Fair use goes bye bye!
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All I can say, which isn't self-evident, is that if this passes, I'll violate it at every opportunity and encourage others to do the same. I'll speak to police and suggest that they not enforce it. We need to squish the MPAA and RIAA down HARD. If you don't know who your Congresspeople are, see vote-smart.org and give it your 9-digit ZIP code. The only part of this I agree with is making it illegal to record a movie for the price of a single ticket. |
Don't mind making the movie recording illegal(thought it already was), and the file sharing goes without saying...won't stop it but it is stealing. But the choosing NOT to watch a commercial and making that activity illegal? That is some of the biggest BS I've ever heard. I need to make sure I post this up on other boards.
Thanks for the heads up. |
If the commercials that corporations pay to air end up being mandatory to watch by the consumer... thats an awful big step towards corporations ruling our lives. What's next? Forcing brand loyalty and jailing "traitors"? Shouldn't the corporations be serving *us* instead, under the punishment of losing customers?
Intellectual Property Law is actually something I want to start studying in the next year or so. I am definitely interested in preventing this sort of bs, and understanding how we came to this and where we're going from here. |
There should be no doubt among well-informed people who exactly their representatives - no matter whether they are Republican or Democrat - are truly representing.
Thankfully, though, we're still the ones with the votes. Contact your congresspersons and let them know that you do not support this and will not vote for someone who supports stripping you of your freedom. With the exception of a few places, lock picking materials are not illegal - they have legitimate uses. So why are copyright infringing materials - which also have legitimate uses - being pushed to be so? It's already illegal to break copyrights...it should not be made illegal to be CAPABLE of it. |
add another check mark in the pro column for moving to Canada.
Seriously, copyright laws are just getting too crazy now. You spend a good deal of money on something then you're told how you can and can't use it (Ipod) ..pfftt there has to be some sort of middle ground somewhere.. right.. ?? |
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Don't believe me? Tell that to the Europeans who are now busy fighting the possible introduction of software patents. The middle ground is to not treat people like criminals as the default. Breaking copyrights are already illegal. There's little need to do more than that. |
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The problem with government is the amount of power that can be wielded by wealthy lobby groups. Government no longer governs for the majority, but rather for those with the fattest wallets. |
Of course they would, and that's why these laws are only selectively enforced.
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This might be enough to finally get me to get rid of TV at my house for good. Not that I record TV or fast forward the commercials anyway, but the principle of the thing pisses me off. I would really, really miss football though. :(
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Besides, how on earth could anyone enforce this ridiculously silly act? Cops showing up at people's house at random, trying to catch people fast-forwarding through commercials of taped television shows? The whole thing is just about as absurd as any other bill trying to be passed in Congress to help try to support some entertainment industry or another. |
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