Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
I'm not against all regulation, and I'm not for all regulation either. I like to look deeper into regulation, to see who it protects, and who it gives all the power to. While I do download some music without paying for it, I'm kinda ok with record labels suing p2p sites for profiting off their product. music rights is still something I'm on the fence about, but that's another issue entirely. This bill does nothing more than broaden the powers that Hollywood and the government already have. Sure, they might not start censoring stuff right away, but do you trust that since they're already stretching the powers they have, that they won't try to stretch this as far as they can?
Would you be OK with someone giving away copies of a book you wrote without paying you for it? What about a new computer program you spent the last year working on that would rival iTunes?

And I'm not so sure zero regulation on drugs would kill more people. If there were no regulation on heroin tomorrow, would you die from it? Do you think that if the gov't treated weed and coke like cigs and alcohol, it wouldn't put some drug dealers out of business?[/QUOTE]


In this case a lot more people would end up dead. I do believe there would be more junkies running around. Everyone knows the effect of meth and heroin, yet every day more people start it. If you make it easier and safer to get, it will lead to more expiramental use, that wold lead to more addicts, that would lead to more crimes committed by junkies to support their habit.


BTW, I am all for decriminalization of anything less than trafficking charges. Small time dealers and users are a dime a dozen and you could never arrest and lock up enough of them to make any dent in industry. The way to make a dent is to find the actual traffickers who deal in large quantities.

Quote Originally Posted by RL... View Post
The internet should not be regulated by the government. That's all there is to it, it's that simple.

The internet is already regulated by the FCC.




I actually agree with the premise of these bills, but as usual, congress screwed it up. I swear, those idiots we sent to DC could take the most well intentioned idea in the world and turn it into a massive clusterfuck that is absolutely useless against the problem and adversely affects everyone else.