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 g0nepostalI Am The One Her Mom Warned Her About
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| My two centavos I wrote a post about this particular legislation when it was still referred to as the SSSCA. I linked to it instead of reposting it on this thread.
My original opinion on this invasion of privacy and horrendous expansion of government power stands. The RIAA and the MPAA are dying thanks to the advent of technology, and want to prolong their existence at the expense of a huge chunk of our individual liberty.
Do you all remember the Apple "1984" commercial? The one they played during the 1984 Super Bowl to introduce the Macintosh? We will all soon be the slaves beholding to Big Brother and his vision of "technology" if this legislation comes to pass. We will all be forced to buy our hardware and software only from those organizations that comply with the copy protection mandate Hollings and his bedfellows want to impose on America.
What I find the most sickening is that Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is one of the sponsors of this bill. Doesn't she realize what this bill will do to the hardware manufacturers out here?
I liked the Prohibition analogy. That is exactly what will happen. I for one will go out and snap up every single burner I can find if this legislation gets passed and isn't overturned by the Supreme Court on Fourth Amendment grounds.
The Fourth Amendment would be violated by this legislation because Policeware would open the door to unreasonable search and seizure of privately owned property just to protect RIAA/MPAA balance sheets.
This legislation must not be allowed to become law. Contact your legislators and educate them on the problems this bill will create. There are many other problems in America that need resolving, and Congress shouldn't waste its time on legislation that chips away at yet more of the general citizenry's freedom.
For that matter, if Congress is so eager to protect the balance sheets of the recording and motion picture industries, why doesn't it show some of that same eagerness toward reducing the taxes we all pay?
I will personally call Dianne Feinstein's office and ask exactly that.
Stop Policeware!
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 Polaris5All Hail, The Vulture From Van Nuys
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old RIA of A | Well, if that makes you sick... You'll be glad to know that Barbara Boxer, another Northern California politician with a proud, prominent liberal record routinely ranks as one of the highest recipients of campaign contributions from the industries represented by the MPAA and the RIAA.
And to think, she started out on the Marin County Board of Supervisors, right in Silicon Valley's backyard.
BTW, the Fourth Amendment only protects you from unreasonable search and seizure--you know, coming into your house without a search warrant.
But if you're charged with criminal violation of the DMCA or the CBDTPA, courts will only be too happy to supply a warrant to the police. And the Supreme Court's been routinely eroding citizens' zone of privacy for the last 20+ years. Even better, when you log on to the Internet, you're deemed to be "in public" even if you're sitting in your living room.
Yeah, don't count on the Supreme Court to overturn a passed CBDTPA on 4th Amendment grounds. The people are on their own on this one  . | |
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