DMCA 2.0+
Congress is readying an upgrade to the incredibly sucky DMCA, so get stoked! Included are such great ideas as allowing wiretaps for copyright violation investigations, upping the penalties for copyright infringement to ten years in prison, and making it illegal to posses copyright circumvention software/tools (including your shift key).
But I think the choicest part of the article follows:
During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is “encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft,” Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, “quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities.”
So when you download KFed’s new album, take a minute to think about why you hate America so much. You dirty commie.
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why do they always update the shitty laws?
— midas | @
love the word “choicest”
— Coulie | @
If a law is bad, obviously the only way to fix it is to make it stronger.
— RMSzero | @
yeah i guess everyone should have been more specific when they said they were against the dmca.
— midas | @
mmmm… social control and protection of property. I love the smell of government overreaching in the morning.
— RVAkid | @
I mean is limiting the scop of the government even a thing people care about anymore? I mean wtf peeps.
Seriously, I am going to go listen to rage against the machine and dream about they day when we have someone run on the “I will do less platform.”
— MaxPower | @
i wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the ‘i will do less’ platform. i guess the problem is that the government is deciding how big the government should be. maybe another branch needs to step in. like, the courts deeming the government too controlling.
judge andrew napolitano, a regular on fox news, has a book out called ‘constitutional chaos’ which gets into this. i haven’t read the book, but he was on radio saying how even the legal drinking age should not be controlled by the feds. he says some of the fed government’s power is actually unconstitutional.
(i think the drinking law is sort of state by state, but was required by the fed. government to be 21 if the states did not want to lose federal funding for stuff like roads. if a state wanted to give up federal money, i guess they could change their drinking age.)
— Wolf | @
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_clause
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary-and-proper_clause
for the interesting and sometimes bizzare justifications and history of the expanding federal government.
did you know that congress can regulate the snack bar at a local golf course if they buy their hot dog buns from out of state? or really if the hot dog buns have ever crossed state lines in their life?
— midas | @
You guys are 100% right. I kind of get pissed off when I hear complaints that the federal judiciary is too powerful or becoming too powerful - not because it isn’t true, but because the executive branch and congress are insanely more powerful than they should be too.
— RMSzero | @
vote libertarian, baby. i’m not even libertarian.
— Coulie | @