MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought
from the sickening dept
Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what's happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they'd better pass Hollywood's favorite legislation... or else:"Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,"This certainly follows what many people assumed was happening, and fits with the anonymous comments from studio execs that they will stop contributing to Obama, but to be so blatant about this kind of corruption and money-for-laws politics in the face of an extremely angry public is a really, really, really tone deaf response from Dodd.
It shows, yet again, that he just doesn't get it. People were protesting not just because of the content of these bills, but because of the corrupt process of big industries like Dodd's "buying" politicians and "buying" laws. To then come out and make that threat explicit isn't a way to fix things or win back the public. It's just going to get them more upset, and to recognize just how corrupt this process is. If Dodd, as he said in yesterday's NY Times, really wanted to turn things around and come to a more reasonable result, this is exactly how not to do it. It shows, yet again, a DC-insider's mindset. He used Fox News to try to "send a message" to politicians. But the internet already sent a much louder message... and, even worse for Dodd, he bizarrely sent his message in a way that everyone who's already fed up with this kind of corruption can see it too. It really makes you wonder what he's thinking and how someone so incompetent at this could keep his job.
The MPAA doesn't need a DC insider explicitly demanding the right to buy laws and buy politicians. The MPAA needs a reformer, one who helps guide Hollywood into the opportunities of a new market place. The MPAA needs someone who actually understands the internet, and helps lead the studios forward. That's apparently not Chris Dodd.
Public Knowledge issued a fantastic statement that not only highlights the ridiculousness of Dodd's threats, but also the hypocrisy of the Hollywood studios on this issue:
Public Knowledge welcomes constructive dialog with people from all affected sectors about issues surrounding copyright, the state of the movie industry and related concerns. Cybersecurity experts, Internet engineers, venture capitalists, artists, entrepreneurs, human rights advocates, law professors, consumers and public-interest organizations, among others should be included. They were shut out of the process for these bills.
We suggest that in the meantime, if the MPAA is truly concerned about the jobs of truck drivers and others in the industry, then it can bring its overseas filming back to the U.S. and create more jobs. It could stop holding states hostage for millions of dollars in subsidies that strained state budgets can’t afford while pushing special-interest bills through state legislatures. While that happens, discussions could take place.
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What a beautiful system you have there. I'm sure it works really well.
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I'm positive that this was meant to be sarcastic, however
I'm also positive that a certain small percentage of the population actually does think it is working really well,
until recently that is - lol.
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Not according to MapLight.
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More info:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68448_Page4.html
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And on a more individual level:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/284618/20120119/lamar-smith-sopa-lobbying-campaign-finance-c ongress.htm
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Oh, and of course none of that mentions that money that the MPAA spends lobbying law enforcement directly:
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-anti-piracy-lobbying-targets-fbi-110622/
...which, so far as I can tell, the tech industries do not.
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Corroborating evidence via four different links
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one blog entry citing numbers from elsewhere .....
Who should I believe - what a difficult decision.
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Get real, guys!
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Him: You know that video games are bad for you, right?
Me: That's what the Egyptians said about writing. That's what the Early Christians said about punctuation and spaces between words. That's what Congress said about jazz music. (And I did memorize those lines due to people often saying that)
Him: ...well, it's not like that will always be the case.
So, yeah. I think that's what the MPAA and RIAA are thinking.
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Get real, guys!
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Karl is 100 percent accurate. The problem that I had with Opensecrets is that the money could not be filtered into what MPAA centered industries had and what technology industries donated to politicians.
So Sony Music and Google are considered tech industries.
But with all of the focus on which exact industries were afflicted, that information has since been updated.
Also, just to drive a stake here, Sunlight Foundation's research
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Are you seriously claiming the conservatives are different?
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Indeed, some people are willfully ignorant.
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"with liberals in control I seriously doubt anything will be done about it"
Well, we'll probably not find out in our lifetimes, as there are maybe three actual liberals in office right now (hint: Obama's not one of them -- he's a right-leaning centrist), and those are the only liberals available. There is, effectively, no liberal political force in the US right now, and hasn't been for at least a few generations.
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Cracks me up when I hear someone refer to CNN as liberal and I have been laughed at several times after stating that Obama is a centrist.
Many people are ignorant and/or deceitful when it comes to the political spectrum and where certain politicians and publications stand in that spectrum.
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We'll accept any explicit and public declaration of any tech company that they're openly bribing a politician (fair is fair).
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Works for me!
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either way, you know what he meant due to context, so why be a grammar/spelling nazi about it?
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The tech industry doesn't threaten public figures.
The entertainment industry does.
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Figures.
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This is not tech vs. media; this is common sense vs. stupidity. Or good law vs. bad law.
If the tech industry ever unanimously supports an awful bill, I will rip them to shreds just the same.
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try again trololo
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Sleazy? Yes
Illegal? No
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Us:Actually it's not, the courts have rules that infrinement...
Them:Doesn't matter, to us infringement falls under our definition of theft.
Us: So basically, your admitting you regularly bribe Congress.
Them:Actually it's not bribery, the courts would rule that "donations"...
Us: Doesn't matter, to us your donations fall under our definition of bribery.
Hey, we're just playing by your rules here. Deal with it.
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You can't.
Everyone sees that.
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Isn't this is one of their biggest fears and why they are pushing for their censorship capabilities so hard?
Competition is difficult, so why not just remove it.
Ahhhh - the good old days, huh.
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Explained here. They want us to go back to consuming content, not generating it. We're competing with them by not being couch potatoes.
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The Media conglomerates fear us? GOOD!!! They've been too comfy regurgitating the same old ideas over and over and over again, for decades. I see more brilliant stuff created by ordinary people than by the Media monstrosity. I'd much rather go to my local club to see a band play their own music than spend a fortune to see some media-hyped creation. Inevitably, the local band members are much better musicians and so are their songs.
Fight PIPA and SOPA and anything the Media giants try to foist upon us in the future that denies, or fundamentally changes, our rights!
