Comments on: Obama VP has Record of Voting Against Tech

By: Serio

Serio — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:46:16 +0000

@ Kai

Most of the pirates have stolen for up to 7000 USD of games, movies, the likes. You think they should get fined and then let go? If someone stole 7000 USD worth of items from you, would you like them to just get fined?

By: kai

kai — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:45:46 +0000

I think going to prison for a year or more is a little excessive for file sharing.

By: Vengeance09

Vengeance09 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:54:37 +0000

Matt, clearly the idea of punishing people for breaking the law is silly.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:28:34 +0000

I don’t see any of his decisions as anti-tech or anti-consumer.

In the first thing he wanted it so that people couldn’t play pirated music.

In the second he wants to prosecute pirates.

In the third he wants to stop people from pirating music.

Okayyyyy. So basically he wants people to stop doing illegal things? The people he’s going for aren’t consumers, they are thiefs. They don’t buy the music, they pirate it.

I don’t see how you can say that you don’t think that Biden’s anti-piracy stance is the issue when it is CLEARLY THE ISSUE OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU CITE.

By: Shawn Sines

Shawn Sines — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:41:40 +0000

I don’t think that Biden’s anti-piracy stance is the issue.. its more about the debate on the industry.. and if the video game question comes to a head during a potential vice-presidential term that he traditionally rules against the consumer.

By: Spectre J

Spectre J — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:48:43 +0000

Bidens plagiarism scandals were bad but for the most part blown way out of proportion. One was not properly citing and quoting sources in a legal paper, and one was not properly acknowledging the source of a material in one of his speeches which turned out to have been taken from a british labour party official, which he had properly acknowledged before but did not during that one instance. Bad, but not that bad.

By: Daily Comics Reviewer

Daily Comics Reviewer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:19:05 +0000

Wait… being anti-piracy is now anti-tech? I mean I pirate the hell out of the interwebs but never considered that to be techie. This isn’t gaming news and unless it’s going to effect my gaming, I don’t want to read it here.

By: Vengeance09

Vengeance09 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:51:22 +0000

The first one is the only one that worries me. The second paragraph, for example, is only a problem if you’re a pirate; the government handles crime regardless, so insisting that companies should have to do the Justice Department’s job is ludicrous.