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NEWS: New Anti-Piracy Bill Proposed in U.S. Senate

This [stupid liberal or dumb conservative, circle one] measure would clearly violate my constitutionally-protected right to violate intellectual property law and would be pointless and unenforcable anyway, not to mention the future of media production is piracy so this hurts the artists who want us all to have their work for free because they don't ever care about money.





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This [stupid liberal or dumb conservative, circle one] measure would clearly violate my constitutionally-protected right to violate intellectual property law and would be pointless and unenforcable anyway, not to mention the future of media production is piracy so this hurts the artists who want us all to have their work for free because they don't ever care about money, and anyway even if I do pay for things it all goes to evil corporate fatcats who don't deserve to be paid for the cost of production because they are evil corporate fatcats.

Also the President is somehow involved in some negative way but I don't really know why or how.




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This [stupid liberal or dumb conservative, circle one] measure would clearly violate my constitutionally-protected right to violate intellectual property law and would be pointless and unenforcable anyway, not to mention the future of media production is piracy so this hurts the artists who want us all to have their work for free because they don't ever care about money, and anyway even if I do pay for things it all goes to evil corporate fatcats who don't deserve to be paid for the cost of production because they are evil corporate fatcats.

Also the President is somehow involved in some negative way but I don't really know why or how.




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Before the poo starts flying yet again, I recommend folks take a look at EFF's take on this bill.

The bill would also create two Internet blacklists. The first is a list of all the websites hit with a censorship court order from the Attorney General. The second, more worrying, blacklist is a list of domain names that the Department of Justice determines — without judicial review — are "dedicated to infringing activities." The bill only requires blocking for domains in the first list, but strongly suggests that domains on the second list should be blocked as well by providing legal immunity for Internet intermediaries and DNS operators who decide to block domains on the second blacklist as well.

Moreover, it seems easy to get on the blacklist — the bill sets up a seemingly streamlined procedure for adding domains (including a McCarthy-like procedure of public snitching) — but in contrast, it seems difficult to get off the list, with a cumbersome process to have a blacklisted domain removed.

There dosn't need to be any more posts on this thread now. You've covered all the bases.

Censorship is censorship. Censorship is a violation of the First Amendment, and thus it should be unconstitutional. This has nothing to do with piracy, this has everything to do with a vague and crappy bill. I don't care if other countries use it, in the United States this is unconstitutional.

progSHELL wrote:

There dosn't need to be any more posts on this thread now. You've covered all the bases.

I agree,might as well lock it now.

Censorship is censorship. Censorship is a violation of the First Amendment, and thus it should be unconstitutional. This has nothing to do with piracy, this has everything to do with a vague and crappy bill. I don't care if other countries use it, in the United States this is unconstitutional.

Unless politicians on both sides of the isle are really so stupid as to bring up a bill that would greatly increase the governments power over the internet and possible stifle free speech, right before an election that is stoked to the brim with "SCREW THE MAN" in one way or another coming from both sides of the isle towards both parties.....

Fabe wrote:

progSHELL wrote: There dosn't need to be any more posts on this thread now. You've covered all the bases. I agree,might as well lock it now.

Should probably shut down the animenewsnetwork.com domain for good measure.