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Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency
An anonymous reader writes "In response to the still-raging MPAA & RIAA, a kind of reverse piracy campaign has arisen. The "Send Them Your Money" campaign urges pirates and landlubbers alike to send scanned images of American currency to these agencies. According to the campaign's webpage, 'They've made it very clear that they consider digital copies to be just as valuable as the original.' The operation gained fame via sites like Reddit and Tumblr, inspiring citizens of other countries to send their legal tender to the MPAA and RIAA."
Could I send them a drawing of a spider instead?
Compose a song and send them a recording, then ask for change.
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"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Yeah I tried that once, it said something had performed an illegal operation and my whole PC shut down!
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If you MP3 encode them it will reduce them to a legal size.
JoeR
Or you could helpfully send a copy of the currency to the Secret Service and report the *IAA for incitement to counterfeiting.
That's kinda the point.
That you missed.
Now who's the moron?
I'm still missing the point, then. Is this not an attempt to make a statement that copied money is equivalent to copied files? Please explain what I've missed, since I'm so stupid and you're so smart.
It's making a statement that by the way MPAA & RIAA considers virtual copies of a film/game/song to be worth as much as the original, you might as well put the same logic to currency. Which doesn't make sense the same way that virtual copies of a film/game/song being worth as much as the original.
I can get the same entertainment value from a copy of a movie or song as I can from the original. It can even be argued that a copy is even more valuable than the original, because it's easier to use on whatever device I prefer due to lack of DRM. I didn't enjoy the movie or song any less because it was a copy since the quality of the experience was the same or better.
I can only use a photocopy of money to wipe my ass with since I cannot even buy toilet paper with it. I do not enjoy the copy at all because I couldn't use it as currency and all it did is hurt my ass.
How are those two things at all similar?
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
I live in Zimbabwe, you insensitive clod!!!!!!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I made a more or less faithful digital representation of a different comment and then changed the specific wording so as to make it not an exact duplicate of the original one in order to avoid any sort of copyright infringement lawsuit, and I feel as though it was time well spent.
Does a blank DVD has the same value as a movie DVD? Of course not, the movie DVD is more valuable
Depends on the movie.. at least you can put your own content on a blank :)