"If I were the Canadian Government" - Mike, if you were, you'd be touting how 'clean' the tarsands are, how we need to beat everyone into submission, how even the government providing a budget is proof of transparency, how funding for election campaigns should not be through tax dollars [ talk about admitting you get funding from corporations ], and how free speech doesn't exist.
If you were the current Canadian Government, you'd be on Hollywood's side, not the Canadian People's side (kinda like the current US government is on the side of any lobbyist and not the American People's side).
In fact, if you were actually a member of the Canadian Government, with your current views, you would have been dismissed a LONG time ago. Our government silences anyone who dissents against it, much like the US government tries to (but freely proclaims otherwise - right Mrs Clinton???).
Google would be sued for filtering out corporation sites.
See the hypocrisy? Entertainment industry folks won't allow their own to be blocked, but they'll block anyone that doesn't have enough funds to battle in court.
Let's not also forget the most important troubleshooting question "Are you sure it is plugged in?"
In this case, I don't believe our politicians (US Congress or my own Members of Parliament) are plugged in to reality.
It's like they think they are BJT's, responding to base current (ie: the word of the people) but in reality they are MOSFET's, negligible current enters the gate. Like a MOSFET, they respond to voltage, the potential difference between the gate and source (ie: monetary provided difference - salary Vs 'donations'). Well... we people are the VG (gate voltage), but naturally their source is tied to VDD, so of course you never get a breakover of VGSThreshhold (point where the MOSFET operates in accordance to VGS - the people's will). Which means our own voltage (money from taxes and voice from voting/letters/phone calls) is ignored in favour of VDD (typically much larger than VGS) which is money from corporations.
Hell, we even have industry behind us, like adding a battery in series trying to boost our VGS to exceed VGSThreshold, but to no avail.
Truly a sad time!
Hmm... in hindsight, this might have been funnier if I chose a TCP/IP packet routing table algorithm analogy instead. Sorry.
Too bad they don't serve popcorn and soda at the airports.
The really sad part is this Theatre has a horrible show and only a few have stopped going to see it. I guess it isn't bad enough for the masses to find some alternatives.
I wish they'd create two lines, the pre and post 9/11 lines. For those who support the "security" sold to them, they can be patt-down and enjoy their comfort on the plane, believing it to be safer than the other line. The other line is normal people who don't feel the need to have their civil liberties violated for a false sense of security.
The odds of a successful attack will be the same for both planes.
I don't clearly view it as a "problem" but merely stated it as a factor in job loss, which is true. I also never said that protectionist strategies were required either.
You're going WAY off the deep end and putting words into my mouth.
There are alternatives to these "inefficiencies" you refer to. For one, how efficient is it (think of it globally now, including the environment) to have your fruit grown in Canada, shipped to the US to be waxed, shipped back to Canada for a higher price? Would it not be more efficient to just transfer it from the orchards (much closer to their ripe-date) to the markets?
If you actually have the means to do so, would it not be more efficient to buy from a local farmer who isn't trucking their produce all over and coating it will pesticides (or at least using less) then waxing it to make it look healthy?
In terms of manufacturing in the Detroit area, the first problem is you need to change the mindset of a) the management and b) the workers (and obviously their union 'leaders').
Once you give a few people a reality check, once you actually bargain for useful skill training, work pools, decent wages (not $24.53/hr with 4 weeks vacation to ride a floor sweeper -- Navistar, 1998) with some benefits provided by the company and some by employees themselves... Would that not be more efficient than building plants in Mexico where you struggle to produce 30 trucks a day while the Chatham plant turns out over 110 a day (and with far less defects)?
So you see, there are inefficiencies, but these can be ironed out.
The consumer does want cheaper items, and I agree with that, but it comes at a price; products manufactured in foreign countries, not here!
As to your "which result in net loss" you are missing some information. In 1996 Chrysler waiting lists 6 months long for their minivans and every 42 seconds $7000 PROFIT (not revenue) rolled off the lines in Windsor (see Droullard Road plant).
So, people want cheaper vehicles, companies want higher profits with cheaper labour, the result is simple, foreign manufacturing.
So consumer choice does play a factor in the decision for companies to reduce costs. Try to build computer components here for close to the same price as those made in Taiwan and China? You can't. Should you blame the customer? NO, and I never said to. But the fact that even if you did build components here and assemble them here, you would struggle to make sales compared to the cheaper stuff in China. Is the customer choosing cheaper items a factor, absolutely, should they be blamed and SOPA used to punish them, NO. I emphasized that so you don't try to inject words or change context.