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I write articles to post on the Internet and I put them in the public domain so people can rip them off legally. I want people to "rip them off" if that's what you call copying. I want them to get the widest circulation possible, because I'm doing it for the purpose of winning people to Jesus for the forgiveness of their wrongdoings and the salvation of their souls. Otherwise they'll go to hell.
How does that grab you?
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Subjective and deliberately obtuse.
One mans trash is another mans treasure.
That aside, even if I made some mega-super-fantastic multi-million revenue piece of published media I wouldn't give a damn if anyone downloads it or otherwise (plagiarism is another matter, otherwise I'd scrap copyright in it's entirely right now and leave the world all the better off without it).
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*MOST* original content out there was produced for a lot less than a million dollars - including all the stuff I've worked on that people have found valuable enough to warez.
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> You can't.
If it were true that nobody else could make valuable content, then why are you so worried about Creative Commons Licensing ?
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You first.
You can't
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So what's your point?
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Dodd is an asshole and so are these Politicians as they are taking the money.
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yes, admitted to bribery
- but he hasn't broken any copyright laws. And isn't that what's most important?
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That's enough for a RICO case against the MPAA, isn't it?
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Therefore, no money equals no speech.
First amendment: "Congress shall make no law ..."
The 1st amendment says nothing about the other branches of government because those branches are not authorized to create new laws. These other branches have been attempting to skirt this distinction for some time and apparently the constitution is now more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
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But one should not need money to be allowed speech.
I will not agree that a corporation is is a person until Texas executes one.
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Bribery, a form of corruption, is an act implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty.
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I see what you did there ...
bribed politician == prostitute.
However, politicians are take to the high court where everything is peaches 'n cream. Where as most everyone else is taken to low court where you get screwed but you are not paid for it.
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For those advocating a boycott of major studio/label content, it is a viable strategy, yet I do not believe it can be effective unless it is both organized and extremely widespread, such that the participants number in the tens of millions to hundreds of millions.
I believe that an official boycott month should perhaps be declared and promoted all around the internet�Worldwide Media Boycott Month. It would be best for this organized boycott to take place during the summer, as it is during Hollywood's blockbuster season and it would hit them hardest at that point. Get major consumer rights organizations such as the EFF involved, as well as high-profile websites like reddit, Wikipedia, and Google, so that as many people as possible across the world can be made aware of the boycott and participate in it.
These sites and organizations could provide information about the reasons behind the boycott and links to alternative content, much as many did about SOPA/PIPA during the recent blackouts, as well as statements of intent in regards to beginning a widespread, full-scale investigation of Hollywood and the major labels' business and financial practices as well as those of the top level executives including Chris Dodd, with petitions and information for contacting congresspeople to promote and sustain such an investigation.
As for the matter of our voting the current officials out of office, it would be a sound strategy were it not for the fact that our votes have little direct effect on election results. The process has long been rigged against us, and I have come to wonder if it should not be done away with entirely, and political service reformed to be more akin to jury duty, where one is randomly chosen and serves for a period of one year, no more, with a modest stipend and no multiple terms.
One difference from jury duty would be that entry into the selection pool would be voluntary. A congress of teachers, office workers, waiters, artists, writers, actors, cab drivers, delivery people, doctors, and people of every other profession would, I think, have a far better sense of loyalty to the populace than the group of wealthy bureaucrats who currently infest our government.
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One difference from jury duty would be that entry into the selection pool would be voluntary. A congress of teachers, office workers, waiters, artists, writers, actors, cab drivers, delivery people, doctors, and people of every other profession would, I think, have a far better sense of loyalty to the populace than the group of wealthy bureaucrats who currently infest our government."
This reminds me of a Tom Clancy book. I believe it's "Debt of Honor". Where the main character to put it rather simply, accidentally becomes President. He hates the bureaucratic process and the people who work the system to keep themselves and their agendas ahead of the interest of the people and the country as a whole. So he gives a stirring speech asking for exactly the type of people you listed to run for office, in the novel, this frightens the lobbyists and the traditional elected officials. Why? Because now the common man can run for elected office and does so victoriously to some extent in the book.
I think the speech he gives is something along the lines of "I want doctors who help people in office, because they know what's going on and what the problems are and how best to fix them without jumping through hoops. I want teachers who are aware of the problems in our education system to help create laws and bills that will put our children's education first and foremost. I want farmers who grow and raise the food we eat, etc etc etc."
Which makes sense. I'd rather listen to someone who knows what they're talking about and has firsthand experience in a given field drafting laws related to those fields, than someone who has a desk job and listens to lobbyists who are only presenting what's best for them, as opposed to us.
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Talking to the media is not a crime, at least not yet.
What he admitted to certainly is. Can you tell the difference?
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So just like you have in the States, a senator for NY and Texas etc you'd have one who represented the best interests of the net, determined of course by the platform they stood on.
Obviously all countries can have their own representative.
More and more thru 2011 we saw issue after issue after issue on how the Gov.ts (wilfully?) misuinderstand what happens online alongside the disgruntled comments on forum after forum that no-one in the political world is talking for our communities.
In a time where some people spend half their waking life online isn't about time cyberspace had it's own voice to fight back against the old/dumb/crooked politicians?
OK so there's huge issues related to how you could vote for them, but still it's an idea worth considering, despite how stupid it sounds.
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One net world government.
I can see that going down well with certain types.
Commie Conspiracy, lizard people, blah blah blah
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At least we'd have Skynet under unde rthe "Networld" idea.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_N6CzAIZU8
Wait... what? European union? North American Union? Amero?
Who would believe that crap as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4I3xVGRzws&
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It would have to promote scientific/technological advancement and also freedom and inclusiveness.
I doubt very seriously that any new party will be able to break into the good old boys club that Washington has become, but the last few days have also shown that the internet can be a powerful tool to mobilize people and to make an end run around business as usual in DC.
We use the internet to put the power of government back into the hands of We the People.
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At this point, it's almost impossible to fight them directly on their own turf, their stranglehold over media and government is just far to great. If anything, I think the protest may have created a tipping point in history where an online campaign could have a fighting chance. It's time that we bring the fight on OUR turf on OUR terms. Bring the campaigns online. Bring the fundraising online. Bring "town halls" online. Bring the debates online.
