Offspring of Echelon?

[Guest Grayfox]

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originally posted by Fox__Trot:

I read about 1/4th of the posts and have to say WTF standards on the net? ok i posted a sentince and used another to say I posted a sentince need to get 5k posts later folks.

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huh??? that makes no sense...

as for the insertion of hardware that would limit our usage of copyrighted stuff downloaded from the internet... all i have to say is they (the govt) will keep us fat and lazy and stupid and totally unaware of what theyre doing to us... until we wake up.

anyone ever seen "they live" ?

[Epsilon 5]

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Originally posted by Steve Schacher:

Here's the latest on this one:

Howling Mad Over Hollings' Bill

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Their bill... you know where they can put it

[Cmdr Nova]

If it would just quit being about the money and labels, and actually start being about the artists (music-industry wise, of course), then everything would be a lot better off for the community as a whole.

It was basically peer-to-peer sharing that started this all. And from the music industry standpoint, I don't see much wrong with p2p. Many artists actually support sharing; it's their labels that wanna cash in on the music.

I like copyright laws because the protect the person who rightfully created the stuff. But what they're doing now is completely stupid. I stand by all my prior posts on this subject. But I think that the bill should be changed to fit the wants/needs of the people, not the greedy corporate bastards that wanna keep all the content for themselves to sell for their own profit. (Which was my more or less my view in the beginning.) You know, keep the stuff open to the public, let the copyright holder decide if they want it otherwise, but crack down on that illegal content like warez.

Nowadays, now that I see that greed's taken the world over, I think that bill should go to the same place, Ep5. If the bill ever passes, the chances of the public having any say in the standards and crap that'd be implemented would be pretty slim. p0w3r t0 d4 p30p13.

[Menchise]

*sigh*

It's understandable that piracy is a serious problem, but to take another step towards the infamous police state that's forming for the defense of corporate interests is to beg for more serious problems.

[Steve Schacher]

Here's more: Democrats vs. New Media. This one's more political, and it has lots of good imebedded links, as well.

[Guest Grayfox]

1984 ring a bell anyone?

big brother is watching...

[Menchise]

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Here's more: Democrats vs. New Media. This one's more political, and it has lots of good imebedded links, as well.

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That one's a bit too political. The author is trying to make it sound as if the rest of the Democratic Party supports Hollings' proposal, and that the Republicans don't (one of Hollings' sponsors is Republican). Unless Joe Lieberman starts praising it, I'm not convinced.