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Obama hires #5 RIAA member in the DOJ.

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Originally posted by: sactoking
Agreed. I'd point out, though, that the original topic of this 'sub-conversation' was that the RIAA wasn't necessarily adopting that stance. They had started down the (now cliche'd) slipper slope of "Any copy is illegal".
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Fair enough, and that stance is one in which I don't agree with.


I'm all about the radiohead/NIN model.
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Anubis
well he did promise change, and change is not always good
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I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.
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Quoted for stupidity.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Anubis
well he did promise change, and change is not always good
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I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.
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Yeah it's going to suck for thieving bastards.
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Do you think people should be able to rip their legally purchased DVD movies to their PC? Should people be able to rip their CDs to an iPod, or should they have to purchase the same albums on iTunes just to listen to it on a portable media player?

Sure piracy is wrong, but I don't think more RIAA/MPAA influence in DC is a good thing. It will lead to more crappy legislation like DMCA, which restricts the fair use rights of consumers. And civil and criminal penalties for file sharing are just nuts, I still don't understand how they can justify hundreds of thousands of dollars for sharing a song.
 
Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: Harvey

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Topic Title: Obama is a douche. #5 RIAA member in the DOJ.
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Somebody call the WAHmbulance. :roll:

Harvey
Copyright and Patent Holder
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Don't worry, nobody wants to "steal" your shitty song.
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I'm not worried about any of my songs or my patents. I've got the law on my side.

And thanks for the personal attack, jackass. I might be interested in your worthless opinion if you really had any intellectual property of your own to protect. Of course, you never will because that would first require you to have an intellect. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Anubis
well he did promise change, and change is not always good
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I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.
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😕

wow
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
And thanks for the personal attack, jackass. I might be interested in your worthless opinion if you really had any intellectual property of your own to protect. Of course, you never will because that would first require you to have an intellect. :laugh:
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zing!
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Anubis
well he did promise change, and change is not always good
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I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.
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what an assinine statement!!
So you would rather have 4 more years of US Soliders DYING in Iraq over your privacy?

You truly are a whack job!!
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
I'm beginning to regret voting for Obama.
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This
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I don`t see adults crying and whinning about the RIAA.....
But I do see many many sniveling punk ass kids who can`t even vote crying!!
As Red Dawn said-- Yeah it's going to suck for thieving bastards.


Then one of you kids made this assinine statement -- I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.

How is it going to affect you...just pay for what you download.....
 
The Dems are in bed with Hollywood?

shocker.

I may have voted for Obama in spite of the many problems I have with his party, but it's still sad to see this happen so boldly and so soon...
 
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
I'm beginning to regret voting for Obama.
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This
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I don`t see adults crying and whinning about the RIAA.....
But I do see many many sniveling punk ass kids who can`t even vote crying!!
As Red Dawn said-- Yeah it's going to suck for thieving bastards.


Then one of you kids made this assinine statement -- I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.

How is it going to affect you...just pay for what you download.....
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When people complained Bush made it so that the government could wiretap anti-Bush people were up in arms about it. The Bush-supporters said, "Don't talk to terrorists and it won't matter." But all the anti-Bush people felt that this was just Bush trampling the constitution.

Now Obama hires some guy who worked for the RIAA and Obama "supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program" the lefties say if you "don't steal songs and it won't matter."

Pretty funny how things come full circle.
 
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder

When people complained Bush made it so that the government could wiretap anti-Bush people were up in arms about it. The Bush-supporters said, "Don't talk to terrorists and it won't matter." But all the anti-Bush people felt that this was just Bush trampling the constitution.

Now Obama hires some guy who worked for the RIAA and Obama "supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program" the lefties say if you "don't steal songs and it won't matter."

Pretty funny how things come full circle.
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Very true. Interesting to see how partisan politics at work here.
 
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
I'm beginning to regret voting for Obama.
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This
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I don`t see adults crying and whinning about the RIAA.....
But I do see many many sniveling punk ass kids who can`t even vote crying!!
As Red Dawn said-- Yeah it's going to suck for thieving bastards.