The Net largely takes the issues of cost and access out of the equation, this is completely doable. Of course, that's not to say real world face time with voters isn't important--it's crucial. It's also expensive. However, once the Internet candidates get momentum, getting funding shouldn't be a problem.
The biggest threat to such a movement, of course, is the same as it always has been--traditional media. Their "journalist" no longer have any qualms with spreading half-truths and bold faced lies with the kind of fervor that gets listeners riled up and into the polls. Over shouting their numbers at the polls is going to be hard, as is getting their attention and turning them around to see that the old guard never any stake in their interest at all.
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Fighting against the Democrat Or Republican Elitists,
Let's get the DOPEs out of Congress.
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Many European countries already have those. Check the Pirate Party of Finland, for example: http://www.piraattipuolue.fi/english
Maybe it's time you followed our lead. :)
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It isn't a bad idea. In fact it wouldn't be a bad idea to take champaining and everything online so it wasn't so money driven in the first place.
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It's ridiculous that people think that they don't have a choice. There is a choice. STAND UP. Talk. Vote.
It's the only way things will get better.
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Actually, no, this isn't anything like a complete solution.
First, there are very few candidates in the offing who are not corrupted to some degree. Most elections boil down to picking the least corrupt -- but the choices offered are still all corrupt.
Second, the system itself is geared to require corruption. If a completely honest politician is elected, they are be ineffectual. They are unable to get legislation modified or passed. They have to compromise -- to become corrupted -- in order to get anything accomplished at all.
We can't vote our way out of this problem. Voting is important, yes, but insufficient.
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The Tea Party proved that they can get their people there, they just didn't had any legislation in hands, in Japan Koizumi showed everyone in the world how it is done with the Koizumi Children, he was being blocked by the Japanese parliament so he just told the Japanese public on whom to vote and after that he got his laws passed.
The key is to have the laws ready to be enacted and then just worry about people who can deliver their votes for those laws.
The drafting of those laws has to occur in the public space and only after agreed upon by the majority of people move to congress, the tools for that are here already, what is needed is an iLaw editor kind of things, something that can make the process painless to everyone, so they can group together, discuss, write, review and vote.
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Since I began using the internet I have seen a marked reduction in the number of racist comments or racially motivated trolling etc. that I see online, while out on the city streets there is a marked rise in racially motivated and generally violent crimes (stabbings in particular).
I wonder if it would actually be possible to appoint a single person or organisation to represent the e-views of the populous, given the hyper-complex and personal nature of individual internet use per person? Every single person I know uses the net in a different way!
Would love to know other peoples opinions on this, feel free to reply!
OOPArt
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How? Did you not bother to have an offline backup (in which case you're a fool), or did you just use Megaupload as the primary distribution method? if the latter, stop whining and use the hundreds of other file lockers to distribute your software. Those sites need people like you to help prove that the lies about them being used purely for piracy are simply lies.
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There are a few people who used Megaupload to distribute free stuff, but it was really a bad idea - the idle time deletion means that you can't trust your files to stick around *ANYHOW*, and the site does a great job of making everything hosted on it look dodgy.
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No one, not for one minute, should ever assume SOPA, PIPA and similar bills are dead, stake in the heart and body nailed in the coffin covered with garlic. This is now a riskier game, about to be played out in the shadows, and will be passed in the dark of night when they think nobody is looking.
And remember the watchmen -- Murdoch, NBC/Comcast, etc. -- are supporting these bills. It's in their best incentive to look away.
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DODD: We've Given Our QUID, We Want Our QUO!
Isn't attempted bribery illegal also?
Sounds like an admission of guilt to me.
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It's supposed to work that a politician as a platform and a company or individual donates to support that platform. It DOES become bribery when those funds are given with an expectation that the politician will act against his platform and instead in the interests of that 'donor'.
It's an incredibly thin line.
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They give money to get action on specific issues that directly impact them, that is the definition of bribery.
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Hey Dodd...
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Response to: PrometheeFeu on Jan 20th, 2012 @ 7:05pm
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It seems quite clear that the temp setback to SOPA/PIPA has put his lobbying job at stake.
"Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake"
All he is saying is that they made him promises and then reneged on him and he could lose his job over it.
It seems we have located the one job that SOPA/PIPA was to protect.
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Wait ... no ...
but ... but ... but ... Job.
uhm ... how about
but ... but ... but ... work.
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This is awful, but he's dead.
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No jobs
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but ... but ... but ... my welfare.
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Nobody "promised" him anything.
If he gave a politician money, that's his choice.
Legally, it did not obligate the politician to do anything for him, any more than if a private citizen gave a politician money.
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Only with lobbying it is actually true in general rather than only being true in minor specific instances as it might be with some poorly thought out social welfare systems.
It creates dependency.
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Were you there during the conversations, or do you have a recording of them?
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But here, Dodd essentially admitted that he and the organization he represents is actively engaged in the corruption of the legal system. Where are the AC's demanding Dodd be brought up on charges, if they're so concerned about the rule of law? They're not, of course. They're just corporate shills who are concerned with corporate profits, laws be damned. They believe that the only good laws are ones that protect their profits. This is why they'll push for legislation like the DMCA and SOPA that suppress free speech because they only care about profits rather than civil rights repercussions.
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Hell, where are all the AC's, period? The silence from them in the last couple of days has been deafening, even on the MegaUpload case which you'd expect them to be cheerfully gloating about.
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Dodd to Congress: We bought and paid for these bills so do as you are told. Who cares what the public thinks even if it could cost you your job. We paid for you to be more concerned about MY job.
So now that the worst fears of people have been confirmed why bother with the silliness of elections? Pick a person for each district and they go to Washington paid by the highest bidder. For the Senate it would be two per state with the same rules in effect.
Same for the President.
That way. at least, we'd all know who owned whom. That's about the only mystery left. None of them are there to serve the citizenry.
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I have no idea how anyone could one-up a public declaration of bribing politicians in exchange for monopoly rights, but maybe they can pull it off.
