this is the comment i left at wired – http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/america-catering-to-hollywood/

Am I Scared? Should we be scared?

Will this make our lives very very irritating and our doings on the Internet will become the loss of our privacy.

Piracy gives us privacy, has anyone thought of this? By pirating I do not leave any record of me buying a ticket or paying for a download (like iTunes and Amazon). My parents do not find out that I watched New Moon. This is a lame excuse for pirating, that is watching New Moon with privacy.

But this is not a question of intellectual property, this is a philosophical matter that Frank Zappa 30 years ago was warning us about. American Fascism, its currently called American Corporatism. But its fascism, the control of intellectual property, the flow of data can already be manipulated by our ISPs. Reminds me of a Zappa quote, “The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”

So I am scared. I have been scared, well not scared but worried about my internet activities. And now its time we take action, its not about pirating anymore, its about the big brother looking over our shoulder.

GET THE F OF YOUR FAT ASSES AND GO TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN, WRITE THEM LETTERS, TELL THEM YOU WILL NOT VOTE FOR THEM AGAIN. SEND LETTERS TO THE OBAMA OFFICE, TELL THAT PRICK THAT HE SHOULD GET HIS HEAD OUT OF HIS ASS, AND STOP LISTENING TO BIDEN.

— added some more (not in the wired comment)

The Internet is not a playground for politicians to show off their wits. Are we not the ones that give power to these politicians, yet we have no ability of taking this power away from them. Makes you think about that ballet you casted; did it actually hold any power or “CHANGE”. Is our vote of any matter? or is it a tradition that we keep up with like Thanksgiving.

some blabber, i do not know what

Pirating is a form of translating, the transfer of content in its form; when one pirates a movie, the movie looses its original “aura” (some thoughts from Walter Benjamin), the pirated movie is not the original movie anymore, its the “pirated movie”, its a different representation.