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« on: 23 April 2004, 07:59 »
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040423/ap_on_hi_te/internet_pirates_5

I'm seriously worried and wouldn't be surprised if within the next 5 years we begin to see the US government take similar strategy towards the internet as China has.

Freedom is disappearing by the day.
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« Reply #1 on: 23 April 2004, 21:23 »
It's amazing and sad.  Religious fanatic or not, Ashcroft wasn't so bad when he came in.  But then the RIAA and gang tossed him their blood money, and so is the events as posted above.  
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« Reply #2 on: 23 April 2004, 21:57 »
quote:
Originally posted by xeen:
Freedom is disappearing by the day.


Freedom to distribute other peoples work without permission or even paying for it?

like it or not, it IS illegal what they are doing.

thats like saying the cops take away my right and freedom to rob a kwik-e-mart.
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« Reply #3 on: 23 April 2004, 10:28 »
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Originally posted by Sauron: Fucking Awesome:


Freedom to distribute other peoples work without permission or even paying for it?

like it or not, it IS illegal what they are doing.

thats like saying the cops take away my right and freedom to rob a kwik-e-mart.



NO that is not what I meant. There are valid arguments on both sides of that issue, and I don't feel like going into that right now.

The rights I was referring to actually are not the ones being targetted by Ashcroft in this article, but what they all want to eventually achieve. It is my right to do whatever the bloody fuck I like with CDs and DVDs THAT I BUY. According to current law, it's even illegal for me to make copies of my own stuff. That is not right and will only get worse.
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« Reply #4 on: 23 April 2004, 10:41 »
ah, you left that part out which made your post come across a lot different ;-P

you sounded like you wanted the right to warez.
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« Reply #5 on: 23 April 2004, 15:46 »
quote:
Originally posted by Sauron: Fucking Awesome:
thats like saying the cops take away my right and freedom to rob a kwik-e-mart.


No it isn't. That's a particularly fatuous comparison to draw, and one that seems to be made often by people who have no respect for the right to share. Copying and stealing have nothing in common.
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« Reply #6 on: 23 April 2004, 19:21 »
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Originally posted by flap:
Copying and stealing have nothing in common.



Also true. It's been proven time and time again that those who download music and movies still go out and buy them, and that those who don't buy them wouldn't do so anyway if it had not been for downloading. The industry isn't loosing anything.

Tomorrow I'm gonna copy a DVD that I get from NetFlix and keep it for my collection. Had I not had the option of doing that, I STILL would not buy that DVD.
However I have copied lots of DVDs for different purposes and then still went out and bought the real thing.

Understand?
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« Reply #7 on: 24 April 2004, 06:11 »
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It's been proven time and time again that those who download music and movies still go out and buy them, and that those who don't buy them wouldn't do so anyway if it had not been for downloading. The industry isn't loosing anything.


That's irrelevant. Whether the industry is losing anything or not, copying shouldn't be restricted the way it is. In fact, as I've said before, if it's true that copying actually helps record labels etc. then in my opinion that's a bad thing.
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« Reply #8 on: 24 April 2004, 07:43 »
you know how you fight the RIAA

BOYCOTT

buy music form independant labels.
enough people are pissed so that a boycott can work

so burn copies of your cds and give them to ur friends instead of them buying the cds if they have to have them and other shit too.
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