"Do they realize that I am likely to respond to such draconian measures by entirely stopping all content purchases? Did they consider that, in retribution, I might cut off cable TV and just stop buying content altogether?"
That's what I've done - stopped buying. Next will be my cable (would do it now but I stupidly signed a 2-year agreement so as not to keep raising the price. I was SUCKERED, I know...).
Did you ever see an item you REALLY liked, but it belonged to someone else so you went out and bought one just like it because you liked it that much?
Same thing happens with DVDs, CDs etc. My brother is a HUGE movie fan and would never settle for anything less than a sealed, packaged DVD. A copy would be cheap and tawdry by his estimation. He wouldn't even consider it. I asked him.
Say I let my friend use my drill. Then he lets his friend use it and so on through a dozen or so people. Did all those people "Steal" a drill? Of course not.
I wish some people would learn to think before they speak.
Bravo. That's what infuriates me as well - that our tax dollars are going toward this nonsense. They can use their own private funds all they want - that's their right, but I sure as shootin' don't want my money going toward this BS game wreaking havoc nationwide, either.
Just like they don't have a problem using their own cameras in their vehicles to record "perps". Course, those they can pick and choose when to use - or delete if it suits their motives...
IDK but it seems to me the BS is coming from you, AC.
It takes a special kind of ignorance to be unable to understand the larger "picture" here regarding copyright issues and instead, cling to silly, nonsensical name calling such as "freetard".
As far as the info they're sharing - do I sense some are implying "3rd party responsibility" against Lulz here?
Because just putting it out there to show security breaches does not give anyone the RIGHT to use it for any means whatsoever and a law abiding citizen knows this.
Anyone who does misuse the info should, of course, be held accountable for THEIR misdeeds.
Just for the record and the "love-to-spew-hate" perps, I do understand the shock and horror anyone feels at finding out their passwords have been exposed. I would feel the same way - but would be upset with the entity who allowed it to happen, not Lulz.
For the next few months we embark upon a massive campaign to get just $1.00 from those of us who agree with the stand of Mr. Masnick. When we reach $500,000 we "lobby" these gov't entities ourselves and see what happens.
What do you suppose they would do?
Bet with the right effort that $500,000 could be reached, too. Just $1.00? I'd be in - in a heartbeat for 10 times that as I imagine many others would, as well.
Just every day little guy citizen's - no organizations. Because the way it's supposed to be, is government remains OUR servants - not our masters.
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"They cannot lobby if no-one actually pays them for goods."
That's my choice.
You cannot be sued simply because you've stopped purchasing a certain product. I will not purchase a DVD with a movie or TV series (and I've purchased a TON in my day) again. Done. Over.
How can that be a reason to garnish my wages? Besides, taxes have already done that... Now they'll want to rob me for NOT buying??? Where does the infringement on civil rights end?
"Writing to congress is not working because...your not doing it...you can't claim how something does not work when your effectively proving this by NOT doing it."
Um...they do not listen and they do not give on damn about anything a peon has to say. Some staffer reads your letter and if it gets acknowledged at all, it's with some stupid form letter some hack wrote up to make it look like your Rep. actually got your letter/email. Learn it, live it love it.
I just learned about "Happy Birthday" being "protected" from my niece a few weeks ago - she teaches autistic children. They had a BD party for one of the children at a restaurant and were told they couldn't sing "THAT" song lest they be guilty of "copyright infringement".
So make sure all the windows are closed and you sing Happy Birthday very, VERY softly at any family birthday gatherings lest "THEY" hear you ... and be sure that camcorder is off so no one can share your family singing "Happy Birthday" on the everyone-is-a-felon-Inet.
Okay, let me see if I have this right ... I'm at home, alone and bored. Friend from Germany sends me e-mail with a LINK to a site and says, "hey so-and-so has a RS download to a great movie - check it out."
So I do. I DL the movie, watch it, enjoy myself for 90 minutes and delete it.
Now I'm a criminal - and my friend from Germany is, too? And can be extradited? Give me a break! Someone said this is insanity - wholeheartedly agree!
Firstly, who did either of us hurt? Who's public safety was at risk? Who lost anything more than if that friend were my next door neighbor and brought the DVD over to share with me?
Seems to me "justice" is served when REAL criminals - you know, killers, drug lords, terrorists etc. are the one's pursued, not people sitting in their homes harming no one and certainly not a harmless hyperlink.
This whole thing is way out there in crazyville. It is starting to look like the Internet and all these ridiculous power grabs by wanna-be New World Order morons are the rumblings of WWIII - I mean shoot, never mind global terrorists who want to kill - GET THOSE VIRTUAL PIRATES!
