Christ they haven't KILLED ANYONE. Three years in a Federal "POUND-ME-IN-THE-ASS" prison. Does that sound pretty messed up to anyone else? The criminal justice system makes less and less sense as the years go by.
It is the US Senate that made this bill into law. I suggest that you first start with fixing the way that your government is seemingly bought off at every turn by political "donations". It is so easy to see what is happening I don't understand why it is tolerated. I mean its corruption isn't it? Just corruption that is deemed acceptable.
Of course a counter argument is that we can play that game as well by paying off senators to help us instead of big business, but I'm sure big business has deeper pockets from which to give. Deep pockets that we as consumers give them. I'm sure there are controls on the size of "donations" but it creates an inherent conflict of interest that, in my opinion, shouldn't be tolerated.
Actually the senate HAS NOT made this a law, they only passed it, it still has to pass the house. Then the President has to sign it. considering it was Unanimous, these seem fairly likely though.
In fact since the house hasn't passed it(unless I missed that in the article), they could quite easily drop it, or change it 1 year / 2 years or 10/50 years or whatever they feel like. Of course if they change it the senate has to re-pass the changed version and so on till they both agree and then Bush still ha
I believe that combined the pockets of the people who are against laws like this will be much deeper then that of the industry. The problem has imho more to do with organisation then anything else.
If everyone would send $1,- to the EFF for every movie or television show they download, then the EFF would be able to go and just buy the laws we want.
Or instead of getting more money involved, people could just get involved with their government, tell their Senators they're displeased, actually go out and VOTE instead of sitting around and bitching (preferably for someone more in line with their views). Hell, they could run for office themselves if they wanted to.
If enough people cared about this to matter, something would be done. But 99 out of 100 people you ask on the street will tell you that filming in a theatre should be a criminal offense, and I
The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured
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Augh what the HELL?! (Score:1)
The criminal justice system makes less and less sense as the years go by.
Re:Augh what the HELL?! (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course a counter argument is that we can play that game as well by paying off senators to help us instead of big business, but I'm sure big business has deeper pockets from which to give. Deep pockets that we as consumers give them. I'm sure there are controls on the size of "donations" but it creates an inherent conflict of interest that, in my opinion, shouldn't be tolerated.
Now label me as a troll and move along.
Re:Augh what the HELL?! (Score:3, Informative)
In fact since the house hasn't passed it(unless I missed that in the article), they could quite easily drop it, or change it 1 year / 2 years or 10/50 years or whatever they feel like. Of course if they change it the senate has to re-pass the changed version and so on till they both agree and then Bush still ha
Re:Augh what the HELL?! (Score:0)
If everyone would send $1,- to the EFF for every movie or television show they download, then the EFF would be able to go and just buy the laws we want.
Re:Augh what the HELL?! (Score:2)
If enough people cared about this to matter, something would be done. But 99 out of 100 people you ask on the street will tell you that filming in a theatre should be a criminal offense, and I