US Anti-Piracy Bill Increases Penalties for Copyright Infringement
Written by Ernesto on December 06, 2007According to a group of lawmakers, 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine is not a severe enough sentence for copyright infringement in the US. So, a new bill is proposed to strengthen civil and criminal intellectual property laws and increase penalties for offenders.
The “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007″ not only proposes stiffer penalties, but also calls for an intellectual property office in the White House and similar divisions at the justice department.
“By providing additional resources for enforcement of intellectual property, we ensure that innovation and creativity will continue to prosper in our society,” House Judiciary Committee chairman Representative John Conyers said in a response.
The real problem isn’t so much about protecting the rights of the artist or innovation and creativity (does it even do that?), but about protecting the revenue stream for the big media companies. The people who actually create the movies and music often want their content to be shared.
MPAA chairman Dan Glickman couldn’t be happier with this new bill and in an official press release he states: “I believe that the American business community can speak in one voice today in support of these legislative efforts to protect intellectual property.” Continuing he said: “The MPAA looks forward to working with congressional leaders in the weeks to come.”
Not surprisingly, some of the supporters of the bill, such as Howard Berman, received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the music and the movie industry. Yes, these anti-piracy politicians are funded by the MPAA and the RIAA. US democracy, what a great system!
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“By providing additional resources for enforcement of intellectual property, we ensure that innovation and creativity will continue to prosper in our society,”
exactly that is what Copyright ruins..
why can’y somebody just detach that country from south america and canada and sink it into the sea…
copyright was originally concieved so that people could not take credit for other peoples work, the original ideas were so that credit could be given where it was properly due. This is one of the most misused laws today.
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exactly that is what Copyright ruins..[/quote]
Agreed!
“emocracy, what a great system!” edit: in the US.
Can’t say I’m suprised. People rarely turnout to vote. Many don’t know who their elected representives are, most have never written to them. So this is bound to happen. Politications will support those who help them get elected. Now if the Majority of voters wrote in expressing their opposition who knows what would happen.
Who would one contact to lobby against this?
Ron Paul?
RE: Who would one contact to lobby against this?
RON PAUL!…. Hes one of only 2 members of congress that voted against this
Once the entire society has been enslaved,then imprisoned ,then dead.
What will these greedy,loathsome, despicable “elite” do with them selves then?
We need a rEVOLution in soo many ways, for so many reasons.
Once the entire society has been enslaved(today),then imprisoned (tomorrow),then dead(the day after).
What will these greedy,loathsome, despicable “elite” do with them selves then?
We need a rEVOLution in so many ways, for so many reasons.
Sadly, this is almost 100% sure to pass. The people running both this country and the media companies simply do not understand the American people at all.
I would bet anyone anything that if piracy simply disappeared, these companies would be doing even worse than they are now. Blaming piracy on a downturn in profits is like blaming a basketball player for the team’s loss because he missed a free throw at one point. There’s so much more going on here.
[quote comment="232367"]Sadly, this is almost 100% sure to pass. The people running both this country and the media companies simply do not understand the American people at all.
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Write to your Congressman, Have your friends also write in. Ask them to have their friends write in. One letter will be ignored even a few hundred will probably be, but if you try nothing will happen. You have to show them you disapprove of this bill. For them there getting money for their campaigns and the public doesn’t care enough to do anything about it.
I doubt anyone will actually write their Congressman, but what else can you do?
Made a typo “but if you try nothing will happen.” was supposed to say if you don’t try nothing will happen
Not to mention John Conyers, Chairman of the Judiciary committee, which drafted that legislation:
“The top industries supporting John Conyers Jr. are:
1 Lawyers/Law Firms $66,050
2 TV/Movies/Music $46,110″
> http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00004029&cycle=2004
Do be so quick to trash on the US over this, almost every other major country is doing the same, most right under their citizens noses.
Copyright reform = death of free media, and the end of open creativity. Once we allow these companies and groups to not only dictate how much it costs to view their crap, but to actually allow them to tell us how we can use it.
Dvds with built in self updating advertisements, not fiction, you’ll see them come to market soon.
Legal downloads movies / tv / music that has, for lack of a better term, a self destruct timer.
We’re letting them control the hardware aswell, all those fancy gadgets you own, well, RENT is a better term. Mod your xbox, pswhatever and you can go to jail.
Open up and tinker with your dvdplayer trying to fix it, copyright infringement.
