Comments on: Alberto Gonzales’ school horror show

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Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:56:41 +0000

[…] Four record labels and Big Six movie studios, but implemented by the Bush administration,” p2pnet said in March, 2006, continuing: He’s visiting schools with horror stories of what’ll […]

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:00:52 +0000

though I agree with you 98%, it’s the last 2% i can’t get behind you on. In your case a downloaded game probably equated to a lost sale because you’re actually playing it (it’s possible you wouldn’t have bought it, but since it was free, it’s for you). If you enjoy the game, BUY IT. Support the game makers that spend the months upon years slaving to make the game you spend your time enjoying.

You are the exact reason the **AAs are going after people. Because 1 download COULD equal 1 lost sale, and in your case, it probably did.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:31:54 +0000

I still agree that, it’s all about HOW MUCH money is able to be made by forcing File Sharing out & Establishing their own set of controls. All ok’d by our own paid advisors, who plan to make our (yours & mine), world a better place to be. Communication to each other is free but when the teacher reads a story, is she breaking the law as well. The amount of MONEY to be made should be disclosed to all of the population. We have a right NOT to have to pay a dollar value more that what the value is. Disc value, pennies, artistic value has a more agumentive (subjective) value. The amout of money we are talking about is not for the ARTIST, although all the A&R poeple may disagree along with distribution, design, agents, & production. We the people are begining to see where the money is going and we are acting on our own behalf with the peoples interests at heart.

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By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:48:19 +0000

Ah yes, the typical “Speak to the young minds before theyre too old to realize im full of shit” speech, this time made by some guy who makes entirely too much money from the country. It never ends with these guys, saying a download is a lost sale, downloading a game is like stealing a pair of jeans, yadda yadda..i think these guys need to get a new campaign:
1. sell shit cheaper.
2. stop paying movie actors tens of millions of dollars. they dont deserve it.
3. keep selling shit cheaper..no more 27 dollars for 2 good songs on a cd, no more 65 dollars for a video game thats only got 1 hour worth of entertainment.
4. Stop trying to make an impact on 7th graders, because they either a: dont download but telling them about it makes them go do it. or b: will grow up in a few years and see that your speech has no credibility. Trying to speak to a class of 80 kids is like trying to clean up the ocean when it comes to stopping the 10 million+ people on the internet downloading right now as we speak. Its a free for all, we’ll always win, you can try to sue us but your suits and scare tactics dont work. Its sunday, im going to play some PIRATED video games and theres nothing you can do to stop me.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:39:32 +0000

I bet Eliot Spitzer is crying right now, from laughing that is.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:39:19 +0000

I read this article and the original one in The Mercury. This is just pretty sick that our tax dollars are being used for Attorney General Gonzales to go to elementary schools and brainwash young children.

“The students listened attentively and asked respectful questions — unlike a session in April 2005, when Gonzales met with 120 students from Los Angeles-area high schools and got more than a little push-back.

Several of those teenagers asked Gonzales if the government wasn’t just trying to protect greedy record labels and Hollywood studios.”

Seems he quit going to high schools because the kids were more informed as to the actual truth of what is really going on.

Since Attorney General Gonzales says he’s the “Top Cop”, my question to him would be instead of going around and spreading half-truths to kids, why isn’t the Justice Department investigating an organization who is operating using some pretty questionable tactics (and some of those are actually by their own admission.) In my opinion, they should be protecting United States citizens. (Since he states he is the “Top Cop,” isn’t that supposed to be the job of law enforcement?) Instead of supporting organzied crime?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:17:25 +0000

This is the explanation.
America runs on Arab oil and intellectual property.
The arabs are taken over and so is intellectual property. Bush is going all the way to grab all the money from oil and music, for you know who.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:38:10 +0000

I, too, would like to see some changes; but that’s a pipe-dream in the single-minded two-party system which is destroying the once-sacred institutions of this great country, even if the majority party becomes the minority party, and vice-versa, it will not result in any change.

I am so disgusted with the once-upon-a-time people’s representatives in Congress, the Democratic party! Diane Feinstein is a prime example! The GOP is unable to mount a viable assault against her reelection; but she sure in Hell does not represent her consituency! Every Democratic Senator on the Hill might just as well re-register themselves as Republicans.

I am not wil about the Libertarian Party, but right now, they are the only alternative. I will vote for anyone running against Feinstein, simply because D.F. speaks with a forked tongue (example: swearing to mount and support a filibuster against The latest Supreme Court nominee; then very quietly backing down and VOTING FOR HIS CONFIRMATION).

Furthermore, she might just as well register as an active lobbyist for the RIAA and MPAA cartels! And Harry Reid is a milquetoast — a perfect Poster-Boy for the almost defunct Democratic Party.

Sorry for the outburst! Useless rhetoric. I wonder if anyone is interested in rekindling the Federalist Party, with an eye to dissolving BOTH the Dems and the GOP…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:26:13 +0000

Indeed, Geist should of said “I don’t think anybody (other than the RIAA) would argue that it does.”, but that’s hanging on every word…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:39:35 +0000

your quote:

“I don’t think file sharers and counterfeiters should be equated - there is a significant difference between the two,” Geist responded, and on the question of whether or not a download equals a lost sale, “I don’t think anybody would argue that it does,” he said.

your first statement about filesharers/counterfeiters is spot on. but the second part is just wrong.

the movie, music, software cartels and others have always claimed that a file downloaded through free p2p is a lost sale. this claim has been repeated time and again through their press releases, court documents, and by the puppet government officials and lamescream media outlets they control.

it has also been reported here on p2pnet and other concerned websites numerous times.

this claim is the basis for their illegal searches and court cases they’ve been orchestrating around the globe. if you don’t think that “anybody would argue that it does” (equal a lost sale), please look around p2pnet and other websites and i’m sure you’ll find this claim repeated quite often by the RIAA, MPAA and others.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:47:58 +0000

Spanish-guitar intro, female voice singing LAAAA-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-LAAAA

Then a male voice, “It was a moonlit night in old Washington City. I walked alone between some old adobe government buildings when suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry …..”

Then the start of the vocal, “You better go home, Speedy Gonzales …..”

With apologies to Pat Boone =)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:26:05 +0000

Out with the old boss, in with the new? Sheeez our tax dollars at work!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:57:20 +0000

What law degree? The one he bought in Bangladesh?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:53:23 +0000

Gonzales thinks that civil matters and criminal matters are one and the same?

Apperently his law school degree isn’t worth the toilet paper its written on.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:10:12 +0000

Only in America, for the moment, anyway.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:03:41 +0000

Eight months till election day. Hope to see some changes.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:34:39 +0000

Using the Attorney General to muscle in on kids’ lunch money is horrendous. This is nothing short of State sponsored fear mongering on behalf of the entertainment lobby.