Posted on 05/09/2008 12:06:07 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
I second the motion.
Thanks! Your post 16 is interesting, also. Crooked, sneaky bustards abound.
They might as well make the fine $100,000,000.00 per track. It would be more effective if they would make it $30.00 a track. Simply ridiculous. My Congress critter actually voted for it. I will let him know how pathetic it is.
Given the severity of the punishment for a relatively ubiquitious activity, it may behoove some to read that news...
Exactly my thoughts.
What if I own rental property where that is what a renter is doing?
Or if My 17 year old dumb kid downloads they can sue me for my home.
Lock and Load.
Hope not.
But He leans most often for business.
Iffy, but why not
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I keep receipts of all music I purchase via download, whether I buy it from iTunes or Amazon.com.
“House passes bill (HR 4279) that will let the RIAA take away your home for downloading music”
Yet another good reason to rent.
Nice segue!
Music=drugs...
Thanks to all who bought (and use) Microshaft VISTA. That validated an impossible situation in a free society.
When the national police (the military) is made a tool of a "legal" mob, to whom RICO laws should apply, then we can truly appreciate the corner we have allowed our government to paint us into...
Where's the outrage?
I wrote my congresscritter about this months ago, and he went right ahead and voted for it. I think I’ll be writing him another letter.
Nice segue!
Music=drugs...
Anyone who thinks confiscation laws, whether for drugs or other crimes, are constitutional has to brain dead or a died in the wool liberal. The fact of the matter is since putting the confiscation laws for drugs into effect there have been an additional 200(may be more by now, haven't checked lately) crimes which allow the government to confiscate your property, all before a trial and before you are found guilty.
If you are cleared of the charges, even if you are cleared and have no trial, you stand little or no chance of getting your property(usually your home)back from the government. It is a long process purposely put into place in order that the government may keep its hands on your property whether you were guilty or not.
The supreme court should have overturned these unconstitutional laws long ago but of course the fix is in because it means more money for the government. To be fair though, no confiscation cases have been heard by the Supremes since the more conservative court we have now was put into place.
If you don't believe what I have said simply google and do some reasearch, the facts are enough to make your blood boil. But of course some FReepers believe nothing is unconstitutional if it is for the war on drugs, right?
The rest of the world isn't constrained by the Copyright Clause of the Constitution. To comply with the Berne Convention and follow what the rest of the world does is to violate the Constitution.
IMHO, the music recording industry RARELY puts out anything anymore worth buying no differently than Hollwierd putting out movies that aren’t worth paying the price to go see them.
It passed that point long ago. RIAA needs to die, in the most horrible and messy way possible.
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