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The week has been a busy one for Rothken, a San Francisco Internet law attorney who has previously represented sites like isoHunt and video game studios like Pandemic. …”
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/were-just-like-youtube-megaupload-lawyer-tells-ars.ars

Fucking criminals are running the USA.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/22/megauploads-high-profile-defense-lawyer-robert-bennett-withdraws-from-piracy-case/

If you don’t want to buy a book you go to a library and read it for free. If you don’t need the whole book just photocopy the pages you need, because when has any governmental body shut down and seized any Libraries or photocopy makers. You can rent, borrow, buy used or lease a car or truck without prior permission from any manufacture of cars or trucks. Hell, they often encourage modifications of their products.You can go to a museum and see great works of art for free or nearly free without first obtaining permission to view or photograph such works. You ever hear of Beethoven’s descendants bitching about licensing fees and copyrights? Well they will be cause the laws are changing in the public domain sector too!

Everyone wants their slice of pie – and everybody else’s too.The entertainment industry in America claims that piracy has cost them $500 Million (really? just how did you come up that number? Its not like the pirates are keeping books you know. Has anyone ever noticed how the number changes all the time?), yet ignores the much more provable fact the major studios last year alone lost three times that by releasing mediocre or really crappy products. I don’t think piracy is the problem – it is a crappy business model that doesn’t work with the real world is. Why keep repackaging over and over the same crap and expect everyone to pay top dollar for it? You’ve invited piracy. Begged for it. Does anyone need six slightly different choices of the same movie, only to have four of them heavily discounted or discontinued in six months when an entirely different set of choices are available at a higher price? What about the tons of films and music from the past just sitting in cold storage doing nothing but rotting because some company cannot sell enough to make a few million dollars off from one product – nobody gets to experiences these these products, ever? One would think the copyright owner or holder would have to factually prove they are losing money by the product in question being available for free. I mean HOW could ANYONE LOSE money on a product hasn’t made any money for years or have been made available in years? How does a fuzzy looking, crappy sounding camera rip of the latest Hollywood Blockbuster in theaters even compete with the theater experience? It doesn’t. The studios are slowly going broke like they did in the early seventies except this time they have found a new way to recoup their loses ten fold. Try by not making every other film on a $40 – $80 million dollar budget. That might help. There is a lot of different things that can be done with their products but it is just easier not to be innovative.

Author Ayan Rand once wrote in the late 1950′s that the only true power governments have (outside of what its people give it) lies in in solely in the area of crime and punishment. So the objective is then is to create numerous laws, rules and regulations that are vague and ambiguous – that cannot be fully observed, enforced or understood by most. Thereby you can effectively label anyone a criminal and do whatever you want to them. Then just sit back and cash in on the “guilty” person’s guilt. And the final insult to injury want to know what they did with all those assets they confiscated? Why they put it in an INTEREST BEARING account until the court can dispose of the case. That’s right the feds are going to make something off this one way or another.