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Millions Delete ALL Music Files?
Honig the Apothecary writes "CNN is reporting that millions of people have deleted all the music files from their computers in a story here.
My question is how the hell would they know? Are they substituting "deleted" for the words "disabled sharing with other users"?"
Hi, this is jim joebob from the NPD group. We're doing a little survey to find out how many households have thrown away their pot. Do you still have a stash over 1oz, or have you disposed of all your contraband since the current crackdown went into effect?
Either way, please give me your name and address, and the pattywagon will arrive in 15 minutes.
that downloaded the new britney cd. Coincidence?
Well Duh! Of course we are deleting all the music files from my computer. How else am I going to have enough disk space for all the pirated HD broadcasts I will be downloading?
They're just like me, they burn them onto CDROM instead and then delete the files...TO MAKE ROOM FOR MORE PIRATED MUSIC! [Evil laugh...]
Linux O Muerte!
Thats right horribly evil RIAA lawyers, I deleted my mp3s, so please don't sue me. Its not like I just moved them out of the shared folder or anything. Wait....oh crap.
[Just Shut Up and Do What I say]
>> Millions Delete ALL Music Files?
I delete my thousand music files once a month when I reinstall Windows because the damn OS is so unstable. Over the past year I've deleted 12000 music files, the same ones twelve times.
Of course. To make room for Matrix Revolutions rips, no doubt.
We asked 2 people if they had deleted all their files. 1 said yes, the other said no. We factored that in against the population of the US, # of computer users, # of estimated song downloaders, and then against a .5% factor of error...
Voila 1.4 million people have deleted their music drives. That'll be 5 cents please.
I deleted all the music files from my machine when I reinstalled the OS. Of course, then I loaded them on again from my backup, does that count?
Ya, they deleted it all...
I actually read the article entitled 'Why suing college students for music downloading is right'
I wonder if the writer's RIAA masters gave her a nice treat when that article was finished? Here you go, nice reporter, good reporter, would you like a tummy rub?
Of course, it's not like I actually believed that there was some un-slanted journalism out there, but come on! Surprise me once in a while.
Why oh why didn't I take the purple pill?
AFTER I burned them to CD
Technoli
My PC went beep beep beep and suddenly all my mp3's were gone!
*ducks*
Threadkilling since 1992
Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
Don't forget that CNN is a property of Time Warner. In case you forgot, I'll remind you.
GEEZ!!!! Will you shut up!? We're counting on the fact that the RIAA doesn't know the difference. ;P
Un-news
Anyone else reminded of the communist "Cultural Revolution" in China?
How can a million file deleters be wrong? Delete all YOUR mp3s now!
If you don't all the kids at school are going to make fun of you!
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
Ahem
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Suuuuuurrree now...I can just picture it:
SurveyGuy: Yes, hello. I'm calling in regards to a survey we are conducting. We would like to know if you have deleted all the illegal music files from your computer since the recent RIAA legal proceedings started?
HipHopFreak: Uh...YEAH! I deleted them all, because I really want to pay for all the music I listen too. Really...believe me. I don't have any more illegal music files. REALLY! You don't have to send the cops here...
SurveyGuy: Sir, we're an independent survey company. We will not be involving the police.
HipHopFreak: Uh huh, and that's what the guy who tried to buy my TV said...
For people that actually leave their computers, burning music onto a CD can be handy ;)
Yeah, this reminds me of "surveys" we would take in high school.
Half the kids (the 'good' ones) would never admit to having done drugs, or had sex, even if they had. They were worried that the school would tell their parents somehow, that it wasn't truly anonymous.
The other half of us.. well let's just say that at 14 I was having sex at least twice a day, drinking probably 40 ounces of alcohol a night, and had done crack twice in the past week alone. Oh, and I was also a gay transvestite horse-buggerer (for the surveys that had write-on options).
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
I need space for my divx screener collection dammit !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
"I felt a great disturbance in the kazaa, it was like millions of files cried out at once and then were silent..."
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Isn't that Fox News's Copyrighted slogan? Oh, wait, my bad, it's "Fair and Balanced" news. . .
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
Meh, you just renamed them, didn't you?
I'm sorry about all the confusion. I deleted millions of songs off my computer. I work for Time Warner, so I guess some of my coworkers might have noticed. Sorry about that.
Um...millions of hot cheerleaders have had sex with ME! They obviously had a good reason, and you would hate to upset the status quo, right? In fact, many cheerleaders that have refused to have sex with me have been sued by large faceless corporate conglomerates.
(whoo-hoo!)
"You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo
god, you'll just use any old codec won't you?
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I have 15GB to fill on my iPod and that frees up a heck of a lotta room on my hard drive for more games!
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I quit looking at pr0n too. You have my word on it.
If 1.4 million deleted all their MP3s and we assume the average P2Pirate had 100 illegal MP3s with the well-known value of $2,500 per track, this means RIAA member companies just made a net profit of:
1.4 * 10^6 * 100 * 2500 = 350 billion USD
This happens every 6 months as we all reinstall windows...
;)
On a less serious note, these stories are very important for helping us to understand the credability of the agancies that report them.
+5 Fonzie Cool Points for almost making me spew Diet Pepsi through my nose.
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what the hell is that????
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I once heard that 87.3% of statistics are made up.
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