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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. Re: by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just make sure your money is slightly bigger than real money or you might end up in Guantanamo bay.

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  2. Re:i thought scanners won't scan money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, they tend to have the firmware, yes...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

  3. Re: by cplusplus · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can read all the rules about copying money here: Rules For Use

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  4. Re:Genius. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    A digital bit-for-bit copy of a movie has almost the same value as the original dvd/bluray/stream

    Or more. After all, it's probably going to be easier to transcode and use if it isn't on a medium where the reader enforced DRM. Playing back a ripped DVD has several advantages over playing back the original. For example, if I pause the movie for a few minutes and the disk spins down, I get a stutter when I resume with the DVD. I don't with the ripped version, even if it's a bitwise copy. If the machine goes into power-saving mode, the player needs to reauthenticate with the drive, and often fails so the movie skips back to the start with a DVD. It doesn't with the ripped version, even with the CSS intact, because the encryption is handled entirely in software. So, from the perspective of a user, the copy is more valuable...

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  5. Re:Genius. by Capitaine · · Score: 5, Informative

    MPAA and RIAA often argue that piracy is theft. The whole point of this campaign is to illustrate the difference between piracy and theft by providing an example of object which copy is worthless while theft isn't.