Congress To Pay $30 Million to Fight Piracy
The United States Congress is set to provide $30 million dollars to fund efforts with the aim of curbing piracy. The money, earmarked as part a bill passed last year, will be used for grants, new FBI agents, and to further prosecution.
Let’s put this in perspective.
$30 million dollars is enough to provide a college education for up to 1,500 students who might otherwise not be able to afford it. It is enough to provide housing for 6,000 homeless people for up to a year. It is enough to buy 5.4 million starving children each a happy meal from McDonalds. If put into the economy, it is enough to stimulate an extra 10,000 jobs.
Instead, the money is being used to help out an industry which is showing absolutely no signs of being hurt by the recession. Tax dollars paid from the hard earned money of millions of working class Americans going, not to build roads or pay firefighters, but to subsidize already rich and powerful film and music executives.
If you are American and reading this, you paid for it. You still don’t have health care, but those sneaky pirates won’t be stealing pennies from the jars of the rich and famous anymore. Actually, that is not exactly the truth. They still will be. This pile of money isn’t aimed at ending piracy altogether. Just making it a little harder to do. If it even does that much, which is a big ‘if’.
In the end, this reporter believes all we will be left with is 30 million reasons to elect new Congressman.
I wonder if this means I can finally get someone to look that lovely spammer out of Midland, Texas who keeps hitting my servers with his poor constructed DDoS attacks. Going on nearly ten years now since he started. Where’s Walker, Texas Ranger when you need him?
…and 30 million 1 dollar double cheeseburgers at mcdonalds (before taxes) giving 10% of the population of the US a sammich.
Which would probably do more to curb piracy than anything else they could try.
There is way too much cr** in this bill – I support Obama but I will be pretty mad if he signs this. He said no more earmarks.
Time to call my Congresswoman, again. Thanks for the heads up.
yeah so the government pays off the http://www.mafiaa.org . We always knew they were corrupt and new world order but Congress giving taxpayers the finger and giving the mafiaa 30 million support wtf is this world coming to?
[...] milioni di dollari, osserva FreakBits, basterebbero per coprire le spese universitarie di 1500 studenti che non se le possono [...]
this kind of shit makes me not want to live in the US… although its not like other places are much better.
It’s times like these I really wish I was a member of the Congress.
[...] La pelea contra la piratería de algunos países como Gran Bretaña, China o Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, se está haciendo cada vez más encarnizada y ahora me enteré que el Congreso del país de Barack Obama proveerá US$30 millones para pelear contra las descargas ilegales. [...]
America has thirty million people who lives in complete financial misery. If Mr. Obama is a Democrat and the political party which supports Mr Obama is the Democratic Party, so why Mr Obama political administration are wasting money in such a project?
[...] La pelea contra la piratería de algunos países como Gran Bretaña, China o Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, se está haciendo cada vez más encarnizada y ahora me enteré que el Congreso del país de Barack Obama proveerá US$30 millones para pelear contra las descargas ilegales. [...]
It’s typical USA.
The congressmen might think that movie industries could buy everything incl. politician’s seat.
Now it’s time to show the power of the majority of voters to elect new congressmen.
What about the independent filmmakers who make low budget projects? They get their film STOLEN by it being loaded into the internet by pirates. They REALLY lose a lot of money, and they are the ones who usually sell their movies cheaper.
This relay should not come as a surprise, “they” have been trying to control information on the web in the us banning info wars in places. Look, your Constitution is being torn apart “all up in your grill”
Concentration camps under the pretext of terrorism/neo-orthodox fascism.
“How fortunate for the leaders that men do not think.”-hitler-