We have the TSA at our airports, bus terminals, train stations and NFL stadiums, the NSA on our phones, tablets and computers and Obamacare in our hospitals and health clinics. Garbage like this is simply "training" for what lies ahead. God help us as a nation.
The police are being militarized in terms of equipment, clothing and weaponry and now even their attitude toward the citizens they are supposed to serve. They seem to view us the way US soldiers viewed the citizens of Baghdad when the US invaded Iraq ten years ago. How long before they are driving tanks through our neighborhoods?
Copyright doesn't protect the original artist, only the big entertainment industry. In the new digital era, 20th century copyright has been rendered irrelevant and is trying to legislate its survival at the new technology's expense.
We as citizens of the USA and the Net need to pressure our elected officials to vote Aaron's Law through before the judiciary committee can ram this piece of horror through and blindside everyone!
Copyrighted? That? That's a mental exercise we did when I was in junior high. You have to decide what you want to take with you from the crash site in order to survive. I don't even see how that can be copyrighted.
Copyright was originally a matter for the civil courts. When did it become the domain of the DOJ for them to confiscate domain names, search people's digital media at border crossings and basically become the MAFIAA's enforcer?
I would say have a five-year maximum of copyright, not this author's life plus 70 years BS. That was at Disney's behest and should be done away with immediately.
Also, all personal, non-commercial use should be allowed. An anime fan who wants to make an AMV of Naruto with Slipknot or whatever playing in the background shouldn't be penalized for doing so.
The DOJ has only succeeded in making Kim Dotcom an Internet folk hero along with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Let them dig themselves in deeper. The cognizant know what they are doing and aren't fooled by their talk of "justice" and "intellectual property".
What truly disturbs me is copyright was originally supposed to be a case for the civil courts, but in the past 20 years, it's been taken over by the criminal justice system, which is why ICE is involved. So much for being a nation of laws!
These big corporations need to learn that the Net is the people's medium to do as we please on, not their little fiefdom where they own everything and can set down rules for us to go by.
I think the problem with our legislator and the Net is they are old! Most of them are over 50 and grew up with black and white TVs with dials, rotary phones and old stuff like that. To them, the concept of a digital world is foreign. Thus, they tack the prefix cyber- onto anything referring to the Net in order to attempt to sound like they understand and only make themselves look more foolish in so doing.
Because of this, I propose that no one over 50 be allowed to propose any laws for the Net. If you don't know how it works, you've no business trying to regulate it.
Since I know that won't happen, I think all Net users need to declare the Internet a sovereign nation, entity, etc., which circumvents the globe, bypasses all borders and unites all peoples in a way unprecedented in history and thus cannot be bound by any terrestrial laws.
There was an article about game makers wanting to make it so video games can only be played on the consoles they were first installed on, doing away with second hand video games.
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I would say have a five-year maximum of copyright, not this author's life plus 70 years BS. That was at Disney's behest and should be done away with immediately.
Also, all personal, non-commercial use should be allowed. An anime fan who wants to make an AMV of Naruto with Slipknot or whatever playing in the background shouldn't be penalized for doing so.
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Legislators are old and out of touch
Because of this, I propose that no one over 50 be allowed to propose any laws for the Net. If you don't know how it works, you've no business trying to regulate it.
Since I know that won't happen, I think all Net users need to declare the Internet a sovereign nation, entity, etc., which circumvents the globe, bypasses all borders and unites all peoples in a way unprecedented in history and thus cannot be bound by any terrestrial laws.
I know that won't happen either...
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