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____/ Homer on Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 13:26 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Homer on Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 10:48 : \____
>
>>> Intellectual Monopoly, OTOH, seeks to inhibit that sharing process,
>>> by making it illegal to have and use certain knowledge
> [...]
>> It's actually worse as rather than merely hiding the knowledge they
>> make it a crime acquire and apply it.
>
> Ye-ah, that's what I wrote.
>
> Here's another sinister development, just in:
>
> [quote]
> A proposed US law that would block access to websites that host
> copyright-infringing material would "throttle innovation and hurt
> American competitiveness", a group of technology investors has told US
> legislators.
>
> US Congress members should reject the proposed new law, the proposed
> Protect IP Act (PIPA), the investors said in an open letter to members
> of the US Congress.
>
> One measure called for in the proposed new law is the creation of a
> blacklist of copyright-infringing websites. PIPA also proposes to give
> the US Department of Justice the authority to seek court orders that
> would compel search engines, advertising firms and domain name system
> providers, among others, to block access to the rogue sites.
>
> The 55 investors and venture capitalists behind the letter include
> Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, former ICANN chair Esther Dyson and
> LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.
> [/quote]
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/technology_investors_urge_us_politicians_to_reject_web_blocking_law/
>
> So now the Intellectual Monopolists use Chinese-style censorship to
> inhibit the dissemination of "bad knowledge". It's another step towards
> Orwellian Thought Crime. Surely any country that purports to value
> liberty should be punishing freedom "infringers", not knowledge
> "infringers".
>
> The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) already "iced"
> 128 supposedly knowledge-infringing domains without due process, not
> that a Martial Law state like the US seems to care much about such
> trivial things as due process, though, so this latest development is a
> mere formality. No doubt our sycophantic stooges in the UK government
> will shortly follow suit, rushing like a pack of brain-damaged puppies
> to make an unchallenged amendment to the Digital Oppression Act.
Well, the UK has the same troubles as the US. It has deep debt and great dependence on China,
which it is trying to impede ("throttle", to use their term) using some made up
laws served through corruptible and/or gullible politicians. But rather than tax China
they also impede their own economy and kill remixes (which is practically everything
Hollywood created or recreated).
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~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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