#Politics

<Buck> the MPAA site has an interesting anti piracy blitz going on for Christmas <Buck> they say that they’re protecting users from buying pirated copies of films <Buck> then they go on to say that you can recognize pirated films by the fact that they’re a lot cheaper, out before or while films are still in theatres, are region free and contain no DRM <Buck> if I wouldn’t have pirated before.. the MPAA sure has convinced me to do it now

De zaak diende gisteren voor de Haagse kantonrechter. Een orthodoxe jood had een zaak aangespannen omdat hij op 8 oktober zijn identiteitsbewijs niet kon tonen. Het was echter zaterdag, oftewel sabbat, en joden mogen dan geen spullen bij zich dragen. De man kreeg van de politie een boete van 150 euro.

De rechter sprak de man echter vrij. Volgens hem heeft de jood voldaan aan zijn religieuze plicht. "De religieuze plicht weegt zwaarder dan de plicht om te voldoen aan de wettelijke voorschriften in Nederland", verklaart persrechter Elkerbout.

This.

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Haha. Better get used to it… ;)

Do not stand for this flagrant abuse of our farcical democracy!

Megaupload has been forcibly closed by the FBI. In a sickening undermining of the people’s will, they are making an example out of an historic, legitimate, useful and well-known website. This is a prophetic glimmer of the coming war against pure free speech- the internet.

This happened once before. Here in the UK, the IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) is a censoring system for the internet. In 1996, the Metropolitan Police started requesting the banning of illegal content by ISPs in the UK. With veiled sly threats they asked that ISPs engage in ‘self-enforcement’ rather than forcing them to enforce the law on them.