Will SOPA or PIPA Kill the internet Or CSR?

I just bought a spool of 50 Memorex's at Staples for $11.99. Gonna pirate my new record and give it away! BUT, also had to buy jewel cases and print labels, which uses expensive INK and Avery paper products. Not even doing cover art/sleeve. Probably costs (not factoring in studio time, the equipment costs or the bill for mastering) about $1.50 to burn a cd with one original song. Now if I can only get it on i-tunes, it'll make a million for ya overnight.
 
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there you go. Hopefully you'll break even someday (if your wife gives you a break on studio expenses).
 
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rondds said:
I just bought a spool of 50 Memorex's at Staples for $11.99. Gonna pirate my new record and give it away! BUT, also had to buy jewel cases and print labels, which uses expensive INK and Avery paper products. Not even doing cover art/sleeve. Probably costs (not factoring in studio time, the equipment costs or the bill for mastering) about $1.50 to burn a cd with one original song. Now if I can only get it on i-tunes, it'll make a million for ya overnight.
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Avery divested the division that makes print labels... so I know you are lying.
 
Being that IT is my field of work, both IT Security and IT compliance, here is my 0.02. The DMCA covers the issues of piracy and still has what is needed to prosecute as witness to the big bust today. The problem with SOPA and PIPA is a slippery slop. Piracy is nothing more then theft of a product. Once the government can control the internet and shut down on these reasons, then what would prevent them using these laws against the people who tweet social issues that are contrary to their opinion? Once they have the power to just shut down sites, just on suspicion of piracy, what would stop them from legitimate demonstrations that are broadcasting video from the event?

I hate to use this example but it is the same concept. What did Hitler do when he was shaping Germany? He burned all the books. I just do not want to see it head down that slope. The further it slides the tougher it gets to get back to the top.

One thing is evident from this protest that happened this week. We were back to the preamble of "We the People". not "Capitalist Democracy" as George Lucas stated.
 
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We were back to the preamble of "We the People". not "Capitalist Democracy" as George Lucas stated.
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What Star Wars episode is that from?

If he really did say that, he's a very large hypocrite.

I'm guessing you pulled it out of your butt.
 
MM,
I'll admit that I was the first to mention the "slippery slope" implications, but that was hardly a "shutdown of free speech". When one group of people purposly disrupt the lives of another group that crosses the line from free speech to "Thuggery".
 
Guess they're selling off old stock...
AVERY

As far as the "slippery slope," forget George Lucas, who I think actually said repeatedly "I got a bad feeling about this." It was Lord John Dalberg-Acton who said, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Far be it for the government to overstep it's bounds!!!! HA!
 
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It's funny to watch this whole megaupload thing unfold. By the reaction, you would have thought the Government just invaded LA, but as it slowly unfolded how much of a scum bag Kim Dotcom is, it became very quite. If any other paper besides the NY times would have written an article like that, they would have been ripped apart as trying to unfairly paint a bad picture.

MegaUpload is based out of Hong Kong but US prosecutors were able to launch an investigation because some of the allegedly pirated material that went through MegaUpload was held on servers in Virginia.
 
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Turtlesboat said:
........................MegaUpload is based out of Hong Kong but US prosecutors were able to launch an investigation because some of the allegedly pirated material that went through MegaUpload was held on servers in Virginia.
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Gary?
 
Having the servers here in the US was the only way they could get at Dotcom. But that brings the bigger picture to light. Trying to enforce US laws on other countries requires treaties or international law to be developed. Think we have a dead lock in congress, it is even worse internationally unless it has to do with oil. Oil is the money and power.
 
I just don't trust quilty people...
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