US goes on offense against digital piracy

To the OP...

This s^*t has been going for decades...

Care to add ANYTHING new to this story???

Originally posted by pigwithoutawig
I'd like to know why this is being done by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the Homeland Security Investigations unit. Are they confusing Pirates (arrrrrr) with Terrorists?

This got a laugh out of me. But my thought as to why ICE and HSIU are involved is to also cover the bootleg items that come from over seas. I'll do some checking into it once the little one finally goes to sleep lol

Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL

Well the headline on msnbc.com was:

US goes to war against digital pirates

I know its been already talked about many times. It might be a matter of time when you actually get charged for things now or google may actively filter results.

What if it became illegal to even search for pirated stuff music movies etc..

Government warns even first-time offenders breaking copyright law "will face up to five years in federal prison."

5 years for a first time offense. Now corporations can have the right to donate money to congress. Looks like the companies have more rights than the citizen. If companies want to be treated like a person, they should be held accountable for murder as well.

openchannel.msnbc.msn.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

edit on 28-5-2011 by THE_PROFESSIONAL because: (no reason given)

This is really just a waste of time. Why? There are ways around it. What if you do this?

Method #1
-Get an account at Netflix,or legal digital streaming website.
-Account only costs $8/mo
-Do free online surveys for $2.5/day for 3-4 days out of a month.
-Stream all you want

Method #2
-Get an account at Netflix,or legal digital streaming website.
-Get a video capture card or software
-Account only costs $8/mo
-Do free online surveys for $2.5/day for 3-4 days out of a month.
-Stream all you want
-capture all the streams you want
-Good luck finding the people

Method#3
-Go to blockbuster
-Rent all the movies you like
-Rip movies to you HDD
-Good luck finding whats on my HDD

Method#4
-Start a Non-profit video streaming service
-Pay(via ads and affiliates or surveys) for only the license to stream the content and the bandwidth(about $0.50/2.5hrs-3hrs)
-Stream all you want

Method#5
-You and your friends/neighborhood/baseball team/dog/etc pitch in $1 to rent a DVD
-You all watch DVD on your DVR
-You lend it to your friends. They record it on their DVR.
-watch movies all you want