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Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA
boarder8925 writes "In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA: 'We're going to aggressively protect our intellectual property,' Obama said in his speech, 'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people [...] It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.'"
ahahahahahahahahahaha. You think basing our economy on intellectual property will improve the trade balance and keep us from insolvency?ahahahahahahahahahaha
oh christ have mercy.
You also fail to spot an obvious joke, while spouting libertarian talking points at the same time. Both are symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome.
He's just yet another dirty Chicago politican, with the added advantage of a huge cohort of religious followers who made him the Obamessiah.
Only liberals are allowed to complain about their leaders, is that right? Remember just a couple of short years ago when the liberal talking point was that dissent was the highest form of patriotism? I do. Grow the fuck up, you fucking douchebag.
In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA:
I'm glad to see that slashdot maintains such a fair and unbiased approach to reporting. This goes well with the editorial opinion they passed on to us as news on Tuesday. Sure, I know that slashdot is not an actual news agency and has no reporters of its own, but they could at least pretend to not be promoting an agenda when choosing which articles to link to from the front page.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Dissent IS a form of patriotism. But misinformed fear-mongering, blatantly FUD-spreading speculation, and purposeful yet meaningless obstruction is NOT.
As an Obama supporter, how can you be surprised by this? It fits his views and policies perfectly.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
I guess because idiots like you exist that cannot understand how anyone could possibly disagree with your arrogance, and love of big government.
Are you done with the insults and ready to actually discuss things now, or is all you can do is hand out insults because that's your only argument to what I actually said.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
That is just about what one would expect from Barrak Bin'Laden Obama
What the F*** is Kharma i do got teeth i don't got no kharma
I fail to see how Democrats and Republicans differ on the matter. Both support large government at the expense of your rights.
The Democrats are slightly less hypocritical about it.
That's true. But the Republicans will bomb small countries while doing so.
Nah, you've got it wrong. Would you also say that Bruce Springsteen has a "monopoly" over sales of his concert tickets; monopolies are bad, therefore, everyone should be allowed to create and sell tickets to his concerts? Of course not. IP covers a whole lot of things - it includes trademarks (i.e. the right to exclusive use of a name). Do you think that Honda's "monopoly" over the name "Honda" constitutes some sort of unfair monopoly which degrades the economy? No. Do you think that open-source software has a right to put any restrictions on how people use their software (like whether or not to release the code, or sell it, or rename it)? Without the concept and enforcement of "intellectual property", then everyone should be allowed to to anything with it. What about a company coming along and taking a musician's songs or author's writing, packaging them up in a CD or book and selling them in stores? Without IP, that's perfectly okay. The fact of the matter is that without IP, it's pretty darn hard for creators to get paid for their work because it's all 100% public domain without IP laws. This idea about repealing copyright for a competitive marketplace is bizarrely out of touch with real-world economics, though I can certainly understand why it appeals to the freeloaders on the internet (who have much to gain by taking everything they can grab, but nothing to lose because they produce nothing for anyone to take). I really can't understand why Slashdot, of all places, seems to be so out of touch with economics in the real world.
Senator McCain, there's no reason to start name-calling.
You are welcome on my lawn.