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Author Topic: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012  (Read 58041 times)

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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #315 on: July 04, 2012, 12:34:47 pm »
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EU Parliament rejects ACTA anti-piracy treaty

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has overwhelmingly defeated the international ACTA anti-piracy agreement, after fears that it would limit Internet freedom mobilized broad opposition across Europe.

The vote Wednesday was 39 in favor, 478 against, with 165 abstentions.
I would so throw a party for this if my friends weren't all hours away. And if my house wasn't fucking tiny.
I FEEL LIKE CRYING.

WAIT.

I AM CRYING.
I thought you were devoid of emotion :O



Such a landslide decision is great!
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #316 on: July 04, 2012, 12:38:19 pm »
To be fair, the economy is going to fail. Just not because of piracy.
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #317 on: July 04, 2012, 12:38:49 pm »
Wait, you can pirate pharmaceuticals?
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #318 on: July 04, 2012, 12:41:59 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on July 04, 2012, 12:38:49 pm
Wait, you can pirate pharmaceuticals?
I believe that would mean pirating the formula and synthesizing them yourself.
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« Reply #319 on: July 04, 2012, 12:44:28 pm »
I'm certain I can find all the necessary chemicals at the local supermarket in adequate purity. :P
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« Reply #320 on: July 04, 2012, 12:46:24 pm »
I'm not certain, but I believe that you actually can just order most industrial and medical chemicals and materials. Most people just never have a reason to do so.
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #321 on: July 04, 2012, 12:50:31 pm »
Hey, if people can make meth then they can make aspirin.
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« Reply #322 on: July 04, 2012, 01:16:12 pm »
Yeah but lets be honest.

If you can make Meth why bother with Aspirin?
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« Reply #323 on: July 04, 2012, 01:22:10 pm »
I would imagine the penalty for getting caught running a black market aspirin operation is lesser than that of a black market meth operation.

Then again, less profits as well.
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #324 on: July 04, 2012, 01:36:54 pm »
...There's no copyright on aspirin anymore though, so you'd probably just be illegally endangering people near you rather than pirating anything :P.
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« Reply #325 on: July 04, 2012, 01:37:38 pm »
Actually, Bayer owns the copyright on Aspirin.
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« Reply #326 on: July 04, 2012, 01:58:51 pm »
Not in either of our countries.
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« Reply #327 on: July 04, 2012, 02:02:27 pm »
The US is not the universe, copyrightwise. THeres places with much bigger public domains.
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Re: All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 1, 2012
« Reply #328 on: July 04, 2012, 02:33:07 pm »
Quote from: Janet on July 04, 2012, 01:16:12 pm
Yeah but lets be honest.

If you can make Meth why bother with Aspirin?
Well, apparently the mafia in Italy run a huge Olive Oil ring. Profit is profit, after all.
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« Reply #329 on: July 04, 2012, 06:16:49 pm »
So it's unlikely at this point that the MAFIAA will be able to depend on ISPs to fight their holy war for them, right?  In the case of Cisco (and another link I read the other day accused Linksys as well), it's unfortunately quite clear...

Cisco locks users out of their routers, requires invasive cloud service
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