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kudos:5 | reply to Automate
Re: Not the UN said by Automate:Our government has its share of problems but it's still miles better than the UN. We should be taking our money away from the UN not giving them more control.
A US bashing editorial doesn't change the truth that what the UN wants is 10X worse than the US trying to protect copyrighted content. |
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| Actually what the U.S. government has done (and attempted to do) goes well beyond this little ITU hare-brained scheme, so you make no sense. |
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Agreed. The US has had some questionable ideas regarding control over the Internet (mostly going overboard on copyright, and sometimes on surveillance), but we have a lot more freedom than the rest of the world.
With UN control, all of the member states will try to get their idiotic regulations passed, whether they go overboard on copyrights, censor speech they don't like, try to redistribute wealth by placing surcharges on traffic, or whatever ridiculous nonsense that we have been able to (mostly) avoid so far. They will try to hurt the Internet overall (but they may not succeed because the UN is so grossly incompetent). |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to Linklist
No, it's the same. Governments interested in protecting money for big interests willing to regulate the internet and push their laws on everyone else.
The USA is one of the worst at sheer hypocrisy.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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The sooner we get rid of the idea that copyrights are necessary the better. |
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kudos:2 | How about people just legally buy or rent the movies, books and music they want? Then you wouldn't need SOPA (not that it is needed anyway). |
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| said by skeechan:How about people just legally buy or rent the movies, books and music they want?
Simply human nature and convenience. Next you will be asking why people use illegal drugs too.
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kudos:2 | Ah, selfishness and the entitlement mentality. Perhaps if they weren't chemically altering themselves so much they would realize that everyone else doesn't exist for their convenience. |
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4 edits | I would consider copyrights as they exist today as more of an entitlement.
Forced artificial scarcity just doesn't work. It an economic truth and its as real as gravity.
I find the morality of creating scarcity by law rather than by an open market to be questionable at best.
An artist has a scarce tool at his disposal, its called a live performance. The horror! |
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| said by DataRiker:An artist has a scarce tool at his disposal, its called a live performance. The horror!
And when people secretly record the concert and then release it to the tubes? |
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| said by SureOk :said by DataRiker:An artist has a scarce tool at his disposal, its called a live performance. The horror!
And when people secretly record the concert and then release it to the tubes? Totally missed the point.
You can't pirate the experience of being AT a live performance IN PERSON. |
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 MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
kudos:1 | reply to Alex J
Handing power to the UN is far worse, or did you notice the other day they're looking to put Syria on the human rights council. Yep... |
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