DMCA, who let this happen?

In short the DMCA is a law that prohibits you from modifying electronic and digital things that you own. For more information see this link .

The DMCA is the most corrupt, most draconian, most asinine law to be passed in the United States. It is absolutely unacceptable, it exists in complete disregard for the Freedom of American Citizens. And therefore I can't accept it. Personal property was one of the things the founding fathers worked the hardest to protect. The DMCA violates both the spirit and the letter of the law they put forth, and as such is an illegally passed law and should be fought.

The DMCA causes real psychosocial harm, it teaches people that in order to truly own something, it must be "stolen". It teaches people that freedom is not an important value. It teaches people to be paranoid and mistrust the government, and one another. It teaches people not to value personal property. It teaches people that the government can make any law that they want, no matter how corrupt. It is an absolute atrocity.

I am a believer and proponent of freedom in all areas of life, as are many others. Freedom is getting attacked in every area of life in which we still have it. So why have I chosen to fight the battle on the digital front? Because this is the front where we have already lost. Our freedoms here were taken already, stolen right out from under our noses. People didn't understand technology enough to defend their rights in it. So I choose this battlefront because it is where defenders are most needed right now. The other freedom fighters continue to guard other rights, but have largely ignored digital rights because it doesn't SEEM important. Well, it is. Tyranny will spill from the virtual world into the real world. Just like the sinking titanic, water spilling from one "water tight" chamber to the next. In the world of computers is where the iceberg of oppression has hit the hardest, and we will lose this ship unless we can hold the line.

And so, I can not, in good faith, advise people to blindly comply with the DMCA. We must reject legislation that perverts our freedom into something much more ugly. Just remember that in Stalin's Russia, they posted guards at all copying equipment, and the government dictated what could be done with your property, until finally, no one HAD any property, it all belonged to Mother Russia.

We assume that our government is essentially benign, that somehow we are immune to the disease of total corruption that has afflicted every other government in history. To make such an assumption is naive. Our government is only as benign as the constitution and the people have demanded that they be. The moment they stop obeying the constitution, and the people stop demanding freedom, our system of government will degrade as quickly as all the others.

Remember, freedoms are expensive to buy, but cheap to sell. Selling freedoms is as easy as sitting on your butt and doing nothing. But buying those same freedoms back costs the price of blood. I for one, do not ever want to have to take part in a war to regain lost freedom. I love peace, I love brotherhood, I love freedom. So I beg of you all, let us defend freedom while we can still afford to do so!