Day 4 of New York Times coverup of ISP/Fascist privacy grab attempt

[steve2470]

I'm talking, of course, of the appeal of the * admin. to the appeals court in Manhattan of the lower court ruling denying the FBI the ability to get your Internet Service Provider records. I'm concerned. Are you ? If you're a tad more technically inclined, go to this Slashdot article:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/05/30/2217228.shtml?tid=158&tid=103&tid=17

[Quetzal]

1. Considering how the Bush Administration is using Homeland Security

to protect the Movie Pictures Association of America, I would be terribly afraid if this Gestapo regime succeeded in court.

This week in copyright infringement

Agents shut down a popular Web site that allegedly had been distributing copyrighted music and movies, including versions of "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith." Homeland Security agents from several divisions served search warrants on 10 people around the country suspected of being involved with the Elite Torrents site, and took over the group's main server.

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While federal authorities ramp up the attack on domestic piracy, two U.S. senators are urging the Bush administration to increase pressure on Russia and China to respect copyright law, warning that those nations have become havens for movie and software piracy.

Copyright infringement is a serious offense--at least that's the message sixth-graders in American Fork, Utah, will be getting. At their elementary school commencement this week, the students were slated to receive a warning from the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office about the ills of illegally downloading music, movies and games from the Web.

http://news.com.com/This+week+in+copyright+infringement/2100-1026_3-5722887.html

What is actually being taught to these elementary school children? If you download media content off the internet, you are somehow UnAmerican?