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The only thing that could make me laugh harder would be to see the actual indictment.
Thank you, sir, for putting a smile on my face tonight!
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That would be epic ....
MPAA: We'll stop giving you bribe money unless ......
Congress: We'll remove copyright
MPAA: Oppps - on second thought, lets discuss this
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But I am afraid that threatening campaign contributions is effective, even though it shows to everyone what really happens in Washingtonian, it is all about the money, congress only changed its mind after companies did a blackout because companies donate money.
That is why people need to bring the process of law making outside of Washington or any other political location and into the public, crowdsourced law making.
Then people can attack the tools that are used to justify such nonsense from those people and that is ending the granted monopolies given to some(i.e. copyright and patents).
Monopolies makes everybody poor.
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Refreshing Honesty
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We need to petition congress to ban them
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Everyone that doesn't support SOPA is a traitor
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Considering that the PIPA/SOPA crowd are/were trying to do just that with the passage of these bills, then yeah, that's almost certain to be satire. Or massive, unbelievable stupidity. One of the two.
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Satire: yes or no?
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Satire: yes or no?"
my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
sarcasm: yes or no?
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u'd have have them all in guantanamo no doubt but that will not stop it, this new way of 'sharin' is only gonna get bigger no matter attempts to thwart them is tried, they will always find a away around it
and as for 'honest businesses', pllleeeaze give uz all a break, n' take ur blinkers off, u don't see the film studio'z or the recording label'z showin much of a dent in their annual profits, especially with companies like amazon around, they are always going to make massive profits. most of their profits don't even come from cd'z or dvd'z, so it'z time u and them stopped bitching about what amountz to, (in the grand scheme of things), a drop in the ocean, which is more than compensated by other avenuez of revenue.
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They simply don't want to jump into all the muck, especially since "ordinary people" no longer get elected. You need to be ridiculously rich to win.
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Chris Dodd is an old school criminal for real.
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This guy acted like a vile little dishonest turd throughout the last few months, and nothing gives me more joy than watching him shriek hysterical threats. He's scared. His power has dropped off dramatically. And worst of all, it was a bunch of powerless nobodies who defeated him.
And now he's freaking out and shrieking anything that crosses his tiny evil mind. It's so fun to watch!
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This guy acted like a vile little dishonest turd throughout the last few months, and nothing gives me more joy than watching him shriek hysterical threats. He's scared. His power has dropped off dramatically. And worst of all, it was a bunch of powerless nobodies who defeated him.
And now he's freaking out and shrieking anything that crosses his tiny evil mind. It's so fun to watch!
Textbook example of the saying: "When a control freak loses control, that person FREAKS.
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Response to: demented on Jan 20th, 2012 @ 9:15pm
He's not acting.
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Blatant
The Internet Party. IP. I like it.
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Throwing the punches and roughing people up, but as soon as someone calls him out, he complains and cries about not being allowed in the sandbox again..
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Dodd's a dud
How sad.
R.I.P. democracy :(
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Bribery, a form of corruption, is an act implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery]
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Lets take a closer look shall we?
The MAFIAA gives money (an item of value) to politicians (a person in charge of a legal duty) in order to get them to vote in favor of SOPA/PIPA (influencing their actions).
Normally this sort of thing isn't easy to prove, but this is as good as a confession to it. Upon discovering that many of the politicians (a person in charge of a legal duty) did not vote in favor of his legislation (he attempted to influence their actions but failed) he threatens to stop giving any politician whom won't back his legislation campaign funds (the item of value).
He is guilty of and should be charged with at least bribery, if not bribery, blackmail and threatening Congress. But given his position and power, to think he'll be investigated by the FBI/SS, let alone arrested or charged, is absurd.
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The bar should be higher in politics.
1% of people have all the money, and they use it to buy laws for them, that is not a democracy, it is just another form of feudal system cloaked under the disguise of something else.
Aside from that the balls to say it in public to the face of the 99% is just asking for trouble.
I think Mr. Dodds forget what it means to be a representative of the US congress, it means they can investigate the entertainment industry and start inquiries one after the other, it means they could change laws to diminish the power of copyrights that don't need to be so strong, the next act that could come out of congress could be PPDA(Protect Public Domain Act) limiting the duration of copyrights to 75 years.
That would send a message to Dobbs and anyone else and it would be greated with applause from the public, they wouldn't lose one vote.
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Paying politicians money to pass legislation that you want, is illegal because it is an attempt to corrupt the government and interfere with and undermine the democratic will of the people (please note how this would be wrong even if there were not laws against it) and admitting to attempted bribery, in fact complaining about the failure of your bribery should in itself be enough to warrant arrest and trial.
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It's strange, but I've read his comment twice and I don't see where he mentions Google. Where are you reading that?
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Fight back
I NEED YOUR HELP!
First, at least read the lead on the attached story. Then look below, I have created a petition on we the people to have Chris Dodd and the MPAA investigated for Bribery by the Obama Adminstration. If this petition reaches 150 signatures it will be visible on the page. If it reaches 25,000 signatures it will be addressed by the Obama administration directly.
I NEED YOUR HELP!
Please do two things: Sign the petition and reshare the article and the petition together so that we can at least have a chance of seeing some justice on this issue.
If you care about SOPA and PIPA, this is how you can fight back against the villains who want to hijack the Internet.
http://wh.gov/KiE
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I've signed it and posted a link on my FB and twitter account.
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Chris Dodd Is Corrupt
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123362399705441875.html
http://www.fireandreamitchel l.com/chris-dodd-countrywide-scandal-mortgage-fraud-and-aig-bonus-scandal/ (Here's the bloody scandal right HERE)
I could have been homeless because of Country-Wide!!!
Dodd is crap and SOPA/PIPA I couldn't least expect from him. Sad to say Connecticut has a history of corrupt politicians white-collaring.
SPREAD THOSE LINKS AROUND. THIS IS THE CHRIS-DODD WHO WANTS TO CENSOR THE INTERNET BUT TAKES FINANCIAL FAVORS FROM CORRUPT COMPANIES.
