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Illegal File Trading Draws Two P2P Raids In Europe
had3l writes "Police in Finland raided the operation of a popular Bit Torrent site and arrested 34 people, 30 of which were volunteers who helped moderate the site. This comes right after the MPAA reported that it would start suing tracker servers." An anonymous reader points to a story (currently at the top of RespectP2P.org's homepage) about the raid yesterday morning of Dutch eDonkey sites Releases4u and Shareconnector.
This is good> .
No matter how stupid the P2P laws are, it is good when they are enforced. It is not anyone's right to break the law, no matter how silly the law is.
And I bet you would just love intellectual property laws if you had any intellectual property.
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When you can sign up for Netflix and get them delivered to your home for about 66 cents each!
I have a couple reasons why:
1. I don't want to be on a monthly payment plan ($17.99 or something) where I have to get 7 movies in that month in order to be paying less than renting the movies at the video store.
2. Netflix's commercials annoy me. Standing in line at a store? Who the fuck does that? I have never waited to rent a movie and honestly, putting them into the mail takes longer for me than does going to the video store that's less than two miles away.
3. Downloading movies is free. 66 cents each still costs more than downloading them.
4. They come in a format that is all ready to be played on your computer (if you so desire) instead of having to wait to convert the 4GB to that format yourself.
Finally some information between all those " i cannot get my warez fix anymore" whining.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Yea. It's kinda like saying that since he only wanted a sip of the Pepsi it was OK for him to take the bottle.
Yea yea, it's not actual theft in this case...
So, how about downloading music then. You only wanted one track out of the CD so you pirated it instead. OK then?
Its not convenient for me to walk downtown, so I'll borrow someone's car without permission.
America, leading the world in math and english
America invented the personal computer, without which you wouldn't have a forum to spew your anti-American hate. They also invented the light bulb, bringing light to the world. They also invented the sewing machine. So America has clothed the world, brought light to the world, and given them the information age. This is what we get in return? Your hatred?