The monopolies are the same ones who bully kids and anyone else that they think is too weak to stand up to them. I think those who are fighting for freedom in the P.S.A. (police States of Amerika) should not stoop to the same level as the **AA’s. We need to leave the children out of it. Thanks to the Supreme Court in the P.S.A., the police have yet even more immunity to do as they please. Unfortunately for the citizens in the P.S.A., technology is the only weapon that can be used against the cartels.

Since governments and cartels can do all they want, and we can do little, we must use technology to protect ourselves. There are those who resorted to Denial of Service Attacks against S.C.O. The strong arm tactics used against filesharers, software coders, Internet server operators and others are now being turned on the persecuters. What did they think would happen? Did they actually think that they could continue bullying everybody with impunity? I personally have no propblem with this D.O.S. since S.C.O. is out to destroy my freedom to use Linux. I do draw the line at bringing kids into the fight though.

There are those Linux coders who believe that D.O.S. is wrong. I respect their opinion as well. I myself have not participated in a D.O.S. However, many Microsoft users have, and they don’t even know it. The tactice of using one monopolie’s strenghts (customer base) against another is great tactical thinking. It would be much nicer though if a court decision would not be based on the amount of money a particular side had. If there were justice in the court system, then people would use it rather than extra-legal means to achieve one ends.

Freedom indeed is on the choping block and we need to come down on the big wig RIAA and Microsoft monopolistic behavior now. Mostly where they have effectively bought and paid for laws to their advantage. That’s a big deal. That’s true coruption and the people at large lose.

Don’t expect people on the payroll to agree with me.

How sane is it for the FBI to raid kids because thay have bittorrent links on there little servers. If you don’t fight for these little guys then don’t complain when the FBI bashes down your door! If one is caught selling then punish them under piracy laws that have already been established.

We desperately need legal power clarification about the difference between downloading, sharing, linking etc, and between SELLING by site or mainly conterfeit hard copies (usually pretending to be from authentic sources.) We already have laws to prevent real piracy. Sharing IS NOT PIRACY!

No one stormed the doors of movie or music studios. We are talking about a data copy on a hard drive. Just like a copy onto VHS you made of your favorite movie. If something gets out in the wild, it’s too damn late. This is what we need to understand. The fact is, today, a “unathorized” release is like free advertising. How can we possiblly tell what was leaked ON PURPOSE? You can’t then arrest kids for downloading. Get real.

I hope the lawyers of the resently arrested young guys (just because they had servers) have a field day with the prosecution and set the proper presendent about these matters.

Canada has protected it’s people, why not the US. Why are big money monopolists alowed free rein? Let supply and demand work in either direction but don’t alow big company (the richest in the world) to cheat. There is NOTHING wrong with having money UNLESS you let it have you. It’s THE LOVE of money that’s the root of all kinds of evil. Greed and the love of money seems to have corupted these big wigs into power hungery monopolists; not fair playing business competition.

Ironically, that’s just what’s happening NOW. In the name of not “stealing” the big wigs are actually cheating. All the while (I’m talking about where there’s no sales, or it is piracy) NO STEALING IS INVOLVED!

It’s all about “intelectual property” which is a BS term for an idea or art work. no one is stealing a darn Monet off the wall of a museum. People are just starting to have free acess to a copy. If that slows museum attendance and thus (potentially) reduce demand and profit for museums then WELCOME TO THE 21st century! Stuff changes. Why do monopolies deserve special protection from the “law of supply and demand” they say is fair business?

What are you going to do about it? Right now, the monopolists have more money and apparently more motivation.

The misuse of our laws alone should be enough for a world wide revolution. Where are the checks and balances?