I didn't say it was totally their fault, but yes, the consumer wants cheaper prices so they go to places like WalMart. That's a fact. If you want it made here, you have to pay more for the final product.
Some do, some don't. So you can be sarcastic about it all you want, but it is still a fact that consumers themselves are partly to blame.
And while everyone here is aware of ICE's mistakes, no one else is any the wiser!
You can't like or dislike or comment on their video, which proves they know they are full of shit and want single-direction communication (not even half-duplex).
That shows you what ICE is really about, along with the US Gov's integrity and accountability.
You worry about Romney lying to win votes? Even if Ron Paul were to win, he'd either be assassinated or just as bad as Bush/Obama for making changes the people want, and I actually would vote for Paul (despite not agreeing with cutting EPA/Education/etc.. funding).
You want change? It won't come from a leader. Until the masses demand change in a unified voice that any idiot could understand (OWS isn't unified enough and you need to GET THAT MESSAGE OUT), you won't see change.
Too bad overriding signals like they did on UHF wasn't possible. That was a great way to show-up corporations. I don't know how to do it, but those who do should definitely do it. Don't just hack one news site, hack them all! Have all of them expose everything at once. Hack the cable stations and broadcaster stations and display truths instead of BS.
Maybe, just maybe, it would cause enough people to question to maybe make some change.
But until you wake people up from their daily slumbers they call "life" you won't see that change.
ICE is slippery like the frozen water item sharing from which the Gov composed its name.
Yeah, but that's the fault of a) the consumer wanting cheaper products b) the corporations providing NO OTHER OPTION for the consumer to choose (ie: cheaper or made in the USA) c) corporate profits of AMERICAN (aka "international" aka "untouchable because we bribed politicians around the world") corporations.
Nice try to spin the facts. Too bad the public at large is not smart enough to see through this facade.
but if I should destroy my voice or cut off one of my hands in a freak ramen-cooking accident, it's comforting to know that there are other options. Mostly thanks to the idea of IP ownership.
The one thing you're forgetting though Brian, no one else has that luxury, so what makes you so important?
That's not meant to be offensive, despite the bolding. Think about it, I don't have any protection with my job if I lose a hand or get maimed in a car accident or suffer a severe head injury which renders me a "vegetable."
That's another problem with copyright/patents, the idea that somehow you're supposed to be protected from accidents. Some places do, like the automakers, but that's due to union contracts. My place of employment doesn't do that, and I know others don't either.
It's like this Brian, you have to invest in your future regardless of how you earn your money. If you're a pro sports player, you're likely to be injured, so you have to play for your own future. If you're injured, you're on your own.
A temporary monopoly is what was intended so you could have some income while you created something new. It's not intended for you or your dependents to live off of, that's what financial investment is for. Unfortunately, corporations want perpetual income from every "investment".
My children will have to follow in my footsteps; they will need to get an education, acquire skills, and make a career for themselves. If you mass so much fortune that your future is financially set, and maybe even the future of your children, then more power to you. But that can't be through a forced monopoly of your creations for 95 years after you registered the copyright.
And while I sympathize with the Nickelback issue, I'd be furious too, but something to consider is this: who would know about the many famous classical composers if their works were not in the public domain? If some orchestra in Germany had secured the performance rights to Beethoven or Mozart, would you have heard of them?
The problem Brian is that copyrights are used to strangle, control, squeeze the use of creations for profits for as long as possible. How is that beneficial to society?
Not everyone wants to see the artists work go straight to the public domain where you have to compete with Nickelback for your own songs. But we don't want to be sued for giving you free publicity or trying to listen to your music on our iPod/CDPlayer(iWalk?)/laptops/etc... because your music is locked down. We want to be able to enjoy your music, covered or original, without hindrance from SOCAN.
And as Mike M has said so many times, are you recording and releasing and hoping and praying or giving a reason to buy?
Relying on copyright to stop people from earning profits from your work without your consent or supporting you in a royalty - good. Relying on copyright to stop the use of your works for something you don't support - good. Relying on copyright to "guarantee" income for you and your kids for the next 95+ years - not good. Going after people who used your work in a mashup (as long as it doesn't violate your code of ethics, ie: used to torture people at Guantanamo) - not good. Going after people who play your music in a bar-band but do not claim it to be their own song good.
