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Copyright Alert System To Launch Monday
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the Daily Dot:
"Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl. A source with direct knowledge of the Copyright Alert System [said] the five participating Internet service providers will start the controversial program Monday. The ISPs — industry giants AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon — will launch their versions of the CAS on different days throughout the week. Comcast is expected to be the first, on Monday."
Of course, there are many ways around the Copyright Alert System, so it probably won't be terribly effective.
It's the oldest trick in the book
Threaten somebody with rape and torture long enough, and a "mere" weekly beating will seem "pretty moderate" and many complete retards will even act like it's a "good" thing.
And for that, the deserve the beating. Stupidity is supposed to hurt.
But: "Educational" programs? You mean brainwashing with lies!
I would say this reminds me of "A Clockwork Orange". But it is much, much worse.
In the movie, there's at least a valid reason: You get a brainwashing if you harm others.
But here, it is: You get a brainwashing, if you don't let the Content Mafia harm you!
Until the whole population believes in the lie of imaginary property, without questioning or checking.
Every. Single. One. Of the Content Mafia MUST go to pound-me-in-the-ass prison RIGHT NOW. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 quadrillion dollar.