Congress Wants to Criminalize P2P

[Sarevok]

More reason to have a system where people don't get paid to be congressmen and have to hold normal jobs in order to make money, like in ancient Greece. Politics should be an endeavor, not a profession.

That would be good idea but it is unlikely to work in reality where politics is key prosperity and social status.

[Rogue 9]

Wait, wait, wait. A non-paying Congress? Congressional salaries aren't exactly astronomical, you know. That would only exacerbate the problem of having only rich people in office; only the rich could afford to lose their jobs in order to hold office. (Don't kid yourselves; no one would hold onto an employee that has to take an entire Congressional session plus whenever an emergency session is called out of his working time every year.)

[Nathan F]

Wait, wait, wait. A non-paying Congress? Congressional salaries aren't exactly astronomical, you know. That would only exacerbate the problem of having only rich people in office; only the rich could afford to lose their jobs in order to hold office. (Don't kid yourselves; no one would hold onto an employee that has to take an entire Congressional session plus whenever an emergency session is called out of his working time every year.)

Laws can be made concerning workers rights, you know. Sort of how employeers have to let employees who are National Guardsmen have to let them off to go to drill every month. (I think, anyways...)

[RogueIce]

Wait, wait, wait. A non-paying Congress? Congressional salaries aren't exactly astronomical, you know. That would only exacerbate the problem of having only rich people in office; only the rich could afford to lose their jobs in order to hold office. (Don't kid yourselves; no one would hold onto an employee that has to take an entire Congressional session plus whenever an emergency session is called out of his working time every year.)

Laws can be made concerning workers rights, you know. Sort of how employeers have to let employees who are National Guardsmen have to let them off to go to drill every month. (I think, anyways...)

Actually, I think there are problems with that, especially when it comes to deployments like now.

I do know there are groups that have to try and convince employers to help them out, so I take it there is still some resistance to it.

[JME2]

The industries also are pushing to portray P2P networks as dens of terrorists, child pornographers and criminals -- a strategy that would make it more palatable for politicians to pass laws against products that are very popular with their constituents.

Sort of like the rightwingers portraying the dems and liberals as terrorist and criminal appeasers~

Gotta love those scumbag tactics

Yeah, it's all they're good at. And the scary part is that it's working.

[JME2]

The industries also are pushing to portray P2P networks as dens of terrorists, child pornographers and criminals -- a strategy that would make it more palatable for politicians to pass laws against products that are very popular with their constituents.

Sort of like the rightwingers portraying the dems and liberals as terrorist and criminal appeasers~

Gotta love those scumbag tactics

Yeah, it's all they're good at. And the scary part is that it's working.

Of course, it's not working on me. No no, I'm a die-hard liberal and proud to be one.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Yo, If we emmigrate can we get "letters of Marquee" for online behaviour?

[Keevan_Colton]

Yo, If we emmigrate can we get "letters of Marquee" for online behaviour?

"Arr, I surf the seven networks and am the scourge of the RIAA....arrr."

Yeah, it could work.

As for this shit, well...yet again, the decentralized nature of the net means if you want to really do this you'd need a national firewall ala china and try and keep everyone else on the other side of the "Great Wall of Digidom"

[The Yosemite Bear]

or purhaps steal a page from the NRA "If open source is Outlawed, then only Outlaws will have secure, functioning computers"