Both Sides Playing The Porn Card In File Sharing Debate

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Want to make a point that something must be bad? Just play the "porn" card. Somehow show that if x were to occur, it would (or already does) help the porn industry. Playing the porn card seems to get an emotional reaction from people that "this must be bad, it must be stopped". That's probably why both sides in the file sharing debate are playing the porn card. The RIAA has been pushing the view that file sharing networks are bad, because there's a lot of porn that flows over the network. Meanwhile, civil libertarians are saying that letting the RIAA randomly fire off subpoenas for ISP customer info is opening the door to questionable porn operations to do the same. That is, they're trying to get people to think, even if it's okay for big Hollywood companies to get your private info, how do you feel if the same were true of a sleazy porn operation?
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  • identicon
    Richard, 5 Aug 2003 @ 8:22pm

    RIAA vs. Sleazy Porn

    There is little difference between the RIAA and Sleazy porn. Both push women and men, scantily clad and pay them to pleasure you. The difference may be that in most cases the porn stars get something out of the deal.

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    chris, 5 Aug 2003 @ 9:20pm

    RIAA is by FAR the sleazier

    ... and porn offers a hell of a lot more than the latest TOP40 ClearChannel crap-tainment the RIAA is pushing. I hope the entire music publishing industry dies catastrophically. Stocks collapse. CEO's resign. What we need is to tear down the slum, clear away the toxic waste, and build a better model. That model is DRM-free downloads at $1.00/track in high-quality MP3 format. Just fucking DO it already!!!

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    aNonMooseCowherd, 6 Aug 2003 @ 8:20am

    ban everything

    Better ban computers, printing presses, televisions, and ink. All these can be used to show naughty pictures. Hm, better include radios and telephones as well. If all of these are banned, we'll all have to go back to being farmers working 15-hour days and no one will have time to think about porn anyway.

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