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LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA

Posted by timothy on from the totally-clutchable-strawman dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that the RIAA is using the latest activities of hacktivists to bolster its claim that America needs the PROTECT IP Act, the act that would place a layer of censorship on the internet in the U.S."

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  1. al qaeda by Titan1080 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    please select the RIAA HQ as your next target.

  2. Stupid works by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So the logic here is the same as it has been for every rights-compromising measure put forth so far this century; "[name of enemy] is going to cause massive amounts of economic/physical/spiritual damage unless [measure] is undertaken immediately. [measure] will of course restrict your rights, but it's all in the name of protecting something greater than you." Of course, that something invariably reduces to somebody else's profit, which is likely already happening at your expense, so why change the status quo now.

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  3. Re:False Flag Reasoning. by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was actually wondering why they didn't use Fukushima as an excuse to ask for some kind of law, but perhaps they got a little more wary now that a few judges noticed that their excuses aren't even close to resembling sanity.

    But this is at least somehow, in some way, .... oh hell, it's on the internet, what else needs to match?

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  4. Re:False Flag Reasoning. by shentino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The AA stocks being shorted just before 9/11 doesn't deserve an explanation nearly as much as the fact that the SEC and FBI did not investigate it.

  5. Why Protect IP matters by symbolset · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Protect IP matters because Detriot is an industrial wasteland. Intellectual Property is becoming more and more of the product we have to export. Because of this we escalate its importance to the point where at some future point we must defend our intellectual property using men with guns on foreign soil, defending our right to charge what we will for the broadcast rights to Justin Bieber's latest album on the peoples of India and China - who don't want to hear that crap anyway.

    The whole thing is sick. Eventually the world is going to call us to the carpet on that and make us make useful stuff for the value we get. And then what have we got?

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