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Symbiosis
Personally, I really, really hate politicians - first, and foremost, because of their inherent self-serving greed and corruptness; and coming in a fast second, they quickly forget who put them in office in the first place - we, the voters. We, who trusted them to go forth and help run our country in a sane and honest manner, are invariably left with a bad taste in our mouths as we discover that we were simply pawns in a game of deceit, a game of power and money. I will never trust a politician, at any level, to be honest and stand up for the benefit of their constituents.
What is truly needed here is a law that would make it illegal for a politician to accept 'donations' - of any kind, from anyone. Let them stump about on their own dime if they want to reach the voters with their chosen platform of lies and deceptions. It would be my desire to see every politician's time at bat limited to four years - and no more, ever. Once you've completed your 'public service' in office, you're out and someone else gets their turn. Never should we have people in an elected position for any longer - it begs to be corrupted. Never should we have politicians sponsoring laws that would only benefit a group, a class, or an industry to the detriment of the whole. Laws should only be made to prevent evil, at whatever level, and to promote the greater good for all.
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I would love to see more non-career-politicians in office, but to do that we need to make it _easier_ for good people to run.
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Not self-funding, public funding. Nobody is allowed to contribute to a campaign fund, including the person running. All campaign funds come from tax revenue. Yes, it would be expensive, but how much is honest democracy worth?
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My senator office thought this was business as usual
Term limits would seriously shake up politics. The industry would be overwhelmed by constant effort to corrupt new incoming officials.
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Sure they don't have any stocks in the MPAA/RIAA? What an ignorant statement.
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I still like the idea of elected officials having to wear NASCAR style patches on their suits with their largest campaign contributors listed. At the very least you would know which corporation or PAC you are really talking to.
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Term limits would seriously shake up politics.
If the problem is campaign contributions, the solution is not term limits. The solution is to get rid of campaign contributions.
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Chris Dodd Corruption
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2008/06/sen-christopher-dodd-tied-to-c.html
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Chris Dodd TODAY Investigation
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Warm up the guillotines folks, the 1% is ripe again.
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The simple turth
I guess that he forgot that the "fright club" can only exist as long as everyone obeys the first rule.
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Dodd is Completely Without Ethics or Shame
To go on national television and pretty much complain that he bought votes and then people reneged on the deal is like something out of one of the bad movies that is produced by the people that he represents. It is not unlike some whacked-out druggie calling the police to tell them that their dealer shortchanged them.
This disconnect from reality is nothing new from the MPAA or their Dodd. I initially believed that all of the blatantly false information they were offering up to justify their lunacy was simply an attempt at misdirection or deceit.
Now a much more disturbing scenario is starting to appear even more likely.
They actually believe it.
An entire industry along with their lobbyist in chief Chris Dodd has made the terrible mistake of believing their own hype. This is the hazard when you manufacture fantasy worlds for a living. One might start choosing to live in them.
Deluded as he is Chris Dodd is not entirely off base in his belief that votes are for sale and that many but thank God not all of our lawmakers can be rented by the hour like so many common prostitutes. His anger is somewhat understandable. One can almost imagine him sitting in nothing but a shirt on the edge of a hotel room bed yelling at an open doorway, "But I paid for the whole hour!"
It would be funny and sad if they were not so much of a threat. The MPAA and RIAA have set themselves up as an enemy to the American people and to the free world. They have to be stopped. If only there was some way that we as consumers could somehow stop their supply of income so that the were unable to continue their attacks and corruption and lies.
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I respectfully ask that you apologise to the men and the women who choose prostitution as their career, for insinuating that their occupation lies on the same low level as Chris Dodd.
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Direct, public threats
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Chris Dodd's new gig
The motion picture industry is one in which manufactured reality, suspension of public disbelief, and manipulation of the viewing public are the prime concern. A career in politics on the other hand . . . Oh. Wait. Oops.
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We won a battle last week, but let's be clear about this--the score isn't "Internet 1, Hollywood 0", It's more like "Internet 1, Hollywood 36". And now that we have their full attention, expect them to start fighting dirtier and more secretly than ever before. One other commenter likened it to a group of pepper-spraying police being routed by a sudden flash mob. Now it's just a matter of time before they bring in their SWAT team.
We can't win on their terms. We can't play the money and lobbyist game and expect to easily overcome such an entrenched foe. But there is one thing we CAN do:
We cut their supply lines. Stop going to the movies. Stop buying DVDs or CDs from MAFIAA affiliated groups. Organize a boycott on the scale of the Jan 18 internet blackout and keep it going for as long as it takes. Not just one week. Not just one month. AS LONG AS IT TAKES, until they no longer have enough cash to pay to play.
Don't think it would work? I wasn't sure the SOPA blackout would work. I didn't think there were enough people out there that would care about something that wasn't reality TV, but look what happened only a couple of days later. Now imagine a blackout that hits their wallet instead of just their puppets. It's not like you'll be missing much anyway, given the quality of what comes out of the MAFIAA labels these days. Use the money to support independent artists instead, if you want to. At least that way you'll actually be supporting a creator instead of parasitic middlemen.
The MPAA/RIAA started this fight. With SOPA/PIPA, they've declared open war on the internet. Don't let them win. Their power only comes from their money, and we are the ones that choose whether or not to give them money. Don't give them the weapons today that they'll use to attack you, your freedom, and your livelihood tomorrow. Starve their war chest, and let's see how many politicians they can afford to buy a couple of years from now.
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Things have not changed. Politicians are not your friends.
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Throw Them Out
Let's make a pledge to throw most incumbants out of office next election cycle.
I've started a list to try to keep track of the "Good" ones and would welcome any suggestions for additions: http://politicalmiasma.com/2012/01/19/the-good-politicians-list/.
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Like mortally wounded animals, those who have built empires on it will lash out with their dying gasps in any way they can to survive.
Who, with an ounce of compassion could begrudge them the effort?
But, just as if we were watching some poor animal, we protect ourselves while letting nature take its course.
Many who have known and loved these creatures of the industrial era quite naturally are moved to try to save them, while we who have lived with the new technology for many years know that their virtual extinction is inevitable.