It’s pure insanity when I legally buy a dvd and attempt to watch it on my legally purchased laptop, that does NOT have any emulation, burning, imaging, cracking, ripping software installed, nor has it ever, only to find out it won’t play, starts and crashes, windows reports it as unreadablocks on the disc itself.
What’s wrong? Nothing, it’s the copy protection that decides I can’t watch my movie, I have to watch it on my standalone DVD player, as long as there’s no VCR connected in anyway to my setup that is.
Then I decide, well, I have the legal right to make personal use backups, so I will, since I’d rather not scratch the retail disc. So I try to copy it, heh, try is the key as it won’t burn, or does but is unreadable.
Again, what’s wrong? Nothing, just the copy protection again, stopping me from exercising my legal right. But that’s not all friends, that music cd or dvd movie might also have installed a nice friendly rootkit onto my machine, opening it up for all kinds of attacks and privacy violations.
Now, if I trick you into installing software you didn’t know was there, by hiding it from you, that opened your pc up for outside monitoring, and opened countless security holes in your system, that would be considered hacking and I can go to jail.
But if a big company does the same thing, that’s fine and dandy, because it’s their legal right to stop YOU from exercising yours.
It’s plain insanity and must be stopped. All creativity is being sucked out of media. Every wonder why music today sucks, and most movies are the same rehashed crap you’ve already seen 10 times?
Because the few in control are drunk driving and have 2 wheels in the ditch, the medium is dead they just don’t know it yet. Their system of sucking creativity away in favour of profits has failed and produced recycled crap instead of art.
The secret is out and the greedy bastards don’t want to give up their lavish lifestyles because of some stupid moral ideal.
But that’s fine, we’ll all be in jail for life for downloading movies while terrorists, corporate criminals, murderers and rapists walk the streets free and safe from ever having to encounter the deadly movie pirates.
“By providing additional resources for enforcement of intellectual property, we ensure that innovation and creativity will continue to prosper in our society,”
What can of twisted logic is this..to suggest that file sharing contributes to the decline of creativity????? Replace “prosper” with “provide income for the rich” and that makes sense…not good, but makes sense!
The “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007″
Since when, sharing a few files is more important that real issues like murder, child abuse and other serious crime.
Kill some one get it break down to manslaughter / self defense get a few yrs tops or months minimal… share a few files get the entire FBI ready to lost u away in prison… strange indeed.. I can see we got our priorities in order all right.
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That was well written. Do you mind if I use some of it when writing my congressman?
[quote comment="232381"]Do be so quick to trash on the US over this, almost every other major country is doing the same, most right under their citizens noses.
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This is not true. In most countries infringement of copyright is still a civil matter, not a criminal one and there are no real plans for change. It is only the US that wants to jail people for copyright infringement – other countries would never countenance this. This is because of the extreme influence of large corporations on US politics. If you do not realise how extreme the USA position is on this then you are more likely to accept it and not campaign for change.
This is the exact reason why so many people hate the US, your goverment seems to be out of its mind.
You know, how does increasing the punishment for the extremely few individuals they conceivably “catch” serve anyone? It’ll still be small fish in smaller numbers that they will “get”, and for NO GOOD REASON they feel justified in completely ruining someone’s life, applying the label of “criminal” to them and generally insulting the intelligence of most of society, all in the name of a few more fake “federal” dollars. Tsk, Tsk…
Yeah, like internet piracy is going to decline as a result. Puh-lease! All they are doing is continuing to raise awareness like they did for Bit Torrent. Most people had never even heard of the program until all of the anti-piracy crusades started. This is going to backfire when some 18 year old gets 20 years in jail for ripping a DVD.
Man… I can’t believe that they are supposed to be the strongest nation on earth. Oh well, atleast they are the fattest.
[quote comment="232448"]Man… I can’t believe that they are supposed to be the strongest nation on earth. Oh well, atleast they are the fattest.[/quote]
ROFL! And apparently the dumbest! This is another reason why everyone should come together and lets start the revolution!
Does anybody else think that all the current copyright laws will change once the current young generation gets into office? Give it another 25 years or so and the 15-35 year olds who have been using bittorrent will be old enough to become president and change all this. There aren’t too many people currently in politics who know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to this stuff.
You are forgetting that by the time this generation dominates the political system, they will already be bought and paid for by the media companies.
