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French President Busted For Copyright Violation
An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has an interesting take on the story of Nicolas Sarkozy being accused of copyright infringement. The irony, of course, is Sarkozy's pushing of a 3-strikes law — disconnecting from the Internet those accused of file sharing — in France and across the EU. The French president had apparently offered to settle the copyright infringement accusation for one Euro, but the band rejected the offer, calling it an insult. The article notes that each year since 2006, a high-profile anti-piracy entity has been on the wrong end of a copyright infringement notice. In 2008, Sony BMG was sued for software piracy. In 2007, anti-piracy outfit BASCAP received a cease and desist order related to pirated software. And in 2006, the MPAA was accused of pirating 'This Film is Not Yet Rated'."
FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights. I join Slashdot in mocking this hypocrisy, and I look forward to even more pro-piracy articles this week. I live for these stories--every day, I get to make myself feel less guilty for pirating the shit out of everything. After all, it's because of their "obsolete business model!" It's just "free advertising!" Somebody else will pay those artists, through concert tickets or t-shirts or something. I don't really think about it.
The big corporations and the lawmakers are the bad guys here, not me! Artists are my slaves, and they don't deserve shit for their work. As I said, FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights. I'm not doing anything wrong.
Awwwww poor band, they gained nothing by having their music repeatedly exposed to millions of people... â1 was more than they deserved.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, a larger proportion of French people belong to an organized religion than American people.
So while everything you say is (may be) true, you're still just being an anti-American shill instead of truly believing the things you're saying.
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Statement A:
This isn't a discussion over whether America or France is the bigger bully or the most dumbest. The comment I replied to said that Non-Americans don't know that Tallahassee is the capital of Florida, and that it's wrong that American's should by some miracle of geographic genius be expected to know that Paris is the capital of France.
Statement B:
I'm sorry if I've affronted your beliefs, but the acceptance of religious doctrine as fact is ignorant at best, barbaric at worst.
WHAT THE HOLY FUCK DOES B HAVE TO DO WITH A?!
I'm seriously just trying to figure out what you're trying to say here. I still think it's blatant "America sucks!", but I have no clue about your motive... "America sucks, although they couldn't be expected to know every country's capital? Also something about religion I brought up for no reason."
In plain English, what are you trying to say? What does religion have to do with it at all? Why is it significant that 92% of Americans believe in a God? WTF!!
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Compared to France, which has a HIGHER rate of people belonging to organized religions?
Look, I understand that that's what you're TRYING to say: "oh those fucking stupid pig Americans, god damn they are such fucking idiots, I despise them so much I'm going to write anti-American posts in topics that have absolutely nothing to do with the US." That's what you're going for.
But after my pointing out that the country discussed IN THE ARTICLE is more religious than the US, what is your point? Or is your point that you don't care that your point is completely invalid?
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