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[citation][nom]techguy911[/nom]In canada it is legal to have a backup in the US it is Illegal it violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 that prohibits the circumvention of encryption technology. DVDs are encrypted with what is known as the Content Scramble System, and DVD players must secure a license to play discs. http
/www.wired.com/threatlevel/2 [...] s-illegal/The Riaa has prosecuted people who don't have a computer or an internet connection.So what would stop them from doing this if they spend enough money lobbying sooner or later the government will put it in, heck right now they can arrest people for stuff they have not done next thing you know they will get you on thinking about downloading that song or movie without actually doing it.I live in Canada they don't arrest someone unless they actually break the law in US they can arrest you on suspicion that you might do something without any proof and call it national security.What is really funny i know that there is a lot of police officers,goverment officals and even judges and their familiy members that pirate movies and songs even people that the Riaa hire to do anti-piraracy campaigns where downloading illegal music LOL.So where are they going to find 6 billion jail cells? can you imagine the cost governments of the world would go bankrupt lol.[/citation]
Well in the USA, they can "arrest" you which is technically just taking you into custody.
Unless they formally charge you with something, in most jurisdictions they can't detain you for more than 72 hours without proper cause (meaning you'll harm yourself or another, or something to that effect).
And if they start arresting you often enough and not charging you, that is when in the United States you go get a really good, high-power, high-profile civil rights attorney and sue the hell out of the law enforcement department harassing you and get them for harassment as well as mental anguish, suffering, ruining your personal image, violating your rights, etc.
And yeah, I have known the kids of high-profile government officials where I grew up in the USA who copied everything from porn tapes to CDs in the 80s and 90s, but their parents were up in Washington DC signing bills to protect "rights holders".
Make $140k a year, but can't teach their kid to respect the value of a buck and ask for money to go buy it.
Bunch of hypocrites.
/www.wired.com/threatlevel/2 [...] s-illegal/The Riaa has prosecuted people who don't have a computer or an internet connection.So what would stop them from doing this if they spend enough money lobbying sooner or later the government will put it in, heck right now they can arrest people for stuff they have not done next thing you know they will get you on thinking about downloading that song or movie without actually doing it.I live in Canada they don't arrest someone unless they actually break the law in US they can arrest you on suspicion that you might do something without any proof and call it national security.What is really funny i know that there is a lot of police officers,goverment officals and even judges and their familiy members that pirate movies and songs even people that the Riaa hire to do anti-piraracy campaigns where downloading illegal music LOL.So where are they going to find 6 billion jail cells? can you imagine the cost governments of the world would go bankrupt lol.[/citation]Well in the USA, they can "arrest" you which is technically just taking you into custody.
Unless they formally charge you with something, in most jurisdictions they can't detain you for more than 72 hours without proper cause (meaning you'll harm yourself or another, or something to that effect).
And if they start arresting you often enough and not charging you, that is when in the United States you go get a really good, high-power, high-profile civil rights attorney and sue the hell out of the law enforcement department harassing you and get them for harassment as well as mental anguish, suffering, ruining your personal image, violating your rights, etc.
And yeah, I have known the kids of high-profile government officials where I grew up in the USA who copied everything from porn tapes to CDs in the 80s and 90s, but their parents were up in Washington DC signing bills to protect "rights holders".
Make $140k a year, but can't teach their kid to respect the value of a buck and ask for money to go buy it.
Bunch of hypocrites.
[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]Too bad Obama is deeply in bed with Corporate America and Hollywood / entertainment industry in particular, that he just might allow this to pass. Thanks Obama, for wrecking the economy AND my computer.[/citation]
Actually, Obama is in bed with "Hollywood", not the motion picture industry or the capitalists.
Obama is endeared to the artists, most of whom have a passion for free expression. And, some of whom actually discuss on occasion the fact that artists get so little nowadays unless they are the "top" in the industry.
If you want to see someone who was linked to "business", look at George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Lewis Libby. All of whom (especially Cheney) had 1000s of shares of Halliburton stock in their portfolios, and found roundabout methods of awarding no-bid contracts to the company who had assets in the Middle East to do the work they needed done...which just so randomly and coincidentally there was only one corporation who did have things ready over there.
Halliburton.
The Bush Administration was in bed with oil, energy, automotive, banking, and insurance.
