DippoNazdor's Journal: CBDTPA complaints

only recently have i started hearing about this insane bill. it's something like the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act. though it says it's just for broadband and TV, it's not. it's a copyright law. that's right! RIAA and MPAA have teamed up with SATAN and a couple senators to stop all fun in the free world. soon it won't be as free. it really pisses me off. i bet that basically everyone with a computer has something downloaded that's in some way, shape or form pirated. i'll give my little rendition of the bill for you who haven't heard it yet. this bill states that every last piece of digital media/software/hardware/whatever MUST have a government issued anti-copy code installed into the file/code/wiring/whatever. this will effect everything from pirated movies to digital clocks on your desktop to a website you create. coders are not allowed to distribute their code without contacting the government first and receiving the anti-copy piece of code. this now means that if you wanna create a website, you have to ask permission from the government. if you wanna create an mp3 for the world to hear your l33t music skills, you have to ask permission from the government. if you wanna download linux, you have to ask permission from the government. if you wanna create a small little game just for fun and give it to your friend, you have to ask permission from the government. if you need to create a program for your programming class at school, YOU HAVE TO ASK PERMISSION FROM THE FRICKIN' GOVERNMENT!!!! it frickin' sucks!!!!!! if this bill passes, we can't do anything! Micro$oft has to ask permission to try to fix a bug they find in something. IT'S THEIR CODE! linux is now illegal for download. there's no copyright laws on it, but it's now illegal. all software related companies now have to have really close bonds with the government, if not become a company for the government. isn't this becoming really what we tried to escape from 220+ years ago? isn't this what we tried to destroy during the cold war? the government now owns all companies and whatever they do (communism). the people have no say in what happens to the companies (communism/monarchy). the consti#$%#^tution now has to be changed to "We the corporations of the United States of America, to form a more perfect monopoly..." (stolen from a post in a CDA topic). why don't all coders suddenly quit all their jobs and just work for the government now, because they have to ask the government if they can type a single character anyway! does this mean that stories from freelance writers done in a word processor on a computer now has to be copywritten? once something is turned into digital whatever, it has to be copywritten. they have just screwed up all innovation and technological advancements. now, a coder in his garage can't come up with a coding breakthrough and create his own company *cough*apple*cough* *cough*microsoft*cough* *cough*linus torvalds*cough* ... actually, linus torvalds didn't create a company, just the software. his famous operating system now runs on the computers in the disney animation wing; it's true! of course, disney is SUPPORTING this bill, so they will become outlaws if they use such an illegal item. and i was really hoping to download linux some day. the bill says that the fine for breaking this bill will be anywhere from $200 to $25,000. you could also be charged with something like supreme criminal fine or something like that that's up around $500,000. i say that everyone just leave around $1,000 of every paycheck you receive and send it to the government, because you know that you'll be downloading something anyway. oh, and another thing that the government wants to suck money out of us from. they want to force (they seriously say force in the bill, go look it up) the use of digital television, broadband internet, and other special things. do you know how much that crap costs a month?! my parents can't buy us food because we have cable internet! i'm exaggerating. it's because my mom had an operation on her hand, and she can't drive up to the store and get food. if you are willing to, try to do SOMETHING against this bill. it will really suck if it passes. i can just see us in an america with red skies, and smoke filling the air. there's an underground movement that downloads songs and movies from the outside world because they are so mutated and accustomed to the underground light. people line up on conveyor belts to get to work in their cubicles. all the cubicles face in one direction: toward an evil government official. if anyone is caught listening to anything besides the sounds of keyboard, looking at anything besides the extreme programs the government is creating, or thinking about anything other than how great the government is, they will be SHOT on site, taken out into the town center, have their carcass whipped and beaten on live television (which viewers will have to deposit a dime for every 10 seconds they see), then taken outside city limits and drawn and quartered! the undoing of one of the ammendments (the one about being drawn and quartered) will have taken place in 2005. i swear, i hope the Lord returns in all His glory before this image comes true! ok, that's enough ranting for me now... grrrr.....