Gotta love Michael Geist. He takes the crap out of everything is gives us the truth. He has helped many times in preventing secret and insane laws from coming to be.
It is BS. They don't like our tarrif based system for music. Buy a blank CD and a portion of it goes to the recording industry. They want us to adopt their laws so they can start the lawsuits the RIAA and MPAA are so famous for.
Sorry, we will fight it tooth and nail. Our privacy, unlike the US, is paramount here.
BTW, having friends and colleagues that live and work in China, they have told me countless times that companies, such as Micro$oft, encouraged piracy so the population will get hooked on the product and they can increase their market share.
One of my friends actually worked for M$ and he confirmed it. That was 6 years ago, he has moved on since.
Hence my previous comment. Nokia is a European based corporation. Intel is a US based corporation. US Corporation = Greed.
Hell look at Delphi, the CEO was going to the bankruptcy hearings in New York on the company's private just. Hey if I was going bankrupt and had to be in court to prove it, I would take the cheapest mode of transportation.
Same this with Ford and it's exec. 2 weekly trips to his Florida home on the company's private jets for him AND his family.
It's going to hell in the US!!!
This is the problem with the North American corporate model. By law the corporation's only concern is the shareholder. North American's market is an open one, go to the lowest bidder, regardless of where they are. Until this is changed we will hit rock bottom on everything, economy, environment, community, etc.
We all have to get past the greed and start thinking about the people, environment and communities that these corporations come from and sell to.
Don't expect Bush to change that any time soon.....
This is almost identical to an April Fools article that I believe Ziff Davis put out 5+ years ago(1998 I believe).
They did the article about IT departments using computer speakers to spy on all their users, and record all conversations. I remember this article because it put some of my directors into a panic phase! Needless to say when I showed them that the writer of the article was Aprils Fools, just jumbled up, the panic subsided.
It's stated that if the show is not resurrected, then they will return all the money minus approx 5% for transaction and legal costs. It's stated on their website, and when you opt to donate.
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Gotta love Michael Geist. He takes the crap out of everything is gives us the truth. He has helped many times in preventing secret and insane laws from coming to be.
It is BS. They don't like our tarrif based system for music. Buy a blank CD and a portion of it goes to the recording industry. They want us to adopt their laws so they can start the lawsuits the RIAA and MPAA are so famous for. Sorry, we will fight it tooth and nail. Our privacy, unlike the US, is paramount here. BTW, having friends and colleagues that live and work in China, they have told me countless times that companies, such as Micro$oft, encouraged piracy so the population will get hooked on the product and they can increase their market share. One of my friends actually worked for M$ and he confirmed it. That was 6 years ago, he has moved on since.
Hence my previous comment. Nokia is a European based corporation. Intel is a US based corporation. US Corporation = Greed. Hell look at Delphi, the CEO was going to the bankruptcy hearings in New York on the company's private just. Hey if I was going bankrupt and had to be in court to prove it, I would take the cheapest mode of transportation. Same this with Ford and it's exec. 2 weekly trips to his Florida home on the company's private jets for him AND his family. It's going to hell in the US!!!
This is the problem with the North American corporate model. By law the corporation's only concern is the shareholder. North American's market is an open one, go to the lowest bidder, regardless of where they are. Until this is changed we will hit rock bottom on everything, economy, environment, community, etc. We all have to get past the greed and start thinking about the people, environment and communities that these corporations come from and sell to. Don't expect Bush to change that any time soon.....
This is almost identical to an April Fools article that I believe Ziff Davis put out 5+ years ago(1998 I believe).
They did the article about IT departments using computer speakers to spy on all their users, and record all conversations. I remember this article because it put some of my directors into a panic phase! Needless to say when I showed them that the writer of the article was Aprils Fools, just jumbled up, the panic subsided.
It's stated that if the show is not resurrected, then they will return all the money minus approx 5% for transaction and legal costs. It's stated on their website, and when you opt to donate.