tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post4939151315940251860..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : $335,906 is the Price of the ConstitutionDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-32827679944347443162010-11-23T12:18:46.887-05:002010-11-23T12:18:46.887-05:00COICA. Well, I heard it here first from the Sulta...COICA. Well, I heard it here first from the Sultan. I'm glad I tuned in.<br /><br />If the entertainment industry is having a hard time protecting its property rights, then this deserves our attention. Does it deserve legislation? It sounds like the entertainment industry has too easy a hand in government and should be working a little harder to protect its property interests through existing laws, which are extensive. I think the solution is in confronting the media involved and by "media" I mean the medium of communication. It could be confronted the same way software piracy is confronted, software producers and publishers have the same problems with protecting their property. The damage done to the software industry from piracy and the economic consequences are far more extensive than that done to the entertainment industry and the medium involved is exactly the same.<br /><br />When I copy and paste an entire news article, link included, at some bulletin board, am I doing some damage to somebody's right to profit from their own work? No. Am I infringing on their property rights as a matter of law? Definitely. Would preventing me from doing this be a violation of my free speech? It very well could be. Publishing precedent and law, if I recall correctly, allows a certain amount of any published work to be quoted. Intellectual honesty and maybe the law too require a source for the quote.<br /><br />The COICA sounds like a lazy way out and looks far too much like something laying around waiting to be picked up and used against our freedoms. There is bound to be a better way.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265154565691102783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62728574050257368272010-11-23T06:39:09.491-05:002010-11-23T06:39:09.491-05:00You've convinced me. No one currently reigning...You've convinced me. No one currently reigning in Washington D.C. in an elected or appointed capacity respects the Constituion or recognizes any limits on their authority. No important academic, intellectual, politician, or statesman has supported freedom or limited government in over a century.<br /><br />This is the Age of Facism. Our choices are stark: we operate Committees of Public Safety to cleanse the nation of corrupt politicians and fawning academics, or we profit from their corruption.ErisGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09383064735664269791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-49132592103409935252010-11-23T02:47:55.943-05:002010-11-23T02:47:55.943-05:00Under the guise of "Anti terrorism", fre...Under the guise of "Anti terrorism", freedom of the individual has been gradually but ever increasingly reduced by alledged Democratic governements all over the globe with strange enough "The land of the free", America, in the forefront. 1984 and Brave New World are already upon us with material abundance as a soothing "soma" sauce to keep the masses from rising. It shall get evermore and extremely difficult to shed thise vice like grip of the state and restore personal liberty due to the intensity of control and surveilance on every move and communication.mindRidernoreply@blogger.com