Vendetta Revisited

It's true I've reviewed this movie "V For Vendetta" before but I thought I'd use it as a basis for a side rant. This sort of follows the last post about internet freedom. Internet freedom is closely entwined with physical freedom. They go hand in hand. If we're being suppressed on the internet then it wouldn't be long before something happens in real life. In that movie was depicted a future in the U.K. where the world is so censored that it's appalling. They were censoring everything and damn near everything was illegal. The government was going after people for having their own voice and covering up anything. What if the debates we have now were crimes? You could end up committing a crime so easily in a future like that. If the government was corporation run then they could outlaw anything, even love if they wanted to, like in "1984". The internet is not a good place for censorship because if it got too extreme then websites would vanish and news would be altered. People would only know the truth they would want to show us. I don't agree with piracy but when people share a download they bought it's not exactly piracy since they're not charging for that copy. What they want is to stop us from having the right to copy our own personal items but its been that way for a long time. As the law is now you can copy a DVD or CD as long as it's for personal use. So is P2P really that bad? Are tube sites really bad? You can make copies for yourself but they would rather you don't share them. Well, I doubt those copies are killing the music industry. Some bands, like Nine Inch Nails, have sold work online to cope with this. Stephen King also sold a book online because he knew he could get more profit that way, as he should. Now people sharing that stuff with others is inevitable. I would rather blame war for the big economy problem, not P2P. That's just what they want you to think. They've ran our budget into the ground and they're blaming a mortgage crisis on it. Tube sites are cool no doubt and if someone really wants the DVD they would buy it. If that's supposedly damaging sales then blame the job crisis on them, but it won't work. To eliminate file sharing is an injustice. Imagine a world without it. You would have to suffer during these times if you can't afford anything. People wouldn't like that at all. It's not a crime until they want more money. Then they make the rules. The internet war has started.
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