Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown

[yuyuyup]

Pirates? You should be more worried about Assassins, you silly man.

Is that a threat ?

 

[Magmorph]

It could be worse; Sarah Palin could be president.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Knowing the Republicans nowadays they'll probably go all out against any bill he pushes, and for once I'm thankful for that. And the full Democratic party won't be backing this, I assure you.

Piracy won't kill the economy, even games that get millions of downloads still have great sales.

Something tells me that they don't realize that piracy has been around since computer games and floppy drives have existed.

Don't copy that floppy!

But I do believe it's just another scare so we can get all frantic here. We have shitload of shit to walk through before we even begin to remotely care about people pirating crap on the internet. Maybe in the year 2050 when we actually don't have any immediate problems (although that's unlikely) we'll start a serious piracy crackdown, but for now it's just all bark and no bite.

 

[DiscostewSM]

This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government.

Minority Report, lol.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Pirates? You should be more worried about Assassins, you silly man.

Is that a threat ?

The answer to that is as obvious as if I'd ask you if you were Obama.

Spoiler

HELL YES

 

[Thoob]

This seems to totally condradict the fact that pirates are the people who on averge buy the most music.

 

[jonesman99]

A Janelle Monae quote best fits here:

"And when I look into the future I see danger in its eyes
Hearts of hatred rule the land while love is left aside
Killing plagues the citizens while music slowly dies
I get frightened, I - see, I get frightened, I..."

I feel the world is getting dumber (for lack of a better word) by the day.

 

[monkat]

I don't know about typing "Artist Torrent" being illegal, but we really should start cracking down on piracy. A lot of us simply can not afford it, but a lot of us can and just don't buy.

I know a lot of people here won't like it, but everything they said is true, it does hurt our economy, and it really should stop.

 

[Midna]

This sounds like the Minority Report. "He might be about to commit a crime, attest him!"

Edit: someone posted that before me

 

[megawalk]

Ban the government...
i hate privacy scoldings.
everything that is privacy, should always be privacy.
thats why i believe in a world without a government.
dictation and dominion always lead to inference and providence.
i hope somebody gets a lesson of that.

 

[omgpwn666]

This is no news to me since I'm slow and thought a major piracy crackdown already happened. So I stopped downloading illegal torrents about two years ago.

 

[TrapperKeeperX]

This won't stimulate the economy at all! He should be tackling Same Sex Marriages I'm for that it's a very important issue than this like I said earlier and if Same Sex Marriages get legalized that would fuel the economy honestly Obama maybe smart but this move is just a mistake he should tackle stuff that will stimulate the economy. Legalize Prostitution I'm up for that although it's wrong but people will pay for sex. Also start taxing churches they have a shitload of money but yet they use it for themselves.

 

[TM2-Megatron]

'tis a shame that these days, when people see "thoughtcrime", their minds turn to something as mundane and pedestrian as Minority Report.

 

[Midna]

This won't stimulate the economy at all! He should be tackling Same Sex Marriages I'm for that it's a very important issue than this like I said earlier and if Same Sex Marriages get legalized that would fuel the economy honestly Obama maybe smart but this move is just a mistake he should tackle stuff that will stimulate the economy. Legalize Prostitution I'm up for that although it's wrong but people will pay for sex. Also start taxing churches they have a shitload of money but yet they use it for themselves.

Was that a call to legalize prostitution? What, because you can't get get sex anywhere else and you don't want the law hanging over you?

And tax churches? Really?

 

[monkat]

This won't stimulate the economy at all! He should be tackling Same Sex Marriages I'm for that it's a very important issue than this like I said earlier and if Same Sex Marriages get legalized that would fuel the economy honestly Obama maybe smart but this move is just a mistake he should tackle stuff that will stimulate the economy. Legalize Prostitution I'm up for that although it's wrong but people will pay for sex. Also start taxing churches they have a shitload of money but yet they use it for themselves.

1. Yeah, Same sex marriage should be legalized, not necessarily for fiscal reasons, but it would increase state tax revenue, pay for marriage licenses, and more money to chapels and things.

2. Prostitution is legal in Las Vegas, and look where they're at. It would be good if the prostitutes spent it on things that aren't drugs or going straight to their pimps.

3. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to tax churches (at least it is in Britain...man I hate my western civ course), but either way they don't have that much money. Most of the money that they have is from donations, and most of that goes to charities and such.

 

[Veho]

He actually made a secret deal with Nintendo, to scare any pirates from even attempting to crack the 3DS once it comes out.

 

[Midna]

'tis a shame that these days, when people see "thoughtcrime", their minds turn to something as mundane and pedestrian as Minority Report.

Very well. Sounds like Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

[TM2-Megatron]

Was that a call to legalize prostitution? What, because you can't get get sex anywhere else and you don't want the law hanging over you?

While I don't see how prostitution has much to do with this issue, what would be the big problem with legalizing it? It would be better regulated... safer for both parties involved, etc. It's the world's oldest profession, and it's never going away regardless of how much some prudes might want it to.

Hell, why is polygamy illegal, while we're at it? If the participants are all adults of sound mind, who's the government to say they all can't get married?

QUOTE(Midna @ Jun 23 2010, 05:38 PM) And tax churches? Really?

There are many Churches which are, functionally, more of a business than many businesses. I have no issue with them being taxed. They should contribute to society, like any other organization.

 

[Midna]

Was that a call to legalize prostitution? What, because you can't get get sex anywhere else and you don't want the law hanging over you?

While I don't see how prostitution has much to do with this issue, what would be the big problem with legalizing it? It would be better regulated... safer for both parties involved, etc. It's the world's oldest profession, and it's never going away regardless of how much some prudes might want it to.

Hell, why is polygamy illegal, while we're at it? If the participants are all adults of sound mind, who's the government to say they all can't get married?

But are the participants always alults of sound mind? How did the harems in the middle east go?

 

[Rydian]

How did the harems in the middle east go?

Polygamy =/= Harem.
Middle East =/= USA.