And I know your worry about Cohen and his music, however, did you know that "I Write The Songs" was popularized by Barry Manalow, but NOT written by Manalow? In fact, a person I took martial arts with in Montreal sat next to the original writer on a plane who kept saying "I wrote that song" with anger and passion. Original writer: Bruce Johnston. But people attribute the song to Manalow.
Copyright didn't change that. Regardless of whether Nickelback or Justin Bieber perform your works, unless the public reads the fine print of the writer, they won't know or care.
So, in that case, as with the case of songwriters, you should consider works for hire but also a myriad of other ideas, see CWF+RTB for songwriters who don't perform (ie: Cohen). Or how about you write it, promote it, let others perform it whether they pay you for it upfront or you arrange a license with the performer. Others may cover it, big acts too. If you don't jump up and down screaming at them, maybe they will say you wrote it and others will come to you asking to work with you.
Check out the post on being awesome (I forget the name of the artist) and how they made a million dollars just by being awesome and not pulling a copyright "that's mine" approach.
I am NOT trying to undermine your feelings, I'm just trying to give you more ideas and more views so you can understand where the "freetards" as the shills like to call us, are coming from.
Basically, you can work with us, play neutral, or against us. The order listed is the also the order of your income, that is you'll make more if you work with us, than if you play neutral, and much more than if you go against us.
We WANT to pay for your creation, just be sure you're giving us a reason to beyond the fact that you created something and expect because people see/hear/read about it, you somehow are owed something. Those days of forcing such things upon the consuming public are gone.
You can prosper man, you really can. Read up on CWF+RTB and you'll do very well, if you have the talent. Even if you're not the greatest, if you're cool and be creative and are willing to try new things, you can still make a good living. Invest your good living in your future and you won't need draconian laws, beyond stopping Nickelback from writing 3+ songs with different lyrics and slightly different melodies, but using everything else the same from one of your songs.
That's their only defense, avoidance. They bitch about "misinformation" or "misinterpretation" but won't be clear about their stance for fear of repercussions (from both sides).
Of course politicians, media pundits, and the SOPA supporters, will go on and on about "bad journalism." Yet no one complains about Fox News for bad journalism?
It's funny how companies don't want to be labeled "guilty" before given a chance to defend themselves but have no problem doing it to little people.
Capcom is guilty, they support SOPA until they deny it in writing! You support ESA so yes you support SOPA and are guilty by association. Maybe you should not have "linked" yourself with said "infringing on rights of others" SOPA supporters eh?
Isn't this the same Chris Dodd who was head of Congress in 2008, who, as a Democrat, received $12 million in contributions from the banks Congress bailed out?
How fittingly he works as a mouthpiece for the MPAA. What, he couldn't get in with one of the banks who supported his campaign?
Beat them to it, shut down the Internet and be done with it.
But don't DARE buy ANYTHING from corporations. Instead go to local placed where music is playing, ensure they are not on major labels, ensure the establishments are not paying royalties to SOCAN/ASCAP/et. al. Just avoid anything corporate.
Write letters (the US Post Office will thank you given they are broke) to senators and members of congress and parliament. Thank them for freeing you from information overload by their own stupidity and acceptance of bribes from corporations.
Drop your cable television/satellite subscription. Watch the movies you already have, don't buy more unless from indie folks.
Don't purchase a single newspaper (RMurdoch will be happy you dropped the 'Net but pissed you're not reading his horeshit "news").
Talk to your neighbours and learn about them. Go to parks. Spend time with your family.
Write more to your political "representatives" explaining how if things don't change and real proof and real transparency are not a reality (budgets, receipts, etc...) then they are out the door.
Given the financial "crisis" the greedy corps will face, they won't have much left for bribing politicians.
Develop our own, completely open, Internet after corps have plummeted.
Maybe then society will be better off. Clearly too many people are asleep at the wheel, taking away the web and TV and news might help them to learn to think for themselves.
It's all about control. If the law was easily understood by the mass populous, then people would know what they could/could not do. When you want total control, you need to have people feeling they cannot do anything and that's exactly where we are at now.
What feels normal is irrelevant because copyright owners don't care what you feel, they want control over everything you see and hear, how you see and hear it, and who creates it.
We won't fix it unless we remove the current congress-persons who are in the pockets of lobbyists, which would mean there would be what, 5 people in congress? And that would take people FIRST understanding the currently confusing law and considering those who vote are apathetic and too lazy to think for themselves... don't count on them understanding the law enough to push congress to remove it.
