In 10 years we will have death squads from RIAA/MPAA/BSA patroling through our streets, performing house raids at will and burning people who possess open source software or unprotected audi files and movies at the stake. History is repetitive - prepare for the witchhunt to come to your village soon!
For my part I stopped buying CDs when the RIAA started suing their customers and also stopped buying DVDs when the MPAA followed their lead.
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, would still be IMMORAL.
And don't forget to let the artists know that you would really like to buy their music but don't want to support an industry that rather sues their customers. At least under german law this could turn the tables as it gives the artists the right to cancel their contracts.
We simply cannot help these artists as long as they happily live as slaves to the music industry. For my part I decided it would be best to send them letters letting them know that you would really like to buy their music but must refuse to support an industry that rather sues their customers. At least under german law this could turn the tables as it gives the artists the legal right to cancel their contract for 'important reasons'.
Since the RIAA started suing their customers I stopped buying their products, the same is now true for the MPAA. Cheaper CDs and DVDs would not change this.
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL.
Right now we have copy preventions systems, servere penalties for attempting to circumvent them and the government is NOT working on a solution for this problem.
I guess the "VG Wort" is raising their funds in order to catch up with the legal action already going on with music and movies. Pay the tax so we can sue you for what you have already paid the tax for.
IPv4 was intended and assigned for networking big supercomputers, now every single PC got an IP address and every cellphone is going to need one. IPv6 is intended to solve this problem but from all the discussion going on it seems that they have not yet considered the future need of space colonies.
That's nonsense, we have already run out of IP adresses, that's why we get feature crippled 'name based virtual hosts', 'dynamic IP addresses', 'private networks with NAT',...
The intellectual property mafia is bullying our legislators to force us into anonymizing sharing platforms. If some people abuse these platform for child pornography or terrorism intelligence I call this collateral damage and blame the legislator that forced us to use this technology in the first place.
just use one of the privacy enhanced file sharing applications (GNUNet, Freenet, ANTS2P, MUTE, I2P) and leave these dinosaurs alone in their death struggle. I bet the devil has already reserved a nice corner in hell for the intellectual property mafia.
Don't worry, all my story submissions have been rejected for no reason as well, posting them in the journal sounds like a good idea, maybe slashdot will be forced to see the light when some people's journals get a whole lot more interesting than the start page.
These dinosaurs are doomed to die, no matter what they do. A meteor called 'internet' hit our planet and the artists they used to suck out just do not need them anymore.
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In 10 years we will have death squads from RIAA/MPAA/BSA patroling through our streets, performing house raids at will and burning people who possess open source software or unprotected audi files and movies at the stake. History is repetitive - prepare for the witchhunt to come to your village soon!
For my part I stopped buying CDs when the RIAA started suing their customers and also stopped buying DVDs when the MPAA followed their lead.
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, would still be IMMORAL.
And don't forget to let the artists know that you would really like to buy their music but don't want to support an industry that rather sues their customers. At least under german law this could turn the tables as it gives the artists the right to cancel their contracts.
Why again did they give up MIR?
is still on schedule for Y2k, it is only that the monks lost some years in counting.
So maybe we should send them Michael Moore and his witch hunting puritans.
Music is basically only some kind of knowledge and knowledge can never be stolen, it can only be propagated.
Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, then there came the age of enlightenment.
We simply cannot help these artists as long as they happily live as slaves to the music industry. For my part I decided it would be best to send them letters letting them know that you would really like to buy their music but must refuse to support an industry that rather sues their customers. At least under german law this could turn the tables as it gives the artists the legal right to cancel their contract for 'important reasons'.
Since the RIAA started suing their customers I stopped buying their products, the same is now true for the MPAA. Cheaper CDs and DVDs would not change this.
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL.
Of course not, you just have to pay and shut up!
Of course not, you have to pay and shut up, there are severe penalties for circumventing copy protection mechanisms.
Right now we have copy preventions systems, servere penalties for attempting to circumvent them and the government is NOT working on a solution for this problem.
I guess the "VG Wort" is raising their funds in order to catch up with the legal action already going on with music and movies. Pay the tax so we can sue you for what you have already paid the tax for.
Sooner or later the rich will learn that all the money they own cannot safe them from the rage of the starving population, one way or the other.
IPv4 was intended and assigned for networking big supercomputers, now every single PC got an IP address and every cellphone is going to need one. IPv6 is intended to solve this problem but from all the discussion going on it seems that they have not yet considered the future need of space colonies.
That's nonsense, we have already run out of IP adresses, that's why we get feature crippled 'name based virtual hosts', 'dynamic IP addresses', 'private networks with NAT',...
Letter from MPAA to President Bush:
Prepare for war against Sweden for disrespecting US copyright law.
Calling copyright infringement piracy is as polemic as calling the (RI|MP)AA an intellectual property mafia.
The intellectual property mafia is bullying our legislators to force us into anonymizing sharing platforms. If some people abuse these platform for child pornography or terrorism intelligence I call this collateral damage and blame the legislator that forced us to use this technology in the first place.
May there be a higher beeing that just gave our politicians and the corporations corrupting them a warning shot?
I have already had one of these coffees from an italian rest stop.
to hear some positive news in these times :-)
I totally agree with this, copyright is just a new word for censorship in the 21st century.
just use one of the privacy enhanced file sharing applications (GNUNet, Freenet, ANTS2P, MUTE, I2P) and leave these dinosaurs alone in their death struggle. I bet the devil has already reserved a nice corner in hell for the intellectual property mafia.
Don't worry, all my story submissions have been rejected for no reason as well, posting them in the journal sounds like a good idea, maybe slashdot will be forced to see the light when some people's journals get a whole lot more interesting than the start page.
These dinosaurs are doomed to die, no matter what they do. A meteor called 'internet' hit our planet and the artists they used to suck out just do not need them anymore.