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Re: Bush administration proposal would criminalize 'attempted' copyright infringement
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:36:37 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org> Date: May 15, 2007 10:29:03 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org>, ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] Re: Bush administration proposal would criminalize 'attempted' copyright infringement
For IP:
Life imprisonment is only one step away. So a hospital employee who uses pirated software (assuming this means that the DRM was subverted) will be punished in the same way that murders are punished. What are these guys thinking.....
They're thinking that keeping the "right" people in power and punishing wrongdoers (and thinkers), defined as anybody who opposes the "right" people, is more important than anything else. If you haven't read this book, you may want to do so: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ If you have any remaining illusions that the current administrationis like the party of Nelson Rockefeller or even Nixon, much less Goldwater,
that book may dispell them for you. To any readers who are Republicans: I wish you luck in taking your party back from the people who have stolen it.
Bob
-jsq "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" (September 13, 2001, The 700 Club) "Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions." --Jerry Falwell (August 11, 1933 - May 15, 2007)"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting 'Jesus Christ,' so that it would read 'A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;' the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the
mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination." --Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826), Autobiography, re the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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