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Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy
Bowie J. Poag notes this Register story about an RIAA copyright infringement bust in New York. The RIAA claims the operation had the equivalent of 421 CD-burners, which, translated from RIAA-speak, means "156 CD-burners but some of them were fast". How they expect anyone to take their statistics seriously is beyond me.
...does that mean I have half a cd burner?
This is the equivilant of 40 first posts, isn't it?
If we pirate 1,000 songs but all of them were crap, we're innocent?
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This first post is being sent over a cable modem and is like 15 regular first posts!
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How they expect anyone to take their statistics seriously is beyond me.
Who, the RIAA's or The Register's?
(ba-dum-bum-cha!)
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Is that like 'the equivalent of being pregnant'?
Either they're capable of writing CD-Rs, or they're not, sheesh.
It is mathematics like this that allow companies such as Worldcom and Enron to cook their books.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
So does this mean that if I pay twice as much as I should for a CD (as we all do with the industry's fixed pricing) that I've really bought the equivalent of two CD's?
In accordance with the RIAA logic, I can now beat any speeding ticket by claiming to have the equivalent of more than one car! For example, if I were busted doing 60 in a 20, I can claim I have three cars. After all, it's 3x faster than the average driver travels through such a zone. Stands to reason that I simply have the equivalent of 3 cars driving at a legal speed and therefore I am innocent.
Yeah... I think that'll work...
Would someone PLEASE bust them for lying. I can't even consider this "spin doctoring." You can't make a claim with any amount of seriousness that a "fast" cd writer is the equivalent of two or more "average speed" drives. I can't decide which is worse: Scientology or the RIAA.
So now if I gnutella on a T3 am I suddenly stealing 28x the music because it's "really fast"?!
Just another sign of these idiots' attempts to ignore the progress of technology out of sheer stupidity and too much laziness to develop new business models that embrace it.
They have 800 CD burners, but most of them are slow.
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Maybe the same thing will happen to the RIAA that happened to WorldCom and Enron.
As much as I respect Disraeli (beyond this very famous phrase), I think these are not even statistics. The RIAA just looks like a bunch of fucking morons.
Sorry for the language.
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The automotive insurance companies must use the same "math", and since my car is so fast they are charging me like I have two (possible three :-) )...
...we would say they that it's the equivalent of 0.36 FAST CD-Rs.
Doesn't add up. RIAA's math skills should be used to power interstellar space ships.
0110100100100000011000010110110100100000011000100
Glad we just had a threat about these new drives - do they count tripple?
to be exact, 91.73% of all statistics out there are dubious. Get your facts straight before posting! ;)
I have a Ferrari F40 so really I have 4 Ford Sedans.
I thought this sort of math was only applied to drug busts.
"We estimate the marijuana had a street value of 4.5 million dollars."
(Yes, if you sold it one eighth at a time to desperate, confused rich people.)
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
A man who fucks for 15 minutes before delivering the cream to the woman, result in a baby.
Therefor, a man who fucks for 5 minutes before delivering the cream to the woman, must result in triplets.
Of course, we're just talking about successful cases here... and I don't want to think about the poor guys who comes after 30 seconds...
he has a way to produce their product cheaper. isn't capitalism supposed to reward this kind of thing?
This comment is so long a boring it seems like three boring comments in a row.
Glad I did, they are awesome.
Are you serious?
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I can't wait until next week, when my processor is so fast that Microsoft decides that my single processor is the "equivalent of a quad processor," so that I need Windows 2k Server instead of 2k Pro.
You realize they are already doing that with hyperthreading processors, right?
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The guy clearly wanted to make sure he had a copy of each of his CDs in every room he may visit in the rest of his life.
now he only need one copy because he will visit one room for a looooong time
LESSON 1
156 = 421 for extremely large values of 156...
Does that mean your Ferrari breaks down 8 times more often?
I wonder what the SI unit of a CDRW is? Is my $75 40x really worth 2.7 $40 16x CDRWs? If so, could I sell my drive as 2.7 drives on eBay and get $108?
I don't understand why they felt the need to inflat an already large figure. Even 156 drives is a freaking large amount of drives.
the Brazilian national soccer team has been retroactively disqualified from the World Cup finals, after reports surfaced that they had the equivalent of twelve players on the field during the match, instead of the regular eleven.
does MP3/P2P equal (1.5M)/P ?
And those three individuals were actually fifty four guys but they have rights equivalent of three normal citizens.
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Hilary Rosen is the equivalent of 22 regular greedy corporate whores
...at midway through a burn, is your cd half empty or half full? If you are burning it in an empty house, and the burn hoses up, and you scream, does anybody hear? Honestly, I think those RIAA folks are doing the more of the good drugs their talent does.
Hey everyone hit reload and we can DDOS the RIAA. Join me it will be fun
They just read the numbers and multiplied them.. 24 X 2 X .... = 421
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Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
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Quick, someone get the name and address of everyone who's ever worked for the RIAA and post it to Slashdot!
I only do half the time?
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In the settlement of a class action suit against the RIAA for violations of the RICO Act, it was ruled that the effectiveness of their monopolistic practices made them the equivalent of 12 billion criminals. Sentencing is rumored to include requiring the RIAA to engage in distributing free music as a public service for an infinite duration.
Ooo, and cars, don't forget cars - after all, it's possible to commit a crime with a car. Add baseball bats to your list too. And chainsaws. And axes. And duct tape. And knives. And pencils. And hammers. And piano wire. And cement. And syringes. And ...
Guns don't kill people any more than spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
go download a bunch of illegal music
what does illegal music sound like? i'm not familiar with that particular genre...