WOW this bill is just insane. If corporate America gets it passed we will definately see file sharers going to jail for a decade worst case scenario. Only when enough people come together in mainstream society will the madness of this be fully realized. Sharing files for personal use is not a criminal offense, everyone knows it, maybe a civil one, but Hell. I guaratee if people go to jail over file sharing under this bill people in America will wake up and hopefully there will be a backlash. I’ve downloaded terrabytes of shit. Guess I’d be on bloody death row! LMFAO!
http://www.house.gov/
Step up and complain about this.
To Post 25 by anonymous.
I’m sorry to say, but that will never happen. Take a look at the 60’s. It was a continents spanning upsurge in thought and action. We were hoping to change the world. What happened? We got bought out, or jailed, by the corporations and the propoganda. Any attempt to change things will get swallowed up by the great, bland status quo. So, if all is doomed, why try? If you don’t try, then nothing will change. It’s called hope. Hope for a better, safer world for our children to grow up in. That is what keeps us alive.
I keep telling people if you don’t like this shit, start listening to INDIE MUSIC and watching INDIE MOVIES that this shit doesn’t apply to. And STOP CONSUMING stuff that comes from the industries that are paying for these laws.
Even if you torrent all your films and never pay for one, you are NOT. HURTING. THE. INDUSTRY. You are HELPING THEM by promoting their products and furthering the idea that all worthwhile entertainment comes out of Big Media.
Tell you what. Right now, want to hear some new music? Go to http://freealbums.blogsome.com/ and start listening. I have nothing to do with this site, it just looks like a good starting point; if you know a better link post it.
As long as Big Media is the premier way to reach an audience, good artists will go to them, and they’ll retain their power. Don’t support the system. Don’t feed the mouth that bites you.
Proof THEY still don’t get it and never will get it. All the more reason to get involved in file-sharing (even the considered ‘illegal’ ones) and open standards.
Check out these:
http://action.ffii.org/
http://www.noooxml.org/brm
And also help a growing anonimity of the peers and uploaders.
And who’s going to pay for those “additional resources for enforcement of intellectual property”? OUR tax $$$.
So, in a nutshell, the MPAA/RIAA dinosaurs are obsolete business models that can’t survive in todays economy, so they buy out a few government officials so that we’re forced to chip in to help them survive as long as possible…
They will eventually die anyway, you can’t stop technology, but in the meantime they’re stealing our money… Who’’s the pirate again?
Talk about a waste of manpower:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:1:./temp/~c110hKaaiB:e3762:
And money as well. 20,000,000 in funding for the FBI and DA. They have to have groups of 10 FBI agents per “pirate” … come on.
We need to find out a way so that rapists, child abusers, and murderers hurt the corporations!
Hell of a system.
What I find funny is they try to make examples of the WRONG people. Make examples of the rapists, murderers, child killers, cop killers, and others by KILLING them. Publicly too. Not just throw them in jail because then they in turn become a burden on the tax payers like myself. That will prevent them from doing it again :P
A murderer can get 2 years, but a guy who downloads an mp3 and shares it with 2 or so friends, can get 10 years and a $50,000 fine.
Yah, that makes sense…
@Brian
Actually, a murderer can get life.
What else do you expect from a country that makes “god” a felon, he is guilty of the manufacter and distribution of marijuana. Yeah I live in the US, but that doesn’t mean I agree with everything Big Brother does.
Doesn’t mean shit to me, I will continue to download as I did when I first learned how to pirate years ago.
THIS is why I want to move to Canada.
Hey US folks, you’re welocome to move to Europe :D
More proof America is the axis of evil.
What a corrupt and horrible country. Thank god I don’t live there.
A conversation in prison.
Inmate 1: Hey you look new here what are you in for?
Inmate 2: You know I downloaded a movie online. you?
Inmate 1: I killed a family of four.
Inmate 2: Wow how long are you in for?
Inmate 1: I got a plea bargain and got seven years. How about you?
Inmate 2: I am looking at 10-15 and going bankrupt.
What the hell is wrong with America, honestly.
It’s Capitalism gone totaly mad. They are just one step away from forcing you to hand over your wages entirly.
The once land of the Free has become the land of incarcerated, ghettos and elite few rulers of the slaves.
Don’t go spreading your American poison to the rest of the world.
The world is sick of your human rights abuses.
Just go away.
“The MPAA looks forward to working with congressional leaders in the weeks to come.”
In or language The MPAA is looking forward to paying off the congressional leaders in the weeks to come.
Add another $ to the ticket prices .
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Be American and the world laughs at you.
