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Admiral Awesome
Great reply!
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I'm afraid that these kind of laws are not only about money. They're not even about the copyright. The big corps don't lose that much because some people don't go to a movie or don't buy a cd or dvd with songs. Those who can afford it usually buy them, those who can't afford won't buy anyway.
These laws are because some people are control freaks and want to have a total control over everything. And since the internet was the last "free world", they now try to impose rules and regulations for it. Probably they will be very happy when all people will only watch the stupid shows that they're broadcasting on TV, the news that makes the world look like a living hell so we will be afraid to even get out of our homes. In other words : "you are free ... to do as we tell you".
If any of you read the book called "1984", by George Orwell, will see the resemblance and will notice that the society is going in that exact direction.
Well, too bad that most people are just drowning in an ocean of self created problems and can't enjoy life anymore.
Grim Squeaker
So if you can't afford them, or are "morally opposed to copyrights" or do it just because "you can", it is okay to steal?
That is what it is, theft.
If you want to "enjoy life", pay for you enjoyment like most others.
Nothing is always absolutely so.
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hmm, want to go into polemics?
If the government has the "right" to steal from people (trough taxes over taxes and other taxes), that makes it morally just, just because they passed some laws to gave them that right?
What is in fact morality? Not some laws written by people, which are not even equally imposed and which are changed as other wants to?
Ain't it morally wrong to kill another human? And yet, in times of war, one who kills a dozen people is decorated as hero of war? Where is the morality in that?
Now, are you not using what other people invented long before you were born? Are you paying for the contribution of thousands of people who devoted many years of their lives to bring benefits to humanity?
And yes, i very much agree to pay for what others worked, because i know exactly what it means,
but you have to remember that human kind evolved only because people shared their knowledge and researches.
Cause if they didn't, we will still be in stone age.
And how did humanity got the fire? (mythologically speaking).
Not by an act of thievery? Did not Prometheus stole the fire from gods and brought it to the humans?
So by what rights did the gods kept the fire away from humans? Just because they were born earlier?
Anyway, you're missing the whole point here. ACTA is not about money, is not about copyright, is all about control.
So would you like that everything you do with your computer to be monitored and possibly used against yourself just because you dared to have a different opinion?
If so, think about what would've happened in the dark ages, if the church had the same measures of control as now. I'll let you use your imagination, if you still can make use of it.
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i dont believe there is a guy who is defending sopa/acta!!!! The money the money they are taking you will never even smell them!!! Stop that and get a life!! Or you want the life to cost money also??!
Stop acta!!!
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Hopefully this doesn't get passed. Wonder if the internet will do a global protest anytime soon.
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almost everything cost money today)
only your own thoughts and the air are free ... for now . Just wait till they impose taxes for air, thinking, talking ...
You said 10 words? You must pay a tax to the government for polluting the atmosphere. Oh, you didn't know that you eliminate CO2 when you breath out? It doesn't matter, what matters is that from now on you will pay a tax of 5$ for each 1000 breaths you take. You dared to think and create a negative energetic field around you? Damn right you have to pay for such a crime. And that will cost you ... a lot.
What else can we tax? How many times people fart? No problem, we will just pass a law which will make them pay for that.
People are too fat? No worries, wait till we tax every pound over 140 pounds for men and 120 pounds for women. You will no longer see fat people, either they'll die by starvation, or they'll die cause they will have no more money after paying the tax ... or they will succeed.
Overpopulation of the globe? Damn, that's hard, those poor idiots who make 10 kids have nothing we can take from them. Help me with this one please, i really am out of ideas for this problem.
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