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G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can-only-end-well dept.

arcticstoat writes "Next week, the G8 summit will discuss proposals for new international piracy laws, which include border controls and cooperation from ISPs to identify pirates. The laws will also prevent ISPs from being liable for copyright infringement. If the G8 summit were to agree on these measures and enforce them through international cooperation, could they really cut down piracy, or would they be impractical to enforce?"

17 of 340 comments (clear)

  1. Huh?! by c0l0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the ....?! I thought G8 were working actively _AGAINST_ global warming, and now THIS?!

    Outrageous!

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    1. Re:Huh?! by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually every time you download a song not only are you contributing to terrorism, communism, and kitten killing, the Earth actually heats up by a fraction of a degree. By fighting piracy the G8 are actually fighting global warming.

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    2. Re:Huh?! by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually every time you download a song not only are you contributing to terrorism, communism, and kitten killing

      As a socially conscious person, is there a way I can download songs which only causes kitten killing? :-P

      Cheers

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  2. Only way to kill piracy .... by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... is to hire NINJAS!

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    1. Re:Only way to kill piracy .... by sumdumass · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you got it wrong,

      1: convince people to become nijas.
      2: convince government's they can defeat pirates and lease the nijas to them.
      3: ??? *&@(*@(@*))
      4: profit!

  3. Arrr.... by Illbay · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...ya been sayin' that for nigh on four hunner' years, matey, and ya ain't rid o' us yet, ya lily-livered, wine-bibbin' landlubbers!

    Th' day ya sees th' last o' the jolly roger'll be the end o' yer own civilization, ya pack o' milquetoast swabbies!

    Arrr...!

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    Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
  4. Best of luck, fellas! by mmell · · Score: 5, Funny
    Given the technical literacy of the US government, they'll be lucky if they can even find the internet.

    Don't tell 'em it's hiding in my basement. I downloaded it last week, and had a plummer come and remove the pipes afterward just to keep its location secret.

  5. Arrh! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Avast! By the Neptune's testicles! Man the torrents, me mateys! From Fiddlers Green to Davey Jone's Locker, we'll do battle with these scurvy land lubbers! Climb the mizzen masts and get the black flag a flappin' in the Nor'Easter and WE BE IN DERE INTERTOOBS STEALIN' DERE COPYRITES!

    Whoops. Lapsed from Pirate to LOLCAT there. Me heartys. KTHX!

  6. Re:Religious Persecution! Mod parent FUNNY by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

    This, of course, is a religious view which I will neither refute nor defend in this forum.

          Hah! Unbeliever. As a true FSMer I would gladly give your life for my religion!

          RAmen.

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  7. Re:Apples and oranges by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

    The stegosaurus can do whatever it wants, and the rats can't stop it. The rats, however, will last far longer than the dinosaurs.

    Ah, I see! So what you are saying is that we should be free of annoying DRM in about 200 to 300 million years? Cool!

  8. Re:Religious Persecution! Mod parent FUNNY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    RAmen.

    RAmen? Apostate! Spahgetti is wheat pasta, not an egg noodle!

    I chop your head off!

  9. Re:I'm so happy that by fyoder · · Score: 2, Funny

    To the world's politicians: WHAT THE FUCK??? SERIOUSLY!

    World's politicians to Dunbal: SHOW US THE MONEY!

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  10. *blinks* by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

    My first glance at the page saw 'G8 Summons Ants to kill International Piracy'.

    It would be about as effective as anything else they are going to do. I for one welcome our International Ant Overlords.

  11. Re:Religious Persecution! Mod parent FUNNY by gomiam · · Score: 4, Funny
    But, aren't they both noodly? Don't they get rolled on a fork for eating? Aren't they tasty with a serving of tomato and meat sauce?

    (With excuses to William Shakespeare)

  12. Re:What kind of pirates? by Von+Helmet · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but piracy does fund terrorism.

  13. Re:What kind of pirates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sadly there are far more Data pirates than "Board ye ship" pirates.

    True, but data pirates don't kill people.

    "Data pirates don't kill people, data kills people."

  14. Re:What kind of pirates? by Von+Helmet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whew, close call, I wasn't sure whether I'd wake up to "troll" or "funny".