To be honest, if i had to choose between communist China and America, i’d choose to live in China.
if you acualy go and see one of these movies in the theatre i can understand that hey they loose some money from downloading of dvd’s but still common if you purchased a $10 ticket to see the movie CHILL RELAX just fine me a little but no prison…hell its the hollidays why dont you be cool….and maybe lower prices…20-25 bucks for a dvd no THANKS
viva la revolution!
GREAT TO SEE WHAT MY TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR!. WOO!
That guy reminds me of the biggest dick in the world.
Only in America…
[quote comment="232363"]RE: Who would one contact to lobby against this?
RON PAUL!…. Hes one of only 2 members of congress that voted against this[/quote]
Hm, that’s pretty nice to hear, It looks like ( to me ) that he’s going to get the most votes. But I’m not interested in politics that much.
Good old America.
The King of Chicago all over again, this time on a national level.
Disgraceful. America is riddled with corruption.
the bullshit meter was officially broke…
unfortunately america is becoming very corrupted. hopefully someone will realize these mistakes and fix them. one can only hope.
i love living in the united states, our government perfect.
It’s just sad when the people of America fear their government. The government should be fearing the people, not the other way around.
just stop buying shit
i would liek to say that our government in the us is out of its mind. however in our constitution there is a passage making it legal to revolt against the current government
in fact thomas jefferson is known to have said that we should revolt every 20 years to keep the system fresh. the problem with revolting is simply that we would be out gunned no matter what we do because the government has all the branches of the military on their side. although we are of greater number as citizens the military has the greater firepower. unlike when this country was founded our enemy does not live an ocean away. thankfully though once the baby boomers in office are dead things might change. until that time though we as a country are in for a very rough time. simply put money/greed is the root of all evil.
I do not know if it will do any good, but I just wrote my congressman an open letter.
please write your congressman: We have to try and reverse this. Its wrong.
http://www.house.gov/
as follows:
It’s wrong to criminalize actions that are clearly civil matters. Reality is with the advent of the computer age anyone can copy and share a file. Copying is a civil/commercial problem and should not be criminilized. This puts an individual in the same boat with murderers, rapists and other violent criminals. Fining people ridiculous sums like $10,000 per song they downloaded is silly. Current law suggests 10 years in jail and a $500,000 fine for movies. This is what a defendant associated with the uploading of Star Wars Episode III is currently facing. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007 not only proposes stiffer penalties, but also calls for an intellectual property office in the White House and similar divisions at the justice department. Why would a government office be created to protect profits of a commercial sector?! Why should the tax payers be responsible for funding such a police force?
Anyone have a bill number?
Ok whatever, but there are other countries out there with less stricter laws, if the mpaa is acting gay it’s not the end of the world.
Foreclosures, Lead in Toys, etc. Where are these “agencies” to help consumers killed and driven to bankruptcy by corporations? Instead they are passing laws for civil crimes that do not even require corporations to lift a finger. They can just sit back and relax as tax payer dollars are used so the FBI and special forces can raid the homes of single mothers and college students to squeeze every penny out of consumers. And all of this when they are making record profits.
It is just amazing how complacent the US citizens have become. Please contact your representatives and stop this madness.
Ok.. Now I find this really disturbing. What the hell is wrong with the American government?
Not that i’m a huge history buff, but doesn’t America have a history of organizations controlling governments?
This is just downright disgusting and I really feel for the American public as there is stuff all you can really do. Letters to congress etc. won’t do much unless you include a multi million dollar cheque, as is apparent in this decision.
I hope Bush stops preaching about his democracy around the world, because lets face it, it no longer is.
man i’m glad I don’t live in america, what a fucked up country, if a phedofile was a billionare he could probly pay off the government to make it legal to rape little children, and the citizens would just sit by completely powerless
Our justice system is severely flawed. We do have wealthy criminals gallivanting through the streets as a father sits in prison for stealing food to feed his family. Yet there is hope for this new generation to make changes and to undo what our parents have done. And I have faith that some day our politicians won’t worry about re-election but worry about the people and let the elections take care of themselves. Plus, it will be harder to buy our generation since we know how to get our media and stuff for free.
Anyone have a spare room in Sweden? I hate my country.
They want to make USA a nazi state, by scaring everyone. Only thing they don’t realize that Internet Piracy can never be stopped. Look what happened after they shut down Napster and others. P2Ps multiplied, there is more piracy per user now, then when Napster was legal. What are they going to do with private sharing sites, such as Rapidshare, Megaupload etc. These laws make USA looks more like a heavy handed Police State.
im with kensai, Sweden here i come!
