House passes HR4279 "Pro-IP Act" Gov can seize your computer if suspected of illegal downl

[MikeWB]

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15854

Whitehouse gets Top Copyright Cop


p2pnet news MPAA | RIAA News:- In what must be one of their greatest triumphs yet, entertainment industry interests have greased a copyright Top Cop with his/her own copyright police into the White House

[Hei Hu Quan]

Can't say that I didn't see this one coming. It also provides a bullshit pretext for the confiscation of anyone's computer to illegally search and seize it by claiming there's "pirated material". Welcome to corporatism which is nothing more than fascism with a make-over.

[Hei Hu Quan]

This is a very interesting piece I discovered at http://www.cryptogon.com. It delineates and distils how protest is managed and insurgency is suppressed, in addition to revealing the threat simple downloading can be.

Link: Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State

Story:
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Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State
Written by Kevin Flaherty

http://www.cryptogon.com

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

my revolutionary deeds are not as obvious as yours
i contribute to the core of a technological war
that exists where no eyes can see

- Anonymous (Female) Hacker/Pirate


DISCLAIMER

This essay is an examination of an emerging form of asymmetric warfare; a look at the situation on the ground. Taken out of context, the following material might appear to some as a,

[Hei Hu Quan]

As if to illustrate the previous article on the American Corporate State counter-insurgency espionage here's an article exposing Burger King carrying it out.

Link: Burger With a Side of Spies

Story:
May 7, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Burger With a Side of Spies
By ERIC SCHLOSSER

Monterey, Calif.

WHILE the Patriot Act has raised fears about government spying on ordinary citizens, the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying has received much less attention. During the late 1990s, a private security firm spied on Greenpeace and other environmental groups, examining activists