Senate Panel Approves Antipiracy Bill

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MattyMattMatt

"If passed, the bill will enable the Justice Department to seek a court injunction against any website hosting counterfeit materials, even if it's owned and operated overseas."

 

lololololol

 

How exactly are they going to do that? It won't take long before the rest of the world tells the US to fuck off with that. Most of the world already hates the US Government for its constant meddling. This is really going to help their foreign relations. WE, THE ALMIGHTY US OF ASSHOLES COMMAND THAT THIS WEBSITE COME DOWN. Fucking idiots.

I feel bad for the good Americans as they are being represented by quite a few idiots.

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HoopSpread

 You f..g right I got copyrighted content 'hosted',on my machine. The layout of the Internet right now,is a somewhat suspended animation of copyrighted content. But it is not as traditional media would know as a 'one-to-many' medium - when it is utilized to the correct term. When the senate looks at a computer screen,it is not glued in one place to the coordinates of all known coordinates,that is 'APBd' to all goers on.

    The ideal of a one-to-many,and many-to-many is not beset on all sides of 'end users' that are takers to all comers. That said,if the engineering was a more focal,optional,or focused autonomous one-to-one 'Internet'(and it is if any would care to notice). That is yes,I have a machine with copyrighted content on it,and yes I intend to broadcast that material as a mention of a 'freedom of speech'. However this is a one-to-one coorospondence to 'no comers',and the 'hosting'of material on a localized machine is 'fair-use',and when considered to this manner protected by the Bill Of Rights.

    That is you knock,I dont know you you are not going to come in. When you are not somebody I know you are not going to run your fingers through my 'fair-use'object of storage afforded the micrcopia in the digital age.

     The engineering of this subject is simply software.

   While the glib of the utilization of the DNS as powered by the U.S. Senate /lawmakers..whatever may pertain to what they can do with it. In court they will not enter this subject w/o a warrant. They will not prevail to observe copyrighted objects 'in play' by illegal entry. Onto the ideal that 'one-to-many,or many-to-many is what a 'web site',site(s) or a 'public portrayal'in that 'fair-use' demeaner,endeaver with unopposed copyright material. Protected by the Bill Of Rights.

    If an when ISPs come around to this,we will have better security,privacy,and policy. This is conductive by the individual.

   The Senate does not know enough to engineer this. Then copyright law cannot preclude 'ownership'of copyrighted materials as 'personal documents'. These 'assets'do not pertain to copyright.

    If the Senate communicates this way. They will not prevail. I mean this is mortal wounds on the duality of many defined characteristics of everyday life. The glib carried on in the legal speak should not continue w/o rebuttal. Because it is serious self-destructive rhetoric with a real indifference to what constituents are actually composed of.

 

 

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Belboz99

"this legislation will protect wages and benefits for the millions of middle-class workers who bring America’s creativity to life."

Who the frak are these "millions of middle class workers" that have IP being pirated??? 

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igoka

Agree . That line also pissed me off !!!!

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Sediket

OMG!! pirating is bad?  I thought acquing the hard work of other individuals all the way up to large corporations for free was the way the bussiness world worked?

I don't know how they make money because there is no need to pay for their products but their famous or big companies soo they are just rich and I'm a schmuk who doesn't understand the basic concept that companies make money by SELLING their products.

So I hate it when anyone tries to stop me from downloading other entities products.

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supercourier

I loved your take on this.  It sounded like something I would come up with myself if those facts at hand were all I had.  Really, it's perceptive and funny.

On a more serious note, what you've missed is that fact that piracy is a symptom of things CHANGING, not a part of an immutable system where things are being callously STOLEN.  You may have noticed the reaction to statements here regarding "...millions of middle class jobs..." and other red herrings used to justify bribe-taking (sorry, lobbyist donations) on lawmakers' parts were quite negative.  That's because what's changing are the DISTRIBUTION METHODS and options.  They're moving at a pace not being matched by increasingly irrelevant marketing and distribution companies who are using punitive measures enaabled by the financial resources not commonly available to most (read: consumers from whom they profit) to keep themselves at the table.

The actual CREATORS of the content, like everyone from those drawing public pensions as teachers in Wisconsin to those creating small business models, now must innovate and simply get their income from other sources than plastic discs and marketing blitzes.  Merchandise is one way.  Live performances (ie--actively working and contributing, not passively forcing others to pay for library-available information) is likely another.  The lightbulb didn't murder people in the candle industry, it made them incorporate onward and upward. 

