"In order to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the ongoing criminal investigation, this office asks that you not disclose the existence of this request to the subscriber as disclosure could impede the ongoing criminal investigation."
Ignore it--when approached again by the same group for the same reason, you can legally not disclose the existence of said request (eg deny having ever seen it).
trea·son/ˈtrēzən/
Noun: The crime of betraying one's country, esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government. (emphasis mine) By definition, aren't congressman & senators who pass bad laws--especially when a majority of their constituents are against them--technically guilty of treason?
Maybe we can get somebody to prosecute them under that particular train of reasoning...
So wholesale slash & burn of copyrights and imaginary property is generally regarded as the wrong way to go--but perhaps in fields where life & death are on the line it IS the right way to go.
Let's abolish copyright/patents for medical & pharmaceutical everything in the name of a better future.
...and if I own a printing company and offer some regulator a high-salary job with fat hiring bonus especially in exchange for a "small favor" or two before they leave office?
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Re: ...when was it
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Correct Response
;-P
On the post: Hollywood Union Members Sign Petition Asking MPAA & Hollywood Unions To Stop Supporting PIPA/SOPA
Re: Re: Re:-P
On the post: Hollywood Union Members Sign Petition Asking MPAA & Hollywood Unions To Stop Supporting PIPA/SOPA
Re: Grape Nuts
You don't pull out after 30 years of marriage just because your partner's routinely an abject failure--you wait for your partner to die.
On the post: Verizon Wireless: Paying Online Is More Convenient, So Now You Have To Pay $2 To Do So [Updated]
Re: Debunked already
On the post: Verizon Wireless: Paying Online Is More Convenient, So Now You Have To Pay $2 To Do So [Updated]
Paper!
Which, of course, ends up costing them more time and money having somebody process the paper money order than it would have taken by me paying online.
Their choice--carrot & stick and all that...
On the post: Lamar Smith Out Of Touch With The Internet: Still Thinks It's Just Google That Opposes SOPA
Betrayal!
Noun:
The crime of betraying one's country, esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
(emphasis mine)
By definition, aren't congressman & senators who pass bad laws--especially when a majority of their constituents are against them--technically guilty of treason?
Maybe we can get somebody to prosecute them under that particular train of reasoning...
On the post: Doctors Discover Copyright Law: Cognitive Screening Test Killed Over Infringement Claims
Abolitionist
Let's abolish copyright/patents for medical & pharmaceutical everything in the name of a better future.
On the post: Johnson & Johnson Refuses To License Three HIV Drugs To Medicines Patent Pool; Invites Patent Override
Re: Re: Where do morals come from?
I knew it! We should've never trusted the government!
On the post: Paul Christoforo Doesn't Seem To Know How To Stop Digging A Deeper Hole Of Internet Infamy
Re: Dead business?
On the post: As GoDaddy Deals With SOPA Fallout, Hollywood Wants To Punish GoDaddy For Enabling Infringement
Re: GoDaddy fellates equines and reptiles
(sorry)
On the post: Gibson Guitar & Others On SOPA Supporters List Say They Never Supported The Bill
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well...
Some of us have "apathy" as a super power, which there's always a third option of "meh, whatever."
On the post: Gibson Guitar & Others On SOPA Supporters List Say They Never Supported The Bill
Re: Re: Re: Re: Well...
There is such I thing as "I abstain" when voting.
On the post: Surprise: Heritage Foundation, Who Almost Always Supports MPAA, Comes Out Against SOPA
Re: Without Due Process
"Due Process"?! What do you want next, a horst & buggy? 40 acres and a mule?
Due Process is just one of those antiquated notions Americans cling to; even though everybody knows it died at the turn of the century!
Get with the times, breathe in the fascism. You can even pick your side, be an oppressor or the oppressed.
[/trolling]
(Can't help it, damn xmas music is driving my crazy.)
On the post: Louis CK: Over $1 Million In Sales In Just 12 Days For DRM-Free Download
Re: Re: .. and cue the apologists...
The only difference between a passionate pirate and a publicist is you have to pay a publicist.
On the post: Who Wants To Own Righthaven.com? Domain Seized, About To Be Auctioned
Re: What about the folks Righthaven was working for
On the post: Who Wants To Own Righthaven.com? Domain Seized, About To Be Auctioned
Re: import the assets
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The power or mis(re)direction!
Edit: Just checked, shillforhire.com is also available!
On the post: Video Detailing How US Chamber Of Commerce Deceives The Public In Its Support Of SOPA & PROTECT IP
Re: Sith != this
On the post: Mapping Out The Revolving Door Between Gov't And Big Business In Venn Diagrams
Re: Re: Re: Paper Tigers?
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