Dear Bob,
If we would live our lifes exactly doing what the laws tell us we couldn’t eat nor drink and going to the toilet would also be quite risky from a legal point of view.
“Torrent’ers”? The fact that I sometimes use a peer to peer program like eMule or MicroTorrent doesn’t make me a “Torrent’er” nor a “law breaker”. One may kill someone while driving a car but that doesn’t make all “car drivers” into criminals. Then many legitimate downloads or uploads are done with the help of torrents or other P2P protocols. For instance many open source programs and even complete operating systems are distributed this way (Linux, BSD, etc.)
Besides, all those disgusting laws invented and forced upon us by the filthy rich in order to enrich themselves even more over our sore backs should and will be fought by more civil disobedience of the public and smarter countermeasures by the developers.
May I advice you and ALL internet users to join forces and protect a free internet lest soon there won’t be anything left to fight for. Please inform yourselves. Here a handful of articles about what’s going on;
French:
http://000999.forumactif.com/t11982-internet-en-danger-on-s-en-prend-a-nos-libertes-alors-gaffe
http://fr.rsf.org/danger-international-pour-la-25-01-2010,36194
http://www.respectdeslois.fr/archive/2010/12/17/censure-sur-internet.html#more
http://www.respectdeslois.fr/archive/2010/12/22/danger-de-censure-sur-le-web-en-france.html
English:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030542_censorship_internet.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/031380_internet_kill_switch_freedom.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/030786_internet_police_United_Nations.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/030647_Wikileaks_net_neutrality.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/023858_internet_the_information.html
And here for Bob who still believes in the law some surprises;
http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm
http://www.abodia.com/2/United-States-is-a-corporation.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4024663011008894776#
Enjoy!
Jan