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Teknogeek writes "The BSA says piracy is thriving. At least, according to this article. Note one interesting statistic: '...the group found that 57 percent of respondents never or seldom pay for copyrighted works they download. And 12 percent admitted to pirating software.' How much do you want to bet that 45 percent gap is freeware and/or open source?" On a similar note, an Anonymous Coward writes: "MIT Technology Review reports on the process of scanning the entire internet for digital signatures matching copyrighted work (watermarking not required), and automatically emailing threats to the offenders and their ISPs."
Only 57% of users save pr0n? disappointing...
"No, man, I was just hostin' it for a friend, man!"
Since when did the Boy Scouts become software police?
Also from the article:
In a study of 1,026 Web users released Wednesday, the group found that 57 percent of respondents never or seldom pay for copyrighted works they download. And 12 percent admitted to pirating software.
I dont' believe it. We need a new poll
Have you bought copies of a copyrighted work?
-Never, everything I buy is original
-I don't buy, but I have free copies
-I copy when the price is too high, I copy stuff that I would never buy
-I copy everything I can, even when I can pay
(see how I don't use the term "pirate"?) I don't know who to send this poll proposal
Kilroy was here!
> What about giving them /dev/urandom for downloading?
And get busted for eventually supplying every copyrighted digital work ever produced?
AHAHAH .. so you sit 20 (okay, just one) /dev/urandom devices down on a keyboard and get Shakespeare? Man, thats even cheaper than the monkeys I'm employing now ...
"Old man yells at systemd"
If Tom Cruise ever showed up at my door and accused me of "thinking", I'd remind him of Scientology and breaking up with Nicole Kidman, and then bitchslap him with a salmon and then an aardvark.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
I got a funnier idea: go ahead and put up some copyrighted material. Configure the webserver to ONLY offer the material to the Cyveillance netblocks. When they send you the DMCA takedown notice, compose your response and deny that the material exists. Only Cyveillance will see it. Everyone else - including your ISP - will agree with you that the material does not seem to exist, despite Cyveillance's claims.
Could be fun if repeated over and over!
RIAA dude: Hey, Cyveillance guy, why are you billing us for all these takedown notices where the material never actually existed? I went to look at some of these sites myself and despite my fervent wish to nail somebody for something, nothing was there.
Cyveillance guy: TILT
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