Well said, I'd like to add:
like you say, copying CD's is illegal. Shawn Fanning was a pirate who wanted to get more pirated music and allow other pirates to download pirated music. I'm a music pirate. The parent "checking up on what his kids are listening to" is a pirate. The 14 year old girl DLing Britney Spears is a pirate. The RIAA and government need to recognise that everybody with a cable modem is partaking in illegal activity as a REACTION to their own greedy ways in packaging and selling intelectual property.
Everybody is getting worked up over another trendy issue. Videogames are an easy target for government and parents groups in this already horribly violent society. I mean has anybody tried to take a shot at cable television lately? How about those NRA infomercials that come on at night? How about our daily dose of footage of war attrocities coming in every night on the six oclock news? Videogames are a tiny component of a much larger picture, and are just being targeted because most people over 30 don't understand them. I could only care about this case if I lived in Indianapolis. BTW my little brother DID get carded at blockbuster trying to rent a resident evil game or something once. Anyway humans always were and always will be prone to violence...deal.
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that's actually 9-10 words, check your math.
Well said, I'd like to add: like you say, copying CD's is illegal. Shawn Fanning was a pirate who wanted to get more pirated music and allow other pirates to download pirated music. I'm a music pirate. The parent "checking up on what his kids are listening to" is a pirate. The 14 year old girl DLing Britney Spears is a pirate. The RIAA and government need to recognise that everybody with a cable modem is partaking in illegal activity as a REACTION to their own greedy ways in packaging and selling intelectual property.
Everybody is getting worked up over another trendy issue. Videogames are an easy target for government and parents groups in this already horribly violent society. I mean has anybody tried to take a shot at cable television lately? How about those NRA infomercials that come on at night? How about our daily dose of footage of war attrocities coming in every night on the six oclock news? Videogames are a tiny component of a much larger picture, and are just being targeted because most people over 30 don't understand them. I could only care about this case if I lived in Indianapolis. BTW my little brother DID get carded at blockbuster trying to rent a resident evil game or something once. Anyway humans always were and always will be prone to violence...deal.