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Comment Re:I would never give Home Depot my address... (Score 1) 99

by drphilngood (#48330841) Attached to: Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses
That's one of the reasons that I find mailnull.com to be indispensable. It allows you to create throwaway email addys at a moments notice and if you include the name of the site in the newly created email, you can easily delete the email and never visit their site again. Mailnull's spam filters are superb, as well. Can't ask anything more from a free service.
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President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar 555

Posted by kdawson from the ip-con dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "President Bush has signed the EIPRA (AKA the PRO-IP Act) and created a cabinet-level post of 'Copyright Czar,' on par with the current 'Drug Czar,' in spite of prior misgivings about the bill. They did at least get rid of provisions that would have had the DOJ take over the RIAA's unpopular litigation campaign. Still, the final legislation (PDF) creates new classes of felony criminal copyright infringement, adds civil forfeiture provisions that incorporate by reference parts of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, and directs the Copyright Czar to lobby foreign governments to adopt stronger IP laws. At this point, our best hope would appear to be to hope that someone sensible like Laurence Lessig or William Patry gets appointed."

Comment Pirate/copyright laws (Score 1) 324

by au79scorpion (#24356083) Attached to: PRO-IP and PIRATE Acts Fused Into New Bill
we've got better things to spend our tax dollars on, and congressional time spent like fixing our energy situation,making sure people have jobs and the means to purchase all that is being pirated. And oh yeah, we happen to be at WAR !!! (with terrorist not us uncle sam) And for any new law to work and be efficient we need to restructure and reform patent laws anyway. We have stupid folks sitting around copyrighting and patenting everyday phrases like "OJ" so we can be sued if we use the word "OJ" without their permission?! WTF !!! We don't have a fricking clue as to what priorities are !!! And it's all OUR fault, that's right OURS!!! because we elect these liberal chumps to begin with and we do not keep them in check which is our duty as citizens to do. And we think "they" will use this power to protect us? I got news for you, power follows the path of least resistance and if you don't stand up and speak your mind on this,YOU will be the next target. For example;our name birth date SS# is OUR intellectual property right? but it gets floated around willy nilly by the government and sold to the highest bidder.Me and you can go down to the DMV and "purchase" the names and addresses of everyone in their databases for "marketing " purposes. what kind of law protects us from that abuse of power?NONE!!! I could go on and on about the double standards the government has and how our privacy is invaded and our "pursuit of happiness" is negated,but who I'm really pissed off at is YOU GUYS,those who sit on their collective asses and do nothing about it !!! Be a Man(or woman) and stand up for what is right,make some noise,take the time to call and/or visit your representative and tell them you are not going to take it and you want America back for YOUR enjoyment,not theirs and to quit wasting our time in congress and get their fricking priorities straight!!! And in the famous words of "Forest Gump" That's all I have to say about that !!!

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