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Sukasa

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Posted on 06-26-10 04:36:08 AM Link | Quote

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/41210

tl;dr some EU countries want to see ACTA to where non-financial-gain motivated copyright infringement (read: sharing music with a friend) can make a person possibly eligible for a jail sentence, and for "financial gain" to be extended so broadly it covers such things as the financial gain from not paying for anything aquired.

That's right - not spending money to get copyrighted content would be illegal now too. Don't lend Adam that movie, Bob- You could both be sent to jail!

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Posted on 06-26-10 08:11:46 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, the EU have been pushing this since a while back. Needless to say I got pretty pissed at it when I read it the first time.

I have no fucking clue how anyone could even consider something stupid such as this. :/

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Posted on 06-26-10 08:14:35 AM Link | Quote
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Jeez, I thought the EU seemed pretty sane.

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Posted on 06-26-10 09:57:03 AM Link | Quote
How freaking far do these corporations want to push profits? Don't they realise they depend on the very same people they're trying to remove (that is, more or less)?
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Posted on 06-26-10 01:32:22 PM Link | Quote
I guess there's still South Africa and Russia, but those two countries are probably shit in other ways...

This sanction is so stupid, really... I mean, I've lent VHS tapes and radios to people before, so what makes this different? =/

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Posted on 06-26-10 01:47:39 PM Link | Quote

What makes this different is that, for once, the "unwashed masses" have a cheap, reliable, indiscriminate, uncensorable method of communication - And they are already using it.

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Posted on 06-26-10 10:04:20 PM Link | Quote
The EU has gotten lost on their way to social liberalism ... they're following Hitler's foot prints to authoritarianism. And they we're so close, too! ...
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As usual, corporations will push their elected puppets to take away freedom until eventually riots break out, chaos reigns and they eventually retreat to their hidden caves while the no longer drunk-with-money corporatist leaders hastily clean up the mess that their masters made them create.

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