TheOwl opened this issue on Jan 02, 2012 ยท 53 posts
alexcoppo posted Tue, 03 January 2012 at 3:10 AM
My take on this stuff.
I am not convinced that those people are really illegal users; I think that lot of them are just hoarders who collect software. How could you explain otherwise sites were you find side by side Houdini Master cracked for network use (10K$ per copy) and LuxRender (yes, the open source thing that you can download for free) or Dosch products side by side with ShareCG freebies? B.t.w. a couple of days ago I found on a warez site... Antonia :lol: (which was the reason for my monitoring).
I think that US people have worse problems than SOPA. Those provisions for military internment of US citizens, without time limit, without any check by juries/judges, without recourse to legal support, on nothing more than unverified "national security needs" (which can easily be faked by agencies like the NSA) are much worse. Up to now the "its like Nazi Germany" was some kind of hyperbole; now, these provisions are the mirror of the ones enacted at the start of dictatorship on which the concentration camp system was established. If you check "patriot" websites you see lots of "deranged talk"; one item at a time, those you-should-take-your-medications (using a favourite Renderosity do-not-attack-other-users expression) items become Executive Orders or laws. B.t.w. SOPA could also be used to a political purpose: an Occupy-Something website is stuffed by pirated movies by NSA operatives, an "informer" notifies the authorities and the website is taken down not for political reasons (something that happens only in dictatorships :sneaky:) but for copyright violations.
It is like living in a 1980's movie (Jena Pliskin? Call me Jena).
P.S.: 1-somebody says that something isn't right, 2-somebody then makes theories of why things are happening, 3-somebody provides his solutions. Agreeing almost completely on point 1 does not imply agreeing on point 2 or even more on point 3.
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