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If you were the Canadian Government?
If you were the current Canadian Government, you'd be on Hollywood's side, not the Canadian People's side (kinda like the current US government is on the side of any lobbyist and not the American People's side).
In fact, if you were actually a member of the Canadian Government, with your current views, you would have been dismissed a LONG time ago. Our government silences anyone who dissents against it, much like the US government tries to (but freely proclaims otherwise - right Mrs Clinton???).
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See the hypocrisy? Entertainment industry folks won't allow their own to be blocked, but they'll block anyone that doesn't have enough funds to battle in court.
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Re:
Let's not also forget the most important troubleshooting question "Are you sure it is plugged in?"
In this case, I don't believe our politicians (US Congress or my own Members of Parliament) are plugged in to reality.
It's like they think they are BJT's, responding to base current (ie: the word of the people) but in reality they are MOSFET's, negligible current enters the gate. Like a MOSFET, they respond to voltage, the potential difference between the gate and source (ie: monetary provided difference - salary Vs 'donations'). Well... we people are the VG (gate voltage), but naturally their source is tied to VDD, so of course you never get a breakover of VGSThreshhold (point where the MOSFET operates in accordance to VGS - the people's will). Which means our own voltage (money from taxes and voice from voting/letters/phone calls) is ignored in favour of VDD (typically much larger than VGS) which is money from corporations.
Hell, we even have industry behind us, like adding a battery in series trying to boost our VGS to exceed VGSThreshold, but to no avail.
Truly a sad time!
Hmm... in hindsight, this might have been funnier if I chose a TCP/IP packet routing table algorithm analogy instead. Sorry.
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"Tomorrow night our guest will be.."
Though funny, as it was picking on Newt, it didn't include SOPA and I doubt we'll see anything on Monday or anytime.
Very likely he forgot, or slightly less likely, he was threatened by Viacom's lawyers.
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stacked deck?
Sucks when someone does it back to you eh?
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Security Theatre
The really sad part is this Theatre has a horrible show and only a few have stopped going to see it. I guess it isn't bad enough for the masses to find some alternatives.
I wish they'd create two lines, the pre and post 9/11 lines. For those who support the "security" sold to them, they can be patt-down and enjoy their comfort on the plane, believing it to be safer than the other line. The other line is normal people who don't feel the need to have their civil liberties violated for a false sense of security.
The odds of a successful attack will be the same for both planes.
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Strange technique
I'm starting to believe that most "natural healing" is really nothing more than a belief system designed to trick the body into healing itself.
I often wonder if the pharma's are really just using placebo's as well, most of the time anyhow, while charging incredible prices.
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Re:
If people could choose on their own with SOPA, then I doubt there would be as much opposition.
Alas, you cannot choose with SOPA, but you CAN choose with these tools to avoid SOPA supporters.
The real question is how long before the groups supporting SOPA use their influence ($$$) to remove these apps?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Jobs Gone offshore?
You're going WAY off the deep end and putting words into my mouth.
There are alternatives to these "inefficiencies" you refer to. For one, how efficient is it (think of it globally now, including the environment) to have your fruit grown in Canada, shipped to the US to be waxed, shipped back to Canada for a higher price? Would it not be more efficient to just transfer it from the orchards (much closer to their ripe-date) to the markets?
If you actually have the means to do so, would it not be more efficient to buy from a local farmer who isn't trucking their produce all over and coating it will pesticides (or at least using less) then waxing it to make it look healthy?
In terms of manufacturing in the Detroit area, the first problem is you need to change the mindset of a) the management and b) the workers (and obviously their union 'leaders').
Once you give a few people a reality check, once you actually bargain for useful skill training, work pools, decent wages (not $24.53/hr with 4 weeks vacation to ride a floor sweeper -- Navistar, 1998) with some benefits provided by the company and some by employees themselves... Would that not be more efficient than building plants in Mexico where you struggle to produce 30 trucks a day while the Chatham plant turns out over 110 a day (and with far less defects)?
So you see, there are inefficiencies, but these can be ironed out.
The consumer does want cheaper items, and I agree with that, but it comes at a price; products manufactured in foreign countries, not here!
As to your "which result in net loss" you are missing some information. In 1996 Chrysler waiting lists 6 months long for their minivans and every 42 seconds $7000 PROFIT (not revenue) rolled off the lines in Windsor (see Droullard Road plant).
