Comments on: Pre-Crime Update. Watch Star Wars Before its Release: Go to Jail http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:18:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ston Miles http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-38302 Ston Miles Wed, 04 May 2005 08:09:40 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-38302 Some diplomats from the US don't buy the bootlegs. My wife and I are in the Philippines while I'm in school here. You can get a pirated dvd or just about any software for about $1 and we know several diplomats who just won't buy 'em. Most embassies have an economics section with at least one diplomat who is to work with the local government to halt piracy. We even went on a vacation to Malaysia and didn't buy a single pirated copy of anything! Some diplomats from the US don’t buy the bootlegs. My wife and I are in the Philippines while I’m in school here. You can get a pirated dvd or just about any software for about $1 and we know several diplomats who just won’t buy ‘em. Most embassies have an economics section with at least one diplomat who is to work with the local government to halt piracy.

We even went on a vacation to Malaysia and didn’t buy a single pirated copy of anything!

]]> By: Ima Fish http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37848 Ima Fish Mon, 02 May 2005 12:56:24 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37848 I have to wonder whether this will be a continuing trend or if this is merely a blip that will soon pass. If prohibition taught us anything, it's that you cannot arrest everyone. I have to wonder whether this will be a continuing trend or if this is merely a blip that will soon pass. If prohibition taught us anything, it’s that you cannot arrest everyone.

]]> By: Jim Dermitt BMI http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37475 Jim Dermitt BMI Sun, 01 May 2005 17:36:13 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37475 2001: Princeton University professor Edward Felten received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America pressuring him not to publish a paper outlining the weaknesses in the industry's technologies for protecting digital music. (The industry later backed down.) http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ 2001: Princeton University professor Edward Felten received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America pressuring him not to publish a paper outlining the weaknesses in the industry’s technologies for protecting digital music. (The industry later backed down.)
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

]]> By: Jim Dermitt http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37429 Jim Dermitt Sun, 01 May 2005 13:57:17 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37429 The world is really fucked up I guess. You guessed right. The police not only have to fight the criminals, they have to fight the lawyers in many cases. Some of the lawyers are worse than the street criminals and far better equipped. In our area, they have given some of the lawyers deputy sheriffs badges. I'm talking about criminal defense lawyers. The FBI is now investigating the county sheriff and his office. The whole thing pissed some of the local police off and I can see why. We don't smile when they bring evil. We aren't the nicest people, but we do what we need to do. The world is really fucked up I guess.
You guessed right.

The police not only have to fight the criminals, they have to fight the lawyers in many cases. Some of the lawyers are worse than the street criminals and far better equipped. In our area, they have given some of the lawyers deputy sheriffs badges. I’m talking about criminal defense lawyers. The FBI is now investigating the county sheriff and his office. The whole thing pissed some of the local police off and I can see why. We don’t smile when they bring evil. We aren’t the nicest people, but we do what we need to do.

]]> By: raddad http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37383 raddad Sun, 01 May 2005 10:49:02 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37383 Why not go that final step and make sharing a movie a capital crime. When the cost of copying nears zero (both in terms of price and time) do we really need copyright? Why not go that final step and make sharing a movie a capital crime. When the cost of copying nears zero (both in terms of price and time) do we really need copyright?

]]> By: gquaglia http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37337 gquaglia Sun, 01 May 2005 07:32:09 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37337 This is absolutley absurd. As a police officer I see habitual thieves and scum bags get arrested time and time again without serving any jail. Now a non violent criminal is going to get 3 years federal time for sharing a movie. The world is really fucked up I guess. This is absolutley absurd. As a police officer I see habitual thieves and scum bags get arrested time and time again without serving any jail. Now a non violent criminal is going to get 3 years federal time for sharing a movie. The world is really fucked up I guess.

]]> By: Jim Dermitt http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37281 Jim Dermitt Sun, 01 May 2005 03:14:26 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37281 Miguel, You can think about it. they encourge that commercially here. Murder, rape, robbery, drugs and the whole thing pays great in the U.S.. Television deals, movies DVD all sell. Once you think up a great plot, call Hollywood and you'll make millions of dollars and have protection from the California legal community. I'm thinking of doing a movie. This woman gets gang raped and her throat is slit open in front of her kids and the kids are then killed with hatchets. Her husband comes home and is killed with a baseball bat after he finds his family all dead and starts crying. The killer then takes the family car and goes to McDonalds for lunch with the dead mans wallet and rapes a child after lunch and kills two more women before dinner and shoots himself in the head while watching a movie. This is the sort of stuff our American culture feeds on in between acting out their pathetic daily lives. The problem with terrorism is that they always get the wrong people. It seems like our culture is in the process of dying from self inflicted wounds, so the terrorists don't really need to do a thing. The current government leadership is trying to help speed up the death, in the name of God. We have a basic goon squad government that operates like the goon squad movie business in Hollywood. They have Bush heading the whole thing up because he is like Reagan. They act like this country is full of greatness, when our greatness is mostly in our past. If terrorists blow the U.S. Capitol apart, we have people here who would go in and steal the wedding rings off of dead people for cash for meth or heroine. They'll steal the fillings out of your teeth for some batch of dope. Other than that, it's an okay country. The government really sucks and these are the people working on setting up a government in Iraq. It should be a long destructive and dangerous war. As a military guy told me, the Americans can be the worse than the terrorists. I think he might of been on to something. Peace! Miguel,
You can think about it. they encourge that commercially here.
Murder, rape, robbery, drugs and the whole thing pays great in the U.S.. Television deals, movies DVD all sell.