Progress won't suspend for anyone, no matter how rich , aggressive and abusive they are.

 

 

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MarioJP

And then let's pass a bill that will ban internet radio, because FM radio has lost control over their listeners. This isn't about piracy. its about POWER AND CONTROL. Has history taught us something at all?? The rich gets richer and the poor gets even more screwed. Middle class? what middle class. WAKE UP YOU MORON! MIDDLE CLASS DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE!. That's like saying. "I can't wait until i retire. My retirement money is waiting for me. WRONG there isn't any left. Be surprised if social security ceases to exists. I don't think this bill is going anywhere. Youtube is the best thing that ever happened in the computer world.

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luke904

To all those who pirata media: IT. IS. WRONG.

sure, there are exceptions, like your disc breaks and you pirate whatever it was to get it back.

 

People just want to make excuses so they dont have to face the idea that they are stealing.

"I do not care if other people's media gets pirated. They should not have priced themselves out of the market in the first place."

-they made it, they set the price. why dont you make something? better yet, stop pirating, thats one of the reasons its "priced so high." if you cant afford it, then dont buy it.

 

I'm not saying I support this law, i dont know where i stand on it really. any time we give the government power, they tend to abuse it. But, taking down a legitimate piracy site is not abusing their power.

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supercourier

Hope YOU aren't admitting to downloading a cd you broke.  Per current  law,  you're going down, you thieving pirate.

  And things aren't "priced so high" due to piracy.  In fact one look at Netflix shows us that viewing a movie (as often as you like!) is now CHEAPER because of  the industry's  response to its distribution (not piracy) problem.  Studios MUST be making money at only eight bucks a month flat or they wouldn't have signed onto the deal. 

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Roll Tide

bold prediction.... youtube gets shut down and remerges under government ownership to protect "you" and "us" and "them"

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Neufeldt2002

I take great offense to this. What gives the US the right to determine which websites I visit when I don't live in, or am a citizen of the US. The Internet is GLOBAL, all the more reason to move ICANN, and their servers.

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thepoor

ICANN is a property of the US, it should stay.

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Jason Hopkins

Welcome to another step toward living in the USSR, United States Socialist Republic.

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MattyMattMatt

Wow you're dumb. Socialism has nothing to do with oppression. You're thinking of dictatorship.

More importantly, this could never pass in a socialist country as it goes against the ideals. Please read some books and learn something instead of spouting utter non-sense like most uneducated Americans do.

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Jason Hopkins

Welcome to another step toward living in the USSR, United States Socialist Republic.

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Holly Golightly

Wow, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon and Ronald Regan did a great job into brainwashing your mind. You do not have the slightest clue about the concept of socialism, or the USSR. Read books, and lots of them!

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Noizemaker31

Much as I love free "everything," this is no surprise. It's stealing. Nerds of the world will innovate and I will follow...

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aarcane

I'll just keep getting my movies from netflix and do without the music if it comes to that.

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davidflory

Short term - All that will happen is that you will have to find torrent search engines via their IP address instead of their URL.  Most torrent users are advanced users who know how to do this already.  IP addresses will end up being advertised instead and normal search engines with webcrawlers will find them.

Midterm - Torrent search engines will produce apps that are advertised paid that will both torrent search and download torrents. (current most torrent apps only download the files from the torrent).

Long term - Supreme court will decide that this is a violation of free speech rights since websites and software are already been decided that they are covered under the first admendment.

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crazitrain02

Is the government going to shut down youtube now?  Even youtube can't keep up with the amount of copyrighted material that is on there.  This is just one step closer to becoming like China and only let the public see what the government deems appropriate.

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level1paladin

I gotta the get the hell out of this country.  It's going to shit faster and faster.

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uc7

But you don't understand.  The MPAA pays so much while lobbying.  How can legislators possible consider not accepting what amounts to bribes from the cash stuffed Hollywood group?  it would be unthinkable.  Those lousy independant creative people aren't going to cough up that kind of cash.  :p

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Holly Golightly

Meeeeeee too! I am with Eric Schmidt on this one.

Greedy people wont allow us to do whatever we feel like with our content. Again, the Justice Department puts big business before people. A new pirating website is made everyday. Lets not forget the greatness of file sharing torrents.

I do not care if other people's media gets pirated. They should not have priced themselves out of the market in the first place. This shows that even the Justice Department is behind the times. I would like to see them attempt to "strong arm" the Russian government and their companies. It wont happen, so this does not ban piracy forever.

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