Online copyright infringement is assuredly a major problem. PIPA/SOPA supporters however, have chosen to publicly focus on foreign perpetrators only in order to head off opposition were the public to know that no such distinction between domestic and foreign infringement exists in the bills.
We want to encourage and support creativity and innovation while minimizing
copycats. Creativity and innovation comes from artists, writers, composers, programmers and other creators. PIPA/SOPA would make it much more difficult for these people to eliminate the now unneeded middlemen and bring their creations directly to their audiences.
Congress must not be intimidated by these fading business creatures.
Just stand back, let them exhaust themselves, and make way for the future.
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FTFY.
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For good or bad... Hollywood "GNP" is 80% Jewish owend and run...
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Avoiding taxes in time of war
Normally, it would simply be dishonest but since we are at war and they are sleezing out of the taxes that pay for the war effort it sure looks like Treason to me.
A favorite of theirs is called the Double Dutch Sandwich where expenses are claimed in the US and profits are hidden outside the US.
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MPAA threats
Just a thought but by distributing and providing step by step instructions on effective use of the file sharing software according to the very laws being used to arrest every one from teenagers to Mega-upload wouldn�t that make the SOPARISTS as guilty if not MUCH more so ?
Also wouldn�t providing the tools necessary, step by step instruction, comparisons and ongoing encouragement be legally regarded as IMPLIED CONSENT or at the VERY least entrapment? Just askin
So to sum up The very groups that originally provided the tools necessary, step by step instruction, comparisons and ongoing encouragement for citizens to download media from the internet are now punishing the leader of the country for not handing over defacto control of the net and arranging to incarcerate ANY citizens using the VERY tools they worked so very hard to get into use�Am I missing anything ? WoW!!!
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A new priority
I think the MPAA has rightly looked at the music business and the "new market" and the "opportunity" that Steve Jobs showed them and said no thanks.
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Transformation, not reformation
Some may see it as splitting hairs, but I think the MPAA (and many, many more organizations and entities) don't need to be reformed . . . which is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on you-know-what. What they need is a radical transformation into enterprises that understand and make use of the new tools available to them to effect change.
The Internet, especially in its 2.0 incarnation, is not a reformation of how we communicate and interact; it's a far reaching transformation that's affecting everything we do - including how we responded to SOPA & PIPA. We need leaders who understand or, at the very least, are open to learning about, the changes taking place in communication and, yes, entertainment. Dodd clearly isn't one of them.
I'm sure transformation is what you meant :)
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I wouldn't say it's splitting hairs, just incorrect. ;-)
reform: Verb: Make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
It doesn't say small changes, just changes. Radical transformation is a type of reform.
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"Ackoff defines "REFORM" as "to leave a system as it is and try to change its behavior through a modification of the means it employs." This, he says, is about "doing things right." Reforming teacher pay would be to attempt to change behavior by changing the means by which teachers get paid.
"He defines "TRANSFORM" as " to change a system's objectives or ends and the means it employs to acheive those ends." This, he says, is about "doing the right things." Tranforming teacher pay would be to match the pay system with the explicit outcomes of the new education system."
The article says nothing about "radical" reform. I'm merely trying to point out that doing the same things somewhat differently likely won't get us useful results. Based on the teachings of Ackoff (and others, e.g. Deming and Drucker) I think the distinction is important.
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Something along the lines of
We the people are suing MPAA for _____ fill in the blank.
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There has to be a way for the people to bring suit legally against someone of an organization trying to do harm to the United States. Or lets call them what they want to be called too "people" Because Dodd is speaking as "the" people for the MPAA then we can sue the "whole" MPAA Every division, extension, regardless of where they are located at because they claim to be a people. So even Dodd's words, or any of them that threaten the US can be taken to court.
The Constitution says we have a right to protect our Country. Against foreign and domestic. Dodd threatened our politicians.
As an American we should have the right to sue/charge the MPAA because Dodd threaten our politicians.
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"Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,"
His job is at stake, because they are paying him a shit ton of money not because he can solve their problems, but because of the influence they hope he can peddle.
His job should be to tell the studios that it is the 21st century and it might be time to bite the bullet and *gasp* adapt.
Instead they expected him to "lobby" (read bribe) Congress into giving them everything they ever wanted. It doesn't matter if it would make things less safe, would leave the door open to massive censorship, or anything else. He wanted to show his new overlords he had clout. He almost made it...and then was stopped, by some "nerds" and people who spend less on their political access than he pays for lunch.
This is a man who most likely will be fired by June unless he manages to deliver something. His ass is on the line, and rather than look for real solutions to a supply & demand based problem in the business model they use - he decided they could just buy another decade for the business model.
He is still working just like a regular Congresscritter though - creating an issue not directly related to the real problem, create the ultimate solution, ignore the repercussions. (See TSA for prime example).
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This is more than just an admission of financial bribery. It's also an admission of intended blackmail. It's all hidden in the wording.
"Don't ask me[...] "don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake""
In other-words: "If you keep doing what we tell you to, we'll keep your "dirty laundry" on the down-low. But if you stop dancing to our tune, we won't ignore your "dirty laundry".
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This speaks of arrogance.
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What is the problem?
The problem here is that the net/web is flawed. The nerds forgot they need to finance the production of new content. They just built simple cheap webservices to distribute (copy) stuff that already exist. We are doomed to only have cover-bands in the future.
And all the rhetoric and finger-pointing elsewhere, all the name-calling "old media", "dinosaurs" will not hide this fact. The nerds and the web2.0-heads are now asking for free content "you will be rewarded in heaven". Or "Google will pay a (very-very small) amount when they monetize your content".
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Better tell that to these guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALSKBc_Hk4
They've already cut their own album full of original songs.
Basement band. They don't have a garage.
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He is a friends son and he plays almost all day everyday.
He is explosive on the drums and a blur to watch.
I'll be sure to tell them, if not show them, your comment.
Knowing them as I do, I feel confident in issuing a big THANK-YOU on their behalf.
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What is the problem?
