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SB 978 is just one more bullet in a broader government effort to end the web as we know it.
October 31, 2011 |
In June, Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced SB 978, specifically “to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.”
In lay terms, it’s the “illegal streaming bill,” and it would essentially make the streaming of any copyrighted material on the Internet a felony punishable by up to five years in prison."
This goes hand in hand with my previous post about the Wealthy Elite. Not that they are connected in any conspiratorial kind of way-or that it is dead-bang for certain that there are Evil Puppetmasters out there trying to turn all of our brains into giant bio-batteries for the Machine-World to grow fat upon. But I am saying that we are setting ourselves up for a shit-storm of trouble just by eroding any sort of freedom "in the name of..."-what? Making sure everybody get fucked because people are stealing?
No.
We do that all the time-all sorts of government regulations impede the ability of honest people to do business to ensure the Bad Guys don't take advantage of us. Sometimes those are good regulations-even when they suck. Look at Glass-Stegall. Kept alot of people from making a few honest bucks. Kept a few from gambling away the future of the World's economy. We took it away and it took them less than a decade to cornhole all of us into next week (or 2018 as it now seems) without having the common decency of giving us a reach-around.
What Glass-Steagall didn't do (at least near as I can tell) was insure that if a nefarious, evil freak manages to lie his way into the White House that this (along with various other measures passed by slightly less nefarious freaks) could seriously tip the balance of power in the country OUT of the hands of the public and into the hands of....well, nefarious freaks. Silencing 1st Amendment freedoms does just that. Giving the private sector the power to get the Government to fuck the little guy on their behalf for expressing himself is a series of unfortunate events waiting to happen.
Oh, wait, that phrase wasn't copyrighted was it?
Think about it.
Do want to live in that America?
......And now a word to the entertainment business. You often suck and too many of your executives look at their personal and IRS bottom lines before their business. Who the fuck do you think buys the (mostly) crap you ram down peoples' throats? Middle class consumers. If the rich people keep fucking them without leaving a twenty on the nightstand afterwards, eventually they are just gonna go mooch of the library's wifi and torrent all your shit because they have no money to buy it.
Ever heard of Garage Band-or Pro Tools?
Or a local recording studio?
Or Internets radio?
Record companies can be started for free now.
You can shoot HD on a cell phone and edit it on YouTube.
You don't matter anymore-unless you make good content. It would help if you spent some time developing artists too, less upfront costs having to find "the NEXT (fill in the balnk)!" every 15 minutes and more time making things people think are worth money. There is ZERO shortage of talent, drive, and ambition. There is HUGE lack of vision and clarity in the upper echelons...and because of that I can't express myself freely?
Fuck the"illegal streaming bill"!
FUCK YOU!
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SB 978 is just one more bullet in a broader government effort to end the web as we know it.
October 31, 2011 |
In June, Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced SB 978, specifically “to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.”
In lay terms, it’s the “illegal streaming bill,” and it would essentially make the streaming of any copyrighted material on the Internet a felony punishable by up to five years in prison."
This goes hand in hand with my previous post about the Wealthy Elite. Not that they are connected in any conspiratorial kind of way-or that it is dead-bang for certain that there are Evil Puppetmasters out there trying to turn all of our brains into giant bio-batteries for the Machine-World to grow fat upon. But I am saying that we are setting ourselves up for a shit-storm of trouble just by eroding any sort of freedom "in the name of..."-what? Making sure everybody get fucked because people are stealing?
No.
We do that all the time-all sorts of government regulations impede the ability of honest people to do business to ensure the Bad Guys don't take advantage of us. Sometimes those are good regulations-even when they suck. Look at Glass-Stegall. Kept alot of people from making a few honest bucks. Kept a few from gambling away the future of the World's economy. We took it away and it took them less than a decade to cornhole all of us into next week (or 2018 as it now seems) without having the common decency of giving us a reach-around.
What Glass-Steagall didn't do (at least near as I can tell) was insure that if a nefarious, evil freak manages to lie his way into the White House that this (along with various other measures passed by slightly less nefarious freaks) could seriously tip the balance of power in the country OUT of the hands of the public and into the hands of....well, nefarious freaks. Silencing 1st Amendment freedoms does just that. Giving the private sector the power to get the Government to fuck the little guy on their behalf for expressing himself is a series of unfortunate events waiting to happen.
Oh, wait, that phrase wasn't copyrighted was it?
Think about it.
Do want to live in that America?
......And now a word to the entertainment business. You often suck and too many of your executives look at their personal and IRS bottom lines before their business. Who the fuck do you think buys the (mostly) crap you ram down peoples' throats? Middle class consumers. If the rich people keep fucking them without leaving a twenty on the nightstand afterwards, eventually they are just gonna go mooch of the library's wifi and torrent all your shit because they have no money to buy it.
Ever heard of Garage Band-or Pro Tools?
Or a local recording studio?
Or Internets radio?
Record companies can be started for free now.
You can shoot HD on a cell phone and edit it on YouTube.
You don't matter anymore-unless you make good content. It would help if you spent some time developing artists too, less upfront costs having to find "the NEXT (fill in the balnk)!" every 15 minutes and more time making things people think are worth money. There is ZERO shortage of talent, drive, and ambition. There is HUGE lack of vision and clarity in the upper echelons...and because of that I can't express myself freely?
Fuck the"illegal streaming bill"!
FUCK YOU!
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