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Secret US-corporate negotiations creating SOPA on steroids?

May 12, 2012 16:43

Pro-SOPA industry giants urged the White House in secretive international trade talks to adopt stronger intellectual property protections. Critics say the negotiations could usher in “draconian” provisions capable of strangling Internet freedom.

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Kaela Creighton (unregistered) 14.05.2012 07:45

 Crunch me and watch me blow.  It goes two ways, you know.

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Korz53 13.05.2012 18:47

  They the 1% want to know what the 99% is doing' and who they are and were they live ; that is all. What wrong with that? they may want to come for tea and that is all. Need to have an address to do so.

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Grace (unregistered) 13.05.2012 13:50

All of this is fear mongering. If American citizens decided to just cut off the internet and drop the cell phones most of this nonsense would be over. If citizens ever turned off their TV's the governments would be crying in their beers because they couldn't control anyone. All it would take is seven full business days of complete internet outage to collapse a few banks, the stock market, and many,many businesses. If citizens decided to stop using ALL credit cards and banks for an entire month-the banks would fall for good creating a new base for private state banking.

The government NEEDS for people to wired. If citizens ever decide to go back to living pre-internet style these governments would come unglued because they couldn't track anyone. Citizens could rebuild their lives. People need to pick up an actual book and read about life pre-internet. Then fight back.

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buccaneer-orangutan (unregistered) 13.05.2012 12:14

@THOSE CATS R SMART !!!
that vid is irrelevant, can't make head or tail of it, it lost of an intent...
guys, better start a pirate party to gain political foothold in each of your country...

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ShadowGilgamesh 13.05.2012 00:32

The people are catching on to the fact that "Intelectual Property" is a load of BS.

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JJ (unregistered) 12.05.2012 21:55

In the USA they do one thing, look for a reason, to start a war, look for a
reason to take away your rights. But now what this stuff is is not just taking
your rights, it's the music, film etc people pay off the politicians, like Obama
and he can crack down and protect their copyrights.  I had a friend, he got
10,000 dollars for recording a popular LP, he never got another dime.
Actually I have more than a few friends I can say that about, and these companies are still selling their stuff years later.  Ronnie Spector (Be My Baby), she got 500 dollars, never another dime, Van Morrison (Brown Eyed Girl), he never got paid for that at all !  The Beatles have been in court
with EMI at least 5 times, and usually after they have not been paid in years.
     But we are supposed to cry for these guys when they make a few million
less? 


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Dandelion13 (unregistered) 12.05.2012 19:29

Ronald (unregistered) wrote in #1
Why is always the US screwing the world? They are such a cancer! Hopefully we will find a cure for it soon.
I can understand you, but there is a thing you and others might too easily oversee. The USA are not the "mother-carcinoma" they themselves are only a metastasis of that, like -my condolences- Russia or Germany are not much more than franchise facilities as your local KFC or Gucci-store is.
I am sorry for that unjustice and I know here are a lot of patriots, who will not want to agree with that, because they are pride of their countries. Be pride you patriot, for when I do not mix up the mighty ones with the people and the soul of their countries, you don´t have to do that either - or do you? Whatsoever, the text goes on. The US now almost have completed their special "duty to the ring", but then they again will fall "back into rank". Anyway they are vassals on their own and will not be treated otherwise.
You think that is crazy? Indeed it is and it obviously has greatest tradition in our history, when you once took a closer look at the important people initiated to the hidden hand (like Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill or Napoleon, Bacon and Robespierre). Inform yourself about what for example Trotski on court told the world right before getting sentenced to death. Inform yourself about what the assassins of Sarajevo on court told the world, before gaining the same destiny. Inform yourself and question more. There is not only annihilation waiting for you inside of that topic, as even really, really deep inside of it also lies the "answer", the cure you are looking for so desperately. That really is a thing that should fascinate you like nothing else. Go onto the hunt for it. Nothing is of greater urgency.

"Dea thpromise", Gaian Poetree @ soundcloud

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Kyle (unregistered) 12.05.2012 19:11

All of these bills one after the other and yet people STILL aren't questioning the legitimacy of "Intellectual Property" aka ownership of an idea. This is the result of people being able to own ideas.

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daneke 12.05.2012 18:18

This is all prophecied in the Bible and won't be stopped. Are you good with Jesus? Don't wait until your friends are gone and you are here with the Antichrist!

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Ronald (unregistered) 12.05.2012 18:08

Why is always the US screwing the world? They are such a cancer! Hopefully we will find a cure for it soon.

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