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Student arrested for essay's imaginary violence • High school senior wrote about shooting, stabbing, drugs, sex • Class was told to write whatever came to mind, without censoring their thoughts • Allen Lee says his essay exaggerated for creative effect and was "just junk" • Lee, a straight-A student, charged with disorderly conduct; could get 30 days CARY, Illinois (AP) -- A high school senior was arrested after writing that "it would be funny" to dream about opening fire in a building and having sex with the dead victims, authorities said. Another passage in the essay advised his teacher at Cary-Grove High School: "don't be surprised on inspiring the first CG shooting," according to a criminal complaint filed this week. Allen Lee, 18, faces two disorderly conduct charges over the creative-writing assignment, which he was given on Monday in English class at the northern Illinois school. Students were told to "write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing," according to a copy of the assignment. According to the complaint, Lee's essay reads in part, "Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s...t...a...b...puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did." Officials described the essay as disturbing and inappropriate. Lee said he was just following the directions. "In creative writing, you're told to exaggerate," Lee said. "It was supposed to be just junk. ... There definitely is violent content, but they're taking it out of context and making it something it isn't." Lee was moved to an off-campus learning program, and the district was evaluating a punishment, schools spokesman Jeff Puma said. "It wasn't just violent or foul language," Puma said. "It went beyond that." The teenager's father, Albert Lee, has defended his son as a straight-A student who was just following instructions and contends the school overreacted. But he has also said he understands that the situation arose in the week after a Virginia Tech student gunned down 32 people before committing suicide. Defense attorney Dane Loizzo said Allen Lee has never been disciplined in school and signed Marine enlistment papers last week. A conviction could bring up to 30 days in jail and a maximum $1,500 fine. That's such a load of bullshit. I normally abhor civil lawsuits, but I'd love to see the school and police sued for something. The kid followed directions, and now has an arrest record. The US is circling the fucking drain. cavete terrae.

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If there was a town like that in America, would you want to live there, or would you avoid it like the plague? Depends on how literal their motto is. If a disgusting hosebeast came up to me and said I had to go down on her or I'd be punished? Hell no I wouldn't want to live there. If it's more of a "Man has to obey his wife" thing? I probably still wouldn't want to live there I guess, since I don't think women should have to live in the opposite situation. cavete terrae.

I'm a man, and I'd not like to live there. Not necessarily because of the rules, but because I have no interest in ever going to China, let alone living there. cavete terrae.

I don't do anything "religiously", but: I watch Lost, 24, The Unit, House, and Scrubs. cavete terrae.

I'm not going to bother with a point by point retort because I don't have the time or energy, except on a couple of points: 1. You made an assumption my dad is having a hard time as a filmmaker. I assure you, he's not. 2. You assume NOBODY is copying to their drive and not sharing with friends. You're wrong. Granted, yes, it's because I have no friends to share with, but it doesn't change the fact I'm not sharing my movie collection. cavete terrae.

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That's actually one of the rounds (not the first) but more significant is the DMCA (never mind the international intimidation it has spawned), and worse to come on the technology front w.r.t. standards and encryption 'on the wire' externally to displays and internally accross the BUS, it is a fiasco. HDCP makes me want to punch babies. One of the many reasons I will not go to BR or HDDVD until they're cracked. cavete terrae.

Whiny kids listening to shitty music and getting bad haircuts while crying for attention. I wish I could figure out how to make emo pizzas so they'd cut themselves. cavete terrae.

Jack was as much of a prick as any Union or organization leaders. He will be praised by most of the MPAA members, and vilified by most of his opponents. As far as rejoicing upon his death, I'm not quite convinced his legacy warrants such celebration. We're talking about DVDs, people! DVDs!!!! So? DVDs are as much a part of my life as most things. I like movies cavete terrae.

Just because YOU are uptight about words doesn't mean we all are. I can use shit, fuck, piss, cunt, damn, asshole and plenty of others in conversation, because they can express feelings better than other phrases in certain contexts. Would I use them in a formal address to a group? Perhaps not, but this is hardly that situation. it can be that situation if you allow it to be

I don't drink coffee at all, actually In any case, it depends on who makes the system, too, when it comes to how good the directions are. Some are shittier than others. cavete terrae.

Just because YOU are uptight about words doesn't mean we all are. I can use shit, fuck, piss, cunt, damn, asshole and plenty of others in conversation, because they can express feelings better than other phrases in certain contexts. Would I use them in a formal address to a group? Perhaps not, but this is hardly that situation. In any case, I see where you're coming from, and just because something MIGHT not get prosecuted doesn't mean it's a just law. If the law SPECIFICALLY SAID "Media may be transcoded into other formats for personal use as needed", I'd be totally ok with it, but that's not the case. Yes, I could copy the files, encryption and restrictions intact, to my drive, but why the hell would I do that? It's a drain on resources, and it just introduces more complexity. Given the choice between a 9GB VIDEO_TS folder with all the restrictions on fast forwarding and usage intact, or a 2GB H.264+AC3 file that I can watch using any software I please, on any device I please, it's a no brainer. My idea of "fair use" is what I do in my home, on my hardware, for myself. I don't share with others, so what the law says about that doesn't bother me much. It's when the laws says "No, you may not watch that movie on your phone instead of your TV" that I get annoyed. As the HDCP you mentioned before? Don't get me started on that. That's even worse. cavete terrae.

Yay for the reductio ad absurdum, I knew it'd come eventually. Laws like that are in place to protect others. I support those laws. I will never support laws that tell people what they can do with their own property, or their own lives, or their own bodies, as long as they are not hurting others. In any case, there are those of us who don't function because a law tells us to do something, but instead just look at it rationally. I wouldn't want to be stabbed, so I don't stab people. I don't want to have a piano land on my head, so I don't throw them off of buildings. I don't want to have a gun in my face and my money taken away, so I don't put guns in people's faces and take their money. Me watching a movie that I paid $20+ to watch on my PSP instead of my TV is hardly in the same vein as the above. Nobody loses money. Nobody gets hurt. Nobody has their rights violated. cavete terrae.

You're forgetting that the current laws don't stop anyone from pirating anyway. A half retarded monkey can get past the encryption on the damned things. The situation wouldn't change, frankly. You don't go to JB HiFi, or Walmart, or whatever and buy pirated DVDs now, do you? No, because they get them from reputable distributors. Same as it'd be without the copy protection. cavete terrae.

If you're going to whinge and say you're not going to participate, then feel free to get the fuck out of the thread. Maybe my father won't be able to follow through on that promise for the upcoming slate, maybe he will. But your attitude is every bit as fucked up and condescending as mine is. As for copying to my drive? No, that's not illegal. Cracking the encryption on it is illegal. Since I can't play it without cracking the encryption, I'm breaking the law. It's ridiculous and further proof that the organizations don't care about the people who buy their stuff. cavete terrae.