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UK P2P Fight Brewing
forunder writes "Zeropaid has been covering a very hot topic going on in the UK right now. The government, prodded by entertainment lobbyists, has gotten six UK ISPs to agree to help police piracy on their networks. A leaked government letter says they are looking to cut internet piracy by 80%. In the same week Microsoft released a study which found that some 54% of UK file sharers are between 11-16. The UK's Green Party has already spoken up, calling the new policies an 'Attack on Civil Liberties.'"
You think my bigotry is misplaced?
(Hint - 'a fine old Irish name' is a common piece of sarcasm related to Ashkenazi origin, where I come from.)
Oh, and I'll post as me this time - karma to burn, and I hate Israel and all who support the rotten cesspit that it is.
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
If you don't know enough basic economics to realize that the cost of 10,000,000 people downloading a song on P2P doesn't have real costs to the producer in the form of decreased demand for their products, then you are, quite simply, undereducated in this matter.
To put it in terms that maybe even you can understand:
What do you call the guy who that has the cool new music track that none of his friends have? He's cool.
What do you call the guy who paid for the cool new music track that his friends downloaded for free? He's a sucker.
Economic reality happens in the aggregate. Until you understand this well understood basic principle of life, about as fundamental to economics as numbers are to math or atoms are to chemistry, you really have no business commenting are on anything.