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Post by Thetaloops on Jun 10, 2006 0:03:44 GMT -5
www.savetheinternet.com/Swamp and I were on vacation this week, so we have had a little more time to listen to the news and commercials on the radio. First thing I heard this morning was a commercial from Verizon about the new high speed DSL for Business'. Verizon was sitting waiting for the Congress to allow the Internet to be split up between the 'highway and the dirt road' as it is being compared to. That was yesterday. Now it is up to the Senate to stop this. What this means is that the Corporations who can afford the new Highway will get the high speeds and access. Those of us who can't afford it will get the dirt road. Also, any site that they don't like can be blocked. Swamp spent 5 hrs today trying to get find a more honest company for our internet access, as well as our land and wireless phone services. We have very few options in this area. Eventually it all leads back to Verizon. It's a monopoly. How perfect for the corporation and the government. Most of the workers at the different companies (Comcast, Optimum, Verizon) which he called had no idea that this was even happening. This is the way of big business now, keep the employees in the dark. Please call your senators and ask them to support 'Internet Neutrality'. Hopefully, there are enough Senators who have some sense left?  Moby has been very active about this. Check these videos out. www.savetheinternet.com/=videos
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Post by KNOWTHIS on Jun 10, 2006 7:29:11 GMT -5
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jun 10, 2006 11:16:21 GMT -5
This is the beginning of the virtual shutdown of the Internet as we know it. Blogs, Sites like this, Rense, Whatreallyhappened, InfoWars, MoveOn, etc, will have to pay exorbitant fees to be in the Fast Lanes, as will the people who want to access them. Everyone else will be in a clogged dirt road on the side, unable to stream, download, or pretty much anything else. Also, the Fats Lane people will have to go through an "approval" for content. Big Business wants more money, and the government wants indie blogs made to be in a standstill. The only hope left is satellite Web service of which I contacted.....Skyweb it's called. The exex I spoke to, said his company will not do that, but Hughes Satellite is an X-Factor Isn't Corporatism and Fascism wonderful?  |
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Post by KNOWTHIS on Jun 10, 2006 11:42:32 GMT -5
This one has me reeling man. The threat of the blog movement, websites exposing the NWO & 9/11, web users sharing videos has proved to be a formidable threat to the government. Now they're moving to shut it down. Did you know that Loose Change is going to be yanked off the net? Google I think is the only one carrying it now and it's only a matter of time before they cave in as well. The makers of the flick are being accused of copyright infringement. This is all a pre-meditated, contrived effort to suppress knowledge and truth. I sent Theta an article btw. She was online last so I figured she might get it first so I pm'd it to her. You should find it intersting too. I wasn't sure what to make of it? Anyway, here's the piece about Loose Change. www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/911_documentary_removed/9/11 conspiracy movie taken off the webTwo French filmmakers, who accompanied New York firefighters into the World Trade Centre on 9/11, are threatening to sue the makers of 9/11 conspiracy web documentary Loose Change, claiming the movie infringes their copyright.
Loose Change, one of the top downloads on Google Video and YouTube, is an 81 minute long documentary, crammed with TV news footage and still photographs, which alleges that the 9/11 attacks were not the result of terrorism, but a series of cleverly executed events carried out by the Bush administration. It suggests that American Airlines Flight 77 could not have crashed into the Pentagon, that the actual collapses of WTC 1, 2 and 7 were triggered by explosions, and that United Airlines Flight 93 did not terminate in rural Pennsylvania, but landed safely at Cleveland Hopkins Airport.
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Loose Change began as a fictional story about 9/11 conspiracy theories, but when film maker Dylan Avery, who is in his early twenties, started researching, he became a believer himself. Edited on a $1,500 Compaq laptop, using Adobe Premiere and After Effects, the movie was released on DVD first, then unleashed on the web. Since then, more than two million people have downloaded the movie. Until recently, it was still available on a DVD for $17.95. Avery says that over 50,000 copies have been sold. A heavily edited version is still intended for cinema screening at the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in September 2006.
Although praised by 9/11 conspiracists, the documentary has also been widely criticised. Mark Roberts, who compiled the Loose Change Viewer Guide, says he counted 81 "errors of fact and instances of conjecture not supported by evidence, logical fallacies, uses of images that do not support the conclusions being drawn, and other flubs".
It is a copyright dispute that is currently causing problems for the Loose Change makers right now though.
In a certified letter sent to Dylan Avery, lawyers for Jules and Gedeon Naudet, makers of the renowned documentary 9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition, say they have never endorsed nor sponsored the controversial views in the film. The brothers captured what is thought to be the only footage of the first plane hitting the North tower
"It is clear that your intent is not to spread a controversial message but rather to profit," the lawyers conclude. They have identified at least 14 videofragments, including interviews with firemen. The Naudet Brothers, backed by distributor Paramount, are demanding $150,000 for each act of willful infringement.
Although Avery has removed the movie from his site, and says "he fully cooperates with the Naudet brothers", he still encourages viewing the movie on Google Video.
But maybe not for long. Google says it only accepts video uploads from persons who hold all necessary rights to the uploaded material.
"Our policy is to respond to any notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)," the company says. "If we receive a notice or otherwise have reason to believe that content you submitted infringes another party's copyright, your account may be terminated and the video removed from Google Video."
A spokesman for Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz confirmed the firm was handling a case for the Naudets, but refused to comment further. ®
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jun 10, 2006 12:54:39 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see how the US Government ( of course they are behind this "copyright infringement"), will move this forward, considering that Loose Change was given out for free.
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Post by Mech on Jun 10, 2006 15:26:18 GMT -5
HAIL HITLER!!!!
SEIG CORPORATE!!!!
SEIG....CORPORATE!!!
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jun 10, 2006 15:52:03 GMT -5
Back to Freaking Short Wave....  |
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