Internet Censorship

Welcome to the United States of America comrades. It is finally happening. The government is taking away our rights. It is because of articles like this that I am extremely afraid of the future of the people of the United States. The government wants to censor the internet. This is no joke. This goes against our Bill of Rights. Our freedom of speech is being compromised. Make no mistake, this law isn't just intended to make illegal websites be shutdown, but it is another way the government wants to control the hardworking people of this great nation! This may seem like a small step but consider the implications this may have on us. Please read the article in the link and post your opinion. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/29/engineers-slam-internet-censorship-ahead-key-vote/?test=latestnews

Unreasonal Lawsuits

Lawsuits like this really blow piracy out of proportion. If you read the absurd numbers in the picture you will see that companies want to be paid ridiculous amounts for stolen works. I understand that it belongs to that person, but just because something is stolen doesn't mean that its value increase by 1000 fold.


Source: Cracked.com

Piracy Makes Games Better

The piracy of games is as old as gaming itself. Recently though, piracy has gotten worse according to many businesses like Nintendo. Nintendo's sales of handheld games in Europe went down by 50% because people were putting games onto a card that can be purchased for the DS. However, there are upsides to gaming piracy. There are a lot of loyal fans out there and if a game is truly worth the money, then most people with buy it. This means the gaming companies have to work harder to make games better. In the end, we get better games and even those people that pirate will see that a good games is always worth the money. Piracy really pushes companies to do their best and I think that this a positive. Hopefully piracy will eventually die altogether thanks to the great software that companies will put out. However, I think that it is too optimistic, but I hope that it rings true.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/09/09/video.game.piracy/index.html

Is it a big deal?

Corporations are cracking down on piracy more than ever.

They are asking the government to step in and take action

against piracy. However, are there fears unfounded? Is the

internet really the devil when it comes to corporations

trying to make money? You know all those videos on youtube

that you watch with copyrighted music; everyone has

streamed music illegally, but no one thinks its a big

deal. I agree with the poster above that it is really not

as big of a deal as the corporations and the government

make it seem. What are your thoughts?