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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.
...rich people ought to be able to do whatever they want, even if that means using their vast financial resources to keep their sinking ship of a distribution model afloat.
You would not be harassed by corporations.
you bet ur ass !! i have too much time at work :D
"if i'd known it was harmless, i'd have killed it myself"
Haaa... maybe the be^H^H^H^H THe bETTer gAMe in tHe wORLd!
-Woof woof woof!
I can thikn of at least two responses which can get +5 funny:
If palestinians are against MPAA I'm ready to take up arms in defense of this good old organization which works hard to provide entertainment to the ungreatful american youth.
OR
And again our palestinian brothers are the only ones who can stand up to the jewish agression against everything that is sacred to us. Damn jews own... etc, you get the idea.
Do I get +10 funny?
I passed the Turing test.
The SCO Group responds to Torvalds
"...Resistance is futile and we are now in control."
Someone has been watching too many Star Trek reruns...
So if P2P is the Borg, does that make the federation the future of the RIAA/MPAA??
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Stock buyers are such idiots hehe
1. Get the RIAA/MPAA to go after SCO
2. ???
3. Profit!
Its 11:15 EST... Where the heck is our daily SCO story, huh?
There's a story about how Darl had to make the excruciating decision to remove his critically ill child from life-support.
Micheal's going to title it "SCO advocates baby killing."
It'll go really well with yesterday's gem where he accused the MPAA of shutting down text messaging.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
will soon extradite these people to the US so they can be prosecuted - that or blow them apart in a helicopter raid
I'm with ya man. The NERVE of some people, trying to arrest HEROES and FREEDOM-FIGHTERS* whose only crime ("crime" is such a strong word - more like "minor social inconvenience") is blowing up buses full of 7 year-old schoolchildren while carrying dozens of picklejars full of nails and screws so that the scrapnel rips apart as much human flesh as possible. (I mean, that fucking 6-month old baby girl on the cover of the NY Post yesterday woulda taken out the suicide bomber if he hadn't taken her out first - he did it in self defense! and now Israel has the nerve to try and arrest the organizers of that heroic act???).
*Note: I support the roadmap and i 100% believe there should be a palestine, and I am not in favor of harrasement of innocent, non-violent Palestinians (i DO fully support their right to protest, dissent, etc) - oh yeah, and i'm jewish and lived in israel for a while
welcome our new republican overlords!
(not!)
Which terrorists, Hammas or the Israeli army?
allah akbar! -BOOM-
to the mods: your mom is flamebait you ass eating monkey trolls
The popular trend has been total and utter disenfranchisement of the Palestinian people. Deprive them of unity as a state (no Palestinian State) and deprive them of the unity as a race (Semites only means Jews). It is subtle, but a strange movement to erase the Palestinians.
Sure lots of Palestinians are bad people, but lots are good people and lots of somewhere inbetween. Why write off an entire ethnicity? Sounds like defacto ethnic cleansing.
I didn't think I did (criticize Israel)... at least not directly. The USA is at fault in my opinion. Without the aid of my government this crap wouldn't still be happening in Palestine. I mean, have you ever stop framed news footage from the fighting in the Middle East? You ever notice how much USA military hardware is being used by any and all sides in these conflicts?
Sure lots of USA killing machines are used by Israel, but you will also see Palestinians using USA machine guns, though they mainly use AKs. Oh and don't even get me started on the WMDs that Sadaam had in the late 80s and early 90s... the ones he used to kill thousands of Kurds, Shias, and Iranians.
Its just strange that people think that giving out weapons to two people that want to fight eachother is somehow supposed to pacify the situation. Hell, if you were at a bar in the states and a fight was about to break out, but before it did you gave both people a gun... I think you would end up in jail with everyone that ended up fighting.
Why does the world continue to put up with the terrorist groups among the Palestinian people? Why do the Palestinian people put up with it?
I think every country in the world should send a small army to Israel and join them in dragging members of Islamic Jihad and Hamas out in the street to be shot (along with Arafat). We've put up with the shit for waaaay too long, and I'm sick and fucking tired of it (and I don't even live there).
After the systematic execution of these terrorists, the international forces should establish a hard border between Israel and the newly formed Palestinian state (consisting of a DMZ made up of hog farms), and assist Palestine in building schools, hospitals, and vital infrastructure. Israel should be assurred that if they attempt to build settlements beyond their border they will be blown to next week.
They obviously are not able to handle this issue themselves (either side). The world should step in and settle it for good.
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