Nooo… Sweden, here I come..
Anyone thought about how they want to disarm the private citizen now too. That is their way to ensure they retain their power. No fear of reprisal by the people because we won’t be able to fight back when we’ve had enough of this. This is why people go all “gun crazy” as some liberals would have you believe. When the people can’t fight the police and military machine there IS a problem. Need we all lay down our lives NON violently in from of an M1 Abrams before people start to do something? Should we fight them now before that is necessary? I would merc politicians before that, personally, for selling me and everyone else out. As it stands with the Patriot Act, (don’t even WANT to get started on that) the government entities vying for control over you, me, and everyone else would/will try to silence people like me if I were to try and play their rigged game before any good could be done. When your government won’t serve justice to those who really need a good dose, tell me, where will all of you turn to? Jim Morrison had it right years ago in Miami (I believe it was anyways) when he said, “Your all a bunch of fucking slaves, letting people push you around and telling you what to do”. Do we need a Tianemen Square here before people DO SOMETHING!!!!! But, hey, thats right, I’m just a crazy conspiracy theorist. Yeah, nobody wants to control you. Thats all crazy talk, right?
@ gun owner.
I wouldn’t say it’s all crazy talk, but governments no days, and this goes for other countries too, just put in whatever laws they want and do what they want. Almost makes you think is there any point in even voting because , no matter who gets in, they’ll just do what the hell they want.
This latest shooting you guys had(my sympathies to the victims) is going to give the government more ammo to push for more gun control.
That being said, the government should look at why this guy thought so bad about himself to go and do something like this.
Stuff like this is what the government should be concerned about, not about if someone downloads a movie for christ’s sake.
[quote comment="232373"]Made a typo “but if you try nothing will happen.” was supposed to say if you don’t try nothing will happen[/quote]
Sadly, even your typo will turn out to be true.
[quote comment="232352"]why can’y somebody just detach that country from south america and canada and sink it into the sea…
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Hey Mr. Foreigner, please get off our Internet! ;-)
[quote comment="232757"]i would liek to say that our government in the us is out of its mind. however in our constitution there is a passage making it legal to revolt against the current government
in fact thomas jefferson is known to have said that we should revolt every 20 years to keep the system fresh. the problem with revolting is simply that we would be out gunned no matter what we do because the government has all the branches of the military on their side. although we are of greater number as citizens the military has the greater firepower. unlike when this country was founded our enemy does not live an ocean away. thankfully though once the baby boomers in office are dead things might change. until that time though we as a country are in for a very rough time. simply put money/greed is the root of all evil.[/quote]
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it will (or can) happen. Remember, the government has the army and other armed “helpers” on its side. And last time I checked, it’s also now legal for the government to use its armed forces within the US borders to control certain “situations”. I’m sure revolution is one of them.
You people are all nuts. The hippies told us what to do forty years ago. Tune in, turn on, drop out.
You don’t have to stop participating in the commercial-driven society. Try to cut back a little. Own your car for an extra year. Live in a smaller home or apartment. Read something every day in lieu of an hour or two of television. If you believe you need an income of $100,000 per year to be happy, you are part of the problem.
To help, perhaps you should consider your neighbor is as afraid of not having as much as you as you envy him. This is stupid and self-destructive.
Damn, being an American sucks.
Here you can buy cd’s with DRM FREE MP3 and NO copy protection for about 10$ (some cd’s coming with over 100 music files). And this is done by the music companies.
[quote comment=""]“The people who actually create the movies and music often want their content to be shared.[/quote]
Now who says OFTEN?! Simply providing A example and popularizing to most of artist is not just fair
Should we be suprised? The same government that wants to be all seeing . I’ve given up on this stupid, ignorant, worthless government, and I’ve given up on this worthless country! Piss on the whole damn thing.
If you don’t like their products (from a/v recording industry) then don’t buy them!
The law will then be a mute point.
BTW the USA is not half as intrusive and restrictive as any of the EU countries.
I personally don’t give these media losers my money or attention.
no typo David, I meant what I said, I am not a one man revolution. Nor will anyone else in this country be. The American ideals people would like to hold dear are false. This belief system that has been perpetrated and established in schools/society is false and will never be attainable. Mass civil disobedience or resorting to violence is the only way from exiting the slippery slope we now stand on. And I don’t see mass civil disobedience happening anytime soon. We will have no rights before that will happen.
