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That’s right, I’m back! The frogman that never sleeps!
Anyway, I saw this on Slashdot and couldn’t help but be impressed (it’s
somewhere in there, down about two-thirds of the way from the bottom):
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/1250203&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=141&tid=188&tid=95&tid=99
But it seems we are heading into two different directions. Crimes and their
punishment are being classified into crimes against people and crimes against
corporations. Crimes against people can be plea bargained down to minimal
sentences. Crimes against corporations are constantly on the upswing as far as
severity and punishment.
See? And this really has to make you think because it’s so obviously true. The
subject under discussion at Slashdot is the proposed legislation making it a
felony to upload copyrighted material to a P2P network. Many posters are making
half-serious objections based on the idea that you would likely get a lighter
sentence if you ran into a store and stole music CDs at gunpoint.
The questions remain:
• Do people flaunt the copyright laws because the laws protecting IP have been
expanded to an unworkable point favoring the few against the many?
• Should protecting copyrights be a federal level law enforcement concern; or
should it remain a protected civil procedure for the use of an injured party
against an offending party?
• Will this further overflow the prison populations for the most incarcerated
population on earth?
• What will they do when the current prisons reach max density?
• Do you want a rapist living next door to you because it was considered more
important to jail a P2P file sharer?
• Do you want to pay probably vast sums of taxpayer monies to fight this kind of
leap-frog battle against technology?
It just goes on an on...but I insist the motive is clear. You and I do not
matter any longer to the fiction of our democratic republic. We have managed to
create a system in which the least of a legislators concerns are his own
constituents.
I normally don’t care about this kind of stuff, but just for the record: the two
guys proposing this psycho legislation are Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and
Howard Berman (D-Calif.). Both of them Democrats! And one is from my own
state!
Corporate weasels respect no partisan boundries. We are all screwed because the
two party system is completely screwed.
Color me disenfranchised. Fictitious persons are in the ascendant.
-- Hop-Frog (I think I am having a usage problem...)
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