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Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA

Posted by timothy on from the four-letter-acronyms dept.

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.'"

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  1. We should all copyright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... our jobs!

    1. Re:We should all copyright... by mickwd · · Score: 5, Funny

      .....and speeches.

      What he wanted to say was: "Our single greatest asset is the innovation of the American people.....innovation and ingenuity.....ingenuity and innovation. Our TWO greatest assets are the innovation and the ingenuity of the American people.....and their creativity.....our THREE greatest assets are the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people.....and an almost fanatical devotion to Hollywood and the RIAA.....our FOUR.....NO.....AMONGST our assets are such elements as innovation, ingenuity and creativity.....I'll come in again...

      NOBODY expects the ACTA imposition.

    2. Re:We should all copyright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Thats fucking idiotic, next were going to need open source methods for running our own meetings....

  2. It could have been worse... by Third+Position · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...at least he's not a Republican!

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  3. Future wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're going to aggressively protect our intellectual property,

    I can't wait until the US launches a pre-emptive military strike against <insert media vilified nation here> for a grave and gathering threat of...copyright infringement!

  4. Re:Let's Do Something by Jay+L · · Score: 1, Funny

    But what if we don't have any senators? For instance, I live in Massachusetts.

  5. Re:First rebellion by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's time for armed rebellion.

    You mean, we should start to stock ARM netbooks?

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  6. Re:Same song by justsomecomputerguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step away from the song lyrics. Or there will be... trouble.

  7. Re:Wild West Internet will be gone by machine321 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I find the Citation Needed Police annoying at times

    [Citation Needed]

  8. Re:Open letter to the United States Government by sonicmerlin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish there was a tl;dr mod. Because holy mother of cow milk this was too long.

  9. Re:Slashdot Official Translation by Nerdfest · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're defying prophesy. It has been said that in the future “There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery”

  10. Re:First rebellion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think there was a reclassification of food assembly as manufacturing. The 14 year old behind the counter at Mcdonalds is now a manufacturing power house.