Ten'ou Haruka Heh. I remember someone saying they were a bad idea and not going to get very far ago

Tomoe Hotaru At this juncture they're the only ones able to rally an effective transnational counter to all the backroom dealing going on. ago

Dr. Mimi Hanyu The Pirate party's put out a book which you can either buy or download for free that explains all the policy problems going on. ago

Karasuma Akane It's hilarious, the day after SOPA was shelved, the music industry comes out begging for more laws, this after they had a record-breaking year of profits. ago

Jay Daito ANY DOLLAR LOST IS UNACCEPTABLE ago

Jay Daito WE MUST HAVE ALL THE MONIES ago

Tomoe Hotaru You would be an RIAA goon, Jedite. ago

Jay Daito Their hubris amuses me. All they will succeed in doing is making an even more robust underground. ago

Karasuma Akane Oh, ACTA. "The European Parliament was one of the bodies that asked its administration to share the treaty discussions with the elected members, only to be turned down. Cables in the Wikileaks dumps showed US officials orchestrating this secrecy because they knew how unpopular this one-sided, heavy-handed copyright treaty would be. Freedom of Information requests to the Obama administration confirmed that the reason for the secrecy was the experience in transparent negotiation at the UN, which resulted in an uprising by developing nations, who saw stricter, more expansive copyrights as a means of extracting rents from the world's poorest people. " ago

Tomoe Hotaru Yes, this is why they want to kill Wikileaks as well. ago

Karasuma Akane Link to Stop ACTA. ago

Jay Daito Fight all you want, liberal hippie downloading communist scum. Every time this gets shot down, you just increase the probability they'll tack it onto some too-big-to fail defense bill or "think of the children"law. And then you'll be f[BLEEP]ked. Just recognize that you're going to need a better underground, and start building it now. ago

Ten'ou Haruka Says the guy who lives in the sub-sub-basement. ago

Jay Daito Can't get much more underground than that :P ago