Good work. Keep it up….

You`re Right Bro… Nice One…

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.

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..

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.

http://fearthegovernment.com/keystroke_logger.html

Anyone know more on this?

>Jesus|Freak

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.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista

among others

(note to self, remember to send a christmas ‘gift’ to the democrats.)

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.

1. Remove head from ass….

2. Assuming you completed step 1…. insert brain.

[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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now who says OFTEN?! Simply providing A example and popularizing to most of artist is not just fair

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.

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.