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More specialized legislation tailor made for the Senate’s corpgov contributors and of absolutely zero value to the public.

Few things are more important to the US economy than protecting ‘intellectual property’…???

How about rebuilding our infrastructure??? How about investing some money into alternative energy??? How about some actual manufacturing being done here at home???

Wouldn’t these do more for the US economy…?? Oh, but yeah. These would benefit actual citizens, not corporations. Silly me.

They didnt shutter wall street with all its dangerous products.

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yeah freedom my ass, the democrat cowards have truly been bought and paid for. If this bill passes both houses and obama signs it we no longer have 2 parties. THE LEFT MUST FIGHT BACK and STOP SUPPORTING THE GUTTLESS, CORPORATE DEMOCRATS

Why adapt to the new reality when you can threaten, bully, sue, and generally terrorize what could have been your customer base? Why should international law respect the right of individuals to own/use file-sharing software when it can instead do the bidding of for-profit corporations? What’s next? Will they go after the makers of Cassette tapes? VCRs? Blank discs of every kind? Paper?

That a technology can be used for allegedly nefarious purposes should not reflect negatively on the technology itself. A hammer can be used to build a house, or it can be used to bash in a skull. Are hammers legal?

That these copyright robber barons refuse to recognize the death of their 20th century business model is not the fault of today’s computer users. They built their industry to control/exploit the artistic output of others…..Now that technology has derailed their scam, they seek to impose their will/model on society as a whole. Their position is intellectually/morally untenable, and it’s disgusting that – once again – money and power will win in the end. Eternal shame on all of us for letting them.

Fuck you Leahy….Fuck ALL of you….Fucking shameful excuses for “public servants”. You’re a bunch of groveling lickspittles, selling out the populace for a few coins in the palm of your grubby little claw. America, land of the free…..lol. Fucking surfs, that’s what we are. They ‘gave’ us water on tap, electricity and decent dental care (if you’re lucky enough to have access to it)…..Apart from that, we’re the same surfs in the same feudal kingdom.

Someday a real rain, and all that shit.

The pain of a lifetime of forced servitude to an oppressive, exploitative system run by soulless filth? Unimaginable. The cost of squandering generations of human growth and potential? Incalculable. The look of surprise on the faces of the wealthy class when their long bill finally comes due and they are dragged from their mansions by their feet? Priceless.

America is a Third world dictatorship. The vise is closing. Thank your local Teabagger and corporate Dem. Oh yeah, and fuck you Obama if you sign this.

With Democrats like Leahy, who needs Republicans to suck corporate cock?

So what?

Have these fools not heard of decebtralized networking?

copyright infringers do not need the DNS system.

Yeah, TPB and others might get closed with this, but it will only be a temporary setback.

The RIAA are redundant, no matter what censorship is enacted.

Haven’t they realized?

They can never stop the swarm.

[...] gives details on what is included in the bill: “The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, [...]

But they can criminalize it just like they did to the pot you like to smoke.

Even if they shut down the domain names it will just create networks of temporary anonymous domains. The time it takes to shut it down would take too long, and the domain wouldn’t be permanent. Not to mention theres other protocols which could be used, so yeah this is pointless from a technological point of view but it’s not pointless from a legal point of view.

Anyone caught using those services will be viewed as some kind of cyber terrorist.

Maybe it’s time each neighborhood in the USA start it’s own neighborhood corporations which every member of the neighborhood can join and have their intellectual property protected by so they can own patents and protect their intellectual property from being stolen by these conglomerates.

Or would that be viewed as socialism?

It’s not fascism when we do it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davedonohue/132443565/#/photos/davedonohue/132443565/lightbox/

Workers rights and environmental protection take a back seat when corporations demand more services from the government.

Would one not just have to enter the exact IP address and skip DNS? Or has it been too long since networking class.

How about you relegate yourselves to managing the wars you start all over the world and leave management of the Internet to Us, the People?

In other words: go Fuck yourselves.

See how Democrats and Republicans get together to agree on restricting our rights and freedoms? Further evidence that we have a one party system in this land of the fee and home of the slave.

The staged fights between Republicans and Democrats are just that – staged. They’re staged to confuse us and keep us fighting with one another, when the real political fight in this land is between freedom and tyranny.

Wake up people – which side a you on?

That’s a very good idea – but I think local groups forming in the way you describe would be called cooperatives. And yes, that is socialism – but there’s nothing wrong with that at the local or regional levels. At the local level it’s social cooperation. Only when it is centralized and dictated from an oligarchical power point, such as at the top of a pyramid, is it dangerous to freedom and responsibility for oneself and has the potential of becoming fascist.

As an example, local or even regional health cooperatives would be so much better than Obamacare which gives too much centralized power and control over health care delivery to individuals.

There is a health care cooperative in Minneapolis – it’s been in business for decades and its members are extremely happy with it.

