I bet he does not run unopposed in his next election. Some nice Republican chap will get a healthy campaign contribution from Microsoft, the Association for Software choice and every Microsoft employee residing in the start of Mass.
What so many of you seem to fail to realize is that that these guys just hit Microsoft for 75 cents per copy of WINDOWS! Heh. Media player is now PART OF XP and cannot be uninstalled! Media Player decodes MP3's! I Love it.
What The XXAA and member companies may not have considered when crafting this bill is, that while the primary focus of this legislation is to prevent U.S. citizens from using P2P software and to penalize them if they do so, the internet, like commerce, is now GLOBAL. As such, if they violate international laws they most likely will suffer damage to their international business. I suspect that a LARGE portion of XXAA and member companies revenues come from sources outside the U.S.A. and it is this revenue that will suffer if they violate international laws. So, no need for the CEO of SONY corp. to pay a personal visit to Australia to penalize him, he will suffer the consequences when his shareholders start to wonder where all the profits went.
Would it be unetical to use qmail@hollings-cms.senate.gov as one'e default dummy email address? Do you think that the senator from Disney would get the point that spam and the selling of personal information is bad? What are the odd of getting a constitutional ammendment banning the sale AND purchase of private information?
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I bet he does not run unopposed in his next election. Some nice Republican chap will get a healthy campaign contribution from Microsoft, the Association for Software choice and every Microsoft employee residing in the start of Mass.
What so many of you seem to fail to realize is that that these guys just hit Microsoft for 75 cents per copy of WINDOWS! Heh. Media player is now PART OF XP and cannot be uninstalled! Media Player decodes MP3's! I Love it.
What The XXAA and member companies may not have considered when crafting this bill is, that while the primary focus of this legislation is to prevent U.S. citizens from using P2P software and to penalize them if they do so, the internet, like commerce, is now GLOBAL. As such, if they violate international laws they most likely will suffer damage to their international business. I suspect that a LARGE portion of XXAA and member companies revenues come from sources outside the U.S.A. and it is this revenue that will suffer if they violate international laws. So, no need for the CEO of SONY corp. to pay a personal visit to Australia to penalize him, he will suffer the consequences when his shareholders start to wonder where all the profits went.
Would it be unetical to use qmail@hollings-cms.senate.gov as one'e default dummy email address? Do you think that the senator from Disney would get the point that spam and the selling of personal information is bad? What are the odd of getting a constitutional ammendment banning the sale AND purchase of private information?