Apple only 'muscled in' because the music industry fell asleep on the job and sleep-sued Napster into uselessness, throwing the digital baby out with the bathwater. Then tried to sue anyone else with any digital connection. It took a company with the size and cojones (and lawyers) of Apple to force them into doing the right thing a little, finally. Remind me, why are we supposed to feel sympathy for the music industry?
And no-one is saying that the bands 'ought' to get nothing for what they did. Just that they don't 'deserve' to get whatever random number they assume from past glories. Copyright shouldn't be welfare, let alone a multi-generational stipend.
What are you on? This looks like the FBI lifted it directly from the Stasi/Securitatae, minus the bit about "report to us if you spoke to a furriner". Aside from anything else, as the OP demonstrates, trying to /avoid/ acting what this list calls 'suspiciousl' leads to much much more suspicious-looking behaviour!
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You know, most commenters on here might just note that fact without the childish ad-homs and 1st-grade amateur dramatics.
On the rare times you make a good point like this, you immediately shoot them down in flames faster than an **AA exec at a tech show with your vacuous, vicious stupidity.
Are you really trying as hard to be seen as irrelevant as the organisations you appear to be shilling for?
out_of_the_average_bob isn't even trying. Maybe they're really a poorly realised sock puppet attempt by 'Mikey' to 'pretend' there is some disagreement on this site to 'drive' page views and stop it from becoming a giant echo chamber, Fox-style?
Then again, maybe Dark Helmet really is the Secretary of the Treasury...
How about all the taxes those fat-cats don't pay on their 'loss-making' blockbusters? What, Star Wars hasn't turned a profit? Why is Disney desperate to make Star Wars VII then?
A spoken like a good right-wing corporation shill. The enemy IS the corporations, especially as they have bought the government. Both, out of control, are bad. Both have their uses when properly regulated.
Honestly, I've never seen so many people fantasising for the "Old Wild West that Wasn't" as American right-wingers, Confederates and Libertarians.
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Riiiight. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid...
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And no-one is saying that the bands 'ought' to get nothing for what they did. Just that they don't 'deserve' to get whatever random number they assume from past glories. Copyright shouldn't be welfare, let alone a multi-generational stipend.
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I nominate...
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On the post: German Court Sees Through The DOJ Fairy Tale, Rejects Attempt To Seize Megaupload Assets
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c/o Bifrost
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Hey, I'm viewing this in the UK. Could 'big search' sue him for libel here?
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Re: You'd have nothing to whine about IF YOU READ ALL:
On the rare times you make a good point like this, you immediately shoot them down in flames faster than an **AA exec at a tech show with your vacuous, vicious stupidity.
Are you really trying as hard to be seen as irrelevant as the organisations you appear to be shilling for?
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Then again, maybe Dark Helmet really is the Secretary of the Treasury...
On the post: Will The Next Secretary Of State Support Internet Freedom Or SOPA?
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On the post: You Can Take The Company Out Of The DRM Business, But You Can't Take The DRM Business Out Of The Company
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On the post: Microsoft Patents TV That Watches Back, Counts Heads, Charges Admission
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On the post: Microsoft Patents TV That Watches Back, Counts Heads, Charges Admission
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Honestly, I've never seen so many people fantasising for the "Old Wild West that Wasn't" as American right-wingers, Confederates and Libertarians.
On the post: Microsoft Patents TV That Watches Back, Counts Heads, Charges Admission
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On the post: Microsoft Patents TV That Watches Back, Counts Heads, Charges Admission
Re: Re: So, it's begun in earnest.
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