Tougher copyright laws...

[smash]

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,2 ... 90,00.html

[David W]

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24089084-5014090,00.html

Yeh Right.

So forget about the terrorists, Sony BMG's Proffits are at stake ...... jail the kiddies.

[TimS]

"Excuse me sir, I need to give you a digital examination"

I'd like to see how they police that..

[heathen]

"Excuse me sir, I need to give you a digital examination"

I'd like to see how they police that..

Remember my old avatar? Heh.


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[heathen]

Usual case of busting the user instead of the supplier. Oh yeah no more smoking in cars, no more drinking a glass of wine at the beach in manly after dinner, hmmmmm New Zealand does not look so bad a place to live.

Hmmm why don't they just set up a geek gaol where all geeks with pirated stuff get sent to jonez out for a while and detox. Better still lets microchip ourselves.

Hmmmm the next big seller will be the Ifinger, so you can stash your illegal warez and music where the sun don't shine, hmmmm with bluetooth headphones you could even............ummmm ok thats enough.

Man I'd hate to be a kid these days, in the old days all you got was beaten up by the cops and sent home if you were bad. These days you probably get years of therapy and ritalin.

[walding]

Err exactly how do they tell the difference and how do they tell you haven't just ripped your own copy.

Ridiculous.

Oh I know, maybe we will scare them into buying music.

[walding]

Oh I worked it out now, BRING ON THE iPolice :P

[13thbeach]

Where is Irobot when you need him.

[beatmad]

How about a wafer thin flash card that dissolves in your mouth before the music police can bust you. Complete with disclaimer about the dangers of eating after-dinner mints following a 24 course meal.

[rick]

is it wrong to want your kids to be afraid of the guy that offers them boiled lollies in a park and not the cops ..

is it wrong to wonder why you have to strip down every time you try and catch a plane just to get in the door in normal shoes and a normal belt ..?

is it so wrong to wonder why i have had to give up wearing levis 501 ( button fly ) to the airport ...


you know i fly the flag for copyright protection , but i fly it even higher for personal rights protection

oh sure put the kids in jail that will fix the problem ...

[Thirteen]

I don't think this is anything to do with copyright protection, it is simply a backdoor way to get people used to having their laptop, iPod, thumb drives, cell phones and any data device searchable by authorities under the umbrella of "protecting copyright".

[rick]

amen

[heathen]

I don't think this is anything to do with copyright protection, it is simply a backdoor way to get people used to having their laptop, iPod, thumb drives, cell phones and any data device searchable by authorities under the umbrella of "protecting copyright".

So true, our rights are being eroded everyday, bit by bit and no-one does anything or gets upset cause everyone is way too tired. I think we could learn something from the Koreans, they really know how to throw a protest march.

I think as a nation we need to stand up and do the same to the authorities, bad cops and politicians deserve 5 times the punishment because they are sworn to serve us and be honest, they should be monitored, the technology is there.

All they do is keep kicking our arses and the majority of the community do nothing wrong, while the corrupt in power laugh all the way to thier Swiss bank accounts.

The honest keep paying for the corrupt in power, AWB, WMD, fear is the objective. Keep the community terrified until they forget why they were terrified in the first place.

I seriously thought Rudd would be good for this country, Peter Garrett is a wanker and suckhole, can't wait to tell him in person one day, these people are useless. Freedom is everything in this country!

All these stupid laws breed contempt from our younger generations, we all need a kick up the arse sometimes, especially naughty kids, but this sort of stuff is more akin to brainwashing.

Microchipping will be next, they'd already be discussing how to implement it with the least amount of public reaction.

All the community need to do is "Just say NO"! As a whole community and protest, what can they do then, nothing because we really do own them. I think the majority of us Aussies have it so good we just keep going without rocking the boat hoping we will get our slice one day.

Sparkies are here gotta shut down, rant over, heh.

[jkhuri44]

Microchipping will be next, they'd already be discussing how to implement it with the least amount of public reaction.

i saw my sister's brand new credit card the other day...

bloody chip on it....where the f**k did they come from??

