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| JUKE_JOINT_JEZEBEL 1669th Post
 
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|  "swashbucklermark"
, posted Fri 14 Mar 10:33
interesting read! but yea, i'm pretty braindead right now, so i won't comment as much as i wanted to. still, i'd like to copy and paste a few key points i found interesting
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Wexler suggested public service commercials should highlight that alleged connection between piracy and organized crime, much like anti-drug commercials highlight the connection between the sale of illegal drugs and funding terrorism.
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Part of the hearing rehashed complaints about file trading by college students over P-to-P networks, covered in previous hearings and statements from the Motion Picture Association of America. No one at the hearing connected P-to-P trading with the financing of terrorism or organized crime.
neat
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Representative John Carter, (R-Texas), suggested that college students would stop downloading if some were prosecuted and received sentences of 33 months or longer, like the defendants in the DOJ's Operation Buccaneer. "I think it'd be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids," Carter said. "If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody's got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials."
John Carter, eh? i'll keep your name in mind next time i go to the polls, old man
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| Sensenic 425th Post
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|  "Re(2):swashbucklermark"
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I haven't read the article yet, so I'm gonna start talking without totally knowing what I'm talking about (big surprise!)... but it seems like people are willing to link anything to terrorism nowadays just to get their way. I'm waiting for Metallica to come up and try to say that Napster and other programs like that are owned by baby-eating kitten-killing terrorists from the land of Somewhere. I don't want to support terrorists in the slightest, but when someone from the music industry tries to say that Napster=terrorism, I don't believe them. But, in this case (having not read the article yet), I could be talking about the totally wrong subject...
That terrorism thing you're talking about, Fred, I'd say it's about "fashion". I know it might sound too cold talking this way, but it's worse doing it than reporting it:
Since 9/11, terrorism has (specially) become the fashionable crime nowadays and it has become the perfect excuse to say/do things that otherwise would be "reproachable", at least; being an example people who uses it to fight against whatever that opposes their interests, by saying that "X supports terrorism" or "Y is terrorism too". Even people who fights other terrible crimes (domestic violence is the specific case I recall) says it too, just to call people's (and government's) attention. That proves that crimes are a "fashion" question too, and I find this very sad....
Okay, I had this inside and had to release it. Feel better now...
[sarcasm]Well, well, well... mr. John Carter, ain't he a nice guy? I think we'd be good friends...[/sarcasm]
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| CrazyMax
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| "Re(1):If you share files, YOU SUPPORT TERRORI" , posted Fri 14 Mar 14:11
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First saw the link off of Penny-Arcade. It's, well, a read.
Was just reading Penny Arcade. It is true, Terrorism has become the all time US Gov't crutch now for going after anything. It's kinda scary, if things keep moving along, and they get the new Patriot act going... There won't be much they can't tie to terrorism, and make someone go away for awhile without charges.
As far as John Carter goes, I'm sure he was such an upstanding citizen himself when he went to college. I'm sure he never made or recieved taped copies of music for/from friends. Which I believe is still a crime according to the record companies. See his @$$ locked up, and I wonder what that would have done to his political career.
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| talbaineric 4841th Post
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| "Re(3):If you share files, YOU SUPPORT TERRORI" , posted Fri 14 Mar 15:26
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Was just reading Penny Arcade. It is true, Terrorism has become the all time US Gov't crutch now for going after anything. It's kinda scary, if things keep moving along, and they get the new Patriot act going... There won't be much they can't tie to terrorism, and make someone go away for awhile without charges.
Since 9/11, the words "terror" and "hero" have become WAAAAAAY overused. Give blood, and you're now a hero. Download pirated software, and you're a terrorist.
Argh. Tell me about it. Very much agreed. And it seems like with anything major happening,they always blame terrorism. Well,who knows,could be,couldn't be. I don't know.
Also,as much as I love my country,I found it really bizarre that after 9/11,everyone all of a sudden became so patriotic. I find that so..........well........I dunno,fake.
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| Gen 1384th Post
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| "Re(1):swashbucklermark" , posted Fri 14 Mar 17:46
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Representative John Carter, (R-Texas), suggested that college students would stop downloading if some were prosecuted and received sentences of 33 months or longer, like the defendants in the DOJ's Operation Buccaneer. "I think it'd be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids," Carter said. "If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody's got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials."
John Carter, eh? i'll keep your name in mind next time i go to the polls, old man
Carter's idea won't work. None of the college students I know read the news paper. No, no, they did a little, when the teacher was mad at them for not reading the paper and started giving daily quizes on current events and political figures.
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