The E-Parasite Bill (must reaad for americans)

You and a good portion of the world's population.

They never give up.

Wrong... their jobs... people just don't want do them. I live where the food is grown... they need more people to pick the food, clean the bathrooms and process the food at the plant.. 26,000 jobs waiting to be filled... and guess what... ONLY THE POOR ILLEGAL WILL DO IT. The Indians aren't bitching about jobs, the Chinese aren't sweating it, the foreigners in your euro zone do care.. why? BECAUSE THEY WILL WORK.

Fucking spoiled first worlders are bitching about pay back the student loan and they can't find a job in their field of study... don't go to uni and get a real job if you want to make money... a/c and fridge people make 30 bucks a hour with benefits.... i made 1,000 a week for teaching spoiled retards photography who think college is high school without being forced to come everyday... i work 5 hours a week. Also do a real field of study like nursing or something where it's not hard to find work.. fuck liberal arts and computer tech... their no many Indians and foreigners getting those jobs... fuck my field you can't find a job in... i worked crappy jobs until i got a good job. Don't bitched when a job is easy if you don't shoot for much....

Back to OT:

any online petetion wouldn't change anyone's mind in the government... you wanta change their minds.. protest, civil disobedience, picket, paster the walls with you message. Real change is hard to do... call your congressman and tell him with a voice we don't want your ass to police the free ideas of the net, they simple minded animals... they won't vote for or against something if they will lose there job.

It will be crazy, ridiculous if this passes!

An atrocity that the internet even needs to gather like this and spread the word, when it isn't even being covered by the media or anything!

It's unfair! Why don't they have a vote of who even wants this in the first place!?

I would say that this is nothing to worry about, but with new rules and guidelines left and right and everyone being afraid to have their asses sued to the ground I wouldn't be so surprised if an extreme thing like /this/ even managed to slip through the cracks. but I don't think that signing a petition- an online petition at that- will really do much for it. there are so many online petitions for so many topics that it's really just a drowning of signings and it's less effective than actually going out doing something, like Freak mentioned above.

be old fashioned and write a letter, make phone calls, or gather a group of people to protest REPEATEDLY until those bored newscasters decide to do a story about it (which will influence others to do the same or one-up it).

that aside, this whole copyright abuse thing is way out of hand and I get annoyed with it not because I won't be able to watch my favorite whatever on whatever but because C'MOOOOOON THIS IS WAY OVER-EXAGGERATED. I'm no financial expert but I'm sure all of these panicy companies have quite a few things they can budget-cut instead of instead of suing everyone's buttoned overalls off and putting so much effort into creating new laws that can give them even more control over the country. and for the record, I really doubt that more of half of these companies financially failing. but I haven't looked into it.

Political correctness strikes again.

I would sign this but I'm British.

Count me in!

Even just visiting that page left behind IP information, theres a whole lot more shit they can use to identify enemies of the republic.

Remember, we are at war with Eurasia.

LOL. Great one!

Was that a 1984 reference?

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=75414



to add on to that, this is obviously not the first and I doubt it will be the last to attempt to make new laws that will restrict copyrighted media uploads. there was another bill roaming out there that people (especially video gamers) worried about but I don't hear about anymore. it probably got lost in the flood. before that there was another one that I actually signed an e-petition for. it must've been killed because I don't even remember what exactly it was going to do.

I know that there is a chance that this thing'll actually happen, but I don't think it will. I would be surprised if it made it. the last thing I want is to end up like Australia.

*insert usual anti-government statement*

Reminds me of the event where Sp00ky from Team Sp00ky (a group that does Fighting Game Streams for those who don't know) had his streaming equipment confiscated by homeland security.

This is just another case of Government wanting to do surgery with a chainsword.

I opened a thread on teamliquid.net about the issue. I hope others will bring this up in other forums/websites.

I'm not that worried, there is no way in hell this would ever pass, but if it did... god help us all.

This one is hosted by the US Gov (as indicated by the .gov url), so actually, it is legit.

That doesn't change the fact that no one cares about e-petitions. It is all to easy for Congressional leaders to ignore some piddly amount of e-mails saying one thing or another. Your arguments have to have more substance than agreeing with some anonymous amount of users who clearly don't give enough of a crap to actually put up a fight.

I mean seriously, put it this way, you can't even get a job in the United States with a simple application. At the very least, you have to call or physically show yourself to prove you are interested a handful of times. And as much as I hate that, it's pretty fair. Why should they want to hire you when you won't put forth more than a passing interest.

This, this is no different. Have the balls to actually fight for what you believe in. Signing some anonymous document doesn't really mean anything to you, so it sure as Hell doesn't mean anything to the U.S. government. At the very least, write a formal, individual, letter to your Representatives. Even that carries more weight than some generic, faceless message that they WILL ignore.

Congrats, you are literate