Realist wrote in #4 This could have been fixed simply by putting films/music on Smart cards with encryption software making it impossible to hack or copy.  You are a moron, you can still convert the files to Mp3s and SHARE them whom ever you want.
And if any of you think this will stop people from trading music and movies, you are morons as well. What are they going to do next. Say I can't give someone a CD I burned for them?
The fact is, p2p services allow users to trade information at a large scale. very much uncontrolled. It is only infringement on the copyright if you make a profit from giving someone the information. EX: If I were selling burned CDs of music. = Illegal without permission. Giving away burned CDs = Legal because I am not making a profit. 
Do you get the connection? 
And if you say, well kazaa charged people for their better packaged software. Right, they are selling you access to faster download rates, not the information being traded.
Think of it as a cafeteria and everyone is trading their books, or CDs. Rather giving them away, because they are little pieces of data. These monopolized entertainment industries can't profit on people trading the music.   

Rep. Smith was right to stand up for online piracy. He was doing what is morally right and protecting a constitutiona l right to intellectual property. We need to stop online piracy to keep the music and movie industry song. This is what is good for artists large and small. 

Realist wrote in #4
This could have been fixed simply by putting films/music on Smart cards with encryption software making it impossible to hack or copy.   &nb sp;lol physical access = you fail.

wow,&nb sp; - then the decrypting side?

just wow.

internet has been "self aware" since late 1990's.

i'll just keep mentioning Tesla because it was his prediction and no one talks about it.

The man was possibly something higher than a human being.
I <3 Pirates and laugh at you.
you corporate c---suckers.

Patents and copyright safeguard nothing except the power of a handful of dominant players; they actually impede innovation.

M ajor corporations are famous for buying patents to any innovation that would upset their marketing strategies and control of a given market; after purchase, they archive the patents and only pull them out to threaten a competitor or to work them into their marketing strategy decades later.

On copyright, there is the example of Aleksander Zinoviev, who became a famous Soviet dissident in the West in the late 1970s/early 1980s for his "Wuthering Heights". English-language publishers then bought up the rights to all his other works -- which they never published because it would have compromised the author's value as a pawn of the anti-Soviet campaign. And the guy is really, really funny! If you read French, well, French publishers were kinder: they published anything to which they bought the translation rights.

At all events, copyright and patents ought to be simply abolished.

Realist wrote in #4
This could have been fixed simply by putting films/music on Smart cards with encryption software making it impossible to hack or copy.   You do realise that once you play music you can (re-)record it too, right?

This could have been fixed simply by putting films/music on Smart cards with encryption software making it impossible to hack or copy.  

Leader of Boku Haram wrote in #1
Jihad on Russia. _________ ____________________ ____________________ _________ @Jew, you first cleverly invented the false flag “Jihad on America” - now you cleverly start play your game with Russia. DO YOU really think you are so smart to fool Russia as well? ;) On topic: If you don’t get out on the street now and fight for your rights - you are just as good as dead tomorrow.

Hopefully being in Texas: the safe haven for republican candidates, no matter how crazy, won't be enough to save Lamar this time.

Jihad on Russia.