The road to Hell is paved with them.
We have the TSA at our airports, bus terminals, train stations and NFL stadiums, the NSA on our phones, tablets and computers and Obamacare in our hospitals and health clinics. Garbage like this is simply "training" for what lies ahead. God help us as a nation.
The level of contempt for the American public on the part of our government that this move shows is unfathomable.
The police are being militarized in terms of equipment, clothing and weaponry and now even their attitude toward the citizens they are supposed to serve. They seem to view us the way US soldiers viewed the citizens of Baghdad when the US invaded Iraq ten years ago. How long before they are driving tanks through our neighborhoods?
From the beginning, it was censorship to make it so only approved guilds could write approved texts back in the 1400s. The same mentality persists today and threatens to ruin the Internet. The Internet must be protected at all costs, even if one ofthe effects is rampant piracy. The only thing worth protecting is the freeflow of information.
Copyright doesn't protect the original artist, only the big entertainment industry. In the new digital era, 20th century copyright has been rendered irrelevant and is trying to legislate its survival at the new technology's expense.
I'm against sales taxes on the Net. This has come up in the past and has always been defeated. Surely we can defeat it again.
This is indeed a scary piece of legislation and is the DOJ's way of flipping the bird at Internet activists and those who want the law changed.
We as citizens of the USA and the Net need to pressure our elected officials to vote Aaron's Law through before the judiciary committee can ram this piece of horror through and blindside everyone!
If the government won't receive the people's emails and letters of protest, the people will rise up and protest in the streets. The Internet is the essence of democracy and must remain totally free.
It is because of mergers like Comcast with NBC/Universal that we now have this problem. They make more money from content delivery than from Internet provision. Thus it is in their interest to degrade the Internet to enforce copyright.
Well, the government and the courts have been crapping all over the Fourth Amendment for over a decade now, so why would we be surprised?
Copyrighted? That? That's a mental exercise we did when I was in junior high. You have to decide what you want to take with you from the crash site in order to survive. I don't even see how that can be copyrighted.
One doddit, pwned!
Like Romney would've done any different!
Copyright was originally a matter for the civil courts. When did it become the domain of the DOJ for them to confiscate domain names, search people's digital media at border crossings and basically become the MAFIAA's enforcer?
I would say have a five-year maximum of copyright, not this author's life plus 70 years BS. That was at Disney's behest and should be done away with immediately.
Also, all personal, non-commercial use should be allowed. An anime fan who wants to make an AMV of Naruto with Slipknot or whatever playing in the background shouldn't be penalized for doing so.
The first copyright laws were used as a form of censorship by kings and the Catholic Church to destroy books about subjects they considered taboo.
The DOJ has only succeeded in making Kim Dotcom an Internet folk hero along with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Let them dig themselves in deeper. The cognizant know what they are doing and aren't fooled by their talk of "justice" and "intellectual property".
He should've just uploaded the video and hoped he didn't get caught.
Lawsuit time! It seems to be the only way these credit card companies learn.