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Pew Study: File Traders Don't Care About Copyright
An anonymous reader writes "A recent poll by the Pew Internet and American Life Project focused on that portion of the file trading community that is over 18. The major finding is that two-thirds of all file traders in this age bracket are not concerned about violating copyright laws. This remained consistant even when they split up the respondents by sex, income, and race."
Windows is insecure? Warez dudes like to crack software? RIAA is evil?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Did anybody else see this coming from the "No Duh" category?
A recent /. study shows that anonymous cowards don't care about karma.
This is why I have proposed to our representative in Congress, Mr. Berman and Mr. Hollings, that copyright violations be made punishable by death.
A new force will be recruited from among our friends at BayTSP, MediaDefender, and our more clandestine operatives to man squads carrying automatic weapons. These will be authorized by Congress to carry out summary executions against those sharing our property via P2P networks.
Perhaps this will engender the respect our copyrights deserve.
Note to RIAA: we will dance on your grave.
And we shall dance to whatever we happen to get off kazaa at the time...
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
But I come here for the trolls, you insensitive clod!
Another proud carrier of the $rtbl flag
Shut up. Tux is much sexier than any of those whores.
Well, let's see here. File sharing of copyrighted material is becoming a felony. Let's follow the trend, shall we?
... and 4 CDs. Get's charged with a felony. What are the best defenses for felony charges?
Some file sharer get's caught with 200GB of music
Addiction/Insanity!
Lawyer: Your honor, my client is addicted to music. His income is insufficient to purchase the music legally so he trades online.
Judge: Six months in rehab, two years probation. *bang*
RIAA Lawyer: *stunned bunny look*
In other news, I had an mp3, named after a particular Metallica song, of my voice [...] Now, that's been downloaded hundreds of times.
;)
Well, maybe people just like the sound of your voice.
A)I don't think I'll get caught.
B)I don't even thinka bout it.
C)I am fighting the RIAA
D)All of the above.
E)Cowboy Neal told me to do it.
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If 9 years later those images that I took go into the public domain, I will be forever working to maintain a barely-decent level of income.
Man, I feel your pain. If I don't go out and work today I won't get paid next week either.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.