The best way to combat terror would have been to keep him alive in a prison somewhere for as long as possible, both as a living demonstration of how a civilized society deals with murderous animals – by not sinking to their level – and in order to show the next generation “beware of people like this…”.

Al Quaeda was a direct construct facilitated and trained by the US in order to deniably combat the Soviet Afghanistan invasion – you’d think we’d have realized by now that creating or abetting one monster in order to fight another always carries bad long-term consequence. Same as Saddam Hussein, the US’s once-upon-a-time “most valued ally” in the middle east.

Not to mention that thanks to that war Iran is now finally able to start exporting radical shi’ite fundamentalism past Iraqi borders in the guise of “rapproachment”.

Yes, the US won the war against the previous Iraqi government – and now can’t leave without the place turning into a worse threat immediately. I’d say it’s a one-and-a-half loss all in all.

But don’t let my technical response dampen your awesome post =)

Then the RIAA and MPAA came along.

Don’t spend a red cent on either anymore and I wont until both organizations are gone. No one else should either.

Do watch the rest of the video….. you may be surprised…

Lessig is closer to the centre of the debate….. than the Pro copyright extremists would have you believe …..

I personally …. am more left of centre than Lessig is….. But am no anti-copyright extremist…..
There is a good reason for some form of copyright to exist… But it is abused to the extreme at the moment…..and they want more extremist punishments.
Last frontier for Pro Copyright punishments on people…. is the death penalty… ( if in the past they haven’t already used it )
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“”why can’t I buy a cd, copy it a million times, and sell it?“”

Well that is counterfeiting…… ( compilations are the same )

You have a very close hit… a near miss with you question….

First remix …. the tracks to a different sound /genre /meaning.. etc… …then sell the CD….
Why should that be illegal ?
Even if you portion AND supply the exact sales/royalty percentage that is THERE …. ( eg.. 10% of the New track is the original vocal…. so 10% goes to the original creator )
Why should that be illegal ?
Why should you need an exclusive licence to remix a work ?

IF the guitar was invented today……. The instrument’s sounds would be copyrighted…..

Proof of this…. a modern day equivalent…

AT&T Natural Voices® Text-to-Speech
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

FTFY