If she went to a record store, with a gun, and stole 150 CDs she would be prosecuted for armed robbery and sentenced to at least ten years in Prison. Even without a gun, she would be convicted of a felony. The record labels want to believe that her downloading the music is the same thing as going to a record store and stealing the music.
If I were a enterprising states attorney general, or US attorney, I would start going after file sharers with criminal charges. I would demand that the record companies turn over and report any instance of downloading before they attempted any civil action.
If we saw a lot of otherwise decent people going to jail for the rest of their lives because they downloaded some music, people would start to care about copyright reform.
Most are either ignorant of the relationship between their purchases and the damages that the production of those goods cause, or they are apathetic because they feel they are powerless to do anything about it.
The notion of Intellectual property, backed with military force, is the mechanism by which the elite is preserving its place in the world. America has outsourced all industry, mostly to China and India, and has no way to generate income except through revenue from Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights. The greatest leverage the recording/movie industries have is they are the only ones bringing in wealth from outside. The only other thing we export is debt. Change will not come from within the United States because by the time the middle class starts to care, they will be crushed.
A funny thing is, that if when our "Justice" system decides to pursue criminal actions against down loaders, It will fill up the prisons more effectively than the war on drugs did.
Why hasn't some state\country decided to just go ahead and prosecute all down-loaders. It would be a great gesture to the IP Industries, and you might get Movie\Recording Studios, and Software companies to re-locate to your state\country.
You should add a step on merging with big content (MPAA, RIAA) companies and using their internet control to extract licensing fees for content. Think Comcast-NBC for example.
You will be only allowed to view Government Approved(tm) websites after paying all appropriate Intellectual Property Fees to the almighty content providers. NOTE: Comcast by purchasing NBC, is a content provider as well as a deliverer. Expect more vertical monopolies such as this.
Modern Fundamentalist Christianity was born in the south after the civil war. The biggest similarity with it's more progressive counterpart in the North was its support of prohibition. The movement had a strong following with the southerners who were alive during the Civil War. The movement was dormant from the Great Depression until the start of the Civil Rights Movement. The Stonewall riots in New York and Roe V. Wade set a lot of alarms off with the elite who realized that white people were no longer reproducing at a sustainable rate, and would soon no longer be the majority in America.
The Fundamentalist movement is so concerned with the feminist and gay rights movements because Europeans (particularly Northern Europeans like English and Dutch) have a higher percentage of homosexuals than other races, and have fewer children per family. White fundamentalist christans are by and large unable to convert African Americans and Hispanics.
Churches grow through birth, conversion and conquest.
NYCL just doesn't understand how we now live in a fascist state and have been for nearly 10 years. Intellectual Property is the sacred cow of the elite, and they will use the police/military to protect it. It is the only asset that the wealthy have left to cash out.
He should be organizing boycotts and other protests, and exposing the politicans and businessmen responsible for the Intellectual property mess we have.
A criminal prosecution of a downloader would be a PR coup as well.
he can still disregard it and rule in favor of the RIAA.
And he most likely will. He was either appointed by the pro-corporate Bush(Either one) or the Socially Liberal Capitalist Pig Clinton (Friend of Sonny Bono).
The best thing that could happen at this point would be an overzealous criminal prosecution. If someone was sent to Jail for downloading music to a 10x longer sentence than simply going to a record store and shoplifting the music people might (just might) take notice.
That high cost would be a one-time thing... When a utility builds a multi-billion dollar coal plant in the US, the cost is not passed down directly but over time.
The majority of sheep that vote in the people we have in our government will encourage this stuff to go on until they see innocent people suffer excessively (die, spend a long time in prison for downloading a song) Some enterprising prosecutor needs to start going after downloaders and try to put in as many in jail as possible.
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Since they work for the CATO Institute, they would be on the side of the corps saying Piracy is BULL#@)(&!
actually life is a zero sum game
If she went to a record store, with a gun, and stole 150 CDs she would be prosecuted for armed robbery and sentenced to at least ten years in Prison. Even without a gun, she would be convicted of a felony. The record labels want to believe that her downloading the music is the same thing as going to a record store and stealing the music.
If I were a enterprising states attorney general, or US attorney, I would start going after file sharers with criminal charges. I would demand that the record companies turn over and report any instance of downloading before they attempted any civil action.
