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Pew Study: File Traders Don't Care About Copyright

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the related-study-finds-sugar-is-sweet dept.

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."

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  1. But do file traders care about hot BSD chicks?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!

    You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!

    With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

  2. Pew Stinks !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ha ha I made a funny

  3. A modest proposal to curb the troll flood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    In the face of the ever worsening signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot, I propose a following solution:

    1) The bulk of the noise is by posted by the anonymous cowards. Eliminate anonymity.

    2) In order to prevent people from creating multiple trolling accounts and accompanying karma-whore accounts (for moderating up the trolls), tie every account to a one specific IP.

    These two solutions will still not prevent a technologically adept troll, a minority as they might be, from spoiling the serious discussions on Slashdot. To further improve the anti-troll tactics, a more drastic measure has to be taken:

    3) Each individual has his/her personal style of writing. In fact, there exist algorithms and software for identifying an anonymous author by using his previous, non-anonymous posts. In the arts such algorithms have been used with great success to determine fake works by "Shakespeare" or some other famous author. By collecting the posts of well-known trolls into a database, we can cross correlate both anonymous and fake IP accounts with each specific troll. This enables the site administrators to take legal action against these die-hard career trolls.

    I have mailed this proposal to Rob Malda and, to my great pleasure, I already received reply that promised to take these measures under serious consideration. He did say, however, that more positive feedback from the subscriber userbase is required and I should make my proposal public. So, if you feel that it is imperative to reduce the noise on Slashdot, please drop Rob a mail telling how you feel about my proposal.
  4. Well duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (See subject line.)

  5. in other news. by Kewjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pew (pronounced poo) stinks.

  6. A modest proposal to stop the flood of trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    In the face of the ever worsening signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot, I propose the following solution:

    1) The bulk of the noise is by posted by the anonymous cowards. Eliminate anonymity.

    2) In order to prevent people from creating multiple trolling accounts and accompanying karma-whore accounts (for moderating up the trolls), tie every account to a one specific IP.

    These two solutions will still not prevent a technologically adept troll, a huge minority as they might be, from spoiling the serious discussions on Slashdot. To further improve the anti-troll tactics, a more drastic measure has to be taken:

    3) Each individual has his/her personal style of writing. In fact, there exist algorithms and software for identifying an anonymous author by using his previous, non-anonymous posts. In the arts such algorithms have been used with great success to determine fake works by "Shakespeare" or some other famous author. By collecting the posts of well-known trolls into a database, we can cross correlate both anonymous and fake IP accounts with each specific troll. This enables the site administrators to take legal action against these die-hard career trolls.

    I have mailed this proposal to Rob Malda and, to my great pleasure, I already received reply that promised to take these measures under serious consideration. He did say, however, that more positive feedback from the subscriber userbase is required and I should make my proposal public. So, if you feel that it is imperative to reduce the noise on Slashdot, please drop Rob a mail telling how you feel about my proposal!