Once you think up a great plot, call Hollywood and you’ll make millions of dollars and have protection from the California legal community. I’m thinking of doing a movie.

This woman gets gang raped and her throat is slit open in front of her kids and the kids are then killed with hatchets. Her husband comes home and is killed with a baseball bat after he finds his family all dead and starts crying. The killer then takes the family car and goes to McDonalds for lunch with the dead mans wallet and rapes a child after lunch and kills two more women before dinner and shoots himself in the head while watching a movie.

This is the sort of stuff our American culture feeds on in between acting out their pathetic daily lives. The problem with terrorism is that they always get the wrong people. It seems like our culture is in the process of dying from self inflicted wounds, so the terrorists don’t really need to do a thing. The current government leadership is trying to help speed up the death, in the name of God. We have a basic goon squad government that operates like the goon squad movie business in Hollywood. They have Bush heading the whole thing up because he is like Reagan. They act like this country is full of greatness, when our greatness is mostly in our past. If terrorists blow the U.S. Capitol apart, we have people here who would go in and steal the wedding rings off of dead people for cash for meth or heroine. They’ll steal the fillings out of your teeth for some batch of dope. Other than that, it’s an okay country. The government really sucks and these are the people working on setting up a government in Iraq. It should be a long destructive and dangerous war. As a military guy told me, the Americans can be the worse than the terrorists. I think he might of been on to something. Peace!

]]> By: Thomas http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37265 Thomas Sun, 01 May 2005 02:35:07 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37265 I know what we should do. We should put pirated copies of movies on Uncle George's (Lucas) and Eisner's (Disney)'s computer and send them to jail for three years. After all, it doesn't matter how the file got there. I know what we should do. We should put pirated copies of movies on Uncle George’s (Lucas) and Eisner’s (Disney)’s computer and send them to jail for three years. After all, it doesn’t matter how the file got there.

]]> By: Imafish http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37235 Imafish Sun, 01 May 2005 00:50:03 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37235 No Hatch makes sense too, he's actually a professional song writer. Lyrics that is. No Hatch makes sense too, he’s actually a professional song writer. Lyrics that is.

]]> By: Stephan Sokolow http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37198 Stephan Sokolow Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:55:27 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37198 Reminds me of a Star Trek: Voyager episode when B'Elanna gets arrested for "Aggravated Violent Thought". Reminds me of a Star Trek: Voyager episode when B’Elanna gets arrested for “Aggravated Violent Thought”.

]]> By: Miguel Lopes http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37180 Miguel Lopes Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:36:23 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37180 This sort of preemptive action - against crime, against rogue states, agains whatever - seems to be an increasingly popular trend with US government. One day they'll arrest you just for thinking about commiting a crime! This sort of preemptive action – against crime, against rogue states, agains whatever – seems to be an increasingly popular trend with US government. One day they’ll arrest you just for thinking about commiting a crime!

]]> By: Jim Dermitt http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/30/us-cracks-down-on-peer-to-peer-pirates-siliconcom/comment-page-1/#comment-37162 Jim Dermitt Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:22:09 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1898#comment-37162 The bad guys will just ignore the laws. With all of this terrorism, the Iraq War, the country going broke, deficits and 1001 other rat races these people are working on protecting the entertainment gravy train. Next week, if some radical group blows up something major or launches a bio terrorism attack we'll have strong copyright laws and the pretty people and stars will sleep well at night. Federal law enforcement was running over illegal tapes and discs on our local news this week with a backhoe. Talk about a waste of fuel, time and money, plus a real nice backhoe. A gallon of gas and a match would of done the job. Federal law enforcement has been reduced to staging RIAA media events for local media buzz. The other local story was that the airport TSA leadership is under federal investigation. What a circus, led by ringmaster W. Clowns to the left and jokers to the right. Comcast contractors blew a house completely apart a few weeks back digging for a line. They hit a gas line and didn't bother telling anybody of the danger. DANGER: VIDEO TAPES AND ILLEGAL MEDIA. New term: Political Media Whores. The bad guys will just ignore the laws. With all of this terrorism, the Iraq War, the country going broke, deficits and 1001 other rat races these people are working on protecting the entertainment gravy train. Next week, if some radical group blows up something major or launches a bio terrorism attack we’ll have strong copyright laws and the pretty people and stars will sleep well at night. Federal law enforcement was running over illegal tapes and discs on our local news this week with a backhoe. Talk about a waste of fuel, time and money, plus a real nice backhoe. A gallon of gas and a match would of done the job. Federal law enforcement has been reduced to staging RIAA media events for local media buzz. The other local story was that the airport TSA leadership is under federal investigation. What a circus, led by ringmaster W. Clowns to the left and jokers to the right. Comcast contractors blew a house completely apart a few weeks back digging for a line. They hit a gas line and didn’t bother telling anybody of the danger. DANGER: VIDEO TAPES AND ILLEGAL MEDIA.

New term: Political Media Whores.

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