?Working Together to Stop Internet Piracy? by Victoria Espinel, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, The White House Blog, July 2011:

The Administration is committed to reducing infringement of American intellectual property as part of our ongoing commitment to support jobs, increase exports and maintain our global competitiveness.

The joining of Internet service providers and entertainment companies in a cooperative effort to combat online?.??.?.

That’s Barack Obama’s administration, coming at you from The White House Blog.

I’ve been done with making my own food for years. Go make me a sandwich. Right now.

See how that works?

You’re just another silly entitlement-monkey.

Someone sounds mad he took to eating poop instead of arguing for stronger copyright.

more than a nozzle; the excrement oozing out the edges as the pressure builds to the point of leakage

more anal leakage, bring me the sauce

There won’t be any need to make them illegal.

You seem to believe that your activity is more easily hidden than it actually is.

People will just get throttled down to 56kbs until they can learn to not break the law.

“Bingo!

This is what some studio heads have said outright. That their concern is not piracy — piracy doesn’t really hurt them that much — but rather the loss of monopolistic control over the distribution channel.”

Yes, I think everybody understands this. The push for draconian regulatory capture and bad laws is an attempt to hijack the internet so that the major content industries can dominate it. Heck, even cable providers and telcos are trying to get in on the action. The last thing we need is for the internet to become one big glorified advertisement and shopping mall for the major content industries.

This is what some studio heads have said outright. That their concern is not piracy — piracy doesn’t really hurt them that much — but rather the loss of monopolistic control over the distribution channel.”

Nice to see you guys have resorted to just outright lying now.

lol

“Nice to see you guys have resorted to just outright lying now.”

If that’s the case then explain how come Hollywood broke all previous records last year? And even if their profits dip sometime in the future (what goes up must come down…), they cannot prove that copyright infringement is to blame because it would’ve already had an impact. The major label music has been of piss-poor quality for well over a decade now and as a direct consequence their sales plummeted. They’ve got nobody that can make music on the same level as the classic artists, so they must resort to hawking their back catalogs ad nausea and shoving crap like Lady Gaga down our throats.

Ever new regulation that the content industries want to impose upon internet users is rooted in gaining a monopoly over it. To them, this is all just a game, much like Wall Street gambles with our jobs and our money.

“I’ve been done with making my own food for years. Go make me a sandwich. Right now.

See how that works?

You’re just another silly entitlement-monkey.”

If converting a movie or music file is what you consider to be ‘entitlement,’ what do you call it when greedy middlemen cook the books, withhold royalties and intentionally spend huge wads of cash on artists they know will fail so that at the end of the year they can do a tax write-off?

Congratulations on your epic BS-storytelling. Just remember that if your story were to be true, then this friend of yours would be an enemy of the people. And not just because he’d be participating in spying on people for the government, either — it seems like reason enough, but to someone who still *likes* the government on some level, like yourself, extra reason as to why that’s so bad is needed to back it up.

Here’s mine. You’d have no idea if the people your friend would be monitoring were people actually planning terror attacks or if they were just routinely outspoken against the government or certain industries whose giants Washington favors. You’d also have no idea if the government would actually want these people thoroughly investigated and tried even in a military tribunal (because we know they’ll rarely ever try these guys in civilian court, as doing so more often would reveal that terrorists are not a ton scarier than the usual crooks and killers) or just kept an eye on so that when it’s decided their presence is inconvenient, troops can be deployed to put them away under lock and key ala NDAA.

So, keep spinning your tall tales about your friend and all the marvelous inescapable Big Brother technologies that he gets to regale in every day during his treason of the American people. If he even exists, I hope he can sleep at night knowing that he is little more than a paid mass cyberstalker working for a corrupt capitol that hates its constituents both local and national. Either way, I say thank you. Thank you, because your story serves as a perfect reminder what certain officials, executives, shills, and trolls are willing to do (or endorse the doing of) to their fellow man for power, money, and control.

Three billion plus artists worldwide?

You’re not seriously suggesting that almost half of the global human population are artists?

Are you so fucking high that you’re even willing to lie about statistics THIS obvious?

“Both of those works are available for purchase in a high quality format in the US.”

Song of the South, bitch. Unavailable in any format. Disney refuses to release it despite a sizeable consumer interest and historical significance.

If it wasn’t for the “piracy” that you revile so much, this infamous (some would say notorious) movie would never be seen again.

Are you so afraid of terrorists you can’t even bring yourself to type the word?

If converting a movie or music file is what you consider to be ‘entitlement,’

wow, you have serious reading comprehension issues.

He’s an entitlement monkey because he expects everything to be done for him, i.e. converting files to whatever format his personal player uses.

