"a massive and completely unjustified transfer of wealth from one class (students, who we we want to support for the good of the entire nation and economy) to another"
And this is happening from more than one direction. Students should go on strike like they are doing in Qu?bec (which I support completely). Everything will be taken from you if you don't stand up and say "enough!" to the bullies.
This article was a nice break from the tedious lecture of the latest Playstation 3's license agreement which I started to read 11 days ago and which Sony asks me to wholly read and accept before moving on playing that game with great reviews which I bougth. If all goes well, I have only 17 more days of reading before I can decide whether I accept the agreement. (By the way, what happens if I don't accept?)
RIAA clown: "Consider, for example, the claim that SOPA and PIPA were 'censorship,' a loaded and inflammatory term designed to evoke images of crackdowns on pro-democracy Web sites by China or Iran."
DMCA is *already* used as a censorship tool, so of course we will expect worst from a bill which go far beyond DMCA. Just a recent example, last week Michael Geist posted, "Transport Canada Issues DMCA Takedown Over On-the-Record Response"
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6288/196/
"a massive and completely unjustified transfer of wealth from one class (students, who we we want to support for the good of the entire nation and economy) to another"
And this is happening from more than one direction. Students should go on strike like they are doing in Qu?bec (which I support completely). Everything will be taken from you if you don't stand up and say "enough!" to the bullies.
This article was a nice break from the tedious lecture of the latest Playstation 3's license agreement which I started to read 11 days ago and which Sony asks me to wholly read and accept before moving on playing that game with great reviews which I bougth. If all goes well, I have only 17 more days of reading before I can decide whether I accept the agreement. (By the way, what happens if I don't accept?)
My letter to the Editor
I wrote a letter to the Editor to respond to the article. Here it is:
DMCA is *already* used as a censorship tool
RIAA clown: "Consider, for example, the claim that SOPA and PIPA were 'censorship,' a loaded and inflammatory term designed to evoke images of crackdowns on pro-democracy Web sites by China or Iran."
DMCA is *already* used as a censorship tool, so of course we will expect worst from a bill which go far beyond DMCA. Just a recent example, last week Michael Geist posted, "Transport Canada Issues DMCA Takedown Over On-the-Record Response"
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6288/196/
I was already horrified by the concept of paper books, we should have kept publishing on carved stones, *that's* permanent.