...then how come Rapidshare is still a fully legal service, despite doing almost the exact dsame things as MU? They both have identical procedures and uses and were fully compliant with the DMCA. But onyl MU was targeted in this raid...
Hey trade unions are denied their free-speech rights int he US all the time. And seeing as the MPAA is a trade union in all but name, well, they should get the same treatment, no?
It's not that hard. You make a donation, it gets recorded anyway. Recording all meetings and gifts won't be that difficult. The only difference would be that now, Joe Q. Public can see what's going on as a matter of public record. Make it immune to excepmtions from FOIA requests, or better yet, make it mandatory to publish them on official websites for those qho want to run in political spheres.
Anything else is made fully illegal, with the sentence being mandatory impeachment/10-year sentence for all proven to be involved in the non-recording, false recording and non-disclosure.
Perheps if full disclosure was mandatory in the run-up to an elections, then a) trhings would be more interesting; and b) it would make it easier to see what candidates are about. For example, having a requirement to disclose incoming funds from any non-individual entity and all donations over, say, $1500 would go some way to assisting that.
In addition, require that all publisly-funded items have full budget disclosures in term sof expenditures. If there's a surplus, then store it openly in a combined public fund (essentially, saving for a rainy day).
For those already in office, require a full disclosure of meetings, regardless of whether they're relevant to your constitutents.
Each of these could be implemented at reasonably little cost to the public taxpayer. You could probably employ around 25 people whose sole job is to ensure that these all add up and that there is no shenanigans going on.
Hell, even include judges on this - show who came into the office and where they came from. That way, you can recuse all people with a direct comnflict of interest (for example, all judges who are also members of "One Million Moms" or on the board of "Planned Parenthood" should be recused from cases directly involving those organisations.
Some of this is not hard to implement. The simple fact is the more thingsa change, the more they stay the same. And that is not healthy for any country.
That would be unfair, and would drive people away from doing basic research. Everything would be done only to create specific product, and not to create for the purpose of creating.
I...WHAT?
The point is that patents do nothing but incremental "innovation", but they considerably harm Iterative "innovation". For all that Edison was a bastard, he knew how to bring things to market from prototyping through to marketing.
Now, though? That doesn't happen, because everything's patented. It's all "licenses" and "litigation" that are viable business models. That shouldn't really be possible unless the market is underserved.
It depends on whether you're an Ascetic Protestant or not. In that case, it is the act of accumulating wealth through moral and ethical means that leads to Heaven.
I get currently get up to 60MBps broadband (actually around 4MBps once it gets tot hat last crappy copper cabling), nearly 400 channels and weekend calls included in my packasge at £40/month+line rental.
Now, according to TWC's official site, to get that in Kansas, you're talking more than triple that, given current exchange rates. Comcast is actually worse, although their "service" is cheaper by around $10.
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Hint: he has a blue box.
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Funny that.
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FTFY
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But I'd be willing to put money of the fact that those services are not going to be indicted under the current laws in which they trade in the UK.
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On the plus side, that means that the UK can now shut down NewsCorp, whose registered Head Offices are in NY.
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Anything else is made fully illegal, with the sentence being mandatory impeachment/10-year sentence for all proven to be involved in the non-recording, false recording and non-disclosure.
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In addition, require that all publisly-funded items have full budget disclosures in term sof expenditures. If there's a surplus, then store it openly in a combined public fund (essentially, saving for a rainy day).
For those already in office, require a full disclosure of meetings, regardless of whether they're relevant to your constitutents.
Each of these could be implemented at reasonably little cost to the public taxpayer. You could probably employ around 25 people whose sole job is to ensure that these all add up and that there is no shenanigans going on.
Hell, even include judges on this - show who came into the office and where they came from. That way, you can recuse all people with a direct comnflict of interest (for example, all judges who are also members of "One Million Moms" or on the board of "Planned Parenthood" should be recused from cases directly involving those organisations.
Some of this is not hard to implement. The simple fact is the more thingsa change, the more they stay the same. And that is not healthy for any country.
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In the meantime, though, I'll pay for music through sites that don't block me, saying I'm not in the right location to pay for their stuff.
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I...WHAT?
The point is that patents do nothing but incremental "innovation", but they considerably harm Iterative "innovation". For all that Edison was a bastard, he knew how to bring things to market from prototyping through to marketing.
Now, though? That doesn't happen, because everything's patented. It's all "licenses" and "litigation" that are viable business models. That shouldn't really be possible unless the market is underserved.
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Now, according to TWC's official site, to get that in Kansas, you're talking more than triple that, given current exchange rates. Comcast is actually worse, although their "service" is cheaper by around $10.
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