“uh, then don’t consume them?”

And this is how we know you’re not in any position of responsibility at a company that provides goods or services to customers, because that is about the stupidest response you could ever give to a potential customer who’s money you want.

“Go make me a sandwich. Right now.

See how that works?”

Yes, I do see how digital content works completely differently to physical goods. Judging by yet another failed analogy, you clearly don’t. Slap some name-calling on the end and it’s just like listening to a whining, ignorant teenager.

Copied? I think you mean stole, right?

“Why are you trying to restrict artists rights? Why are you anti-choice?”

Explain to the class how any artists rights are being restricted? Explain how any artists choices are being taken away? If you’re going to make silly claims, at least explain your reasoning behind them.

“Punishing weasel pirates for breaking the law will have zero negative effect on the internet itself.”

Punishing pirates for breaking the law will have zero negative effect on piracy. FTFY.

But you seem completely blind to the fact that your attempts to punish pirates comes at the cost of important human rights like privacy and justice, and all at the behest of a bunch of corporations who massively over-value their place in society.

Still waiting for your explanation why TD’s TOS are relevant to the discussion. Try it without name-calling if you’re able.

Rosario Dawson or an anonymous nobody on the Internet?

You chose.

How is this any different than speed trap cameras or red light cameras. There’s a photo of my car exceeding the speed limit or busting through a red light sent to me along with a ticket for $40. It shows my license plate but not who was driving. I can either pay up or appeal it and have my day in court.

No what I am saying is that six strikes is no different than a red light camera taking a picture of your car.

Win and get it back.

So the RIAA interprets the law now? That is laughable.

Was if it wasn’t your car? Was if it wasn’t your license plate? Doesn’t matter, you are “Automatically” assumed to be “Guilty” and must waste your time and money to fight a charge you shouldn’t have had to deal with in the first place.

Bamboozled: Red-light camera error leads to road of exasperation in Edison
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/10/bamboozled_red_light_camera_er.html

But, in the end, I guess it really doesn’t matter. If you are accused of something you didn’t do, you can still pay the fine and wash your hands of it. Just don’t get caught doing again what you didn’t do before in the first place, or they may not be so lenient the next time. Might even take away your driving privileges for something you had nothing to do with. How dare you not do it and think you can get away with it!

So, don’t do something you didn’t do, be automatically judged guilty of that same thing you didn’t do, unless you can prove to someone else that you didn’t do what you didn’t do.

Let that be a lesson to you, and don’t you ever forget it.

“This is just another example of how the MPAA & RIAA and their minions rely on their immense lobbying power to buy and bamboozle politicians and other companies, when trying to justify inexcusable behavior to get others to do their nefarious bidding for them.

Examples of a ripping off the public and the artists occurring can be found if you look at any (anti-public, pro-corporation) copyright extension law and company created (to benefit the company, not the artist) boiler plate contract.

Society will not accept “laws” just because some corporation wants to make it so. The world would have no one outside of prison that wasn’t working on a chain gang if that was the case.

The MPAA & RIAA know this, but ignore it, because they are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. They are Not doing anything for the artists, they are doing it for Themselves.

They are not committed to the truth, they are committed to lobbying, buying and bullying their way into the destruction of the rights people possess.”

FTFY

> ter**rists

What’s with the asterisks? Do you think that’s a naughty word or something?

> Society doesn’t throw away laws just because there are examples of mistakes.

No, you tool, that’s why we build quaint little concepts like due process into the system, so that when mistakes happen, they can be caught, and the innocent are not unjustly punished.

This ‘strikes’ system turns the concept of due process on its ear.

There are many things which people don’t have the time or inclination to do themselves so they get others to do it for them. Our economies have many service industries which sprung up to meet those needs.

There is obviously a market for different file formats so why aren’t they available through legitimate channels at a reasonable price? Not providing them means other services will fill the void, such as TPB.

Too bad this isn’t the judicial system we’re talking about.

Censorship. I KNOW you don’t know what that word means.

I’ll help you out, if you can still see the original comment, it’s not censorship. It’s merely been reported. That last line about pro-piracy, THAT is what got that comment reported. I can all but guarantee it.

Truth be told though, people like you love censorship. How else could you silence those with the nerve to point out the flaws in your arguments, or spread facts for others to look up and so on and so forth.

Wow, the first “public” figure to actually take a stand against this. This has been crazy.

Why doesn’t the Electronic Frontier Foundation fight this with more energy? Everyone was fighting SOPA but somehow they all forgot to pay attention to this program.

The complete lack of media exposure on this is intentional and there IS a conspiracy at work here and its the Hollywood entertainment media companies from Comcast to Turner and the major broadband providers of the United States.