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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."
Yes, because every scanner and copier has special firmware and image recognition software as well as a psychic link to a secret government computer (in case they're not online) to receive updates on every change to currency. It's so advanced it can even tell the difference between Monopoly money and Canadian money, something only one in five Americans can do.
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.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
That's a really fucking stupid argument, and you should be embarrassed of even writing it. I wouldn't accept payment in ballpoint pens or shoelaces or live goats either, but that doesn't mean that those things are worthless. It just means that they're illiquid.
Movies have value. They cost money to make, and decent human beings are happy to spend some money to be entertained by them. The "Hurr hurr, they're just ones and zeros!" argument is used by greedy anarchists who want to be able to take everything for free, and blithely assume that creators will go on working for peanuts, and how dare they expect any more?