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Boblion
France8043 Posts
Stupid old people and medias don't even understand what is going on ... | ||
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Clasic
Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
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mIsUZu
New Zealand528 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
On February 22 2009 20:54 H wrote: What do you want me to do about it? :| I only learned of this last week. I'm waiting to see what happens when businesses/universities get their internet shut down. Yea, I don't know I'm not really blaming anyone specifically. I'm talking about in general, such as the patriot act, etc. In general, the world seems quite content with sacrificing their freedoms for security. | ||
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Pieguy314
Canada262 Posts
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funkie
Venezuela9377 Posts
gogo | ||
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Centric
United States1989 Posts
On February 22 2009 20:54 H wrote: What do you want me to do about it? :| I only learned of this last week. I'm waiting to see what happens when businesses/universities get their internet shut down. That's an interesting point. What would happen if people starting file-sharing on a public network? I guess there's ways to identify who's doing it, but on a large scale I think that's unrealistic. They can't just shut down internet to an entire school or business, can they? | ||
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furymonkey
New Zealand1587 Posts
So maybe today is us, tomorrow is you guys.  | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On February 23 2009 09:05 Centric wrote: yes they can, and a lot of small business owners are concerns about the impact of this law because if they lose internet for a day theyre pretty fucked. That's an interesting point. What would happen if people starting file-sharing on a public network? I guess there's ways to identify who's doing it, but on a large scale I think that's unrealistic. They can't just shut down internet to an entire school or business, can they? | ||
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
 Maybe I should I just stop torrenting altogether.On February 23 2009 09:12 furymonkey wrote: Correct me if im wrong, I've been told that New Zealand is often a testbed for technologies and legislations because we are so isolated. So maybe today is us, tomorrow is you guys. I just learnt yesterday that NZ was the first country to implement the graduated liscening scheme. Good on us for that, but not so good on us for this new legislation coming in T_T | ||
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furymonkey
New Zealand1587 Posts
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
On February 22 2009 19:34 Nytefish wrote: Geeks on the internet make up a small proportion of a country's population and an even smaller proportion of "willing to protest" citizens. Everyone should be concerned with these kind of laws, but they're just ignorant. the same reason there are so many bad tech patents. We basically have the baby boomers making up the majority of society, and they are largely technologically inept. Until the majority of people are technologically competent, this is going to keep happening, because people don't even know/understand/care whats happening to their online rights | ||
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10558256 | ||
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IzzyCraft
United States4487 Posts
Thats nice who wants to start a company in NZ and just accuse random NZ ip or torrenting something and send their IP a letter which will turn off their service. | ||
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InPlainSight
New Zealand40 Posts
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Centric
United States1989 Posts
On February 23 2009 09:35 Plexa wrote: yes they can, and a lot of small business owners are concerns about the impact of this law because if they lose internet for a day theyre pretty fucked. Wow that is retarded. | ||
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ambit!ous1
United States3662 Posts
hope it doesnt happen here in u.s. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
To let media companies lobbyiest get away with this is putting the profit of companies and their will of maintaining their market dominance before the need of the people. If government try to force you to buy one particular type of bread what would you do? if government try to tell you that because you happen to live in Australia, you must eat white bread what would you do? what if i want to eat rice instead? this is essential what it comes to, people are contend and happy to pay for a service but there aren't any and when forced to seek the contents in other ways they are punished for it. give me my bread, i will pay supermarket price, put the bread and all kinds of bread everywhere that i can find. that's what need to be done. not punishing and try to threaten people that help themselves when you can't provide the bread. | ||
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HamerD
United Kingdom1922 Posts
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
Do you pirate for free shits? that makes you maybe one tenth of of the serious sharers outthere. If you are really into sharing scene you would know what i'm talking about. | ||
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