So, people want cheaper vehicles, companies want higher profits with cheaper labour, the result is simple, foreign manufacturing.
So consumer choice does play a factor in the decision for companies to reduce costs. Try to build computer components here for close to the same price as those made in Taiwan and China? You can't. Should you blame the customer? NO, and I never said to. But the fact that even if you did build components here and assemble them here, you would struggle to make sales compared to the cheaper stuff in China. Is the customer choosing cheaper items a factor, absolutely, should they be blamed and SOPA used to punish them, NO. I emphasized that so you don't try to inject words or change context.
Cheers!
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Re: Re: Jobs Gone offshore?
Some do, some don't. So you can be sarcastic about it all you want, but it is still a fact that consumers themselves are partly to blame.
On the post: ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On The Back For Censoring The Web; Promises Much More To Come
No Comments on Youtube channel
And while everyone here is aware of ICE's mistakes, no one else is any the wiser!
You can't like or dislike or comment on their video, which proves they know they are full of shit and want single-direction communication (not even half-duplex).
That shows you what ICE is really about, along with the US Gov's integrity and accountability.
You worry about Romney lying to win votes? Even if Ron Paul were to win, he'd either be assassinated or just as bad as Bush/Obama for making changes the people want, and I actually would vote for Paul (despite not agreeing with cutting EPA/Education/etc.. funding).
You want change? It won't come from a leader. Until the masses demand change in a unified voice that any idiot could understand (OWS isn't unified enough and you need to GET THAT MESSAGE OUT), you won't see change.
Too bad overriding signals like they did on UHF wasn't possible. That was a great way to show-up corporations. I don't know how to do it, but those who do should definitely do it. Don't just hack one news site, hack them all! Have all of them expose everything at once. Hack the cable stations and broadcaster stations and display truths instead of BS.
Maybe, just maybe, it would cause enough people to question to maybe make some change.
But until you wake people up from their daily slumbers they call "life" you won't see that change.
ICE is slippery like the frozen water item sharing from which the Gov composed its name.
On the post: ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On The Back For Censoring The Web; Promises Much More To Come
Jobs Gone offshore?
Nice try to spin the facts. Too bad the public at large is not smart enough to see through this facade.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks Mike
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks Mike
The one thing you're forgetting though Brian, no one else has that luxury, so what makes you so important?
That's not meant to be offensive, despite the bolding. Think about it, I don't have any protection with my job if I lose a hand or get maimed in a car accident or suffer a severe head injury which renders me a "vegetable."
That's another problem with copyright/patents, the idea that somehow you're supposed to be protected from accidents. Some places do, like the automakers, but that's due to union contracts. My place of employment doesn't do that, and I know others don't either.
It's like this Brian, you have to invest in your future regardless of how you earn your money. If you're a pro sports player, you're likely to be injured, so you have to play for your own future. If you're injured, you're on your own.
A temporary monopoly is what was intended so you could have some income while you created something new. It's not intended for you or your dependents to live off of, that's what financial investment is for. Unfortunately, corporations want perpetual income from every "investment".
My children will have to follow in my footsteps; they will need to get an education, acquire skills, and make a career for themselves. If you mass so much fortune that your future is financially set, and maybe even the future of your children, then more power to you. But that can't be through a forced monopoly of your creations for 95 years after you registered the copyright.
And while I sympathize with the Nickelback issue, I'd be furious too, but something to consider is this: who would know about the many famous classical composers if their works were not in the public domain? If some orchestra in Germany had secured the performance rights to Beethoven or Mozart, would you have heard of them?
The problem Brian is that copyrights are used to strangle, control, squeeze the use of creations for profits for as long as possible. How is that beneficial to society?
Not everyone wants to see the artists work go straight to the public domain where you have to compete with Nickelback for your own songs. But we don't want to be sued for giving you free publicity or trying to listen to your music on our iPod/CDPlayer(iWalk?)/laptops/etc... because your music is locked down. We want to be able to enjoy your music, covered or original, without hindrance from SOCAN.
And as Mike M has said so many times, are you recording and releasing and hoping and praying or giving a reason to buy?
Relying on copyright to stop people from earning profits from your work without your consent or supporting you in a royalty - good. Relying on copyright to stop the use of your works for something you don't support - good. Relying on copyright to "guarantee" income for you and your kids for the next 95+ years - not good. Going after people who used your work in a mashup (as long as it doesn't violate your code of ethics, ie: used to torture people at Guantanamo) - not good. Going after people who play your music in a bar-band but do not claim it to be their own song good.
