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MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism
GuyMannDude writes "[Yesterday's] Oversight Hearing on "International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism" featured the MPAA and Microsoft testifying that software and movie DVD counterfeiting is an acute problem, with criminal gangs operating factories in Russia, Malaysia and other countries that have weak copyright laws. They further claim that intellectual property piracy is a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror." There's another article about the hearing at Infoworld.
Wait.......since when did Microsoft become the ANTI-terrorists?
Give it a look
Yeah and Osama Bin Laden is sittin in a cave in Afghanistan with a buncha cds and a burner!
...then the terrorists have already won!
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Piracy might fund terrorists, but Hollywood is where they get their bombs from.
How does stealing something for free FUND terrorism? It can't. Lesson here kiddies, it's okay to steal for free. Don't be stupid and buy things.
Are they sure they ought to be jumping on it like that?
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
This just in:
Breathing supports terrorism. Scientists have just discovered that if you breath oxygen, you are in fact taking away necessary, life giving resources, namely oxygen from those who fight the terrorists.
The public is now being asked to refrain from breathing so that the counter-terrorists do not run out of oxygen (although is was also recommended that if you are around any terrorist you should try to use as much oxygen as possible, because we believe that terrorists also use oxygen to live).
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
Hot off of the press...
Commerce funds terrorism!
For the love of the DMCA-Bush-MPAA-alliance, how long does it actually /take/ to equate everything under the sun to an act of terrorism!?!
Come on people, we need to start whipping out these unfounded defacements quicker!
We've already renamed 'French fries' in the capital, but that may not be enough, we actually have to stand up in a court of Bush^H^H^H^Law and accuse anyone that still refers to them as 'French' as being a TERRORIST!
Ha! That'll teach them! Now I must go formulate my plan to charge all McDonalds franchises as terrorist havens thanks to their newly proposed WiFi!
-VolVE
Because, with all the money saved on a pirated copy of MS Office, you can afford to go on vacation.
If Microsoft and the MPAA were to release everything under the public domain, there would be nothing to pirate. Ergo, terrorism would end.
Seems like a good solution for everyone. Microsoft and the MPAA, I implore you to end terrorism! Only you can do it!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
I like to listen to mp3's and watch SVCD's in my SUV while I am high.
from the no-evidence-required-or-desired dept.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Local twelve year-old boy downloads "Lord of the Rings: Two Towers" dvd-rip. Later sends love letters to Osama and Saddam. Young lad is rumored to be single-handedly responsible for the September 11 attacks.
More at 4:20.
I have never laughed so hard in my life.
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Wait . . . driving a car funds terrorism . .
Where can we go from there . .
So speeding and using too much fuel which funds terrorists is a terrorist act.
waahahahahaha
maybe I'm reading into this wrong, but isn't the MPAA/MS the ones funding terrorism?
Some group in Russia is stealing software/DVDs and selling them for profit, that money is going to terrorist groups (supposedly). Is this my fault? Not really. I've never paid money for pirated software, so I know I'm not supporting anyone.
It looks to me like MICROSOFT is the culprit. They're the ones putting software out there to be pirated. The MPAA is releasing DVDs that are getting pirated. Funny, I've never heard of anyone making money pirating linux CDs.
So, listen to Microsoft. Stop supporting piracy. Support open source.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Here comes the DMCTA ... The Digital Millenium Copyright Terrorist Act.
We all knew Napster was domestic terrorism.
So does that mean when you BUY microsoft products youre supporting terrorism? Support free linux today!
And how is that different that buying M|cro$oft products that fund the BSA?
Microsoft software "indirectly" funding terrorism? Well there is an easy solution! Just GPL all MS software. The price would drop to $0 and the terrorists would be deprived of a source of revenue.
Come on, Bill. Do your part.
So, driving to work in my Lincoln Navigator while smoking dope and listening to my pirated copy of Rage Against the Machine was probably not the best way to start the day?
Milo
All children will be confiscated and raised in state-run facilities in a standard ISO Certified Environment. Care takers will work in pairs and those pairs rotated on a regular basis. Any hint of subversion (IE: Mentioning any form of religion, attempting to molest or otherwise mishandle the children, etc) will be reported and punished appropriately. Secret police agents will be rotated into the caretaker list from time to time to insure that caretakers are reporting suspecious behavior on the part of their co-workers. Any form of religion will not be mentioned and critical thinking skill development will be encouraged.
Forcing the interbreeding of the diverse races will also be a long term goal of the regime. At some point the state would probably find it necessary to require citizens to breed across racial lines, until everyone is a single ISO Certified color of Tan. Personally I think this is the only way to resolve the Israel/Palestinian problem too, but I have yet to find a way to a position to force the issue in those populations.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
is that you should create your own pirate copies at home, rather than chance buying a pirate copy that could fund terrorism.
Serving your airship needs since 1995.
No wonder I always get stomped by the arabs while playing my pirated copy of C&C generals, al quaeda musta funded it.....
Education is the silver bullet.
Sorry, I always confuse Steven Segal and Kermit the Frog.
Maybe we should push file-sharing as a road to a solid career in organized crime.
The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach
This doesn't surprise me one bit.
In the early 1980s, I tried a similar tactic with my parents. I was hooked on video games, and attempted to explain that if I didn't get an Atari 2600, they'd be funding terrorism.
I also explained the lack of quarters for the Aladdin's Castle in the mall was probably funding terrorism. When I wanted a TRS-80 Model I Level II computer and my parents refused, I urged them to rethink their stance. "Not buying the computer probably means you're funding terrorism."
My dad looked at me, told me to go to my room and not come out for a while. From behind my bedroom door, I yelled out that by grounding me, they were supporting the Soviets in Afghanistan. By not purchasing the Mattel 'Big Trak' remote control car I coveted, they were essentially supporting the Argentinians in the Falkland Island dispute. But they held firm.
When, many years later, my parents refused to fund the purchase of my first automoble (a little Buick Opel), I wondered whether or not their recalcitrance wasn't actually helping Manuel Noreiga in Panama. I explained that by refusing to do what I asked was probably assisting rogue regimes across the globe.
And now, take a look around. The North Koreans are threatening to rain missiles down on America's cities. Sadaam Hussein is sitting in his bunker with some sweet tea, watching Tony Blair struggle for his political life. General Idi Amin Dada is still exiled in Saudi Arabia, but I'm betting he's got a funding pipeline that comes directly from all those times my parents refused to give me five dollar bills so that I could go to Aladdin's Castle and get the five extra tokens when you stuck a five dollar bill in the cash machine.
The rise of rogue regimes is the direct results of doing things I didn't want done. Microsoft is absolutely right.
...if only our elected officials had the cojones to say it out loud.
The black market in software and pirated DVDs only exists because there is a profit to be made by selling those pirated items.
If you make it possible to obtain those items without paying for them (i.e. P2P networks), then there's no profit to be made by selling individual discs!
Thus: Napster, Kazaa, and Gnutella are fighting the war on terror!
Just ban Microsoft, since it supplies the software being pirated.
I guess we now have to ask, "What would Jesus download?"
I think we all know the answer to that question...
Blink-182, of course!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
"What do you do if you buy some weed from a dealer and it turns out to be catnip and oregano? Call the cops?"
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You could give it to your cat and it'd love you forever. Always a silver lining
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