After nearly two years of excuses for the secrecy of negotiations over ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a full draft of the proposed treaty has been leaked online and it looks just as bad as critics have suggested.
Among the worst provisions of the proposal is the requirement that third party service providers must implement measures to proactively identify and elminate ... [ read the full article ]
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No, we have an outfit named MEDIACOM. They bought out Jones Intercable several years ago. I live in California, near Clearlake and MediaCom is the only cable company in our county. Sux until ATT finishes with the fiber optics they are in process of installing.
their is always satellite(dish networks, etc..) i would go that route. and they are pretty much available everywhere. chek it out. good luck
Just to be crystal clear... I do believe homeland security breaks into houses. That was in response to a botnet attack on government sites at the beginning of the year. The users did not know that their computer was part of the attack. This was not a routine police effort.
How do you know whether or not permission has been given by the copyright to download a song without some form of payment. Does a song no longer protected by a copyright become a copyrighted song when a new singer records the song? How much do I owe the RIAA for singing my child "Happy Birthday"? Do I need to get permission from the birthday police?
Originally posted by john_swan: How do you know whether or not permission has been given by the copyright to download a song without some form of payment. Does a song no longer protected by a copyright become a copyrighted song when a new singer records the song? How much do I owe the RIAA for singing my child "Happy Birthday"? Do I need to get permission from the birthday police?
The RIAA is made up mostly of lawyers, can't you tell?
Originally posted by thunderwa: "man... im halfway saying screw the internet what with all this mess"
That's what they want you to do. The entertainment companies would rather go back to the good old days of people paying $15 for one song they like on a CD. We really are in trouble in the USA. China will soon enough take over as the number one super-power, and they are the bank that loaned us all the money for our last economic binge. How does your bank treat you? Right. More and more we'll be dancing to their tunes if we want to keep playing in the band. So this is just the start. Oh, and don't forget to buy your health insurance. The IRS just got $10 billion to hire another 19,000 agents to make sure you do.
What happens when you don't have enough money to buy health insurance? Don't you have to provide shelter, food and clothing for your children? When the unemployment insurance runs out for the outsourced worker then what? Now some health care providers will fly you to foreign country where health care is cheap. Some things can't wait but for everything else there is somewhere on the planet where medical care is cheaper than in the united states.
