Posted by Zombie Wolf on 10/25/05 17:42

This follows the same mindset that is rapidly eroding our civil rights. they
don't have to "buy" anything - all they have to do is convince a few
congressmen and judges that file sharing is "evil by its very nature" ..
fairly easy to do , since nobody is there to argue an opposing vewpoint....
What do you expect from a country that currently has laws that allow you to
be arrested if law enforcement "thinks you might commit a crime" ? They can
now bug your house, do illegal searches, listen in on client - lawyer
consultations and use that in court, etc, etc ad nauseum. the Patriot Act
allows them to all this and much more - without ever having to obtain a
warant or court order. They are answerable to noone. Following 9-11, what i
call red-white-and blue blindness struck the congress and house, and they
voted for anything and everything shoved at them by law enforcement....
Nobody questioned it, since they didnt want to be branded "unpatriotic" by
the Bush administration. Wake up - your rights as a defendant in court or
anywhere else were GONE quite a while ago. In the meantime we preach
"democracy" and "freedom" in places like Iraq, while there is none here at
home....

"pooter" <a@bff.com> wrote in message
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> Technobarbarian [d_murry-ztopzpam@excite.com] said
>> LOL, you keep watching this stuff like there's going to be some
>> sort
>> of magic bullet. If someone does find a real loophole the RIAA will buy a
>> fix very quickly.
>
> Do you not see that that is exactly why it is so interesting.
>
> It is one thing to get prosecuted because you have broken the law but
> quite another when the charge is trumped up by an organisation that
> believes they can buy convictions regardless of what the law actually
> says.
>
> And on top of that you have the apparent blackmail of a few individuals
> in an attempt to frighten off everyone else.
>
> If it was happening in certain countries with particular governments or
> dubious regimes, we would all tut-tut and say "well, what do you
> expect", but in the US?
>
> Yes, it is interesting indeed.
>

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