People are too complacent. They are concerned about “keeeping up with the Jones’”, or getting that bigger house and another car. Feed the big business monster even more…….
In response to Jay, I don’t give a shit about the EU laws and the intrusiveness of their govt’s. I’m worried about my own ass cookin in the kettle.
well lets put it out there i dont think there is anyone on the internet that has not broken a copyright. so who are you going to catch grandma who just wanted one song? or someones little sister for downloading god knows what. ya this law is fuck up and that is all there is to it.
This would be a kicker if they searched there computers and what have you and they had all broken the a copyright law O sweet justic.
Lets face it: we’re screwed. The MPAA obviously has bought and paid for the “Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007″ all gift wrapped in time for Christmas too! Look at our Justice system: People like OJ Simpson who bought his justice…we all know the evidence convicted this man..but he walked free.. guilty of murder…with this new branch in Washington a person can go to jail for 10 years for sharing (not pirating if I bought it its mine and I want to share it Dammit!) a movie. Endless lobbying and hefty Campaign contributions (payoffs) to our so called elected sold out spineless US Senate have taken our civil liberties in LIU of Corporate profits.
Dont buy their media content, write to song writers and all those you like, and let them know you rather work through other means.
Create a site that provides this online and by pass the media giants.
Write to your congress representative and let them know that if they did agree to this, they lost your support and mean it. Congress people understand support and money. You can take their support away.
Oh yeah, some of you should run for congress on this item alone. Or even next presidency, I am sure you would get the support to be elected!
YOU PARANOID FREAKS!
Nobody’s going to get 10 years for merely downloading IP rights infringing material. Find us just one CRIMINAL arraignment in the US where a measly file sharer was even threatened with even one second of jail time.
This law is intended to throw the book at people who are involved in mass piracy both on the Internet and MOSTLY on the street.
Sorry about that you little whiners, this isn’t about you. But if it pisses you off nonethless, boycott mass media. All what 100 of you will make a big dent in the xAA machine for sure.
Go fluff a donkey reasoned, your an ignorant freak if you think ANYONE downloading and especially uploading “copyrighted” material in the United Sphincter of Arse-erica isn’t a target thanks to this new bill.
Will “small time” offenders get the maximum sentence? who knows. Even the minimum sentence is ridiculous.
I think you’ll find the number of Americans that use P2P numbers in the millions, many of which know of this site.
Okay then…go ahead with your delusions of grandeur, you naughty little counterfeiter.
Criminal cases is not where the big rights holders will make their stand in the US against the ‘”small time” offenders’. It will be in a cozy little relationship with ISPs. The Comcasts and the Verizons of the world are starting to see filesharing as competition to their new content on demand growth engines. But I am sure this is not a crowd pleasing strategy either.
Who knows if ‘”small time” offenders’ they will get the maximum sentence? I DO…and They WON’T! Think about the logistics on the scope and scale you forwarded in your response and perhaps you’ll calm down a bit.
revolution, uprising, civil disobedance, rooftop voters, riots, chaos, mayhem, anarchy, terrorism, lynch mobs, public beheadings, roadside bombs. you get the picture.
are these the tools you wish to drive us to? is your life worth losing over a few coins, how much bullshit do you think we can take?
does any single one of you idiots know what you are doing? do you listen to the people or to your wallets? i am getting sick of trying to change stuff the “right” way, talking to congressmen, boycotting products and services, its not fucking working, to many people are complacent with being raped up the ass, and asking for more.
[quote comment="232352"]why can’y somebody just detach that country from south america and canada and sink it into the sea…
sad to say i agree, but if you are unwilling to fight for yourself and stand up to your corrupt government, then you deserve this, to hell with you, USA go fuck yourself.
REVOLT! NOW!
Gee the penalty is more than what those CEO’s from ENRON got.
ron paul is the only politician with the balls to talk about anything real. If you care about freedom and are over 18 in the usa support ron paul as he supports you!!
The political prostitutes are becoming more brazen with each passing day. Without shame they continue selling themselves and our rights to the highest bidder, thankfully bending over for their corporate masters. Meanwhile we may pay e.g. a hidden tax on our hard disks, blank CDs and DVDs and MP3/Media players to ‘compensate’ the entertainment industry (MAFIAA) for imaginative losses due to piracy. Never mind that their dwindling sales are the predictable result of bad business practice, like releasing inferior pulp and treating their customer base like criminals. We should all boycott these bastards and hold them responsible for their conduct.