Did you ever hear the expression, "Silence is king"?. My older, very wise brother taught me the value of understanding just what those 3 simple words put together mean and how to differentiate when - or when not - to apply them.
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That's what I've done - stopped buying. Next will be my cable (would do it now but I stupidly signed a 2-year agreement so as not to keep raising the price. I was SUCKERED, I know...).
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Same thing happens with DVDs, CDs etc. My brother is a HUGE movie fan and would never settle for anything less than a sealed, packaged DVD. A copy would be cheap and tawdry by his estimation. He wouldn't even consider it. I asked him.
Say I let my friend use my drill. Then he lets his friend use it and so on through a dozen or so people. Did all those people "Steal" a drill? Of course not.
I wish some people would learn to think before they speak.
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And she helps pay his salary. They seem to forget that fact.
To so many creepy cops people are no longer human, just subjects to be abused and misused. It's a shame, really.
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It takes a special kind of ignorance to be unable to understand the larger "picture" here regarding copyright issues and instead, cling to silly, nonsensical name calling such as "freetard".
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As far as the info they're sharing - do I sense some are implying "3rd party responsibility" against Lulz here?
Because just putting it out there to show security breaches does not give anyone the RIGHT to use it for any means whatsoever and a law abiding citizen knows this.
Anyone who does misuse the info should, of course, be held accountable for THEIR misdeeds.
Just for the record and the "love-to-spew-hate" perps, I do understand the shock and horror anyone feels at finding out their passwords have been exposed. I would feel the same way - but would be upset with the entity who allowed it to happen, not Lulz.
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For the next few months we embark upon a massive campaign to get just $1.00 from those of us who agree with the stand of Mr. Masnick. When we reach $500,000 we "lobby" these gov't entities ourselves and see what happens.
What do you suppose they would do?
Bet with the right effort that $500,000 could be reached, too. Just $1.00? I'd be in - in a heartbeat for 10 times that as I imagine many others would, as well.
Just every day little guy citizen's - no organizations. Because the way it's supposed to be, is government remains OUR servants - not our masters.
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Hm. Many, MANY years ago I purchased a little vinyl 45 record I was gaga over called "I Think I Love You" by David Cassidy.
I played it so much I wore it out and had to purchase another one.
Then an album came out with the song on it I 'just had to have' so I purchased that.
Then I purchased it on a cassette.
Then I purchased it on an 8 track.
Then I purchased it on a CD.
Now I finally have an mp3 of it so I can FINALLY stop PURCHASING THE SAME DAMN SONG by the SAME DAMN ARTIST.
WHO IS GETTING/HAS BEEN RIPPED OFF? Rumble on TechDirt...
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That's my choice.
You cannot be sued simply because you've stopped purchasing a certain product. I will not purchase a DVD with a movie or TV series (and I've purchased a TON in my day) again. Done. Over.
How can that be a reason to garnish my wages? Besides, taxes have already done that... Now they'll want to rob me for NOT buying??? Where does the infringement on civil rights end?
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Um...they do not listen and they do not give on damn about anything a peon has to say. Some staffer reads your letter and if it gets acknowledged at all, it's with some stupid form letter some hack wrote up to make it look like your Rep. actually got your letter/email. Learn it, live it love it.
And get out and vote the bastards out of office.
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So make sure all the windows are closed and you sing Happy Birthday very, VERY softly at any family birthday gatherings lest "THEY" hear you ... and be sure that camcorder is off so no one can share your family singing "Happy Birthday" on the everyone-is-a-felon-Inet.
Stop the world. I want to get off.
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Linking NOT Criminal
So I do. I DL the movie, watch it, enjoy myself for 90 minutes and delete it.
Now I'm a criminal - and my friend from Germany is, too? And can be extradited? Give me a break! Someone said this is insanity - wholeheartedly agree!
Firstly, who did either of us hurt? Who's public safety was at risk? Who lost anything more than if that friend were my next door neighbor and brought the DVD over to share with me?
Seems to me "justice" is served when REAL criminals - you know, killers, drug lords, terrorists etc. are the one's pursued, not people sitting in their homes harming no one and certainly not a harmless hyperlink.
This whole thing is way out there in crazyville. It is starting to look like the Internet and all these ridiculous power grabs by wanna-be New World Order morons are the rumblings of WWIII - I mean shoot, never mind global terrorists who want to kill - GET THOSE VIRTUAL PIRATES!
God have mercy...
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Intelligent people can see that - can you?
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