"no one has suggested freedom of speech has been hampered"
As in, No mega corporation in the movie or music industry has suggested that their freedom of speech has been impaired. They are the only people who really count after all. All the rest of us are not really anyone.
I don't think that it is being sheltered that is the problem. It is just the entertainment industry has such a fat ass that when you spend all your time kissing it you cant see anything else.
These numbers also are failing to take into account the number of "stolen" copies that are really just someone downloading a copy of something they already have. I have the entire MASH tv show on DVD. I bought them all as they were released to DVD. When I am traveling though and I get the urge to watch some MASH I will go and download some. This is hardly me stealing the show but the way they are recording their numbers it will show up as me having done just that.
Just a thought, but maybe he did not write about that because this site is called TECHdirt implying technology instead of something like PoliticalDirt. The NDAA is a terrible law but is not really technology related and so stories on it are better suited for other pages.
Again I find it funny that you SOPA supporters like to downplay just how much power this law gives to the government.
You point out the noise ordinance and claim it is the same. Well lets take a look at that. If you go out in your yard you can go on all you want about same-sex marriage. You can even go door to door and tell everyone how great it is. That is your right. When you pull out your amp you can even amplify it to a certain point. Once you past that point you will be told to turn it down or face a fine.
Now if that law was like SOPA then you would step out on your lawn and start talking only to gave guys run up and toss you into the street. Your home will be taken and your bank accounts frozen. You will not have a trial or any warning you will just be left homeless. Of course you are free to go to court and challenge these actions. You will have to prove to the court though that what you were saying was totally legal.
To make it worse, under SOPA it would not even need to be you talking. Someone else could walk up in your yard and start talking only to have the same results of you tossed out of your home. I mean you should have been taking measures to make sure no one spoke illegally on your lawn right?
The one point you miss there though is you say that if they put a satellite into space some government will just shoot it down. I really doubt that would happen for one simple reason. If the hackers get their satellites into orbit that would mean they have the knowledge needed to take out other satellites. What government would risk that? You shoot down one hacker satellite only to have them crash their other satellite into your billion dollar spy satellite?
It is never pretty when a government thinks they can win a pissing contest with the general population. The Government only has the power given to it by the people. Once it abuses that power the people will rise up and take it back. In this case you can look forward to a lot of disruptions to satellite services before all this is done.
The really funny thing is so many companies not realizing that the stupid DRM makes the pirated copy more attractive. A good example of this is with Windows XP. I went out and bought a copy and used it. Trouble was I constantly would run into issues of having to re-register because of upgrades to the computer. I then got tired of it and used a pirated copy. The end result? The pirated copy installed easier, included updates and had several patches made by the software pirates. The Pirated copy was more stable then the store bought copy. This seems to be happening all over with programs these days. The software pirates actually make the program more stable and sometimes even add features. Makes it hard to justify paying for the official version.
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As in, No mega corporation in the movie or music industry has suggested that their freedom of speech has been impaired. They are the only people who really count after all. All the rest of us are not really anyone.
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You point out the noise ordinance and claim it is the same. Well lets take a look at that. If you go out in your yard you can go on all you want about same-sex marriage. You can even go door to door and tell everyone how great it is. That is your right. When you pull out your amp you can even amplify it to a certain point. Once you past that point you will be told to turn it down or face a fine.
Now if that law was like SOPA then you would step out on your lawn and start talking only to gave guys run up and toss you into the street. Your home will be taken and your bank accounts frozen. You will not have a trial or any warning you will just be left homeless. Of course you are free to go to court and challenge these actions. You will have to prove to the court though that what you were saying was totally legal.
To make it worse, under SOPA it would not even need to be you talking. Someone else could walk up in your yard and start talking only to have the same results of you tossed out of your home. I mean you should have been taking measures to make sure no one spoke illegally on your lawn right?
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It is never pretty when a government thinks they can win a pissing contest with the general population. The Government only has the power given to it by the people. Once it abuses that power the people will rise up and take it back. In this case you can look forward to a lot of disruptions to satellite services before all this is done.
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