want it to be.
And when say "corporate owner" I don't mean that I've filed some government form. I mean I pay that government crap-loads of money on a very frequent basis. I mean I employ that government's citizens and pay not only for their families but their taxes as well. I mean I cover them medically too. I feed them. I transport them. I re-assure them. And I'm forced to continue to do so for term.
I don't want you to take my product for your own fun. Would you let me take your dog for my own fun? Not to sell. Just to play with.