And, they and the Republican-controlled congress up until 2006 practically drove this country into the ground with their excessive, out-of-control capitalistic mentality and practices.
Obama is a saint compared to Bush and his buddies when it comes to corporate collusion from within government.
Okay...sorry...just had to be said.
/end political rant lol
Actually, Obama is in bed with "Hollywood", not the motion picture industry or the capitalists.
Obama is endeared to the artists, most of whom have a passion for free expression. And, some of whom actually discuss on occasion the fact that artists get so little nowadays unless they are the "top" in the industry.
If you want to see someone who was linked to "business", look at George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Lewis Libby. All of whom (especially Cheney) had 1000s of shares of Halliburton stock in their portfolios, and found roundabout methods of awarding no-bid contracts to the company who had assets in the Middle East to do the work they needed done...which just so randomly and coincidentally there was only one corporation who did have things ready over there.
Halliburton.
The Bush Administration was in bed with oil, energy, automotive, banking, and insurance.
And, they and the Republican-controlled congress up until 2006 practically drove this country into the ground with their excessive, out-of-control capitalistic mentality and practices.
Obama is a saint compared to Bush and his buddies when it comes to corporate collusion from within government.
Okay...sorry...just had to be said.
/end political rant lol
[citation][nom]fixxxer07[/nom]I've been downloading and buying music legally for years now... but this kinda bullshit makes me want to start firing up Limewire again.[/citation]
Me too. Stopped pirating software when I was 17. Quit burning CDs from the internet before they shutdown Napster. Figured I had a job and could afford it.
But if you're makin $7 an hour min wage and you have rent, power, and water bills...affording $15 a CD is tough. $25 a month for internet and unlimited music downloads is sorta tempting.
And I'm like you, except that if they pass legislation that does this...it makes me want to find a non-compact country to set up a server farm in, and do my own version of Pirate's Bay where the industry can't touch me and neither can the US government.
It's bad when business wants government to do their work for them.
It's even worse when they want us to pay for it.
Me too. Stopped pirating software when I was 17. Quit burning CDs from the internet before they shutdown Napster. Figured I had a job and could afford it.
But if you're makin $7 an hour min wage and you have rent, power, and water bills...affording $15 a CD is tough. $25 a month for internet and unlimited music downloads is sorta tempting.
And I'm like you, except that if they pass legislation that does this...it makes me want to find a non-compact country to set up a server farm in, and do my own version of Pirate's Bay where the industry can't touch me and neither can the US government.
It's bad when business wants government to do their work for them.
It's even worse when they want us to pay for it.
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They are field testing this new trojan in japan right now
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8622665.stm
Im sure the riaa and mpaa are behind this.......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8622665.stm
Im sure the riaa and mpaa are behind this.......
This is a joke and will never happen. They can ask for it, but it would never stand up in any court. It falls under the illegal search and seizure law. Lastly, I know the Tea Bagers (aka dumb asses) think that our President is the king of the socialist, but the Dems would never let this happen.
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[citation][nom]Lan[/nom]Say hello to the biggest pirating movement in history if this goes down. lol[/citation]
If this does go down to the extent the RIAA want's it to, with homeland security...everyone from the script kiddies down won't be able to do a thing. Regardless, I won't have to worry, I can actually afford the games/entertainment I want.
If this does go down to the extent the RIAA want's it to, with homeland security...everyone from the script kiddies down won't be able to do a thing. Regardless, I won't have to worry, I can actually afford the games/entertainment I want.
It is time for the people to make their voices heard to big business in the United States.
For too long now we have stood by silently and let them nibble away at our pocket books and our freedoms. They have reached the point where they are done nibbling and are trying to grab wholesale what they have no right to in the first place.
It is time to BOYCOTT the corporations. They NEED us to keep their companies afloat. They need our money and our labor to keep going. We the People have it within our power to send them a message: NO MORE! No More will be gouged by their greed. No More will be silent and let them take and take and take from us.
The solution is the simplest thing in the world to do. It would not take long for them to cave and listen to US. Stop buying their overpriced sh!t.
RIAA and MPAA kiss our ass, we are done with you. Coke and Pepsi, eff you too. Lower your prices to reasonable levels or suffer the Wrath of the Consumer!
If We, the people/consumers of the United States could stop hating one another long enough to send a message to these bloated corporations we could accomplish change in record time. Hit them where it will hurt them the most: their Pocket Boots.