Reasoned does have a valid point in that once the isp’s are in their pocket, big business will effectively control the internet. What we are able to say and do with/on the internet is in jeopardy and has been so for awhile. Control the information: control the people. If you are blind to this, you are a moron. Here’s a 2 step program for the nay sayers:
1. Remove head from ass….
2. Assuming you completed step 1…. insert brain.
[quote comment="232475"]And STOP CONSUMING stuff that comes from the industries that are paying for these laws.[/quote]
Exactly. If the only language that these corporate criminals seem to understand is money, then we’ll have to vote with our wallets. Boycott DRM laden crap or products that are designed to facilitate it (e.g. Window$ Vi$ta). Boycott corporations with criminal morals and ethics. Boycott businesses who corrupt the political process or poison the public sphere.
man i am losing faith in democracy by the day………….
Man I hope they don’t come after my MPAA for illegally copying “This File is Not Yet Rated”. I need to remember to edit that wiki-thingy entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated#MPAA_infringements
(note to self, remember to send a christmas ‘gift’ to the democrats.)
oh damn that means now ive gotta up my prices for saw 4 bootlegs from 5 to 10 bucks, make it worth it ya know? ;) I’m also getting 2-3 anti RIAA shirts from jinx for Xmas too.
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among others
When will we start to resist these power mad and money loving thugs. Or will we stay complacent while all our fundamental rights are taken from us to benefit a small powerful and wealthy ‘elite’ with an insatiable greed.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista
The problem is money. If file-sharers could somehow have economic impact, then this unevenness could be smoothed.
An additional thing is that increasing public support may be able to be done with mass gatherings and parades in real life.
A few more years and we’ll have laws rivaling those of some other countries:
Download a song…Cut off your hands in public.
Download a movie..Cut off your hands and gouge your eyes out.
Second offence..Public stoning until dead.
so anyone know how New Zealand is? i’m considering going there when i move out, i’ll miss my family and all but America is full of so much shit from corporations and all the crap coming out of the conservative, anti-neo religious groups it’s getting hard to breathe and do daily things through all the toxic sludge…
I’m a firm believer in creating some sort of punishment for illegally taking music or any other form of media for free, after all its a crime like any other. If you want it then just pay for it & if you don’t then I’m sorry you must pay the price. However I’m still a convinced that decline in music sales etc etc is a result of the product itself. There simply isn’t anything fresh or new out there that people will spend money on. I’ve always bought albums DVD’s etc but in the last year or so I’ve maybe bought 2 CD’s. Give us something thats worth spending money on then you may just see an increase in business.
I use Linux and this DRM trash is not Linux friendly. I now use open source software. (The only commercial software I use is Unreal Tournament 2004 for Linux, which Atari does not support, but it comes with the Windows version.) Other than that, I don’t use commercial software. I just cancelled my Napster account. (Napster conforms with the RIAA these days and has DRM download themselves.) I don’t use any products that encourage DRM or any of the piracy-spying baloney, like an ipod or Vista. I don’t use an iMac or anything from Apple either, since it is a cheap rip off of Linux and UNIX systems. (Mac OS X is UNIX based, I think BSD and has some components of open source. I don’t know if Mac provides the source code of the open source apps to their users. The GUI is closed source, though.) I refuse to get a blu-ray or a HD DVD player either. (Though I have a HD DVD drive on my laptop for data storage. [It has 8 GB of storage on a HD DVD.]) I personally don’t break the law, but I am against these copyright laws and I do protest them and boycott the products and media that comes from these crooks that want to infringe on the rights of the average computer user.
>Jesus|Freak
This has become a serious problem I think we should cut thier hands off if thier smart enough to use thier toes cut them off to!
On top of all this.. Check out what your government is doing to all you Americans.
http://fearthegovernment.com/keystroke_logger.html
Anyone know more on this?
I think we should remove these monkeys-in-suits that pretend to parade around legitimizing their goals on the grounds of “intellectual property” for the sake of “innovation and creativity.” There is not a single creative bone in Glickman body, his only god is money. Call me an anarchist but this is unbelievable that is allowed to go on, it kills me that I live in this society sometimes.
Code writers of the world have to focuses less on virus/trojan writing and more on beating the system, a system that works against us all, the US government isn’t alone in this.
