I have a feeling, we are witnessing the downfall of the internet as we know it. With everything that has happened in the past 2-3 years with online policy and laws… It’s horrible.

incoming tides of lawsuits by the MASSES, as well as many protesters and backlash.

good luck.

Cut off my internet for visiting a website you don’t like?

#Litigation

Now combine these downloads with my uploads to filesharing sites of specialized ISOs that I create as bootable recovery disks for people who want to try to fix their own machines. Since my upload speed is a tiny fraction of my download speed, it takes quite a while just to upload a single 700MB CD and several times longer for the DVD versions (none of this is copyrighted content and anyone with enough skill can create their own – all perfectly legal). So just looking at the length of time an upload is running or where it is being uploaded to does not give any indication of what is being upload.

So, unless they are willing to bring a large number of people to court by just guessing about what is being up/downloaded and wasting their funds, they are also risking a countersuit for filing a false complaint. Their legal risk rises rapidly if they do this to a lot of customers as it could end up being filed as a class action. In order to avoid this, they will have to do actual content monitoring, but encryption can be applied to the downloads which they would have to break. If the filesharing methods being used are utilizing end-to-end encryption, they will have to find a way to perform a man-in-the-middle attack or some other way of getting access to the unencrypted content for verification purposes which can be both time consuming and expensive (and potentially ruled as illegal in a court of law).

In 2006, Dir en grey’s album “Withering to Death” was licensed by a stateside record label and sold for $17 in stores like Hot Topic (normally the only way to get such albums was import sites where they cost $40 a disc.) Dir en grey also toured the U.S. and other countries, and other Japanese bands started to try their hand at the western market and discovered they had well-established fanbases… all of that was thanks to the illegal sharing of their music. So in a way, piracy can help a band or artist that would otherwise not have a fanbase outside their home country, get their foot in the door of another.

Translation – they can shut you down if they even SUSPECT you’re doing something wrong. No trial, no chance for an appeal! Remember the DEAD woman they tried to claim had downloaded STYX music AFTER she was dead? How about the 80 year old woman who didn’t even own a computer? Toddlers?

I have officially HAD IT!!! It’s time to put a stop to the RIAA and MPAA’s reign of terror.

I refuse to buy ANY new music, videos, etc digitally OR hard copy from any of the major producers! I will avoid new movies at theaters and buy ONLY used from Amazon, Goodwill, Garage Sales, etc. I want to hit ‘em where it hurts! They think they’re losing money NOW? They will not get another PENNY from ME.

These are brainless middlemen who can’t think outside the tiny little boxes they’ve locked themselves into for over 100 years. They railed against people sitting around playing wax cylinders for their friends and relatives. They fought against people taping radio programs on Reel to Reel, they fought against people doing the same with video and audio tapes. They don’t want you to be allowed to give away, sell or even throw away your old CDs because you’re only RENTING the material.

You can’t even sing “Happy Birthday” anymore without breaking a stupid copyright law. You can’t have your radio on where someone else might hear it! Kids can’t even sing “Rudolph” in their Christmas pageants! This is pure BS!!!

Add to that John McCain wants the MILITARY to police the internet. That means they get to read EVERY e-mail you send. Every post you make on ANY website and take “appropriate” action. This will basically end the internet as we know it. It is the beginning of a witch hunt. They’ll come after “subversives” – which means anybody who says things they don’t like. So much for getting rid of “Big Government”

Welcome to 1984, folks. It’s about to get VERY ugly.

How this is going to affect LEGITIMATE downloads is anybody’s guess.

It’s time to put a stop to the RIAA and MPAA’s reign of terror.

Do NOT buy ANY new music, videos, etc digitally OR hard copy.. Avoid new movies at theaters. Buy ONLY used from Amazon, Goodwill, Garage Sales, etc. Hit ‘em where it hurts! They think they’re losing money NOW? Do not let them get another DIME from any of us. Boycott the music and movie industry. The “argument” that sharing hurts the artists is pure BS. It hurts the brainless middle men’s bonuses! The people who can’t think outside the tiny little boxes they’ve locked themselves into for over 100 years. They railed against people sitting around playing wax cylinders for their friends and relatives. They fought against people taping radio programs on Reel to Reel, they fought against people ding the same with video and audio tapes and they STILL haven’t learned!

Add to that John McCain wants the MILITARY to police the internet. That means they get to read EVERY e-mail you send. Every post you make on ANY website and take “appropriate” action. This will basically end the internet as we know it. It is the beginning of a witch hunt. They’ll come after “subversive” – which means anybody who says things they don’t like.

Welcome to 1984, folks. It’s about to get VERY ugly.

As a quick little note here as we’re in the social media age: I do NOT represent the actual desires, motivations, or decisions of my company, just what I think as an employee the company SHOULD and would LIKELY do, it’s just an opinion and doesn’t reflect the opinions of my employer, nor do I have knowledge of any decisions made or not yet made on this topic.

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