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Chicago, IL | hmm Let me guess, it's not members of the house, it's outside contractors. Oh wait, that excuse has already been used. | |
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join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | Re: hmm I don't think most members of the house are technically savvy enough to mess with torrent files and finding bittorrent clients. It's probably aides and office workers with nothing to do while the politicians are wasting time. | |
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1 edit | Re: hmm said by axus:I don't think most members of the House are technically savvy enough to mess with torrent files and finding BitTorrent clients. It's probably aides and office workers with nothing to do while the politicians are wasting time. True. Those of you who have watched Celebrity Apprentice would very clearly remember that Rod Blagojevich doesn't even know how to turn a computer on, let alone do BitTorrent on it. I don't expect many other politicians to be technologically "brighter" than him. IMO, that's why they are trying to pass bills like SOPA so that they can hold on to their records/tapes/CD's as they have no clue as to what to do with those MP3 files despite the fact that companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have made it awfully easy.
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| | | | They are technically savvy enough to understand the difference between a private MMS and a public tweet.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | Lawmakers get DUIs too and rarely face the music for it.. so when it comes time for them to get The Music it should not shock us that they pirate it. after all they make the laws they think they do not have to follow them.
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join:2001-08-25
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kudos:2 | Aside from SOPA.. This is absolutely disgusting. Why aren't these networks locked down that prevents the use of bittorrent, and surfing to these websites? | |
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| Re: Aside from SOPA.. said by Rob:This is absolutely disgusting. Why aren't these networks locked down that prevents the use of bittorrent, and surfing to these websites?
That wood knock out the Congressmen's access to porn. Not going to happen. | |
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| | | said by Rob:This is absolutely disgusting. Why aren't these networks locked down that prevents the use of BitTorrent, and surfing to these websites? My point exactly. Some companies have corporate firewalls/proxies configured so that they block web-based e-mail sites and social networking sites, let alone P2P traffic and piracy-related sites.
We had an incident in the company where I work for about 5 years ago. Some newbie came in on his first day and the company was taking their sweet time providing him with a workstation. He was very eager to start working ASAP, so he plugged in his personal laptop. He didn't realize that he had eDonkey configured to start with Windows, so as soon as he plugged in, his machine started sending traffic on those ports commonly used by eD2k. Corporate IT guys picked up on it pretty quickly, within 10 minutes they shut his port and had security escort him out of the building, never to be seen or heard from again.
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|  elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand
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| said by Rob:This is absolutely disgusting. Why aren't these networks locked down that prevents the use of bittorrent, and surfing to these websites?
That's a good question, I know when I ran an office, I shut down just about everything except HTTP/S and FTP/S and depending on the needs would open other ports.
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join:2003-12-09
Lakeland, FL
kudos:1 | Little People Oh come on Karl, your well educated and know that laws are just for the little people  | |
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| Re: Little People said by guppy_fish:Oh come on Karl, your well educated and know that laws are just for the little people
Yes and so are taxes. Congress is a wonderland of sex,money and power it is prefect for people who have a chip on their shoulder or are just flat out warped. | |
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| | SOPA is for the little people SOPA will in no way apply to members of Congress. They will need full internet access in order to keep things running so smoothly. | |
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|  n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
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| Re: SOPA is for the little people said by Goldman:SOPA will in no way apply to members of Congress. They will need full internet access in order to keep things running so smoothly.
In fact, I would not be surprised to see an amendment attached (if not already in there) that exempts all government users from SOPA. Laws are for the ruled, not the rulers.
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said by n2jtx:In fact, I would not be surprised to see an amendment attached (if not already in there) that exempts all government users from SOPA. Laws are for the ruled, not the rulers. Well, seeing how they made themselves exempt from the National Do Not Call Registry, I wouldn't put this past them either.
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Greenbush, MI | Orwell calling.. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. | |
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join:2003-08-10
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| U.S. House A Big Fan of Piracy funny but of course but already known simply by numbers involved and human behavior.
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Same dynamic as the 1980s nationwide drive 55 law: broad support as a good idea: who could argue against being safer? But applied it proved an example of collective brain says one thing, behavior another, brain learns. In law if the masses don't accept something it's bad law. So now it's sharing of published works. Sounds a bad idea to undermine commerce funding of book authors and movie maker but then we do it anyway. And there's zero indication our behavior will change.
It's nuts to think production will go away. Output will change (for the better, I'll speculate) and participants won't make millions per work. Art as commodity never entirely worked anyway which is why civilized societies underwrite art.
The legal battle is firstly about preserving business models, secondly because humans are uncomfortable with foundational change/uncertainty. The latter enables wild corruption & exploit successes of the former.
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@comcast.net | It's OK because it's... Don't you know...? It's OK to steal books because they're educational. Music and movies aren't, so that's why it's bad to steal those.
Oh, classical music might be OK too... but you might want to ask the chairman of the house just to be sure first. lol | |
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | Glaring absence from the list of pirated books Maybe they should be pirating "Internet for Dummies". They certainly need a book like that, if it exists, considering the number of politicians in the House and Senate who are totally clueless about technology. Many of those are also PIPA/SOPA supporters.
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|  coldmoonPremium
join:2002-02-04
Broadway, NC
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| Re: Glaring absence from the list of pirated books said by Doctor Four:Maybe they should be pirating "Internet for Dummies". They certainly need a book like that, if it exists, considering the number of politicians in the House and Senate who are totally clueless about technology. Many of those are also PIPA/SOPA supporters.
Here it is in case you wanted to pick up a copy...
»www.amazon.com/Internet-Dummies-···kgo-d-20
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Corrupt Congress always likes to test out how breaking every law works..
Oil company tax breaks and oil spills, no problem, banks give non-credit worthy borrowers loans, no problem. Pork laden legislation keeps funneling the most powerful congress people's districts the lionshare of the money funded by congress for another year (even as we've reached limits of borrowing from China), no problem.
Sombebody wants to download a mp3 or a movie for free? Oh hell no.. we need to crack down bigtime.. that's worse than terrorism. Do the telecom & cablecom companies think they'd have millions of customers paying a monthly ISP bill if they couldn't do (more or less) as they pleased without government censorship & interference? Can they be that stupid? yep.. that's why you better tell dumb & dumber how you feel about that! | |
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join:2000-06-13
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| The RIAA should go after them... So why doesn't the RIAA and others go after them for copyright infringement?
Oh wait...it is probably legal, just like insider trading is legal for them.
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