 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to KrK
Re: How Is Anyone Surprised? said by KrK:It's disappointing, but as you say, not so much surprising... and it's another example of the two party system in the USA failing to defend or protect the positions and opinions of much of the citizenry.... voting for either still equals fail. Conversely I won't understand why the GOP supports any type of law or enforcement action that benefits the content industry. The content industry, from the actors, singers, artists, writers, producers, etc. all the way up to the executives at the highest level are all flaming liberals politically. On top of that, the content industry never wastes an opportunity to trash the GOP or any conservative in general.
With that in mind, why would the GOP care so much about the welfare of this industry? Because, as you accurately pointed out, most of the time any proposal comes around to strengthen said industry, the GOP stupidly lines up behind it.
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| They also are big believers in "This is one of America's most Important industries" IE Cash cows.
While I hardly can disagree that it's a big industry (The creation of entertainment, few could argue the US is the biggest exporter of movies/music/graphics/gaming etc in the World) I do take issue with laws that criminalize regular behavior, with draconian anti-consumer fines and punishments, mandatory royalty/tax type plans or suggestions that hurt innocent people, etc
The US Constitution prohibits cruel or unusual punishment, or to put it in more common terms "Let the punishment fit the crime."
Copyright infringement on a personal level is rather like a minor traffic violation... and the punishments should be similar, IMHO.
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»Using a net proxy in crime could add 25% to sentence
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join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:Conversely I won't understand why the GOP supports any type of law or enforcement action that benefits the content industry. The content industry, from the actors, singers, artists, writers, producers, etc. all the way up to the executives at the highest level are all flaming liberals politically. On top of that, the content industry never wastes an opportunity to trash the GOP or any conservative in general. With that in mind, why would the GOP care so much about the welfare of this industry? Because, as you accurately pointed out, most of the time any proposal comes around to strengthen said industry, the GOP stupidly lines up behind it. It's as simple as the GOP cares about private enterprise in general, although that certainly doesn't mean that GOP pols never make mistakes that hurt our economy. |
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Don't you mean
"And the punishments are going to get harsher"
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said by KrK: "Let the punishment fit the crime." Copyright infringement on a personal level is rather like a minor traffic violation... and the punishments should be similar, IMHO. If that were actually practiced, then the time served on death row would be rather short. Both parties understand the way to sway the masses is through the media. So both parties kiss the Arse of the media conglomerates because we are now governed by polls and crises perpetuated my these same media. |
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 tapeloopNot bad at all, really.Premium
join:2004-06-27
Airstrip One
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said by R4M0N:I see what you did there... So if the pirates had used a proxy, all four of them would have been shot instead of just three...? |
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