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Posted by Technomage Hawke on 04/26/06 05:49
a friend of mine wrote this and his words do tend to ring true....
he has this knack for spotting trends detrimental to the masses.
still: "copy a file and go to jail for 10 years" is a bit harsh, yet thats
what big content wants..
why can't we go back to what copyright was originally designed for (active
for a specified time and then reverts over to public domain)?
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" It will be known as the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006. Read
more here. (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060424-6660.html)
The bottom line is, if this passes, you have no more "Fair use" rights at
all. It's so serious in fact, that it would be hard not to be guilty of
breaking this proposed law if you own any sort of media content. (read the
article) This means your poor parents, or you will be going away for 10
years! per infraction. You like to "rip a DVD" to your laptop to save your
battery life on a trip? Under this new legislation you'll be a criminal,
and by their reasoning a "terrorist" too? If you're too young, they take
your parents away in your place.
This is no longer a wait, and see in the RIAA/MPAA gets their laws thrown
out for abuse. They're making their new laws even more hostile to
consumers.
I suggest a mass boycott (wikipedia) of all "Big Content" when this new law
passes onto the books. Cancel your Cable TV, and Satellite. Tell them why
when you cancel your service! Call up the anime redistributors, and make
them understand that you'll buy no more anime. Tell them about the DMCAv2.
Tell your friends, and their families. We buy no more DVDs, CDs, or
anything while this law is on the books. If it stays on the books donate
ALL of your DVDs to the MPAA, and ALL of your CDs to the RIAA. Even owning
them puts your whole family at risk.TEN years in prison is not worth your
latest episode of Inu Yasha. "
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or
numbered!
My life is my own - No. 6
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