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Offline Kamikaze

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Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
on: June 22, 2006, 02:16:01 pm
Support the Pirate Party of the USA: http://www.pirate-party.us/

And on a related note... US threatening trade sanctions on Sweden for Pirate Bay?
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Offline Rictor

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #1 on: June 22, 2006, 02:35:13 pm
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/61/24/40/pirate_mpa.pdf

Check out a PDF of the letter that the MPAA sent to Sweden's Secretary of State before the Pirate Bay raids. It directly asks the government to shut down the site, and includes thinly-veiled threats of trade and political consequences for non-compliances.

It's scary that an unelected, oligarchal business entity has the power to so blatantly and directly control the actions of a sovereign, democartic government.
 

Offline Solatar

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #2 on: June 22, 2006, 02:56:14 pm
****, if they sanction Sweden, where am I gonna get all my black metal from?
 

Offline karajorma

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #3 on: June 22, 2006, 04:32:19 pm
The internet. Haven't you been keeping up with what this thread is about? :p
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Offline Solatar

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #4 on: June 22, 2006, 04:33:27 pm
Almost forgot about the internet for a second. It's like breathing, ya know? :D
 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #5 on: June 22, 2006, 04:36:05 pm
Be funny if the **AAs managed to actually get sanctions. Because I suspect the EU would sanction right back. And if causing Europe to invoke trade sanctions against the US doesn't destroy them, nothing will.
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Offline Turambar

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #6 on: June 22, 2006, 05:49:50 pm
im just worried that when net neutrality comes down, the AA's will push the telecoms to **** with my torrents, and that will make me unhappy.
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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #7 on: June 22, 2006, 06:13:48 pm
Quote from: Solatar on June 22, 2006, 02:56:14 pm
****, if they sanction Sweden, where am I gonna get all my black metal from?

norway, duh :D
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #8 on: June 22, 2006, 07:57:39 pm
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Support the Pirate Party of the USA: http://www.pirate-party.us/


I can already tell you that party is doomed. As long as Congre$$ and the White Hou$e are being flooded with money from powerful corperate lobbying interests, the people will never have a voice.
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Offline redsniper

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #9 on: June 22, 2006, 09:08:46 pm
Yay democracy. :doubt:
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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #10 on: June 22, 2006, 09:24:36 pm
I say we just go back to being a colony of Britain...if there's no US president, the prime minister won't have to kiss butt and it'll be a nice country.

Well, we can give Texas to Mexico...
 

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #11 on: June 22, 2006, 09:26:18 pm
Quote from: Solatar on June 22, 2006, 09:24:36 pm
I say we just go back to being a colony of Britain...if there's no US president, the prime minister won't have to kiss butt and it'll be a nice country.

Well, we can give Texas to Mexico...
I don't think the UK wants the US back now...too many puritans.
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Offline Solatar

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #12 on: June 22, 2006, 09:37:07 pm
Hmm, too bad.
 

Offline Mefustae

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #13 on: June 22, 2006, 09:56:06 pm
From the little movie they showed in the report of Hollywood's perspective on Pirating... is it just me did it have a very Goebbels-style Propaganda look to it? I mean, all these evil looking arrows going everywhere, it just oozed manipulation.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #14 on: June 22, 2006, 10:30:38 pm
Quote from: Mefustae on June 22, 2006, 09:56:06 pm
From the little movie they showed in the report of Hollywood's perspective on Pirating... is it just me did it have a very Goebbels-style Propaganda look to it? I mean, all these evil looking arrows going everywhere, it just oozed manipulation.


Yes it did. Being friends with the US is like trying to make nice with a pirhana, sooner or later it will turn around and bite you.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Mefustae

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Re: Arrrr! Pirates in the US.
Reply #15 on: June 22, 2006, 10:36:08 pm
Quote from: Kosh on June 22, 2006, 10:30:38 pm
Being friends with the US is like trying to make nice with a pirhana, sooner or later it will turn around and bite you.
I see it more like the US as the Looney-Tunes Tasmanian Devil; stay the f*** out of its way and  you'll be fine, but cross it... :p
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