* Travel on a plane, paying cash, without showing ID. Freedom of movement and association is very restricted by the need to show ID when travelling.
* Buy a region-free DVD player. This is an item where the legality is somewhat murky - but the DMCA and such makes it difficult for people to sell reverse-engineered region-free DVD players here, because they can be sued or prosecuted out of existence.
* Walk around naked when I feel like it. I'm not the biggest naturist or exhibitionist out there, but it would be nice to be able to be naked, or a little sloppy about getting dressed, without fearing prosecution as a sex criminal.
* This isn't something for me personally, but for my kids in the future - I'd like to see marijuana decriminalized. I don't particularly want my kids to become potheads or otherwise drug addicted - but if they do happen to occasionaly get stoned during their teen years, and get caught; I'd like to see them treated as minor offenders, rather than raked over the coals as major offenders.
* I'd like to get DSL service from the provider of my choice, rather than the local monopoly. This isn't so much the case of me trying to do something that is currently illegal - but changing the local landscape to force the telcos to act as neutral carriers, rather than monopolistic greedheads.
* I'd like to download a free copy of the original Star Wars movie, and to use clips in my own projects. See, this is currently prohibited by copyright laws. Copyright laws that in the past, said that copyright expired after a fixed number of years, and after that the copyrighted work was made public domain. Copyright laws that were changed by the corporate greedheads running the media industries to have effectively permanent copyrights, so work would never enter the public domain. Damn it, some things like Star Wars should be public domain by now!
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Date: 2006-10-18 12:27 am (UTC)* Travel on a plane, paying cash, without showing ID. Freedom of movement and association is very restricted by the need to show ID when travelling.
* Buy a region-free DVD player. This is an item where the legality is somewhat murky - but the DMCA and such makes it difficult for people to sell reverse-engineered region-free DVD players here, because they can be sued or prosecuted out of existence.
* Walk around naked when I feel like it. I'm not the biggest naturist or exhibitionist out there, but it would be nice to be able to be naked, or a little sloppy about getting dressed, without fearing prosecution as a sex criminal.
* This isn't something for me personally, but for my kids in the future - I'd like to see marijuana decriminalized. I don't particularly want my kids to become potheads or otherwise drug addicted - but if they do happen to occasionaly get stoned during their teen years, and get caught; I'd like to see them treated as minor offenders, rather than raked over the coals as major offenders.
* I'd like to get DSL service from the provider of my choice, rather than the local monopoly. This isn't so much the case of me trying to do something that is currently illegal - but changing the local landscape to force the telcos to act as neutral carriers, rather than monopolistic greedheads.
* I'd like to download a free copy of the original Star Wars movie, and to use clips in my own projects. See, this is currently prohibited by copyright laws. Copyright laws that in the past, said that copyright expired after a fixed number of years, and after that the copyrighted work was made public domain. Copyright laws that were changed by the corporate greedheads running the media industries to have effectively permanent copyrights, so work would never enter the public domain. Damn it, some things like Star Wars should be public domain by now!