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H.R.5244 - Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2008
- Anonymous : what good is this? Credit card companies have escalated my rates from 4.9% to 24.99%...for no good reason at all! NONE. And they took bailout money. They will push me to deadbeat status soon, I have no $$ to spend. The only ones getting "stimulated" is the banks!
- carigis : I fully support this bill. credit cards have been out of hand for a long time.. In my opinion this bill does not do enough. but what it does do is 100% welcome and necessary.
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H.R.4279 - PRO-IP Act of 2007
- Anonymous : CongressCritter, I believe you are missing the point.
I don't think anyone is saying it is okay to steal music or sell music.
The problem is many people don't consider their activities to be 'stealing' while the industry does.
If I buy a CD and rip it to my computer so I can put it on my ipod, or a DVD I bought to watch on my nice LCD monitor, I see nothing wrong. Most people won't. But I have read papers saying that ripping the information is illegal as it bypasses copyright protection. Even if I don't plan to distribute and the files simply sit on the hard drive, its illegal.
While no one wants to admit it, this concept of 'stealing' by making copies of something has existed for quite a long time. The RIAA and MPAA never went after people who made mix tapes or used VCRs to record their favorite shows to the best of my knowledge. The only difference now is that this copying is very easy to do. Before someone could make a few copies of a tape or CD at a time before it got too expensive and time consuming. Now only one person needs to have the file to make 1000s of copies almost instantly.
- Anonymous : @ CongressCritter: please be a troll.
I don't see how the duplication of copyrighted material is equivalent to stealing, but whatever. Money doesn't make talent, so I don't see why musicians complain about this crap.
Last time I checked, ripping CDs for private and archival use isn't illegal. If it was, I don't think Microsoft would put a feature to rip CDs inside one of their own programs.
"Hey maybe I should still your bike, car etc. after all I don't have enough of them !", "Free Mercedes for everyone !". First of all, you're comparing almost 2 completely different things, and secondly, you're clearly using the word "stealing" in a completely irrelevant way.
"Go book some studio time, market the record, front all the costs and then have your CD ripped and spun to the World for free. Then when you're holding YOUR ASS in YOUR HANDS come crying to me about how bad the "mean business people suck.", if I was a professional artist, I wouldn't give two god damn shits about one of my songs appearing on LimeWire or something.
"Don't support the Artists and Artisans that create the product...Steal It !", haha, still using "stealing" in a completely irrelevant way.
I hope you die in a fire. Feel free to respond, too.
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S.1145 - Patent Reform Act of 2007
- Anonymous : see http://www.piausa.org for an opposing view on patent reform
- Anonymous : I believe the S. 1145 will tilt the patent advantage to large corporations and worse yet, to foreign corporations. The last thing we need in the USA is to further weaken the only thing that historically and somewhat currently sets us apart from the rest of the world, American innovation.
The USA economy and industry has been turned into a glorified sports team in the world arena who's fans have nothing to cheer over but laundry - whomever is wearing our flag. America can only compete in the global economy successfully if the playing field is level and it's not. Until it is, I cannot support any further weakening of our domestic interests.
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