Obamacare actually has given even more power over medicine to Pharma than it had before. Pharma is corrupt – you don’t have to guess too wildly to reason what will happen to health care under Obamacare.

Social cooperatives are a much better organizing and problem solving tool than top down rule by a centralized and massive bureaucracy.

Is the word assine allowed to describe this witch-hunting tool that is sure to used and abused to harass critics of government et al? The government and their goons have already been proven, in the past, to misuse legal means and go well beyond legala to doing anything this wish to go after patriots who are critical and wish to bring to light the truths and lies and hidden agendas that the elite try to pass outside of the norm that will further infringe our rights in the name of fighting terrorism, national security, which only enhances their ability to further deter our rights and security to be free and opne.

Pot is all over Boston and the rest of the country. The illegality of pot is laughable. Just like alcohol, pot is easy to make. It will be legal soon enough.

No ‘teabaggers’ voted for this, the lame duck congress is still in session.

If the corporations are private, the membership is consensual and no force is used, it is libertarian.

If the corporation is ‘public’, membership is determined by geography/birth and force is used to ensure ‘member’ compliance, it is socialism

[b]Intellectual Property?[/b]

You already live in an intellectual vacuum and the corporations are actually quite busy making sure that the commons property is theirs and no longer yours. You lay down when you should be manning the barricades, allow the craziest 10% of your population to control your government. You have allowed religion to control your governmental bodies without even a modicum of remorse or a thought of what that future will bring. You give more and more power to the ultra rich and deny even the basic rights and freedoms to those among you who have been the most wronged. The minorities, poor, uneducated, sick, aged, infirm….. You know the drill, “I got mine. Fuck You!” You have forgotten the basis for humanity and it’s ideals in the ever frenzied search for wealth for you and to hell with the rest…

I am not sure when this idiocy will end, but it will surely end and at this rate, you can be sure that end will be a total disaster for the United States and it’s citizens.

Aaaah, ain’t that cozy! Now, it’s official.

Bet you wouldn’t laugh if they caught you with it, sent you to jail for a couple of years and Big Bubba Brown happened to be your roommate.

Yeah but the ‘teabaggers’ voted them there

No, no, no… this is a GREAT idea… if your goal is to get other countries to set up their own seed servers and split the Internet into competing, incompatible, interlaced beasts….

Great!

Duh.

Their illegal spying policies on Americans citizens by this government ,, just keep growing each and every day.
They can not prove that any of their illegal spying on U.S. citizens help , but we can see the technics they are using do not.
We have thousands of unchecked freight cars coming into our ports from foreign nations each and everyday.
Not only are these products coming from countries which have received our outsource manufacturing plants and jobs,,, but could be bringing in WMD and how would we know.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040726-664992,00.html

They just passed a decriminalization act in MA so you get a ticket.

I was caught when I was much younger before the new voter initiative. You
stay overnight, go to court and do 6 months probation.
No jail in other words.

In any case, you are correct that I wouldn’t be laughing

The entire country is to blame for the morons who run the country.
The tea party has at least replaced a couple of the corrupt morons in the Republican party.

Why isn’t their a grass roots revolt against incumbent Dems?

Yep to the first part. To the second one, I suppose it’s for the same reason that there hasn’t been a grass roots revolt against the Republicans. Sorry, but I can’t take the Teabaggers seriously, they are what they are, a joke created by the Republicans themselves. This 3-ring circus ain’t even amusing anymore.

Democrats voted for Leahy.
Shame.

Yeah sure
The republican party started the tea party to kick out incumbent
republicans. Why would they do that?

That moron Christine O’Donnell is a great example. No one in the national
GOP liked her because she is an idiot, however she was chosen as the tea
party candidate because the establishment GOP republican there sucked that
bad.

So why would the establishment create the tea party to take out their own
people?

Most people haven’t taken a networking class.

leave our fucking internet alone once they take that its fucking on!!

I truly couldn’t care less. They’re all the same sold-out whores. Right, left and in between. We’d do ourselves a great service by shooting them all. The faster they finish this joke called the US, the sooner we’ll be able to start fresh. If there’s anything left, that is.

Fine, we will just move the servers. We are nerds, we have intelligence, we run the web. If you block it we will get around it, If it exists it can be pirated NO EXCEPTIONS.

Just try to block an international database like the internet with laws that only apply to one country good luck with that. No one man nor even nation owns the web no one man or nation can stop what we use it for.

To “finish the joke” would mean that the political system ceases to function
probably along with the economy. History shows us that the military will
step in to provide ‘order’ at which point a dictatorship is formed. That
would be very very very very bad.

The real solution is to devolve power from the federal government to the
states according to the constitution and for ordinary citizens to get
involved in every day politics and decision making. There also needs top be
expanded video tapping or investigation of ‘authorities’ so that the vicious
ones can be fired.

One example, in Keane New Hampshire the locals gather every night at around
11pm in a park and flout open container laws and have a community social on
the commons. AT first the police arrested people but then they gave up.

Citizen action works!

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