I think the powers that be just start doing shit under different guises....apparently this is.."for our customers protection".

[no-fi]

I wish my debit card had a chip in it. It makes them much harder to copy.

As it was, when I was in london earlier this year. my debit (not credit!) card got cloned somehow... and some dirty stinking piece of human garbage stole about $2k out of my account... anyway.. I got the money back from my bank, so it worked out not too bad in the end, after the massive inconvenience of a few months of being down about $2000.

[jkhuri44]

I wish my debit card had a chip in it. It makes them much harder to copy.

Thats' what i worry about....sure they may become harder to copy, but at the end of the day....what are these chips really for?...it might just be me, but it seems bleedingly obvious that these are used as devices to soften the public for far more serious implementations of such technologies.

happy shopping :P

[walding]

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.



If we don't stand up and voice concern at our rights and liberties being eroded do we have a tight to complain?

maybe we all sing 'everything set, everything's fine, just gotta stand in line' the flowers will start to grow again :P

Yea Peter G, stand in line eh.......

[Chris H]

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.



If we don't stand up and voice concern at our rights and liberties being eroded do we have a tight to complain?

maybe we all sing 'everything set, everything's fine, just gotta stand in line' the flowers will start to grow again :P

Yea Peter G, stand in line eh.......

Hence the need to preserve the functioning of checks and balances that do exist in our political system. In this regard we are better off than the US.
To my mind the supposedly independent media has not been up to task in recent years by failing to provide informed debate on the erosion of civil liberties that has been justified by the over stated "Terrorist threat". Add to this the former Howard Govt's over eagerness to please the Republican / Neo Con agenda, particularly the invasion of Iraq. The Howard govt stacked the ministry and party power positions with like minded conservatives, and alienated moderates, often referred to as Wet Liberals within the party. This angered many Liberals inc Malcom Frazer.

[rick]

it seems somebody has "left" the gate open :)

[no-fi]

Thats' what i worry about....sure they may become harder to copy, but at the end of the day....what are these chips really for?...it might just be me, but it seems bleedingly obvious that these are used as devices to soften the public for far more serious implementations of such technologies.

I dunno. credit and debit card fraud is huge now. The amount of money involved is mind boggling. And I don't think that chucking a simple secret & encryption chip on a card does anything that credt card companies can't do already. think about it... all transactions already go back to central systems whenever you do anything. All the info is there already. I'm sure there's also some basic flash memory on these cards too, but no way will it be a large amount. And I doubt it's even used... it'll have been put there cause it could be put there for free.

That's my reason for wanting security chips on my cards - I don't see how a chip on a card is even necessary for governments or corporations to gather and use all the info they want on us, anyway. Thats why the Australia card was never pushed through. networked computer technology has become so widespread and searching has become so powerful that the reason we haven't had this forced on us, is government and corporations don't need it anymore.

At the end of the day banks don't care about any of us. but they care about our (their) money. anything that stops them having to waste their money on things like chasing up frauds is very good to the banks.



All that said, I happen to think the copyright files check is a MASSIVE infringement on people's rights to have their personal property (whatever info they keep on their computers) safe without significant and severe concerns about and evidence of wrongdoing. The whole idea that everyone is a suspect, and everyone should be tested. It goes way past what a personal ID card could ever do, and I'd love to know how to best protest it.

It's just like that arse in a uniform who did a residue test on me in melbourne airport on sunday night. there was nothing about me to suggest I was up to anything except going home, but he got to have me open my bag and wave some stupid stick about inside it, and on my coat, to check for explosives. Then stick it in a machine that blinks away for 15 seconds, and tells him what I could have said in a fraction of the time.... now THAT is utter bullshit. .....Especially seeing how Qantas planes seem to have started blowing up by themselves now, anyway.

