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Posted: May 16 2007 07:40 pm

Came across this on The Inquirer:

THE LAND of the Free is considering bringing in a new thought crime which is thinking about software or music piracy.
Details of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, will criminalise "attempting" to infringe copyright.

It means that you can go to prison for one to 10 years for trying to copy a music CD and failing. In another move you could get life in prison for using a pirated copy of Windows on your home PC.

It will be possible for the FBI to get a wire tap to see if you are using pirated software. Anyone who uses counterfeit products who "recklessly causes or attempts to cause death" can be sent down for life. The Justice Department says an example of this will be a hospital which uses pirated software instead of paying for it.

Homeland Security will be allowed to use its terrorist search powers on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It would notify the RIAA when its sniffers detected "unauthorised fixations of the sounds, or sounds and images, of a live musical performance" are found.

Other copyright holders will not get the benefit of this service. According to News.com, it is unclear how these new laws will be received by the Democrats. While you would think the fact that Gonzales is as popular amongst them as the Boston Strangler, they have a lot of chums in the entertainment industry who think that pirates should be sent to the gas chamber.

Posted: May 16 2007 07:53 pm

Knyte wrote:

Came across this on The Inquirer:

The Inquirer!? That's not a newspaper! That's a cat box liner!

The italics are meant to reflect the delivery of a 1940s Bogart film.

Posted: May 16 2007 08:11 pm

The Brittish Technology Website, "The Inquirer", (http://www.theinquirer.net/) not the National Inquirer.

Posted: May 16 2007 08:54 pm

A law like that would never be passed.

Posted: May 16 2007 09:19 pm

They spelled "unauthorized" wrong. This is America, not some commie pinko country like Britain or Canada that used Ss where there should be Zs and adds unnecessary bullshit Us into words that don't need them.

Posted: May 16 2007 09:24 pm

Yeah. There'd be a peasant uprising.

Posted: May 16 2007 09:31 pm

oh no! NOT THE PEASANTS!!!!!

Posted: May 16 2007 09:35 pm

Help, help! I'm being oppressed!

Posted: May 17 2007 12:11 am

"Hello?"
"Yes?"
"Yesh m'Lord."
"I don't want to do it."
"Leave me alone."
"I'm not listening!"
"Yes?"

Posted: May 17 2007 08:31 am

"You're the king? Well, I didn't vote for you!"

Posted: May 17 2007 08:33 am

EVERYTHING is going crazy! Shit, what'dle I do? Play Contra you moron.

Posted: May 17 2007 12:11 pm

Knyte wrote:

Came across this on The Inquirer:
THE LAND of the Free is considering bringing in a new thought crime which is thinking about software or music piracy.
Details of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, will criminalise "attempting" to infringe copyright.

What happens if you "succeed" to infringe copyrights? You win the game?

Posted: May 17 2007 02:36 pm

Ô Canada! Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits;
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.

---> I'm only patriotic when it comes to the flimsy copyright laws! Amen Canada!

Posted: May 17 2007 03:51 pm

No one likes Frenchies.

Posted: May 17 2007 04:17 pm

Yeah, 'cause you know Windows goddamn Vista is worth dooming a person to rot in jail. Yeah, that makes a shitload of sense.

Posted: May 17 2007 07:10 pm

Vista fuckin' sucks.

Posted: May 17 2007 08:15 pm

No shit. But I don't care if it was God's own OS, no one should lose their freedom for their entire life over software.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

canada kind of sucks alot.

Posted: May 17 2007 08:58 pm

Canada rocks. Trailer Park Boys, lots of junior hockey, pale ladies, Calgary Flames. Natives that love to kill themselves.

Posted: May 17 2007 09:15 pm

Sock wrote:

Canada rocks. Trailer Park Boys, lots of junior hockey, pale ladies, Calgary Flames. Natives that love to kill themselves.

Yeah...all that is kinda why I don't like Canada. But you had Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Club Super Sex, and Soap. Not too shabby.

The result: a draw.

Posted: May 17 2007 09:18 pm

How can you not like TPB, suicidal natives, junior hockey, or pale womens? Seriously.

Posted: May 17 2007 09:27 pm

Sock wrote:

How can you not like TPB, suicidal natives, junior hockey, or pale womens? Seriously.

I hate hockey, I'm into exotic women, I'm not into people killing themselves, and I' not going to lie...I have no clue who the TPB are.

Posted: May 17 2007 09:32 pm

Why do you hate hockey? What's there to hate about? It's a non-sport in America. You have to make an effort to find hockey in the States. How can you hate something you'll never find if you're not intentionally looking for it?

Posted: May 17 2007 09:40 pm

Sock wrote:

Why do you hate hockey? What's there to hate about? It's a non-sport in America. You have to make an effort to find hockey in the States. How can you hate something you'll never find if you're not intentionally looking for it?

Hey man, the Bruins are big in Boston. I'm just not a fan of the sport. I've been to high school, college, and pro games because people keep trying to convert me to hockey. It's just not for me.

Posted: May 17 2007 10:00 pm

Then why throw the word "hate" around? If something's just not your thing, it doesn't mean you have to hate it.