And I know your worry about Cohen and his music, however, did you know that "I Write The Songs" was popularized by Barry Manalow, but NOT written by Manalow? In fact, a person I took martial arts with in Montreal sat next to the original writer on a plane who kept saying "I wrote that song" with anger and passion. Original writer: Bruce Johnston. But people attribute the song to Manalow.
Copyright didn't change that. Regardless of whether Nickelback or Justin Bieber perform your works, unless the public reads the fine print of the writer, they won't know or care.
So, in that case, as with the case of songwriters, you should consider works for hire but also a myriad of other ideas, see CWF+RTB for songwriters who don't perform (ie: Cohen). Or how about you write it, promote it, let others perform it whether they pay you for it upfront or you arrange a license with the performer. Others may cover it, big acts too. If you don't jump up and down screaming at them, maybe they will say you wrote it and others will come to you asking to work with you.
Check out the post on being awesome (I forget the name of the artist) and how they made a million dollars just by being awesome and not pulling a copyright "that's mine" approach.
I am NOT trying to undermine your feelings, I'm just trying to give you more ideas and more views so you can understand where the "freetards" as the shills like to call us, are coming from.
Basically, you can work with us, play neutral, or against us. The order listed is the also the order of your income, that is you'll make more if you work with us, than if you play neutral, and much more than if you go against us.
We WANT to pay for your creation, just be sure you're giving us a reason to beyond the fact that you created something and expect because people see/hear/read about it, you somehow are owed something. Those days of forcing such things upon the consuming public are gone.
You can prosper man, you really can. Read up on CWF+RTB and you'll do very well, if you have the talent. Even if you're not the greatest, if you're cool and be creative and are willing to try new things, you can still make a good living. Invest your good living in your future and you won't need draconian laws, beyond stopping Nickelback from writing 3+ songs with different lyrics and slightly different melodies, but using everything else the same from one of your songs.
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Avoidance
Of course politicians, media pundits, and the SOPA supporters, will go on and on about "bad journalism." Yet no one complains about Fox News for bad journalism?
It's funny how companies don't want to be labeled "guilty" before given a chance to defend themselves but have no problem doing it to little people.
Capcom is guilty, they support SOPA until they deny it in writing! You support ESA so yes you support SOPA and are guilty by association. Maybe you should not have "linked" yourself with said "infringing on rights of others" SOPA supporters eh?
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Same Chris Dodd?
How fittingly he works as a mouthpiece for the MPAA. What, he couldn't get in with one of the banks who supported his campaign?
On the post: Rep. Lamar Smith Decides Lying About, Insulting And Dismissing Opposition To SOPA Is A Winning Strategy
Shut it down then
But don't DARE buy ANYTHING from corporations. Instead go to local placed where music is playing, ensure they are not on major labels, ensure the establishments are not paying royalties to SOCAN/ASCAP/et. al. Just avoid anything corporate.
Write letters (the US Post Office will thank you given they are broke) to senators and members of congress and parliament. Thank them for freeing you from information overload by their own stupidity and acceptance of bribes from corporations.
Drop your cable television/satellite subscription. Watch the movies you already have, don't buy more unless from indie folks.
Don't purchase a single newspaper (RMurdoch will be happy you dropped the 'Net but pissed you're not reading his horeshit "news").
Talk to your neighbours and learn about them. Go to parks. Spend time with your family.
Write more to your political "representatives" explaining how if things don't change and real proof and real transparency are not a reality (budgets, receipts, etc...) then they are out the door.
Given the financial "crisis" the greedy corps will face, they won't have much left for bribing politicians.
Develop our own, completely open, Internet after corps have plummeted.
Maybe then society will be better off. Clearly too many people are asleep at the wheel, taking away the web and TV and news might help them to learn to think for themselves.
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Re: Re: Re:
Actually provide a real argument for once, with citations and quotes to back up your points, insult free.
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It's not broken
What feels normal is irrelevant because copyright owners don't care what you feel, they want control over everything you see and hear, how you see and hear it, and who creates it.
We won't fix it unless we remove the current congress-persons who are in the pockets of lobbyists, which would mean there would be what, 5 people in congress? And that would take people FIRST understanding the currently confusing law and considering those who vote are apathetic and too lazy to think for themselves... don't count on them understanding the law enough to push congress to remove it.
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