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Old 06-24-2005, 07:02 AM  
besterman
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Originally Posted by Centurion
You'll never get an answer to those questions..because the supporters of the settlement don't have an answer to them. These things we know:

1)At the 11th hour, the attornies and/or powers that be behind the FSC abandoned their proposed injunction, the injunction they had been promoting heavily to get webmasters to support by joining the FSC.

2)They then made a private agreement (remember, those who were already FSC members helped finance this..without your approval too!) which allowed the DOJ to pursue legal action against non-fsc members. (Remember when they said originally that this injunction would help everyone?)

3)This is an AGREEMENT, not a legal binding law, which can be broken, amended, or slipped around at any time by the DOJ. They are not bound to this agreement beyond a "gentleman's agreement". With an injunction, you have binding legal action.

4)This is not an argument that people should get a "free ride" or are cheapskates for not joining the FSC.

5)Members of the FSC payed for ALL of the above. Now, did the MAJORITY of the membership APPROVE of the above actions? That's an important question to ask. If you join between now and Saturday, how do you know that YOUR voice is going to be heard and followed by "the powers that be" in the FSC?

6)And before you can say "HEY FREELOADER!"..yes I am a member of the FSC.
And I don't approve of these actions in any way or manner.

It's just marketing propaganda. If FSC members will not be prosecuted between now and resolution, *NEITHER* will non-members. Think about it from a practical point of view. If FSC members have an extension, the government will most likely give it to others until resolution. To me this seems to be the likely outcome.

Having said that, support the FSC so we can win.
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