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White House Holding Piracy Summit
DesScorp writes in to let us know about a White House piracy summit, which is going on this afternoon. Judging by the press accounts, the sort of intellectual property criminals they are interested in are large-scale DVD bootleggers, not individual downloaders. "Hollywood once again demonstrates its close ties to Washington DC, regardless of who is in power, with a White House summit on piracy to be attended by the top executives in Hollywood, as well as the music industry. Vice President Joe Biden will be leading the summit to discuss organized cooperation between the federal government and the entertainment industry on all matters of piracy. Also at the summit will be the Obama Administration's new Copyright Czar, Victoria Espinal. The summit comes after Congress has earmarked $30 million dollars of taxpayer funds for anti-piracy efforts." According to one attendee's tweet, the press was kicked out of the meeting around 20:45 GMT.
...they were going to discuss about the problem with "real" piracy.
If anything, this should encourage the pirates operating in the Arabian sea near Somalia: unless they start bootlegging songs and movies, they should be relatively save and Uncle Sam will not go after them.
At least not in a big, coordinated way.
In essence, they, the ship-wrecking, people-killing pirates are a mere nuisance, while copyright-violating pirates mean the end of civilization is near.
Or maybe it's just another episode of "Politicians, lobbyist and the low-hanging fruit - how I learned to ignore the big problems while creating and appearing to solve small and irrelevant ones myself".
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
Dem: Less war, Less regulating morality, Less personal choice and liberty, more bending over backwards for Big Media.
Repub: More war, More regulating morality, More personal choice and liberty, less bending over backwards for Big Media.
Added one that you forgot.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
How about the liberty to keep and bear arms? How about the personal choice to go without health insurance if I deem that it to be in my best interest?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
And, what exactly do you have against the nose picking, drooling, playing with his own feces insane sumbitch who recently vacated the White House? The one who made all the idiot voters believe that he was a Texan, but was actually an eastern pansy assed cheerleader in college? The batshit sumbitch who invaded Iraq, in response to an attack by a man known to be in Afghanistan?
I've not met any Libertarians who drool as much as that freaking Republican.
We should have made Robert Heinlein our President. He would have changed things - among other things, non-veterans wouldn't be allowed to vote. Starship Troopers!! Yeah!!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
"Sorry but I'm just not willing to vote for someone who isn't smarter than I am."
That makes it tough on anyone smarter than a rock.....
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br