Make sure to contact your congressmen/women to tell them to support the bill (H.R.3261) to stop online piracy!

Here's the bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:

Seems like a no brainer and something everyone in the DVD Profiler community can get behind!

Quoting mdnitoil:

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Is this anything like the Digital Millenium Copyright act which makes it illegal for me to make a backup of a disc I already own?

I have the same question.

Is that the same one as that one? ->
http://americancensorship.org/

I don't believe I've ever looked at "no-brainer" quite that way before.

Stop protecting the studios! They make plenty of money despite what little kids are downloading of theirs. The studios should be accused of other crimes like special editions which aren't so special, shoddy transfers, milking the same titles over again, creating false demand by vaulting titles, horrible packaging which falls apart and doesn't use the original poster artwork, forced ads on discs, altered music from the original, not paying the artists enough who worked on their products, EPKs as bonus features, regional coding, answering the consumer e-mails with form responses, remakes and sequels rather than original ideas, digital copies, etc...

I agree, We do not need another law that makes it easier for the movie/music industry, to harm companies "suspected" of copyright infringement, or companies "supposedly" aiding in such crimes.

There are plenty of laws already on the books.  Send a message to tell the entertainment industry to work within the existing laws.

DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BILL...


Charlie

The only I support that our politicians would do is take header off the Washington monument.

Support giving them knee pads, after all they must be sore from kissing everything they can reach of intentional corporations that hold no allegiance to the US or any body but their bottom line.

In decades, I can't think of one thing they have done for me except take away more of my freedoms every year.

They have taken the Social Security funds for all their pet project, then joked and I quote, “Oh, we lost the I.O.U.”

When I went to sign up for  Social Security, I looked around the room and I seen that I was the only one old enough for retirement, only young women with a bevy of kids. I walked around the room and heard no English spoken. They said if I brought in my discharge papers I could get a few more bucks, not much. I came back the next day and saw the same scene. And you wonder why  Social Security is broke.

You would be surprised how congressmen many of them can't pay their liquor bills.
Hew many of went bankrupt before got to congress.

Do you have the retirement they have after only a few terms in congress?

Can you insider trade?

How's your medical care, is it as cheap as congress or government employees?

Do you get a raise in salary unless you vote against it?

And you wonder why this country is going down the tubes.

Quoting Srehtims:

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When I went to sign up for  Social Security, I looked around the room and I seen that I was the only one old enough for retirement, only young women with a bevy of kids. I walked around the room and heard no English spoken. They said if I brought in my discharge papers I could get a few more bucks, not much. I came back the next day and saw the same scene. And you wonder why  Social Security is broke.

Social Secuirty is for Retired Workers, Disabled Workers, their families and/or beneficiaries.

There are other programs such as SSI and Medicare that are usually administered out if the same office, so you can't be exactly sure what services any given person in that office is there to receive or apply for.

According to the Social Security web site:
"Today, about 155 million people work and pay Social Security taxes and about 54 million people receive monthly Social Security benefits.

Most of our beneficiaries are retirees and their families—about 36 million people. "

See here for more info.

In my case, I worked hard and paid SS taxes for 40 years. My monthly check is no handout. And contrary to popular misinformation, Social Secuirty is adequately funded at the moment and can be kept that way for a quite a long time with only minor adjustments.

(I know I just broke all the rules - sorry, but I couldn't let the misconceptions implied by that statement to pass without a counterbalancing viewpoint.)