How To Make Money From Piracy: Building Prisons

from the laugh.-it's-funny. dept

Mon, Feb 9th 2009 5:06pm — Mike Masnick

We've often discussed various ways that businesses can learn to embrace piracy for the purpose of making money, but here's a new (if farcical) idea. Hypebot points us to the Pirates Prison Project -- a tongue in cheek suggestion for a way to use piracy to build up one area of the economy: prisons. The idea is that if we just start putting all those file sharers in prison, we're going to need a lot more prisons -- and isn't that just a business opportunity?

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Filed Under: piracy, prisons, satire

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Bubba, 9 Feb 2009 @ 5:46pm

Not far from the truth
And no due process either.
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Dan, 9 Feb 2009 @ 6:09pm

Internet access?
Will the cells have internet access?
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2009 @ 6:29pm

Tried and True
Hey, it's a business model that's been working great with the "War on Drugs". Why not expand it?
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Erv Server, 9 Feb 2009 @ 7:08pm

do the crime do the time
don't forget about torture
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2009 @ 7:10pm

When all the pirates are in prison, only the prisons will have pirates.....ummm...wait... oh, never mind.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2009 @ 7:29pm

shades of McCarthy-ism
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FSM, 9 Feb 2009 @ 7:44pm

If the number of pirates is increasing world wide, can we expect a proportionate decline in global warming ?
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2009 @ 7:58pm

Re:
he he he he he. "But pirates"
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2009 @ 8:29pm

Well they let all the pedophiles and murderers out to make room for those evil pot smokers, maybe they'll let the potheads out to make room for those despicable pirates.
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DEREK THE PIRATE, 9 Feb 2009 @ 9:58pm

OMG
i knew this was coming... they finaly got the laws through in 08 now there gonna use the economic crisis to employ obama's new snitch squad to snitch on friends that have piracy tendancies for cash rewards... then the perpetrator has to pay fines to the RECORD INDUSTRY for each case of piracy thats proven...... I HATE AMERICA IF THIS IS AMERICA... THE GHOSTS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS WITH RAPE YOU IN HELL WHEN YOU DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2009 @ 11:28pm

Time to place that thermite charge on my hard drives

http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/
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Anonymous Coward, 10 Feb 2009 @ 5:04am

Re: OMG
"for each case of piracy thats proven."

Ummm, hate to break it to ya ...
but apparently they do not feel they need to prove anything

Oh, and just in case - have you forgotten to take your meds ?
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Crabby (profile), 10 Feb 2009 @ 11:44am

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And then they can let out the pirates to make room for all those people who read books out loud to their children without paying royalties for the privilege.
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testy, 24 Feb 2009 @ 6:33pm

check it out, they are kicking out the rapist and making room for the pirates. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090220_11_A9_Amanwh563495
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