Don't go to the movies. Don't buy CD's, DVD's, Blu-Rays, Coke, Pepsi, Mtn Dew (I know I will get yelled at for this one), Snickers, M&Ms, Little Debbies snack cakes, I think you get the gist here. Stop giving them our money, live frugally for a few months. See how fast they will all change their tune when they HAVE NO INCOME because we are with holding our money from them.
The only way for us to enact any change in the way this great country of ours works is to stand up and tell them NO MORE.
/steps off of his soap box
For too long now we have stood by silently and let them nibble away at our pocket books and our freedoms. They have reached the point where they are done nibbling and are trying to grab wholesale what they have no right to in the first place.
It is time to BOYCOTT the corporations. They NEED us to keep their companies afloat. They need our money and our labor to keep going. We the People have it within our power to send them a message: NO MORE! No More will be gouged by their greed. No More will be silent and let them take and take and take from us.
The solution is the simplest thing in the world to do. It would not take long for them to cave and listen to US. Stop buying their overpriced sh!t.
RIAA and MPAA kiss our ass, we are done with you. Coke and Pepsi, eff you too. Lower your prices to reasonable levels or suffer the Wrath of the Consumer!
If We, the people/consumers of the United States could stop hating one another long enough to send a message to these bloated corporations we could accomplish change in record time. Hit them where it will hurt them the most: their Pocket Boots.
Don't go to the movies. Don't buy CD's, DVD's, Blu-Rays, Coke, Pepsi, Mtn Dew (I know I will get yelled at for this one), Snickers, M&Ms, Little Debbies snack cakes, I think you get the gist here. Stop giving them our money, live frugally for a few months. See how fast they will all change their tune when they HAVE NO INCOME because we are with holding our money from them.
The only way for us to enact any change in the way this great country of ours works is to stand up and tell them NO MORE.
/steps off of his soap box
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April fools was 2 weeks ago. I seriously laughed repeatedly while reading this article. Who have they hired to propose ridiculous ideas like this? Anybody with any legal and/or technical sense knows that all of those ideas are ludicrous, illegal, and technologically impossible.
This is the definition of fascism. Hello hardware based firewall, hello massive torrent downloading, screw you USA.
Don't think this can't happen. That would be foolish. At the very least, software could be added at the ISP level that would constantly monitor traffic for illegal content, and then block it.
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If they want to install spyware and watch what folks are downloading ect, can we have government endorsed software for computers, televisions and movie theatres, so we the consumer can block the endless piles of pathetic crap the music and movie industry manufacture and try and charge us for listening / viewing?
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This article was one of the best examples of BS, I have seen in my IT career. It sounds more like the RIAA has move to scare tactics rather than solving unsolvable problems which is what this is. There will always be piracy. Theres been piracy longer than there have been computers, They just dont get it. Its like Norton claiming to have a virus protection that stops all viruses and malware. They are wasting their time trying this crap, no to mention as someone said in the comments already. This will create more piracy and make people want to do it more, just to spite this millionaire morons. They ll get over it and somepoint or they won't. The geeks run the infrastructure of this country.
Have you guys read about some of the stuff that the RIAA has done? Absolutely ridiculous!! They tried to sue a russian company 1.65 TRILLION!!!! US dollars. They were basically handed their @$$3$ at the door on the way out. But the stuff they have tried to do is crazy!!! Just last week they tried to sue a 9 year old girl. these guys seriously need to have their tower of babel broken. they think that they are all-powerful. I will sit back and watch with loud laughter as their are overtaken by the group of hackers that have had enough. Their days are numbered and it is a very small number.
I dislike the RIAA, MPAA, and the government as much as anyone, but nothing they've done, no matter how heinous, gives anyone the right to break copyright laws. Two wrongs truly do not make a right.
Obtaining software, music, or movies without paying for them is immoral and illegal - regardless of how its done - period. Downloading a movie is stealing just as much as going into a store and shoplifting the DVD.
They will find a way to stop the vast majority of illegal downloading. They'll make it so difficult to do that only the most tech savvy will find a way to continue breaking the law.
Obtaining software, music, or movies without paying for them is immoral and illegal - regardless of how its done - period. Downloading a movie is stealing just as much as going into a store and shoplifting the DVD.
They will find a way to stop the vast majority of illegal downloading. They'll make it so difficult to do that only the most tech savvy will find a way to continue breaking the law.
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