A quote from my good friend the Geek’s Henchman sums this week up, “They may take our internet lives but they’ll never take our internet freedoms!” With all of the new info and news about piracy this week we decided to put a hot spotlight on all the rumors, news, and information on how we all can defend our online freedoms. This idea came to us after reading about the whole media defender debacle. Now in the past we have blasted many companies and sites about disregarding freedoms of their customers and users which we think is wrong. We will continue to back the consumer, and continue to back the people.

So with that we give this week to you, the consumer. This whole week will be dedicated to piracy, and how we feel about. It will also be dedicated to how you can fight for your online freedoms. Now we fully respect the intellectual property of artists in the music, movie, and software industry, but what we don’t respect is how “private contractors” go about hunting down and entrapping people. These companies like the MPAA and RIAA are just that, companies, so many people think they are a part of the US government. They are not, people think this because the MPAA and the RIAA act like they own the internet, and they feel that they can create laws that are only sanctioned by them. They do have the backing of the US government because they have persuaded the judges of this country into taking freedoms and protection away from the consumer. In reality they classify themselves as non-profit trade association, which is  some what of a joke.

This week we will cover a lot of important pieces to this gigantic shell game the consumers and contractors play. We will touch on how ISP lie about what they watch you do and how they track your actions to simply protect themselves. We will touch on how you can protect yourself using P2P services like Bit Torrent. We will show how to protect yourself if you do by chance get a call or letter from one of these evil entities. Now we will never be able to match the funds that the MPAA and the RIAA have to fight back, but we can let everything be heard, and let our judges and elected officials know how we feel about it these issues. 

So we all here at The Geekery want you to sit back and just read, even if you do not agree on some of these controversial topics, its always good to hear all sides of the story. 

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