It's only true cause the recording studios, movie studios, publishers, and other gatekeepers in the "software, gaming, recording, animation, or writing industries" keep ripping off their employees. Start there if you want to find the people how need to be "educated" about piracy.
It sucks that the FBI did this, but it's obvious that the owners of the PCs in the Bot-Net don't give a rats ass about the damage they are doing because they have done nothing to secure their computers.
I'd amend that a bit. I'm sure some (a lot?) of it is more along the lines of ignorant users (e.g., the computer illiterates) that don't even know their PCs are causing damage. It's not that they don't care - they just don't realize that the toy water gun they keep pointing at the internet has live ammo loaded in it.
Hey, since coward over there is claiming this is mike's work, isn't that like aiding Mike in claiming credit of Dark Helmet's creative works? That makes Coward and Mike both guilt of RAMPANT THIEVERY! They're probably also liars, cheats, anti-American, and likely ugly to boot.
Where's my pitchfork and how do I sign up to join the Motion Picture Army of Assholes so I can prove how much more 'Merican I am than you?
The TSA (Theater Security in Action) only gropes you cause it cares! *
* the above statement need not apply to unattractive females, those with a penis, or any dangerous individuals whom we should have stopped but are too idiotic to catch
It's obvious that the math behind these meters was done by RIAA accountants. Possibly with the help of the the statistical research done by IDC on behalf of the BSA. And with that many acronyms, the only one left for consumers is to PAY.
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I'd amend that a bit. I'm sure some (a lot?) of it is more along the lines of ignorant users (e.g., the computer illiterates) that don't even know their PCs are causing damage. It's not that they don't care - they just don't realize that the toy water gun they keep pointing at the internet has live ammo loaded in it.
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Where's my pitchfork and how do I sign up to join the Motion Picture Army of Assholes so I can prove how much more 'Merican I am than you?
/sarcasm
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* the above statement need not apply to unattractive females, those with a penis, or any dangerous individuals whom we should have stopped but are too idiotic to catch
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bad programmers
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1. Be a Dick.
2. Ignore most points, attack Mike. Maybe pirates, nazis, or other posters, depending on mood.
3. More dickisheryness. Hey, look, trolls can create new words! We have to be smarterish than Mike now.
4. ... PROFIT???
(5. PS: Just dicking with ya. It's what we trolls do.)
(6. PPS: Bitch that someone infringed - i mean pirated - i mean stole - my profit from step 4, even if I haven't made it yet.)
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Wait, which tools?
The software and hardware? Or the idiots staffed by the government who keep screwing up?
I mean, sure, we could probably find some use for the software and hardware, but those other tools are about as useless as possible.
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