These big corporations need to learn that the Net is the people's medium to do as we please on, not their little fiefdom where they own everything and can set down rules for us to go by.
I think the problem with our legislator and the Net is they are old! Most of them are over 50 and grew up with black and white TVs with dials, rotary phones and old stuff like that. To them, the concept of a digital world is foreign. Thus, they tack the prefix cyber- onto anything referring to the Net in order to attempt to sound like they understand and only make themselves look more foolish in so doing.
Because of this, I propose that no one over 50 be allowed to propose any laws for the Net. If you don't know how it works, you've no business trying to regulate it.
Since I know that won't happen, I think all Net users need to declare the Internet a sovereign nation, entity, etc., which circumvents the globe, bypasses all borders and unites all peoples in a way unprecedented in history and thus cannot be bound by any terrestrial laws.
There was an article about game makers wanting to make it so video games can only be played on the consoles they were first installed on, doing away with second hand video games.
It won't be a done deal if Net users everywhere hack their websites and regular people riot in the streets. Governments had better start respecting the will of their citizens, or Arab Spring could spread across the globe.
Copyright, kiddie porn and terrorism are the three excuses politicians use to crack down on online freedoms. It isn't about any of those things really. It's about control.
So if this were to pass, would all the videos I've posted of my UT2004 playthroughs suddenly be removed from YouTube, or would Epic and Atari have to pitch a bitch first?
Copyright has its place in guaranteeing that the author of a work gets to derive profit from it. But it has been perverted obscenely beyond that, allowing the author's great, great, great grandchildren to keep a work out of the public domain and to continue to profit from it.
If the content publishing industry gets its way, there won't even be a public domain or fair use in the future.
If you want to see what the future would be like under SOPA, just google Performing Rights Society and read about the havoc they've wreaked in England!
I wish the nanny state would stay out of people's private business. What a person chooses to do with their hard-earned money should be their choice, and theirs alone.
I hate to see more laws come on the book. People will simply ignore them and TWD anyway.
Last year, my friend and I were almost sideswiped by a woman one lane left of us who was texting away. She looked up and corrected in time, but it was close!
What's really sad is that some people can't be convinced to change their ways until they're either involved in an accident, or someone close to them is.
I'm certain Mr. Chaplin wouldn't have minded a kid using his song for a charitable work. When he wrote that song, he probably figured it would come into the public domain in just a few years.
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These big corporations need to learn that the Net is the people's medium to do as we please on, not their little fiefdom where they own everything and can set down rules for us to go by.
Legislators are old and out of touch
I think the problem with our legislator and the Net is they are old! Most of them are over 50 and grew up with black and white TVs with dials, rotary phones and old stuff like that. To them, the concept of a digital world is foreign. Thus, they tack the prefix cyber- onto anything referring to the Net in order to attempt to sound like they understand and only make themselves look more foolish in so doing.
Because of this, I propose that no one over 50 be allowed to propose any laws for the Net. If you don't know how it works, you've no business trying to regulate it.
Since I know that won't happen, I think all Net users need to declare the Internet a sovereign nation, entity, etc., which circumvents the globe, bypasses all borders and unites all peoples in a way unprecedented in history and thus cannot be bound by any terrestrial laws.
I know that won't happen either...
Re: Re: Daring to speak out
There was an article about game makers wanting to make it so video games can only be played on the consoles they were first installed on, doing away with second hand video games.
New XBox May Block Used Games
Re: to them it's basically a done deal
I'm starting to think SOPA/PIPA were a blindside for ACTA so American citizens wouldn't be aware of it until it was too late.
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It won't be a done deal if Net users everywhere hack their websites and regular people riot in the streets. Governments had better start respecting the will of their citizens, or Arab Spring could spread across the globe.
Muzzling the Net
Copyright, kiddie porn and terrorism are the three excuses politicians use to crack down on online freedoms. It isn't about any of those things really. It's about control.
Game Playthroughs
So if this were to pass, would all the videos I've posted of my UT2004 playthroughs suddenly be removed from YouTube, or would Epic and Atari have to pitch a bitch first?
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The Senate version of the bill (SOPA) would have to pass, then it would have to be signed into law by the President.
Oppose SOPA
Copyright has its place in guaranteeing that the author of a work gets to derive profit from it. But it has been perverted obscenely beyond that, allowing the author's great, great, great grandchildren to keep a work out of the public domain and to continue to profit from it.
If the content publishing industry gets its way, there won't even be a public domain or fair use in the future.
If you want to see what the future would be like under SOPA, just google Performing Rights Society and read about the havoc they've wreaked in England!
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And so what if we have? What can really be done about it? It's the way things are now. The paradigm has shifted. There is no going back.
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I wish the nanny state would stay out of people's private business. What a person chooses to do with their hard-earned money should be their choice, and theirs alone.
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Principal Orsini is a socially stunted troll who doesn't get any, so rants and raves about technology that helps the rest of us to get some.
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I hate to see more laws come on the book. People will simply ignore them and TWD anyway.
Last year, my friend and I were almost sideswiped by a woman one lane left of us who was texting away. She looked up and corrected in time, but it was close!
Texting is better
I like texting way better than talking because it is faster and more discrete.
Re: Crap, I'm old
Face to face? I didn't think anyone did that anymore.
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What's really sad is that some people can't be convinced to change their ways until they're either involved in an accident, or someone close to them is.
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I'm against this because I think it's unfair to ban passengers from using their phones. Target the driver, but leave the passengers alone.
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Because the recording industry has bought off the politicians and judges.
Chaplin would be appalled
I'm certain Mr. Chaplin wouldn't have minded a kid using his song for a charitable work. When he wrote that song, he probably figured it would come into the public domain in just a few years.
Re: The Kid
If the copyright laws hadn't been extended again and again over the decades, that song would have been in the public domain long ago.