Then one of you kids made this assinine statement -- I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.

How is it going to affect you...just pay for what you download.....
Click to expand...

When people complained Bush made it so that the government could wiretap anti-Bush people were up in arms about it. The Bush-supporters said, "Don't talk to terrorists and it won't matter." But all the anti-Bush people felt that this was just Bush trampling the constitution.

Now Obama hires some guy who worked for the RIAA and Obama "supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program" the lefties say if you "don't steal songs and it won't matter."

Pretty funny how things come full circle.
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Not really.....The guy is very qualified to do what he was hired to do!!
Monday's naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department's deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America.

So let me get this straugt you did not read the article and you are assuming that because the guy worded previousaly for the RIAA that he is NOT qualified???

I see mowhere in the article anything that states he will be prosecuting RIAA offenders......
Quit crying!!
 
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
I'm beginning to regret voting for Obama.
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This
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I don`t see adults crying and whinning about the RIAA.....
But I do see many many sniveling punk ass kids who can`t even vote crying!!
As Red Dawn said-- Yeah it's going to suck for thieving bastards.


Then one of you kids made this assinine statement -- I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.

How is it going to affect you...just pay for what you download.....
Click to expand...

When people complained Bush made it so that the government could wiretap anti-Bush people were up in arms about it. The Bush-supporters said, "Don't talk to terrorists and it won't matter." But all the anti-Bush people felt that this was just Bush trampling the constitution.

Now Obama hires some guy who worked for the RIAA and Obama "supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program" the lefties say if you "don't steal songs and it won't matter."

Pretty funny how things come full circle.
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Software Piracy and Individual Privacy are two very different things.

 
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
I'm beginning to regret voting for Obama.
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This
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I don`t see adults crying and whinning about the RIAA.....
But I do see many many sniveling punk ass kids who can`t even vote crying!!
As Red Dawn said-- Yeah it's going to suck for thieving bastards.


Then one of you kids made this assinine statement -- I would have rathered 4 more years of Iraq with McCain -- at least that didn't affect me in any way possible. This dumbass is going to take everyone's privacy away.

How is it going to affect you...just pay for what you download.....
Click to expand...

When people complained Bush made it so that the government could wiretap anti-Bush people were up in arms about it. The Bush-supporters said, "Don't talk to terrorists and it won't matter." But all the anti-Bush people felt that this was just Bush trampling the constitution.

Now Obama hires some guy who worked for the RIAA and Obama "supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program" the lefties say if you "don't steal songs and it won't matter."

Pretty funny how things come full circle.
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Not really.....The guy is very qualified to do what he was hired to do!!
Monday's naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department's deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America.

So let me get this straugt you did not read the article and you are assuming that because the guy worded previousaly for the RIAA that he is NOT qualified???

I see mowhere in the article anything that states he will be prosecuting RIAA offenders......
Quit crying!!
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I'm not crying at all. I haven't used P2P since the Napster/Kazaa heyday. For the record I think a lot of what Bush did (such as many items I know of in the Patriot Act) was wrong. It's just funny to me how when Bush made certain decisions so many people here in P&N felt so strongly that he was wrong. But when Obama pulls some sort of move that would have you guys foaming at the mouth if it was Bush, well when Obama does it it's not big deal.

I'm aware of this one portion of the Constitution, something about excessive fines and cruel/unusual punishment. Could fining someone $1.5million dollars because they had 10 stolen songs on their computer fall under that category? Nah... this is Obama we're talking about, only Bush "tramples the Constitution."

For the record I'm not tring to come acrossed anti-Obama, my comments are simply some things I've noticed standing on the sidelines here. You may now continue on with blaming Bush for everything and holding Obama up as a minor deity.

*edit - Spelling
 
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
For the record I'm not tring to come acrossed anti-Obama, my comments are simply some things I've noticed standing on the sidelines here. You may now continue on with blaming Bush for everything and holding Obama up as a minor diety.
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Well I prefer a minor "diety" to a major douchebag
 
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