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Piracy More Serious Than Bank Robbery?
An anonymous reader writes sends us to Ars Technica for a dissertation on how detached and manipulative the discussion about copyright is becoming. "NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing, when it should be doing something about piracy instead. 'Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned,' Cotton said. 'If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year.'" Ars points out how completely specious that "hundreds of billions" is.
Ok, ok, not FP.
Why would you think you had first post? There are a lot of comments before yours. And why does it matter if you're the first person to leave a comment- is it some sort of recognition you desire? It seems like putting "First post" into your message, then NOT being the first comment in the thread pretty much makes you look like a complete idiot... the opposite of what you're desperately trying to achieve.