Hollywood Quietly Tries To Pass COICA Again

said by TehZomB:

Demand Progress sent out a reminder to call your politicians with your opinion, when they heard this bill would resurface. I called both of my senators, Mikulski and Cardin. Both told me that they appreciated my opinions (blah), Mikulski's phone operator said she did not know how the senator would vote but Cardin's office said, "Thank you for your opinion, but I do believe Cardin has already made up his mind to vote against the bill". Not 30 minutes later, I research a bit more and find out he's a co-sponsor? Lack of communication much?

said by Kearnstd:

Lets see the movie industry purchases a law that lets them block sites like Pirate Bay to US people.

said by Pirate515:

If they succeed, real pirates will simply go through off-shore VPN servers and will get to these sites anyway. Good luck catching them then.

said by Kearnstd:

the MAFIAA is playing an endless game of whack-a-mole.

said by Snakeoil:

That corporate America is buying the government?

said by BF69:

that's what the teabaggers want. Free market and all you know.

said by Krisnatharok:

Nice way to hijack the thread with a blatant falsehood. How do you construe small government and personal freedom to be the exact opposite? Empowering the government to control what's on the internet is downright progressive and Orwellian, not to mention totalitarian.

said by Interblag:

Four years ago, Swedish authorities raided the Pirate Bay's headquarters under pressure from US government and industry lobby groups. A strong divergence of Canada & US regulations could precipitate similar events here.

said by Airwolf7:

Democracy is evil. Why would we in the U.S.A. want it?

said by Transmaster:

Of course you all know the back ground to this story, and why it took so long for the Beatles library to come to iTunes. Steve Job's and company obtained permission to use the Apple name for their new computer company from the Apple label the proviso was Apple Computers would not get into the music business. When iTunes came into the world the Apple label sued. The battle over a name has gone on for years. This whole issue is a prime example of the myopic view the recording industry has. While arguing over a name unknown millions of dollars of sales of the Beatles which could have been had where lost.

It is nice to see the Beatles library on iTune but like most of my peers who actually watched the Beatles live on the Ed Sullivan Show. We have spent decades collecting Beatles recordings, and not just the regular releases. My Beatles file is 3.04 gig's in size, and this does not count the solo releases after the Beatles broke up. I have everything from all of the releases to underground recordings, and studio out-takes. Perhaps if iTunes would have had their library years ago they could have sold them to us but as it is we have them all, and I suspect any one else who enjoys the Beatles has long since has as complete a collection as possible and no sales can be had there either. Talk about a lost opportunity.

said by hhawkman:

2 books:
1984
Fahrenheit 451

Assuming they know how to read.

said by axiomatic:

Dear RIAA/MPAA,

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein