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Originally Posted by stonetools
Like all legislation, there will be a public phase where we, the citizens, can give our input and hold our legislators to account .
Right now, there are private , proprietary solutions, which are broken by private , anonymous persons who post their cracks on the Internet which are made available to those who know the secret handshake ("Apprentice Alf" or whatever). Its fun for geeks, I guess, but it's time for everyone to put on their big boy pants and come up with a legislated solution.
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Like SOPA?
(Legislators who publicly admitted they did not even know what they were legislating about, getting paid big ...err.. compaign contributions, not even willing to let people who <did> know the technology to testify before the drafting committee. That kind of public input?)
You know, Stonetools, if you held the American Congress to the same standards you want to hold Internet "pirates", 99% of the members would be serving multiple life terms for corruption...