The problem here is that the net/web is flawed. The nerds forgot they need to finance the production of new content. They just built simple cheap webservices to distribute (copy) stuff that already exist. We are doomed to only have cover-bands in the future.
And all the rhetoric and finger-pointing elsewhere, all the name-calling "old media", "dinosaurs" will not hide this fact. The nerds and the web2.0-heads are now asking for free content "you will be rewarded in heaven". Or "Google will pay a (very-very small) amount when they monetize your content".
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Hugely flawed argument. And I would rather have a future filled with cover bands than no free Internet.
And you're just perpetuating the usual lies that the big corporations are feeding you. It's been shown that lots of "nerds" DO buy content, but they don't want to just blindly gobble up the crap the dinosaur old media produces.
Oh, and piracy is possible WITHOUT the web. I once gave a friend a burn of three CDs I owned and paid for, so he could see if he liked the bands. Guess what: HE BOUGHT THE CDS HIMSELF, and some bands got a new fan.
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No need to wait. For example:
http://www.jamendo.com
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Burn the MPAA
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corrupt idiots blowing OUR money, they have to be stopped
I look at it this way. Why be spending all our money to "protect" our country with our back door wide open? Would any citizen allow some stranger that broke into their home, stay? Would they pay for their food, medical, housing, give them cash and then let that burglar demand better food? demand to let the rest of the family move in? Bring the military home from all 150 bases all around the world. It is like paying people to like us and that never works. Uncle Joe is getting $5,000 a week from you, threatening that if you don't keep paying him the money that he will go to the other neighbors and bad mouth you. We know Joe is never going to be able to stand on his own, run his own life, heck, where is the motivation? They are doing it all wrong! There is NO way Japan needs money, or China or any of the others. We need to be able to keep more of the money we earn. When a country has a tragedy, we can help along with other countries, but when they start living much better than us, things have to change. It started before Reagan and has spread like cancer and is so out of control that it is going to take a revolution from ALL the people, get us back on our feet, fix our country. Pay the seniors their money, pay the Veterans MORE for risking their lives, the injuries, let them live a good life after such a brave honorable service, stop giving it to ungrateful, illegal criminals.
It sucks pretty bad when a disaster happens here and people have to get money out of their own pockets to pay and help people when that is what we are paying taxes for!!! WE have to stop the BS charities, evil corportions, organized religions and large chain restaurants from deceiving the trusting public from the greed. When would they ever cure cancer, diabetes, or any other disease when the CEO is making 875 million a year from OUR donations, fast food is not even food anymore, it is fat, high fructose corn syrup, salt, fillers, binders, additives and preservatives, GM frankenfood along with liquid toxins sold as meals, bullying organic farmers, making our kids fat, starving the seniors that paid in all their lives while free loaders sneak across the border and actually get three times as much money, plus food, plus housing, medical, education when our children have to go into outrageous debt. NOT right! We have watched the "morning news" go from a half hour of news weather and sports to all day fluffy, misleading, manipulative, fear mongering CRAP, most of it lies or BS. We have brave men and women in grave yards all over this planet that gave their lives to protect the country, the constitution and save some others from evil. They deserve honor and it is the least we can do to stand up for the same. Run those thieves out of office and into a prison cell. We have the laws, we just need the courts to stop the corruption, if a person files a lawsuit against a criminal and the judge isn't just or fair, kick the jerk out. No more caps on lawsuits, but if a guy that is injured during the commission of a crime, he must lose the right to sue his victims. The guys that made us all those promises to get into office don't care about us, will send our children into war for oil, oil that we could get right here! The jobs created are needed. I feel that it should be illegal for a foreigner to own any business in America, become an American and OK, but use American workers, stop sending jobs overseas. If we can do it so can they. If we just keep giving them money for nothing, they are all just going to keep sitting on their corrupt asses while their people starve, cut off the money, fix our country, then, and ONLY then should we teach others to do what we are doing, we should Never do it for them. If we don't stop all this crap soon, we will have a bunch of dependent good for nothings with their hands in our pockets.
We need to form a class action suit against Chris Dodd (the guy that designed the mortgage collapse)and get him OUT of government, then Frank Barney, that guy is incompetent, corrupt, has NO idea how to do anything but line his own pockets... and remember, it is our money, NOT theirs... time for a revolution!!!!!! Respectfully submitted:
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What went down.
http://dreamingisdigital.blogspot.com/2012/01/so-chris-dodd-admits-to-attempting-to.html
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Sort of like the Mafia needs a reformer.
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Lizard man.
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wow
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Proud to be an American...haha
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let's use other laws against them.
it's against federal law.
18 USCS � 597 reads, in part:
"Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote--
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
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http://torrentfreak.com/while-house-petitioned-to-investigate-mpaa-bribery-120122/
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May be more effective?
So how about we go to the movies, but only to get some popcorn and a drink?
This way we could show the MPAA that we are not pirating, we are actually boycotting them.
The theatre owners will not needlessly suffer, and we might be able to engage in conversation with them, make them understand that we are actually on their side, and that the MPAA is wrong.
They will relay the information to the MPAA, and we can be sure not to have our boycott bunched up with "them ebil pirates".
How's it sound?
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I think you're underestimating their ability to blame things on piracy. "They bought snacks at the theater and then went home to watch bit torrents. If it weren't for piracy, they would have bought movie tickets."
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https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/investigate-chris-dodd-and-mpaa-bribe ry-after-he-publicly-admited-bribing-politicans-pass/DffX0YQv
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Ridiculous
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Dont forget the popcorn farmers.
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Politicians..
Simply revealing the dirty money isn't going to change things; voters have short memories and don't really care if the politicians are accepting bribes. Voters are notoriously stupid and they are likely to forget the whole thing by election time. After the election, the newly elected politicians will happily go back and pass whatever bills are paid for by whoever slip them the money.
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Perfect! Just perfect...
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They get it - but they can't afford to act like they do. Make it stop!
Corruption transcends party lines, ideology, status in Washington, and any other form of compartmentalization in politics: it revolves around getting elected or re-elected, which thanks to the high cost of TV ads (which should be given away gratis as a public service) is so outrageously expensive that no one can get their foot in the door anymore without sucking up to everyone out there with a big, fat checkbook.
