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MPAA's Chris Dodd Shows How Corrupt Politicians Are Used

To anyone who believed politicians aren’t corrupted by lobbyists who buy them out, this… JbB

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Posted 3 weeks ago

SOPA Is Inevitable

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Marco Arment has this exactly right. We may have beaten these variations of SOPA and PIPA, but the sad fact of that matter is that they — or something like them — will eventually pass. 

Obviously, all things being equal, such bills should never pass. But all things aren’t equal. As with most things, this is actually all about money. The MPAA and the other content lobbies are going to continue to pump money into this until they get what they want.

And again, they will. Consider this: SOPA and PIPA came this close to passing with MPAA head Chris Assclown Dodd banned from direct lobbying. Why is he banned? Because there’s a law that requires politicians to be two years out of office before they can lobby.

Dodd vacated his U.S. Senate seat on January 3, 2011. In a year, he’ll be able lobby all he wants. He’ll be able to directly buy the support of all his former colleagues. He spent 36 years in Washington as both a Senator and Congressman. You think that doesn’t matter? He’s going to be the best lobbyist ever. Which is exactly why the MPAA picked him. 

Arment’s hope that people stop supporting the MPAA by stopping watching films clearly isn’t going to happen. But the idea of supporting campaign finance reform to eliminate bullshit lobbying is a good one.

This…

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Fantastic… just fantastic. staff: Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible. It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard. And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms. You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again. Zoom

Fantastic… just fantastic.

staff:

Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.

It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.

And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.

You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.

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Posted 3 weeks ago

My iPhone 4’s External Mic Is Messed Up

Damn, my iPhone 4 (the Neocell) developed a problem today. The external mic is muffled (damn near not working). Noticed it today when trying to use the speaker phone. Ugg. It ain’t from no damage or nothin’, just started outta’ the blue. 

Gonna’ head down to the Apple Store to see what’s up, but apparently they’ll turn me away as their “genius bar” is all booked up or some shit. Ugg…

Apparently, as my phone’s still in contract and if it has an internal hardware defect (yo), Apple will repair it.

Poor ‘ittle Neocell 4… I’m’a get you fixed, don’t you worry. JbB

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On Kodak’s Bankruptcy: Good Riddance

Good riddance…

But na, on a more serious note… good riddance.

I kid, I kid… In all seriousness… good riddance Kodak. Your had your moment in the sun for decades upon decades and you drove countless camera start-ups and competitors out of business with dirty tactics and your name brand alone and were hanging around long after your usefulness was clearly obsolete. Your latest patent attacks on smartphone manufactures just proved you were as evil of a corporation as you were then. Good riddance. JbB

(Source: buffalonews.com)

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Posted 3 weeks ago

The RIAA Gets The Feds To Shutdown Megaupload

Oh the irony. Right when it looks like our blackout movement has defeated, or at least crippled, the RIAA and MPAA’s SOPA and PIPA pet projects, the RIAA managed to get Megaupload shutdown!

Thank goodness for Anonymous yo, they did a denial of service attack on the RIAA causing their web site to be temporarily “shutdown”. Good job Anonymous. JbB

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Looks Like We May Have Defeated SOPA And PIPA

The way the MPAA talks and acts, it sounds like it! JbB

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

This is a completely separate issue from SOPA and PIPA. Just check this out… This ain’t right at all. JbB

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parislemon: The Assclownification Of The MPAA Zoom

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The Assclownification Of The MPAA

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This is why anyone who’s job requires them to send out emails to multiple people needs to be educated on how to properly use BCC. You know… so that this list of what looks like 150 people don’t see every other person’s PERSONAL email address. (This isn’t the first time this has happened from the same person.) Otherwise, this would be a good recipe for… JbB Zoom

This is why anyone who’s job requires them to send out emails to multiple people needs to be educated on how to properly use BCC. You know… so that this list of what looks like 150 people don’t see every other person’s PERSONAL email address. (This isn’t the first time this has happened from the same person.) Otherwise, this would be a good recipe for…

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