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Digital Piracy Bill CBDTPA Universally Rejected!!!

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dieselstation

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I don't know if this is a repost or not, i tried searching. But whatever the case, the Digital Piracy bill has been rejected!! woo woo!! your voices ARE being heard.

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that sounds awesome. I am so glad lots of others have let them know that we will not stand for this. Besides, Canada could not handle the flood of computer geeks that would migrate there is this bill ever passed 🙂
 
This bill is about putting more money in the pockets of these companies :|

I mean, how much does it cost to make a CD or DVD?

And the royalty stuff... consumers shouldn't have to pay for your overblown deals/contracts.

:|
 
I don't disagree with that. But, IMO, this is about stripping and eroding us further of our rights to use our legally purchased hardware and media. If we don't continually fight these bills and raise some hell in large numbers, we will all lose. The government, and all the rest of these "organizations" proposing and lobbying for such bills are running amuck and need to be smacked down.
 
In testimony before Sen. Hollings' Commerce and Science Committee last month, Disney Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner accused technology firms such as Intel Corp. of profiting from digital piracy, and said they were not interested in working out a way to stop the problem.
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Talk about being lost in Fantasyland. :disgust: Things sure have changed since Walt died. 🙁
 
Agreed, vi_edit!

If you like listening to music over the Internet, sign the Petition. The Petition does get sent as I received back a letter from my Congressman (form letter, of course, but still I got one)

Time is running out!

http://www.petitiononline.com/sbi770/petition.html <-- Petition to Save Internet Radio

http://www.saveinternetradio.org/#legis

America's fledgling Internet radio industry could be effectively killed on May 21st if the Librarian of Congress (1) accepts the recommendations of its recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel ("CARP") concerning Internet radio royalty rates and (2) sets impossibly-complex recordkeeping requirements.

Congress passed a law in October, 1998, called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which established that webcasters must pay royalties to record labels for the music they play. However, the CARP's recommended royalty rates are currently more than 200% of most Webcasters' gross revenues!

If Copyright Office accepts the CARP's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio, as the retroactively-owed fees would bankrupt all but the very largest Internet-only webcasters (and would probably trigger the shutdown of most broadcast stations' Web simulcasts, including almost all the educational and community stations ).
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doh on the URL tags ;/
 
Originally posted by: her209
This bill is about putting more money in the pockets of these companies :|

I mean, how much does it cost to make a CD or DVD?

And the royalty stuff... consumers shouldn't have to pay for your overblown deals/contracts.

:|
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While I agree the bill was flawed I do think that the creators are ENTILED to money when their intelletual property is used.

If consumers are willing to pay for it it will sell if not it won't, let the market decide how much it should cost without these royalities many of the things you love and use would have never been created!
 
this news is a few months old. i've been following this bill since it was proposed and got many people to sign petitions against it, etc. there's no way this would've been passed.
 
Such foolish little children....

The intent of organizations such as "Digital Consumer" is to shut down all open debate before Congress on the issue of reducing piracy, content and copyright theft, in order to ensure that content and copyright theft will continue to be free and easy.

If there is one fundamental law of the universe, besides death and taxes, its that the rich will ALWAYS get what they want - ALWAYS!!

So, by shutting down public debate and killing an opportunity to PARTICIPATE in any policy making decisions on the matter of content and copyright theft, the ONLY thing these groups will accomplish is to force the matter to go behind closed doors, where Congress, at the behest of their wealthy corporate paymasters, will pass some law that nobody knows about until its already been passed, probably in the late night hours after the next election but just before a Congressional break. It happens EVERY time.

This will NOT just 'go away', things like this never do, because corporations are NOT going to just lay down and allow their works to be plundered with impunity. If you are foolish enough to believe they will, then you apparently have been living under a rock for the last...oh...100 years.

They will just get it done behind closed doors, where ONLY the corporations will have any input on the bill. Yeah, real smart.
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
Such foolish little children....

The intent of organizations such as "Digital Consumer" is to shut down all open debate before Congress on the issue of reducing piracy, content and copyright theft, in order to ensure that content and copyright theft will continue to be free and easy.

If there is one fundamental law of the universe, besides death and taxes, its that the rich will ALWAYS get what they want - ALWAYS!!

So, by shutting down public debate and killing an opportunity to PARTICIPATE in any policy making decisions on the matter of content and copyright theft, the ONLY thing these groups will accomplish is to force the matter to go behind closed doors, where Congress, at the behest of their wealthy corporate paymasters, will pass some law that nobody knows about until its already been passed, probably in the late night hours after the next election but just before a Congressional break. It happens EVERY time.

This will NOT just 'go away', things like this never do, because corporations are NOT going to just lay down and allow their works to be plundered with impunity. If you are foolish enough to believe they will, then you apparently have been living under a rock for the last...oh...100 years.

They will just get it done behind closed doors, where ONLY the corporations will have any input on the bill. Yeah, real smart.
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meh, i'm not concerned either way. every time they come up with some great new way to stop piracy, and every time they fail miserably. i can only hope for their own benefit that they will eventually come to learn the error of their ways.
 
If this interests you, you might be interested in this

Basically, Kazaa and Verizon are suggesting mandatory music-licensing. People would pay a modest amount of money (something like 1 dollar a month). Payments would go directly to the artists, bypassing RIAA. For that music, they could share all the music they want.

Interesting is this quote from RIAA spokesperson:

"Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous.""

Of course it is, since it ignores RIAA completely and it actually benefits the artists themselves.
 
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