Thanks to the high cost of running a visible, much less successful campaign, most politicians are forced to sell out. Unless you're Ron Paul - somehow he's managed not to - maybe everyone else from Obama on down ought to start taking notes on "how". In the meantime, campaign ads really need to become free of charge - why does no one pass a bill mandating that or even put one up to a vote? Get rid of the very reason for the corruption so we can start fighting these issues out on a more honest and level playing field?
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Someone is confused
dateline 14Jan2012 The White House Comes Out Against SOPA
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/14/the-white-house-comes-out-against-sopa/
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Obama will probably back-peddle again in favor of the damn bills before this whole thing is over, seriously, who cares what he's saying now? In the meantime, as I was saying, he's afraid of losing Hollywood's support (can't find the exact AP article, which I read in a newspaper, but in the meantime here, have this: http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2012/01/17/obama-comes-out-against-current-sopa-and-pipa-legis lation-but-stops-short-of-killing-it/).
Quote from the article, with emphasis my own:
Before today, Obama has been disappointingly silent on the twin censorship bills. The problem is � the upcoming election. Obama and the Democrats get a lot of support from the Motion Picture Industry and �Hollywood types� who seem to be extorting politicians into stifling the freedom of the Internet in effort to eliminate bootlegged material from surfacing on the net. [...] In an election year, the President has to walk a fine line, but the bills are far from being dead. While the White House came out and said that it wouldn�t support the current drafts of the legislation, it did say that it would support revised drafts. Hollywood is not going to let this go and they are going to call out favors for political donations.
I could search and search and link and link you to more and more posts, including the AP article I can't find that said much the same thing, but if you're locked shut on this nothing is going to change your mind so why bother? Go ahead and trust Obama to do what's best for us: he won't - and no, I don't care what he's saying at the moment, it makes no difference. At most he'll support ever-so-slightly watering down (not eliminating) bills like SOPA and PIPA until he gets re-elected, then change his stance again.
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I saw no time frame referred to in your original post.
"Obama will probably back-peddle"
This is what politicians do.
"... but if you're locked shut on this nothing is going to change your mind so why bother? Go ahead and trust Obama to do what's best for us: he won't - and no, I don't care what he's saying at the moment, it makes no difference."
I find it humorous when people project their own traits upon others. btw ... nice rant.
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I can't give you one. It was sometime within the last week; I'm a bit behind on offline reading, so the article I saw ran within the last week and a half or so at most. And I'd make more effort to find it online to link to but like I said, why bother.
I find it humorous when people project their own traits upon others.
Well, I didn't mean to project that way but I did, so you're right. I should have caught that before posting.
If I'm locked shut it's simply because I don't trust Obama with anything anymore. Too many times he backs down, bends over, and otherwise infuriates people with bill after bill that he either doesn't stand up to enough or else pushes through himself when the bills in question are not in any normal human being's best interests. So yeah, I'm getting a little hard-headed about him since my disgust is reaching epic levels lately.
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Because the people who would have to vote on it are the ones who benefit from the corruption.
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who ?
This asshole will be out of a job soon,and another one will take his place , better or worse , time will tell.
Dodd ? WTF is Dodd ? Is he important or something ?
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He certainly is! Just ask him.
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Chris Dodd's Brass Balls
It's even ironic that the entertainment industry goes to such great lengths to prevent musicians from releasing their music without a middleman, when they're trying to take out the middlemen for their own media.
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Created in response to this article . As of writing it has 16,360 of the needed 25,000 signatures.
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It happens all the time...
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Let's see some Truth
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Dodd
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Corrupt Politicians
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Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought
How? It is SOOOOOOOOOOOO ILLEGAL to purchase laws, to trade campaign contributions for specific legislation. What he did was just the largest and most publicly made confession! So WTF?
This is one of the biggest problems with our government today! The feds haven't just gone to grab him for this?? Is it because he is on the purse-strings to politicians? Was the MegaUpload bust ordered by these same currently-in-office politicians to smooth him over since SOPA was clearly not wanted by the constituency?
Clearly he is breaking the law and flaunting it on national TV. Was the constitution secretly re-written so this crap is now legal??? Hasn't this gotten way too far out of control?
WHERE IS HONESTY AND COMPETENCE IN OUR GOVERNMENT??
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Millions in bribe money is a different story.
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Financial Analysis
I would probably pay twice as much for netflix each month (or more?) if a larger library of movies was available from major studies on demand. I have not purchased a DVD since the LotR collectors edition. I see maybe 2-6 movies in theatres each year. I watch 5-10 hours of netflix a week most weeks. I am not a completely unusual user in the 25-35 year old male demographic. Seems like a lot of lost opportunity...
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Chris dodd fox news
The whole idea of government officials taking these bribes and the people that bribe them is so wrong it threatens the stability of the USA and how and when Laws are made.
I for one am tired of hearing from government that "we are a country of laws" But nothing ever happens on issues like Mortgage fraud, Fast and Furious gun running and now bribery of some of our highest officials.
It seems the corruption has reached the highest level in government with Obama as the boss of DOJ and the head law enforcement in the whole country Eric Holder. Obama should step in and take whatever action that brings Justice BUT Obama does nothing.
So now the quote of "We are a country of laws" is becoming a sick joke through out America.
I hope "we the people" will raise up like we did protesting the SOPA bill and let the world know we practic what we preach.
God bless America
We need his blessing like never before.
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and no, its not illegal if i make a copy and let my friend in new zealand borrow it indeffinately.
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Erm... no. Learn a bit of history. they've always had problems with new technology, and have always been wrong:
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." (Jack Valenti, Head of MPAA, 1982)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc.
http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Reco rding_Act
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I think you're mistaken. That's both copying and distributing, both of which are exclusive rights under the copyright statute. I doubt you could make a case that that use is fair use.
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Earn money online
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Though the TERA "hot players still discontent
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GReat job
I love your article!
/Rene
http://www.forevigt.dk
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finally...
Someone other than me is getting ignored by politicians. How does it feel MPAA?
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