Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety'

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Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:14AM from the just-may-save-your-family's-lives dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that copyright infringement 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county's citizens, its businesses and its visitors.' You might laugh, but that means they can close up a property for up to one year for violations of the anti-infringement ordinance [PDF] and the owner can be fined $1,000 for each infringing work produced on site. Not to mention the penalties in the PRO-IP Act, which just sailed through the House."

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Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:21AM (#23346438)

Every time you download a file, a child gets AIDS

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:24AM (#23346452)

Are you sure?

(perfect setup for the response)

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:2, Funny)

by Cryacin ( 657549 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:27AM (#23346462)

Every time you download a file, a child gets AIDS
At first I laughed. Then I thought, hmmm... this IS the RIAA. How much are needles again?!?

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:3, Funny)

by LBArrettAnderson ( 655246 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:30AM (#23346480)

I'm positive.

Studios, producer's homes, government offices (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:38AM (#23346516)

FTFA
Local governments in California and the United States have long had the power to declare property a public nuisance when their owners allow their land to become denizens of drugs, gangs, prostitution and gambling.
If that is true then they should start the busts at the movie studios, homes of the directors and producers and of course with numerous governmental offices.

Re:The blade cuts both ways (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:45AM (#23346558)

"How many companies who currently violate the GPL and LGPL can these new laws be used against?"

Exactly Zero.

Free Software doesn't pay politicians under the table, nor send Paris Hilton to your
weekend get-togethers. RMS is a poor substitute.

What they don't tell you... (Score:5, Funny)

by Puffy Director Pants ( 1242492 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:48AM (#23346572)

is that copyright infringement cures cancer. And the common cold. And male pattern baldness. Also, it can be used to make any car run on water. Clearly, it's a cover-up.

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:3, Funny)

by The Master Control P ( 655590 ) writes: <ejkeeverNO@SPAMnerdshack.com> on Friday May 09, 2008 @12:59AM (#23346634)

We're HIV-Positive.

Re:This always happens (Score:4, Funny)

by RiotingPacifist ( 1228016 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @01:26AM (#23346758)

Capitalism takes a while to iron out the glitches. We've reached democracy 2.0, we can assure you that these sort of bugs no longer exist.

That is Okay (Score:3, Funny)

by LuYu ( 519260 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @02:35AM (#23347046) Homepage Journal

That is okay. Los Angeles is "detrimental to public health [and] safety". This is just another reason to avoid that noxious cesspool.

It is too bad the PRO-IP act is not confined to a similarly avoidable geographical expanse.

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:4, Funny)

by Alex Belits ( 437 ) * writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @03:38AM (#23347286) Homepage

That doesn't sound very democratic to me, more like socialism.
But I support Socialism.

What now, asshole?

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:5, Funny)

by MrMr ( 219533 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @03:44AM (#23347310)

I hear your congressmen takes letters. Mine does, but he ignores them.

Because you sign them with 'Anonymous Coward'?

sorry.

Re:This always happens (Score:3, Funny)

by Jesrad ( 716567 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @04:16AM (#23347462) Journal

"So what changes do we need to make to the constitution to make it work?"

Here's my suggestion, just fuse together all the amendments to the Constitution and simply it into:

Congress shall make no law.

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:3, Funny)

by Alsee ( 515537 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @05:01AM (#23347654) Homepage

OFC a carismatic democratic president could go to a democratic congress and say "hey how about you suggest this?" and they will say "how high?"

I'm all with you, but getting copyright reform is going to be hard enough without bringing up marijuana reform too.

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Re:So what's it gonna take... -Until- (Score:3, Funny)

by WillRobinson ( 159226 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @07:16AM (#23348224) Journal

Until you stop voting in lawyers into office, you will see no changes. Lawyers are going to first take care of lawyers. In order to see any changes in the future, we have to vote in people who will support the people. So the way to start this is to vote in anybody who is not a lawyer.

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:4, Funny)

by sm62704 ( 957197 ) writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @08:52AM (#23348740) Journal

It's all these damned kids, I tell ya! They have all these stands set up all over the place selling bootleg copies of Iron Man! Why just yesterday I stopped by this darned place called "Family Video" and believe it or not they were renting copies of all kinds to anyone that walked in and the cops ain't doin' nothin' about it! Don't these people realise that the VCR tapes makes poor Spielberg's kids starve? Didn't they hear Jack Valenti say that he VCR is to Hollywood what Jack The Ripper was to women?

Heck they even have a web site! [familyvideo.com]

Somebody stuck a kiosk in the grocery store with this stolen intelectual pooperty! And the store owner let them!

And... damn it there's some kid setting up a stolen movie stand right there in front of my house! HEY KID, get that intellectual pooperty the hell off my lawn before I call the cops!

mumble grumble disrespectful mumble where's my glasses grumble itellectual pooperty grumble grumble mumble

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 09, 2008 @01:22PM (#23352414)

I'm not just sure, I'm HIV positive.

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Studios, producer's homes, government offices (Score:2, Funny)

Re:The blade cuts both ways (Score:5, Funny)

What they don't tell you... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So what's it gonna take... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This always happens (Score:4, Funny)

That is Okay (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:This always happens (Score:3, Funny)

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