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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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Re: Oh My God!! There is an active campaign now (since Sept 11th) to characterize all "hacking", copy protection breaking, Piracy, etc as 'Cyberterrorism' or plain terrorism. Valenti has been throwing this around a lot.
The agenda, of course, is to get the legal system to accept this definition, and punish it accordingly.
"Mr. Hacker/Pirate, you are hereby sentenced to 25 years to life for Terrorism. Your "cracks" cost the U.S. economy 58 billion dollars and 721,000 Americans lost their jobs in your terrorist attack. We know. Jack Valenti said so.
So burn! Burn! And we're throwing away the key...."
[text was edited by author 2002-04-04 22:16:40] | |
 pupowskiPremium
join:2002-03-22
Vancouver, WA | Crime and punishment said by KrK:
There is an active campaign now (since Sept 11th) to characterize all "hacking", copy protection breaking, Piracy, etc as 'Cyberterrorism' or plain terrorism. Valenti has been throwing this around a lot.
The agenda, of course, is to get the legal system to accept this definition, and punish it accordingly.
Ashcroft is already working for the entertainment and software moguls. That should was clear after he gave the Microsoft settlement away and had the FBI raid our Universities looking for unlicensed software/music downloads. | | |
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Re: Oh My God!! You are so absolutely right...these days ANYTIME anyone feels like somebody might be stepping on their toes, they just cry "terrorism!" in order to justify retaliation. It's going in this circumstance, in the war on drugs (t.v. commercials saying that money you spent on last weekend's weed went directly to UBL), and even in the middle east where Israel is trying to destroy the "Palestinian terrorsits".
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is going on.
I will say, though, that the use of the word "terrorism" in the digital copying context is just ludicrous. | |
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