I have not read all the comments so forgive me if I am repeating anyone but:
"So, the moral of the story is, if you have files you don't want people looking at, it's best to not leave your thumb drives plugged into shared computers. Even better, don't have illegal files in the first place. "
I think the real moral of the story is, if you have child porn AT ALL, you deserve bad things to happen to you.
You mean like the UK?
Where a little while later when they do give cops guns they kill a poor _unarmed_ Brazilian guy and then try to cover it up?
Yep, sounds totally civilized to me.
Not that I have anything against the citizens of the UK, although their govt. and police leave a lot to be desired.
Although I can give you _many_ personal examples, heres a quick one, I pirated an ebook: Learn Essential C# 3.0....
the book IS fantastic, and I then later purchased it.
Keep in mind "learning books" are usually more expensive than fiction books, but no regrets it is well worth it, and would I have bought it before I read it... thats a biggg maybe.
If the publishers start thinking like the music industry, its really coming to bite them in the ass.
(Not that it effects people like me in any possible way, there are plenty of neighbors with open wifi or weak WEP and I have a VPN is well)
/iPirate
And to make matters worse, you tore ALL their arguments to shreds, couldn't you at least let them have one lie? Just one?
No, you had to knock out all their testicles along with their tentacles from under them.
Ruthless. Utterly ruthless.
Dont you know its "be nice to the slimeballs" month?
Thanks!
I needed that laugh, and liked your humor :)
Also listen to the words this guy chooses, words like "consider".
The problem is they think they still have the control of old, or fool themselves into believing so, they dont realize the world has gotten smaller and if they really piss someone off all that someone has to do is take a little while off to scan the whole book and put it on the p2p networks.
Its pretty simple, either meet the demand or... someone is going to meet it for you, and unlike in old, this time there is no monetary gain thats the main motivation... just our ingrained instinct to 'share'.
Thanks!
I needed that laugh, and liked your humor :)
Also listen to the words this guy chooses, words like "consider".
The problem is they think they still have the control of old, or fool themselves into believing so, they dont realize the world has gotten smaller and if they really piss someone off all that someone has to do is take a little while off to scan the whole book and put it on the p2p networks.
Its pretty simple, either meet the demand or... someone is going to meet it for you, and unlike in old, this time there is no monetary gain thats the main motivation... just our ingrained instinct to 'share'.
Whats that about ignoring history and it coming back to bite you on the ass? Well, dear greedy industries, your ass is grass and the Chinese are making a lot more lawnmowers ;))
The only part that surprises me in this post is the surprise you have shown here Mike:
"And even when those laws don't appear to help and seem ripe for serious human rights violations? Wow. "
I would think you of all people would know these bags of scum and bones (collectively known as the IIPA) better than most people and wouldn't get surprised so easily.
"Here is an idea for a killer app..."
STOP right there, because you cant take the final step before lord Job's (useless) army approves your killer app, or denies it giving you no reason or a crappy reason either of which you cant argue with.
And do you honestly think _that_ killer app will be allowed when fruity company is playing the savior to the newspapers?
The more i know about Appl and their iPad the more i love this site: iPadForAniC**t.com (I think you can guess what comes instead of the stars)
Project Legos would make me turn and take a second, third or fourth look and i would associate it with Lego - a brand whose products i grew up playing with.
Also, i would like to add something that another commentator wrote (and i support) :
Well if were going to use the term Copyright infringers for those who do so, what shall we call the lobbyists that have been howling "piracy" for the past 20 some odd years instead of building a new business model?
I propose copyright extortionists, as this covers what the lobbyists and industry are trying to do to us and our government.
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"So, the moral of the story is, if you have files you don't want people looking at, it's best to not leave your thumb drives plugged into shared computers. Even better, don't have illegal files in the first place. "
I think the real moral of the story is, if you have child porn AT ALL, you deserve bad things to happen to you.
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Where a little while later when they do give cops guns they kill a poor _unarmed_ Brazilian guy and then try to cover it up?
Yep, sounds totally civilized to me.
Not that I have anything against the citizens of the UK, although their govt. and police leave a lot to be desired.
Worked for me...
the book IS fantastic, and I then later purchased it.
Keep in mind "learning books" are usually more expensive than fiction books, but no regrets it is well worth it, and would I have bought it before I read it... thats a biggg maybe.
If the publishers start thinking like the music industry, its really coming to bite them in the ass.
(Not that it effects people like me in any possible way, there are plenty of neighbors with open wifi or weak WEP and I have a VPN is well)
/iPirate
(untitled comment)
And to make matters worse, you tore ALL their arguments to shreds, couldn't you at least let them have one lie? Just one?
No, you had to knock out all their testicles along with their tentacles from under them.
Ruthless. Utterly ruthless.
Dont you know its "be nice to the slimeballs" month?
Re: Re: WTF?
I needed that laugh, and liked your humor :)
Also listen to the words this guy chooses, words like "consider".
The problem is they think they still have the control of old, or fool themselves into believing so, they dont realize the world has gotten smaller and if they really piss someone off all that someone has to do is take a little while off to scan the whole book and put it on the p2p networks.
Its pretty simple, either meet the demand or... someone is going to meet it for you, and unlike in old, this time there is no monetary gain thats the main motivation... just our ingrained instinct to 'share'.
Re: Re: WTF?
I needed that laugh, and liked your humor :)
Also listen to the words this guy chooses, words like "consider".
The problem is they think they still have the control of old, or fool themselves into believing so, they dont realize the world has gotten smaller and if they really piss someone off all that someone has to do is take a little while off to scan the whole book and put it on the p2p networks.
Its pretty simple, either meet the demand or... someone is going to meet it for you, and unlike in old, this time there is no monetary gain thats the main motivation... just our ingrained instinct to 'share'.
(untitled comment)
(untitled comment)
"And even when those laws don't appear to help and seem ripe for serious human rights violations? Wow. "
I would think you of all people would know these bags of scum and bones (collectively known as the IIPA) better than most people and wouldn't get surprised so easily.
/iPirate
Re: Killer apps and the news papers
STOP right there, because you cant take the final step before lord Job's (useless) army approves your killer app, or denies it giving you no reason or a crappy reason either of which you cant argue with.
And do you honestly think _that_ killer app will be allowed when fruity company is playing the savior to the newspapers?
The more i know about Appl and their iPad the more i love this site: iPadForAniC**t.com (I think you can guess what comes instead of the stars)
(untitled comment)
Shame on you Mike, you just killed a whole bunch of douchebags/industry representatives main argument.
Shame shame.
It is a wonder how their argument changes when they have to pay the artists though.
(untitled comment)
Project Legos would make me turn and take a second, third or fourth look and i would associate it with Lego - a brand whose products i grew up playing with.
Re:
"File sharing funds terrorism"
(untitled comment)
I almost want to stop reading about it... but cant.
So frustrating, wish i could meet one of these "negotiators" to vent a bit.
(untitled comment)
(There ya go ACS,I said it, now send a nastygram to TD, go on,I dare ya... else all of you were born outside of wedlock.)
(untitled comment)
Well if were going to use the term Copyright infringers for those who do so, what shall we call the lobbyists that have been howling "piracy" for the past 20 some odd years instead of building a new business model?
I propose copyright extortionists, as this covers what the lobbyists and industry are trying to do to us and our government.
(untitled comment)
We wrote about this way back in 2008!!!
As usual, the dinos took a couple of years to catch up :))
http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2008/07/11/pirates-the-new-niggers/
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