MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download

nam37 writes with this BoingBoing snippet "The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA's spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket receipts)."

Comments

Re:Safe Harbor

[Monkeedude1212]

The making guns illegal part. Spines and brains irrelevant.

Re:okay

[b4dc0d3r]

Ah yes, your counterargument technically meets the criteria, however is so unlikely that you have outed yourself as a complete idiot.

Running/potable water is one of those things that sets "developing" countries from "world power" countries, and no governmnet would shut that down without a really good reason.

You're talking about a monarchy where you decide to shut off the water. That's no government, and completely unrelated.

Re:okay

[h4rm0ny]

And what sort of punishment do you think would be appropriate for you after you'd deprived someone of water for expressing an opinion you didn't like?

Re:There must be something more

[DBCubix]

Coshocton County is mostly Amish. So I guess the bishop caught wind of wi-fi's, laptops and generator using Amish and put his foot down shutting down this devil-laden network!