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Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency

Posted by samzenpus on from the counterfeiting-equipment-not-included dept.

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."

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  1. Valuable Images by gknoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could I send them a drawing of a spider instead?

  2. Re:Genius. by neokushan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just copied this text from another comment:

    Whoosh!

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  3. Re:Genius. by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just copied this text from another comment:

    Whoosh!

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    +1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill

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  4. Re:Felony by joeboomer628 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you MP3 encode them it will reduce them to a legal size.

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  5. Re:Genius. by Anonymous+Psychopath · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  6. Re:Genius. by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can only use a photocopy of money to wipe my ass with since I cannot even buy toilet paper with it.

    I live in Zimbabwe, you insensitive clod!!!!!!

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