What's in a name?

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What's in a name?

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[whynotaskme]

Piracy is raging out of control, and shaping up to be the defining battle of the 21st Century. The ever escalating cost can be measured not only in dollars, but threatens our very way of life as well. We need to shut down the propaganda machine that is condoning and fueling this piracy and mute their voices. It is time to take back control.

Any right-thinking citizen would be properly outraged that these pirates have gone so far as to hijack our democratic institutions. Congress, the Senate, and the White House itself have fallen victim to the corporate lobbies who have pirated the democratic process and placed their puppets in control of these august institutions. Hollywood, the MPAA the RIAA have usurped the authentic voice and will of the people to set the agenda on copyright legislation. These pirates must be defeated in order that democrcy may prevail. http://whynotaskme.org/

[litesp33d]

This has got nothing to do with copyright. All the same arguments were put forward when people started copying work onto cassette tapes. The result was that more people could view the work and sales went UP. Disney protested taping until they found it was another massive massive revenue stream for them. But they still like to control other stuff in a massive way.

This is all about censorship of the internet. Putting the control of information back into the hands of the powerful.

However no one can say that and expect people to go along with it so they pretend it is to protect children from pornography whilst condoning and covering up child rape by clergy. Or it is about stealing an artists livelihood - like anyone in Hollywood has suffered at all because of this. That Tom Cruise used to be so wealthy and is now down to just 10 mansions sort of thing.

This is all about censorship of the internet. Putting the control of information back into the hands of the powerful.