[quote comment="232381"]Do be so quick to trash on the US over this, almost every other major country is doing the same, most right under their citizens noses.
Copyright reform = death of free media, and the end of open creativity. Once we allow these companies and groups to not only dictate how much it costs to view their crap, but to actually allow them to tell us how we can use it.
Dvds with built in self updating advertisements, not fiction, you’ll see them come to market soon.
Legal downloads movies / tv / music that has, for lack of a better term, a self destruct timer.
We’re letting them control the hardware aswell, all those fancy gadgets you own, well, RENT is a better term. Mod your xbox, pswhatever and you can go to jail.
Open up and tinker with your dvdplayer trying to fix it, copyright infringement.
It’s pure insanity when I legally buy a dvd and attempt to watch it on my legally purchased laptop, that does NOT have any emulation, burning, imaging, cracking, ripping software installed, nor has it ever, only to find out it won’t play, starts and crashes, windows reports it as unreadablocks on the disc itself.
What’s wrong? Nothing, it’s the copy protection that decides I can’t watch my movie, I have to watch it on my standalone DVD player, as long as there’s no VCR connected in anyway to my setup that is.
Then I decide, well, I have the legal right to make personal use backups, so I will, since I’d rather not scratch the retail disc. So I try to copy it, heh, try is the key as it won’t burn, or does but is unreadable.
Again, what’s wrong? Nothing, just the copy protection again, stopping me from exercising my legal right. But that’s not all friends, that music cd or dvd movie might also have installed a nice friendly rootkit onto my machine, opening it up for all kinds of attacks and privacy violations.
Now, if I trick you into installing software you didn’t know was there, by hiding it from you, that opened your pc up for outside monitoring, and opened countless security holes in your system, that would be considered hacking and I can go to jail.
But if a big company does the same thing, that’s fine and dandy, because it’s their legal right to stop YOU from exercising yours.
It’s plain insanity and must be stopped. All creativity is being sucked out of media. Every wonder why music today sucks, and most movies are the same rehashed crap you’ve already seen 10 times?
Because the few in control are drunk driving and have 2 wheels in the ditch, the medium is dead they just don’t know it yet. Their system of sucking creativity away in favour of profits has failed and produced recycled crap instead of art.
The secret is out and the greedy bastards don’t want to give up their lavish lifestyles because of some stupid moral ideal.
But that’s fine, we’ll all be in jail for life for downloading movies while terrorists, corporate criminals, murderers and rapists walk the streets free and safe from ever having to encounter the deadly movie pirates.[/quote]
THIS DESERVES TO BE SAID AGAIN…..AND AGAIN…AND AGAIN…
and to everyone paranoid of america i just want to say 1 thing. you are hilarious..
Who’s paranoid of America? And why is that halarious?
James you retard,
EVERYONE is paranoid of us. We have people with money who want more money running the country. Those are the only people bitch’n about all of this. The artists and “us” are not hurt in the overall grand scheme of things. It’s hilarious because we are not the only country in the world governed by money. Yeah we are worse than the rest, but we are not alone. Just cause we kick the man when he is down a few more times than the rest of the world, doesn’t mean we are any better, or worse. Stop buying cd’s, think the artists will stop performing? …Nope The people who make absurd amounts off of selling the recorded copies to us will. Screw them. They are Goliath, we are David…
And we already know how that turned out.
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[quote comment="234560"]I’m a firm believer in creating some sort of punishment for illegally taking music or any other form of media for free, after all its a crime like any other. If you want it then just pay for it & if you don’t then I’m sorry you must pay the price. However I’m still a convinced that decline in music sales etc etc is a result of the product itself. There simply isn’t anything fresh or new out there that people will spend money on. I’ve always bought albums DVD’s etc but in the last year or so I’ve maybe bought 2 CD’s. Give us something thats worth spending money on then you may just see an increase in business.[/quote]
There is so much music out there that is more than just worthwhile being released all of the time. the problem is that the traditional distribution channels (RIAA and MPAA controlled content: radio, television, your big box record store) have become worthless to the average listener. However, If you had been a part of a mp3 file sharing community, you would likely know of more amazing albums than you could even afford to buy. your not going to hear them through traditional distribution channels, but they are all around you.
Many of us are not blessed with a good local record store that employs passionate people who you grow to trust. you really need to give something a good listen before you know if it is worth buying. these online communities help steer you in the right direction. It brings back what was taken away.
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