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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 04:42 PM
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5. Ashcroft was on CourtTV last night trying to brainwash kids about this
Here's the scene: Ashcroft is giving some brainwashing speech called "Activate your mind" to a bunch of DC kids about how downloading stuff through P2P hurts the artists. He never mentions how the CORPORATIONS that pimp the artist's works to us get almost all of the money for themselves. Then he has them do little projects about how to stop file sharing (illegal downloading he calls it). One group does some kind of poster of a prison uniform saying that prison is where file sharers belong - Ashcroft loved that one. The whole thing was sick and screamed of NAZI style propaganda. He kept repeating "Intellectual Property Rights" and how the kids can one day have their ideas pimped out by a mega-corporation too! Yay! Check it out if you get a chance - scary stuff.

http://www.courttv.com/choices/activate_your_mind/?sect=2
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