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[Prinx]

This is going to take away all our civil liberties, just like being forced to get registration and insure a car you own does now! RUN FOR THE HILLS PEOPLE THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF P3OPLE!!!!!1!

 

[Geekbabe]

<< WilsonTung,

It's a legitimate bill. Fritzy-boy has been regularly proposing garbage like this for quite some time. He fancies himself a technocrat. You may not be finding it, because it hasn't even been introduced - just written. >>




True, lol but this isn't exactly the kiind of reading that inspires me to warm ,fuzzy thoughts over my morning
coffee.

 

[killface]

<< Sign the petition here!!! >>


Do the petitions on petitiononline.com work? I always thought you needed an address to sign.

 

[dmcowen674]

People ask, can this thing really get passed into law and they can do this? Just look at the Georgia Computer Protection Act and see what they did to me and the DMCA and what it is doing to citizens of other countries besides U.S. citizens. Computers, the Internet and the United States as it was would be lost forever. This country continues to spiral downward until the rest of the world no longer views the U.S. as the world leader in anything except tyranny. You have to wonder who is running this country now, the real terrorists? Should this continue, they will surely win. So sad.

We endorse the Oppose the SSSCA (government policeware on your PC) Petition to Our Elected Representatives.

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44960. David McOwen Atlanta, Georgia

 

[dmcowen674]

Actually they have been pushing this for some time now and are about to get the votes they need to make it happen courtesy of Hollywood and Big Money.

I had signed this back in July 2001

204. David McOwen freemcowen.com

 

[Hammer]

As someone pointed out, stuff like this gets proposed every session, and it goes nowhere. They could propose making me emperor of the united states, that does mean its going to go anywhere.

/me points and laughs at everyone in this thread.

 

[dmcowen674]

"/me points and laughs at everyone in this thread. "

Hammer,

Turn on the TV, Eisner of Disney and all the other Big Money people of Hollywood are speaking to Congress yesterday and today. They are basically telling them that they better pass this legislation or else.

 

[Hammer]

Eisner can talk all he wants, but its not going to happen. They'll listen of course, Disney contributes a lot of money, but thats it.



<< Hammer,

Turn on the TV, Eisner of Disney and all the other Big Money people of Hollywood are speaking to Congress yesterday and today. They are basically telling them that they better pass this legislation or else. >>

 

[deadtree]

I recall reading this kind of thread 3 years ago.
I also recall this letter. It said I need to make seven copies, and spread them in order to save myself as well as the entire human kind.
BTW, is today 1st of March, or 1st of April?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Sorry, but that article is very far removed from the conclusion listed in the original post. Secondly, the article itself is somewhat sensationalist. Feel free to write your congressmen, but IMHO, this is issue doesn't warrant the reactions here, nor does it warrant a lock at the top.

 

[WhoDeeny]

Sitting on top of the world simply isn't enough I guess

 

[DaiShan]

Benjamin Franklin once said "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759 this is an essential philosphy that this country was built on, we cannot allow this bill to pass, this would alter the very foundation of America. Privacy is an essential liberty, we cannot give this up.

 

[MikeO]

That's the single most f**ked up thing I've ever heard, almost too absurd to believe.

 

[MarkHark]

Seems pretty typical... Those american guys are nuts


***HEY GUYS, THAT'S NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY... WELL... SORT OF!!!***

 

[MarkHark]

And hey, DaiShan! You're pretty right!!!

 

[Turin39789]

Trouble is, when this bill is defeated, they will lay low for a bit and wait. Then starting with the least insane idea on the bill they will propose them one at a time and it will seem like they have compromised. They will never get the whole package, but then again they will never give up.

 

[Nemesis77]

What kind of sick, retarded joke is this?!?!

My message to MPAA (and RIAA while we're at it): Suck it! Suck it long, and suck it hard!

 

[AGodspeed]

<< My message to MPAA (and RIAA while we're at it): Suck it! Suck it long, and suck it hard! >>

HAHA, lol. You got that from Celebrity Jeopardy. LMAO!

 

[Nemesis77]

<<

<< My message to MPAA (and RIAA while we're at it): Suck it! Suck it long, and suck it hard! >>

HAHA, lol. You got that from Celebrity Jeopardy. LMAO! >>



Ummm, no. I have never watched Celebrity Jeopardy (never seen any regular Jeopardy either)

 

[Novgrod]

Just in case anybody cares,

Electronic Fontier Foundation

I joined up; seems more effective than writing a letter. Even if this threat isn't imminent, the threat will always be there

 

[clarkmo]

<< You guys just got to get used to the idea that collateral damage can actually affect you. This idea seems very conservative to me. What's the problem? >>

I'm sure I don't understand. Do you mean my watching a vcd of Collateral Damage can affect me or that the collateral damage suffered by the media companies by my watching said vcd can affect me or the collateral damage caused by the passing of this bill?

 

[Lars]

:Q

 

[SinNisTeR]

45735 Signatures Total

this is BS.. it will never happen. all the computer nerds will stop america flat if this ever goes through.

 

[OS]

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[BadNewsBears]

Dirty Bastards. Ill be waiting with my Smith n Wesson when they try to come and take my rig back to japan. Grr n I liked Disney