[jkhuri44]

I don't see how a chip on a card is even necessary for governments or corporations to gather and use all the info they want on us, anyway. Thats why the Australia card was never pushed through. networked computer technology has become so widespread and searching has become so powerful that the reason we haven't had this forced on us, is government and corporations don't need it anymore.

thats true, i didnt think about that....(huddles up in feotal position)

I'd love to know how to best protest it.

...violently :P

[walding]

Only way to protest is with your wallet it seems.



Now I'll buy one more preamp then start protesting :P

[heathen]

Everytime we want something the whole country should go on strike for a day as protest, each day would cost hundreds of millions, which they don't spend on us anyway.

Surpluses are another real problem, it's our money they withold from us, what are they saving it for? We need more hospitals, schools, better roads.

So if you're a pyrotech and they wave that wand over you you're screwed, never to be seen again. One day in the grog shop a customer came in and he smelt strongly of gunpowder and I said farout mate have been playing with fireworks, just out of interest, he says "yeah I'm a a pyrotechnician for Howard & sons" cool job I thought.

So yeah you'd probably be on the ground in a straight jacket in 3 seconds, if you tried to board a plane after work.

[Simon B]

on a slightly different note,

someone was telling me and I tend to believe them, the Chinese government reads every single email that goes out of china, so all the journalists sending emails covering the games cannot say anything about tibet or about Chinese government.....

when the torch was doing the relay thing around the world there was a couple of events that got canceled because of protestors. they had stock footage to show on the news in china........

now I am not trying to be political and I genrally try and stay away from that, but I kinda like to believe we have rights and very quickly the world we are living in is getting paranoid. and I dont see anyway to stop the paranoia.

and the thing that scares me is, every generation has always talked about the good old days, in 30 years I can see this being the good old days. I just dont know what to expect.....

[heathen]

and the thing that scares me is, every generation has always talked about the good old days, in 30 years I can see this being the good old days. I just dont know what to expect.....

I was thinking exactly that also, though I don't scare easy.

Have you seen the movie "Soylent Green", that's 1 scenario.

Who would have expected any better of China anyway, they'll probably bomb the crap out of Tibet after the games are over. Corruption would have been how they got to host them anyway.

China the only place in the world you can buy brand new socks with holes already in them, happened to me the other day with a pack of socks from China. Chinese made shoes only go uo to size 10.5, have a look in Raben footwear, then also if you can find someone in the shop with a grasp of our language, makes buying shoes very difficult.

Anyway if they build thier nuclear facilities in the same way they build audio gear and socks then China will be just like Chernobyl in the near future.

[jkhuri44]

SOYLENT GREEEN....IS PEOPLE!!!

classic...and morbid!

[smash]

I saw Soylent Green the first time the other day.

I just got an app the other day "Shazam" that is able to tell what Music is playing after hearing a 12 second audio sample. Note that I said hearing, you just point the mic at it, and it goes to the net, and gives you the name of the track, and also the album artwork. Pretty cool, I was really impressed when it correctly picked the name of some pretty obscure tracks, from AM radio, Vinyl, and last night in a noisy pub.

What did scare me though, is the thought the this technology if not here already, can't be far away, for use on voice. That is your voice is picked up on a Mic somewhere, and instantly who your are can be determined.

That combined with the built-in GPS and location technology that is scary, is somewhat alarming.

I used to think, "Hey, I'm not a terrorist, why do I care if the Government knows everything about me?"
After a bit of reading, and watching, now I'm not so sure.

[walding]

It's not just Government you have to worry about I'd be more concerned about big business.

[jkhuri44]

one word....

ECHELON


if thats not something to be worried about...i dunno what is!

[jkhuri44]

What did scare me though, is the thought the this technology if not here already, can't be far away, for use on voice. That is your voice is picked up on a Mic somewhere, and instantly who your are can be determined

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AT&T...the communications supergiant...was discovered apparently to be housing several supercomputers intercepting data of that nature...the only part im not sure it did was voice recognition....but hey....i reckon all the tech is here already...look at the new melodyne, i dont need to say anymore :P


shudders....