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Thursday, December 11th, 2003
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1:03a - It's viewer poll time!
So... I know this seems to be an unhealthy fixation of mine as of late. However, there are reasons for that.
Right now, I'm kinda curious about those of you that actually follow my deluded ravings.
The Question of the Night:
What would it take for you to actually take action?
I realize that many of you are large enough armchair politicians that when The Man does yet another of his famously and stupidly tyrannic moves, you all rush to the Politics forum of your local messageboard and/or to your LJ and post how horribly offended you are and/or talk with your friends and associates about the offenses.
However, rarely do I see anyone I know actually doing anything about all these offenses. Thusfar, I'm guilty of this myself.
But... I'm curious about the rest of you.
What would have to happen before you literally dropped everything, abandoned your current life, and focused everything on stopping and/or changing the system?
Additional follow-up question to answer:
If you make seperate distinctions for various levels of action, (i.e. legally sanctioned methods versus actions that would likely brand you as criminal/traitor/treasonous) what would it take for you to decide to cross that line?
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8:10a
One thing that I find endlessly amusing / irritating about the whole "piracy is bad, mmkay" campaign that both the music, film and software industries are running is that the industries don't seem to give two shits about the OTHER part of the law. Y'know... the fair use part of the law that says that legitimate owners are entitled to make a backup copy of their software for archival purposes. Granted, this "making a backup" excuse has been used by many a media pirate, but the fact of the matter is that the law is supposed to ensure that legitimate owners still have the right to do this.
Except that, due to many of the anti-piracy schemes the companies within these industries have adopted, it's a royal pain for the average consumer to make that backup copy. This equates to disabling the exercise of this right.
With all the legal happenings regarding the persuit of pirates, I'm waiting for a class action suit to be brought forth against these companies for discouraging legitimate fair use.
This is also what makes me laugh at anyone who thinks that piracy can be stopped. Let's see YOU try making an anti-piracy scheme that still allows legitimate users to make their archival copy of your program/song/movie.
It ain't gonna happen.
You either impinge upon fair use rights, or you try to police the violators and make your content freely copiable and accept piracy as a fact of life.
There really isn't another solution, unless you resort to strongarm tactics that are expressly criminal.
current mood:  contemplative (comment on this)
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1:38p
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
( Who Was Martin Niemoller? )
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