# Copyright Police
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427
**Category:** random
**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427 "2008-05-27T15:31:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/1 "2008-05-27T15:31:30Z")
Wack!
[http://9to5mac.com/orwellian\_nightmare](http://9to5mac.com/orwellian_nightmare)
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/2 "2008-05-27T15:37:56Z")
Can’t say this surprises me much. Just wait until they announce the microchip that is “conveniently” merged with your bank data, credit card stuff and personal info so everything will become “faster”.
And people go “What’s the problem. If you don’t have anything to hide it’s great”. And slowly the lie is enveloping your eyes to the point of you not knowing what is reality and what’s not.
Exactly the way Nazi Germany operated, incidentally.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/3 "2008-05-27T15:47:09Z")
> And people go “What’s the problem. If you don’t have anything to hide it’s great”. And slowly the lie is enveloping your eyes to the point of you not knowing what is reality and what’s not.
> the problem is, everyone has something to hide, and its the government who says that
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### Author:  [@Gundark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gundark)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/4 "2008-05-27T16:08:24Z")
Wow awesome! So now security forces are going to have to watch any home videos I might travel with as they will probably all be on burned DVDs. Oh, and my wife is a musician so I’ll probably be fined for having a burned copy of a CD she made.
I can’t believe that law makers don’t see any problems with this… I’d love to go into a huge political/governmental rant here but I’ll refrain.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/5 "2008-05-27T16:14:58Z")
i love how they can search you without a warrant or lawyer present
HALLELUJAH FOR BASIC RIGHTS!
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### Author:  [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/6 "2008-05-27T16:46:49Z")
I’m going to start traveling with hundreds of disks, thumb drives and other storage media, all stuffed to the gills with Rick Astley and the Numa Numa guy.
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/7 "2008-05-27T16:55:22Z")
> [@Anogar;2331756](#):
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> I’m going to start traveling with hundreds of disks, thumb drives and other storage media, all stuffed to the gills with Rick Astley and the Numa Numa guy.
Even though Anogar might not actually do this for real, this exact action would foil any plans Big Brother has to go through your data.
Imagine if they realized their plans then all of a sudden everyone started traveling with 25 burned CDs with copyright free songs, 5 thumb drives with the same content, and all files named in a mysterious fashion (such as song1\_b.mp3).
2-3 of those per plane and the whole evil scheme would crumble like Americas prison policy. : )
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### Author:  [@Gundark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gundark)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/8 "2008-05-27T16:57:04Z")
You could play some funny pranks on security officers by labeling CDs filled with incredibly annoying (but public domain) stuff with the names of random pop-stars.
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### Author:  [@Cello](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Cello)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/9 "2008-05-27T17:02:57Z")
Part of this is already in force today!! I live in the UK but work for an American corporation. When I visit head office near Chicago, all is fine. However, when I leave the states, staff are empowered to inspect laptops, drives, USBs, etc under export compliance regulations. It means that a file (that may be proprietary to the company) that I bring into the states, may mean my equipment is confiscated when I leave as it breaks the export laws! Add to that difficulty, I work in the airline world and the files I have have detailed analysis of airlines’ operating processes including security processes on the ground and in the air.
Can you imagine the kittens that they’d have when they see those files! Yikes.
Solution is that company is issuing two laptops; one to stay in each country and because of the way Lotus Notes works, both laptops can see the same data without it having to be carried.
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### Author:  [@Gundark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gundark)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/10 "2008-05-27T17:06:54Z")
^ Wow that really sucks. Imagine if you did business in more than two countries… What then? Have a laptop for each country? And if you didn’t have an office to store the laptop at in whichever country? What a pain in the arse.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/11 "2008-05-27T17:07:56Z")
This is just the government scurrying to enforce crap because big corporations are not smart enough to embrace the interwebz
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### Author:  [@twdesignz06](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/twdesignz06)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/12 "2008-05-27T17:12:55Z")
Did anyone see the article that the Bush adminstration now has the legal authority to arrest and detain U.S. residents without a warrant? Here’s the link:
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap\_on\_go\_ot/enemy\_combatant;\_ylt=AgTEAvhNA3GUmX9U4FhHg6Ss0NUE](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_go_ot/enemy_combatant;_ylt=AgTEAvhNA3GUmX9U4FhHg6Ss0NUE)
This isn’t made to be a political statement, but more to point out that once you’ve been declared an “enemy combatant” by the president, you lose all your rights.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/13 "2008-05-27T17:37:12Z")
Yea, thats terrible…
however, if anything the government said in that article was true (about him training and doing all that stuff) then they weren’t in the wrong.
Lets just hope the government didn’t misinterpret his Yoga classes with Chemical Weaponization Techniques 101
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/14 "2008-05-27T17:44:57Z")
> the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.
giggle. I’m so happy I’m leaving the US in less than a year 😛
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### Author:  [@DanontheMoon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DanontheMoon)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/15 "2008-05-27T18:38:06Z")
In Soviet Amerika, Ipods seize YOU\*!!\*
There is a way to remedy this: _[Click here to learn how!](http://www.lp.org/)_
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### Author:  [@biznuge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/biznuge)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/16 "2008-06-02T20:57:30Z")
weird…
I just watched Gattaca last night… Maybe I could be held over copyright infringement since my DNA is essentially copyright of someone elses IP…
the noose tightens…
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### Author:  [@Cello](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Cello)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/17 "2008-06-02T21:05:54Z")
@ biznuge - I think that’s the most intelligent and witty statement I’ve ever observed about IP/DNA/copyright.
Absolutely brilliant!
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### Author:  [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/18 "2008-06-04T10:56:04Z")
bleh, just use encryption. Or weak protection. Do you really think they can spend that much time looking at your entire drives, especially if more that 3/4th of the passengers have such devices ?
Not possible.
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### Author:  [@biznuge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/biznuge)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/19 "2008-06-04T11:04:05Z")
I’m fairly sure there’d be some ridiculous policy decision regarding encryption and obstruction were this STATE of affairs ever to come to fruition…
But it might be fun for everyone to just encrypt everything, and see how long check in takes then… :thumb2: roflcopter!
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-police/261427/20 "2008-06-04T14:03:51Z")
booyah for OS X file vault
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