If we saw a lot of otherwise decent people going to jail for the rest of their lives because they downloaded some music, people would start to care about copyright reform.
Most are either ignorant of the relationship between their purchases and the damages that the production of those goods cause, or they are apathetic because they feel they are powerless to do anything about it.
The only real difference between a terrorist and a revolutionary is the cause they represent.
The notion of Intellectual property, backed with military force, is the mechanism by which the elite is preserving its place in the world. America has outsourced all industry, mostly to China and India, and has no way to generate income except through revenue from Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights. The greatest leverage the recording/movie industries have is they are the only ones bringing in wealth from outside. The only other thing we export is debt. Change will not come from within the United States because by the time the middle class starts to care, they will be crushed.
A funny thing is, that if when our "Justice" system decides to pursue criminal actions against down loaders, It will fill up the prisons more effectively than the war on drugs did.
In midichlorians? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_(Star_Wars)
Why hasn't some state\country decided to just go ahead and prosecute all down-loaders. It would be a great gesture to the IP Industries, and you might get Movie\Recording Studios, and Software companies to re-locate to your state\country.
Any responsible environmental policy includes a plan for reducing the world population over time.
Availability of contraception
Improve life expectancy
Improve rights for Women
You should add a step on merging with big content (MPAA, RIAA) companies and using their internet control to extract licensing fees for content. Think Comcast-NBC for example.
You will be only allowed to view Government Approved(tm) websites after paying all appropriate Intellectual Property Fees to the almighty content providers. NOTE: Comcast by purchasing NBC, is a content provider as well as a deliverer. Expect more vertical monopolies such as this.
We should push uniform "Perfect" enforcement of patents. Either "they" want society to treat intellectual property as "real" property or not.
The parent post is more right than wrong ... we don't export as much manufactured goods as we used to. That, and our increasing consumption of foreign natural resources (mainly oil) has caused increasing trade deficits. The royalties we can get from IP , along with a reduction in consumption, can restore our economic balance.
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.txt
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/data/index.html
Modern Fundamentalist Christianity was born in the south after the civil war. The biggest similarity with it's more progressive counterpart in the North was its support of prohibition. The movement had a strong following with the southerners who were alive during the Civil War. The movement was dormant from the Great Depression until the start of the Civil Rights Movement. The Stonewall riots in New York and Roe V. Wade set a lot of alarms off with the elite who realized that white people were no longer reproducing at a sustainable rate, and would soon no longer be the majority in America. The Fundamentalist movement is so concerned with the feminist and gay rights movements because Europeans (particularly Northern Europeans like English and Dutch) have a higher percentage of homosexuals than other races, and have fewer children per family. White fundamentalist christans are by and large unable to convert African Americans and Hispanics. Churches grow through birth, conversion and conquest.
NYCL just doesn't understand how we now live in a fascist state and have been for nearly 10 years. Intellectual Property is the sacred cow of the elite, and they will use the police/military to protect it. It is the only asset that the wealthy have left to cash out.
He should be organizing boycotts and other protests, and exposing the politicans and businessmen responsible for the Intellectual property mess we have. A criminal prosecution of a downloader would be a PR coup as well.
Why is he not being criminally prosecuted as well? What would be the criminal penalties if he were?
A martyr is needed
he can still disregard it and rule in favor of the RIAA.
And he most likely will. He was either appointed by the pro-corporate Bush(Either one) or the Socially Liberal Capitalist Pig Clinton (Friend of Sonny Bono). The best thing that could happen at this point would be an overzealous criminal prosecution. If someone was sent to Jail for downloading music to a 10x longer sentence than simply going to a record store and shoplifting the music people might (just might) take notice.
but human beings are at least capable of moral and ethical behavior (also capable of compassion and empathy). Corporations have no emotion or soul.
This is why Corporations should NOT have the same rights as people,
And this behavior will get worse as the amount of total wealth in the economy begins to shrink.
That high cost would be a one-time thing ... When a utility builds a multi-billion dollar coal plant in the US, the cost is not passed down directly but over time.
The majority of sheep that vote in the people we have in our government will encourage this stuff to go on until they see innocent people suffer excessively (die, spend a long time in prison for downloading a song) Some enterprising prosecutor needs to start going after downloaders and try to put in as many in jail as possible.