BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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Re: How do I get into this racket?
said by N3OGH  :Orwellian, totally f'ng Orwellian. Like you said, with all the shit going on right now, THIS is what Congress is worried about. Nero fiddles......Rome burns... How's that? If you recieve FEDERAL financial aid do they not have a right to put whatever conditions on that as they choose? You have the right not to accept financial aid from the federal government if you wish to pirate stuff. Don't accept the government cheese then bitch about how it tastes. |
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| Conditions of FEDERAL Financial student Aid should not and cannot not be used to benefit a group of PRIVATE businesses by imposing unfunded mandates on funded institutions of learning. When FEDERAL PUBLIC laws are subservient to PRIVATE business concerns, then you no longer have a democracy, you have an oligarchy. That's political science 101. What the RIAA is asking for in this bill is basically socialized access to entertainment.
Under just about any theory of law involving private enterprise, it is the responsibility of the owner of the intellectual property to secure and enforce those property rights. Requiring all of the public (including the higher education system) to pay royalties for intellectual property used by a minority is a perverse kind of corporate entitlement or socialism. IF mandates can be placed for compulsory payments, then mandates need also be placed for fee caps.
But the bottom line is that in a democratic, capitalistic system, it is the property owner's responsibility to protect their property, intellectual or otherwise. If I have a grocery store, the authorities will prosecute a thief. But the authorities will not protect me from thieves by buying me locks or installing an alarm for me at the public expense. Nor will they tax the neighborhood to offset my losses from shoplifting. As a property owner, it is MY responsibility to protect myself. It is the authorities responsibility to prosecute those who violate my property rights. The authorities responsibility is to maintain order for the good of ALL by. as such, their role is primarily reactive and retributive. A property owner has the responsibility of being PROACTIVE.
If the measure is passed, it would probably at some point be ruled an unconstitutional taking.
If the RIAA cannot adequately protect their member's property with their current business model, then they need to find a different business model. That is, after all, the fundamental principle of capitalism and free markets. |
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xelnix
join:2006-10-03
Kissimmee, FL | reply to BF69
Why don't they just attach that stipulation to the individual loan? Why make a school full of students liable for the actions of a few? That is my problem with this bill, it is overreaching. Like swatting a fly with a baseball bat. |
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jp10558
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join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY
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That's fine if it's like Felons can't vote... I.E. you are convicted of copyright infringment - you lose federal financial aid. I'm down with that as a possible policy.
But if you happen to go to a college that other people pirate at, you lose financial aid? Bullshit. What the hell is this guilt *and* punishment by association. What college could you even go to and be sure than no student was pirating at? That part is wrong.
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DotMac4
Shill H8r
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join:2007-10-26
Huntington Beach, CA
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It's not the gov'ts money, it's the taxpayers' money. It's one thing for the gov't to insist that colleges try and curb piracy by overseeing their own networks. It's quite another to force colleges to PAY THE RIAA membership using TAXPAYER money. That money is for the STUDENTS, not the thugs at the RIAA.
Taking bribes from private industry in exchange for taxpayer money gives us the right to bitch about it. If I gave money to a politician in exchange for favors, I'd go to jail. The RIAA does it and they call it a contribution.
It's corruption, plain and simple. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
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said by BF69 :said by N3OGH :Orwellian, totally f'ng Orwellian. Like you said, with all the shit going on right now, THIS is what Congress is worried about. Nero fiddles......Rome burns... How's that? If you recieve FEDERAL financial aid do they not have a right to put whatever conditions on that as they choose? You have the right not to accept financial aid from the federal government if you wish to pirate stuff. Don't accept the government cheese then bitch about how it tastes. "We've taxed the ever-living f*ck out of the citizens of your state, if you want some of your money back, you have to abide by these conditions." Sure, that makes sense.
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DotMac4
Shill H8r
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join:2007-10-26
Huntington Beach, CA | No kidding. Somewhere I missed MY option to attach similar conditions on my tax payments to the whores in Washington. |
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madrhino
join:2004-07-03
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said by BF69 :How's that? If you recieve FEDERAL financial aid do they not have a right to put whatever conditions on that as they choose? You have the right not to accept financial aid from the federal government if you wish to pirate stuff. Don't accept the government cheese then bitch about how it tastes. But they stole my cow, threatened her with jail if she didn't give them 1/3 of every gallon of her milk and then wasted most of that making an ounce of cheese per 100 gallons.
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