baby_bear
@comcast.net
|  Don't Copy that Weasel!
If MC Hart couldn't win over the kiddies, Guess it time to bring in the big guns eh!? 
»cal.phonelosers.org/video/dctf-1.wmv
Glad I didn't have to put up with all this crap in grade school. Only had to worry about picking up the latest "scholastic reader" to see how close those Killer Bees were getting!  |
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Megladon13
join:2003-09-05
Minneapolis, MN
| mpaa.... sorry bastards
The MPAA says the financial settlement will go towards raising awareness of illegal copying and copyright theft
Boy i'm sure glad the artists that are so hurt for $$ by all the pirating that happened wont see any of that money. Amazing how they can give you that bs on 1 end, then turn it around on the back end and tell you how they are going to spend it. |
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ATLJ
Go Braves
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join:1999-12-24
Atlanta, GA
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| It is very sad that they can win a lawsuit like that and force a company out of business. Next book publishers will go after Xerox and HP because you can make copies and printouts of books for free.
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Taget
join:2004-07-29 | Not so far fetched. Book publishers have successfully sued copying business such as Kinkos over professors using them for class course packs. |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
| And especially not so far-fetched if the Induce Act passes. The standard it sets is that a piece of technology is illegal if used for an illegal purpose and not legal if substantial legal uses exist. Printers and photocopiers could be found illegal since you could run off 100 copies of Harry Potter to share with your friends. (You could also say goodbye to the CD Burner, DVD Burner, VCR, digital camera, etc.)
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Goober
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | reply to ATLJ
It wasn't a decision on the merits though.
So, the MPAA won the fight, but the battle hasn't been decided. |
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SpitefulCrow
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join:2003-06-04
Berkeley, CA
| reply to Jason Levine
The IP situation in the US is disgusting. Major changes need to happen and new rules have to be defined for use on digital media. The Induce Act is, obviously, NOT the kind of change needed. |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA | The only thing I look forward to if the Induce Act passes will be the reaction of customers once they are told that they have to give up their VCRs or be sued/jailed. Mass riots anyone? |
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SpitefulCrow
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join:2003-06-04
Berkeley, CA | Haha. Maybe we'll get a "regime change" in America.  |
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Paul_CJ
@bellsouth.net
| Even thought it was a RINO Senator, Orrin Hatch, who has introduced the Induce Act to the Senate, considering the level of Bush-bashing that Hollywood Limo-liberals, the MPAA and the RIAA have been giving Bush, I honestly don't see this become law as long as he is President.
Plus the consumer backlash, if the Induce Act became law, would literally be violent towards Hollywood Limo-liberals, the MPAA and the RIAA. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | said by Paul_CJ:
I honestly don't see this become law as long as he is President.
He'd sign it in a second. He's been behind other recent crackdowns on consumer's rights. |
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