Comments on: Get Ready For Another Forty Years Of Corporate Copyright Bullshit

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:38:00 +0000

Major label “artists” aren’t professional “musicians” anyway. They’re models. Major label is Rihanna, Britney and Justin Bieber. And even Beeb the Dweeb got his start singing COPYRIGHTED cover songs on YouTube.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:31:00 +0000

I remember when VCRs were considered weapons of mass destruction. Video killed the copyright star.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:30:00 +0000

Just think of all the people who downloaded CAMs of Dark Knight Rises who are still alive today. Thing is, I bet if some employee saw Jimbo the Joker walking through the parking lot with a Handycam instead of an AK-47 he would have been tackled right away. Priorities…?

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:27:00 +0000

OT: Big Pharma. That’s probably the biggest LEGAL drug cartel running amok in society right now. 30 years ago there was no such thing as AD(H)D. They created a “disease” to fit a drug they had no $$$ niche for. Result: probably Newtown/Aurora.

Yet no talk of reevaluating the level at which we overmedicate these kids from the Obozo admin — just gun control and MORE monitoring of private citizens.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:24:00 +0000

Actually, surveys have shown that fewer and fewer people belong to an organized religion or church. They may be “spiritual” or believe in certain principles, but they don’t really identify with 100% of a certain religious dogma. Ex: people who self-identify as “Christian” but don’t accept the notion of Christ’s divinity, or any “divinity,” just live by His principles (which really are universal when you think about it — generosity being something those copyright Roman tax agents could learn from). ;-)

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Abortion by coercion? You know, like slipping a mickey of RU-486 into the cocktails of the lobbyists’ wives/daughters? ;-)

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:18:00 +0000

Sad to say, but this is unfortunately the truth. And it could be LONGER if these a-holes “educate” (read: indoctrinate) their privileged offspring to fight for the same cause on account of tradition. See for example the millennial generation of racists and homophobes, or the seemingly infinite generations of welfare families brought up with an idea that society “owes” them something because of XYZ atrocity against their demographic. Radical Islamists still harbor anger about the Crusades. Radical black activists still harbor anger about the Civil War (as do some radical “Southern Strategy” activists, no doubt).

Meanwhile, almost everyone else has moved on with their lives. The Irish don’t demand reparations from the English for atrocities committed against them. Gay couples will continue to commit to each other in married relationships despite the arguments by religious bodies (most of which have zero credibility on the issue of “responsible sexual behavior” anyway). But I surmise that the children and grandchildren of copyright lobbyists will demand “reparations” from the children and grandchildren of Gottfried Svartholm, Kim Dotcom and Sean Fanning.

I don’t know why stupid politicians don’t focus on important things facing the populace, like jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and oh, yeah, jobs.

By: Ricardo Mittelstaedt

Ricardo Mittelstaedt — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:50:00 +0000

You reminded me that I need to read his book. Off to isohunt I mean Amazon.

By: Trelew

Trelew — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:12:00 +0000

The biggest mistake as a species, as a society, has made was to give corporations the same rights and freedoms as an individual. I think that combined with government’s work culture of no transparency and no accountability will be the downfall of a healthy society.

By: Michele Hostetler

Michele Hostetler — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Rick, you need to stop complaining about this. Copyright protection has been in our constitution since its inception. The founding fathers put it in. I’m pretty sure Jefferson, as a prolific inventor supported it and Washington, as the presiding officer didn’t stop it. And as long as we keep progressing and innovating as a society, copyright law is going to be modified to deal with the new technology that comes along the way. Rather than whine about it, why don’t you join the conversation of how to make the copyright process better.