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RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5
Two bits of news in the ongoing battle between the RIAA/MPAA and the rest of the internet: One P2P company, apparently based in Palestine, has thrown down the gauntlet to the movie industry. Meanwhile, a developer of another P2P tool who unwisely chose to live in the USA has been shut down (mirror) by the RIAA.
Do they mean Palestine, Texas... or Palestine, West Virginia?
Wait! Maybe they mean the middle-eastern country "Palestine" that the Jordanians and Egyptians gave to their Arab brothers when they controlled 100% of Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem from 1948-1967.
(oh, wait a second, that never happened...)
It saddens me as a developer that you can't even deign to write a P2P add without the assumption that it will be used for sharing copyrighted materials and thus shut down by the RIAA/MPAA.
Unfortunately your argument is full of shit. The idea that such applications "can" be used for legal purposes vs. the reality that this is VERY unlikely, blows huge holes in your fantasy. It's like walking into a liquor store toting a sawed of shotgun, sure you MIGHT be on your way to shoot some skeet, but is that really that likely? NOPE.
People, you need to stop lying to yourselves on this point. YOU know as does the RIAA/MPAA that the reality is you want to download copyrighted stuff for free. Making thin arguments to the contrary only makes you look like an idiot.
Have you missed the x month old palestinians the israelis have murdered (thanks to our tax dollars)?
Or are they the wrong racial background for you to give a shit.
look at the figures, more palestinians have been killed than israelis, and it is their land after all.
poor bastards.
Bush and Blair ate my sig!
Next time I'll just steal them.
Its not really stealing y'know, cause if I like them then next time i'll pay for them so really the twinky folks will make money this way. It costs them almost nothing to kake those things y'know so its really not stealling since I think they over charge. The fact that I'm willing to pay that much for them doesn't really mean they are worth that. common sense.
Oh and the reason I had to eat the whole box I did buy was that since I had already paid my money I did not want to stop in the middle of it even though I already know I would not like it.
what was my point. Oh yeah everything should be free, I dont need to use my judgement, I never learn from my mistakes or take steps to avoid them, and its all about me. music video and twinkies all free to me. yeah that's it.
if people cant make stuff I like it should be free.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
The UN offered the Palestinian people the same land which they're now complaining about not having back when Israel was formed. In response, the arab states convinced the Palestinian people to vacate their land (which they did - there was no Israeli policy which stated they had to leave and no occupied land was destroyed) and attack Israel to regain control. They lost the war.
Just so you remember, Israel is given that large defense budget because they've been attacked more times than any other nation in the last 55 years, all by their surrounding neighbors. People like to bring up the fact that Israel has an enormous US defense grant while at the same time failing to realize that Israel has never once started one of the wars that it has participated in.
Your point is well taken - Israelis have killed Palestinians in the violence. However, it should be noted that there has never been a strike against an unimportant figure. Never do you see in the news: Israel kills busload of Palestinian schoolchildren. Why? It doesn't happen. Also remember that there have been many failed suicide bombing attemps - many - which are all recorded as Palestinian fatalities.
I don't support killing anyone, but before you talk out of your ass, do it with some background in the subject.
you know the RIAA pulls all their loss figures from what you *WOULD* have paid for the entire album if all you got was one song... Artists have long made their money from touring on concert and product endorsement and other venues outside of selling their music (and last time I checked no one on MTV Cribs was living in the gutter, unlike many of the people they claim empathy with/for) so I say: Fuck 'Em; Fuck 'Em Long and Hard with properly heated, wrought iron, not a single smoooth surface rods and watch them writhe around in agony slowly dying, fuck the RIAA, fuck the MPAA and fuck their puppet Senators (I'm looking at you Fritz)
as an OT note, your sig about Randi is dead on, he avoids people with real proof of the otherworldly like a plague, he makes a healthy living being as big a fraud as the people he purports to "debunk" and someone needs to set his beard on fire as well (yes fire IS the answer)
especially a brain dead former coke fiend
Clinton is already out of office...
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What the fuck are you waiting people??? The original post is complete crap but it gets moderated as "Interesting" rising ridiculous "There's a bomb in the room that's gonna blow everything in ten second. Hmmm, what I'll have for dinner tomorrows night??" questions and when the answer comes up - nobody.
1. No sig. 2. ???? 3. Profit!!!
As you know, every Israeli hates every Palestinian. It's like cats and dogs. Five minues can't go by without one of them pulling the other's hair. There's NO way that an Israeli would cooperate with a Palestinian (or the other way around!) to get an Internet connection. Also, satellites don't fly over that area of the world, so there's no way they can get Internet access that way.