you will notice of course, that portugal's efforts are aimed at reducing drug use
in other words, their tactics are different, but the goal is the same: reduce drug use
so there will always be a war on drugs, forever. in fact, there always was a war on drugs. tactics change, but reducing drug use in society is merely a constant maintenance function of civilization, like taking out the trash every thursday, that will never end. you don't declare a "war on garbage" and clean your apartment up once, and never again have to worry about garbage. no, that's not the nature of the problem. same with drugs: its not some sort of "war" you win once and never have to fight again. no, its a constant low grade clean up effort
so yes: the notion of a "war" on drugs is stupid, but whatever you call it ("the cleanup on drugs", "the trash collection on drugs"?) you must realize something absolutely true: the reduction of drug use is an effort that will never end, whatever the tactics, forever
and if you don't know why drug use has to be constantly cleaned up, you don't know much about your world and human nature
but if you say something like caffeine should be legally equal to something like methamphetamine, such a world has downsides even worse than the war on drugs
could you please explain the riddle of schrodinger's chicken?
it laid an egg, and yet it did not lay an egg, and the egg, that may or may not exist, possibly hatched a chicken, which may or may not be the same chicken that laid the egg, because we don't know which came first, if either came at all. and then schrodinger killed the chicken, or maybe he didn't, and nobody knows what the hell he might have or might not have done to the egg, whether or not he killed the chicken, that may or may not have come first. perhaps in an alternate timeline in copenhagen
in which, taking full advantage of the freedoms of the west to say anything you want, you say that there is no freedom at all. or no difference with regimes that frequently jail people for political crimes
this is what happens in china when you express a political opinion:
but you can sit here, talk about all the bullshit idiotic political ideas you want, and, short of threatening someone's life, no one will care. no one's going to punish you, no one's going to control your mind
proof?
the proof is you felt perfectly comfortable writing the mental diarrhea you just wrote, and no one is going to knock on your door, and you know it, because you live in the west. and yet you assert your reality is the exact opposite. why do you do this? because you're stupid
please, enjoy the freedoms you say don't exist... while you exercise them (smirk). while i have absolutely no respect for your hysterical hilarious "opinion", i fully support your right to say it. because i live in the west, believe in, and support freedom of expression. luckily, it is equally my right to laugh my ass off at you as it is for you to spew the crap you do. unfortunately, some people in this world live under regimes where they don't dare criticize or laugh at the official party line. too bad you are to ignorant to know there is a real quantifiable difference between your life and theirs
you fear loss of freedom in this world, and yet you are absolutely no credit whatsoever to the actual principles of freedom, because your opinion is fucking retarded
but, like much of the rest of your argument, you project assumptions without any genuine logic
murder images are of interest to anyone with a macabre personality. but child pornography is of no interest to anyone except pedophiles
i agree with you in one respect: the exchange of images and drawings shouldn't be so much shut down... as left open, and baited and tracked. why? for the purpose of catching pedophiles
i'm sorry, but pedophilia is real. i'm not getting in the argument about sex with a physically mature (but mentally immature) 15 year old or sex between a 14 year old and a 15 year old... i'm talking about adults with a sexual desire for prepubescent children... i hope that shuts down your red herring arguments i already see coming
homosexuality is a natural modification of desire, but it is harmless, because it occurs between consenting adults. pedophilia is the same: a natural deformation of normal sexual cues such that the wrong cues are seen as arousing. impossible to act on because it is logically impossible for a child to act with INFORMED consent in a sexual scenario with an adult. a pedophile can only do one thing: damage children psychologically. and can one live their entire lives with their sexual inclinations permanently locked up? can we trust that they can keep their desires locked up?
so being a pedophile is sort of an innate tragic sentence, like being born with cystic fibrosis or huntington's disease: you are genetically endowed with a life-deforming handicap. its not anyone's fault, but it is what it is: a desire that renders someone incompatible with society
cutting off their balls doesn't work. jail time doesn't work (when you let them out, they are still pedophilies: you can't be cured of an innate desire), so anyone with a sexual desire towards children is a time bomb waiting to go off
i for one wish that we could just round these tragically deformed people up and send them to some antarctic island
self-knowledge is the only gateway to genuine knowledge
if you don't know yourself, if you don't admit to or understand your own failings and weaknesses for being a simple human being, then you will always suffer because of your unadmitted weaknesses
humanity has good parts, bad parts, and ugly parts, and you are part of all of it, inside you are the seeds of everything you look outside yourself and detest or hate about others
our own pride, egotism, and arrogance leads all of us to our own doom
when someone consumes child pornography, they drive the creation of pornography
why do paparazzi follow celebrities around? because their photos get cash, to be put in media to be bought, because those photos appeal to someone
if some dude makes some photos of sex with children, he is able to get money for that, because a marketplace exists for the consumption of that media
therefore destruction of that marketplace is a perfectly valid way to fight child pornography, because if that dude can't sell his pictures, he's disinclined to make them
when you possess child pornography, when you distribute it, you are helping to feed a criminal activity, and you should be punished
when someone tries to block child pornography, for example, you are not witnessing some horrible slippery slope to fascism. no, really. to believe so is to be a hysterical twit and absolutely no credit whatsoever to an authentic fight for freedom
"Anybody else see the problem here?"
no, not at all. are you a paranoid schizophrenic?
the fight for freedom must be patient, shrewd, and wise. not a bunch of halfcocked lightweights spazzing out at every wisp of smoke
you make music because you love to make music. whatever you invest you do out of your own passion for your craft. your audience owes you absolutely nothing for that
i want to make an album. so give me $10,000. make any sense? no
you have this odd sort of entitlement, that your audience owes you something just because you sat down with a guitar. your audience doesn't owe you a goddamn thing until they go to a concert hall and sit down in front of you
your mp3s are just free advertising. your mp3s are the flyers stuck on telephone poles to get people to come to your concerts. that advertising fills warm butts in concert venues, and THATS how you make money
its called an INVESTMENT. you INVEST in your album and you MAY or MAY NOT reap a profit from the effort, just like any other business in this world. from investing in new pharmaceutical research, or decorating and stocking a new restaurant, or filming a movie: there's a big up front investment that YOU shoulder, and it is not guaranteed to pay off. that's the way the real world works honey
your sense of entitlement is unfuckingbelieveable, and shows out of touch you are
its not expensive to make an album
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you don't need a recording studio, you need a laptop. additionally, if you really love music, you will pay to make it. i don't owe you money because you want to make a song. make the damn song yourself, if its good, you'll make a profit, if not, tough luck. same as any other business venture
additionally, using free internet mp3s to build an audience, to put butts in a concert hall, is a perfectly acceptable standard of living. why do you think creators are owed any more than that?
they had a guy four square for a brutal rape, but the guy was unconcerned. sure enough, the dna test came back and turned out he only shared half the dna with the culprit: the murderer must be the guy's brother
so they let him loose and track down brother after brother, sample his dna, and it turns out to be yet another brother. meanwhile, the woman who was raped is murdered, and they find a hair on her body that matches the original suspect's dna 100%
while examining the original suspect again, grissom sees that his skin is strangely mottled, and he has an interesting statue in his house: the legendary greek chimera
grissom cracks the case: the guy committed the rape because he knew he was a genetic chimera. the dna of his semen was the "brother" of the dna of his blood
a genetic chimera is an extremely rare individual in which fraternal twin zygotes are created, then fuse. so different organ lines in the body are from two different "individuals". you are your own twin, you are a mix of two people. there is also the real life case of a woman who became a criminal suspect because she was suspected of kidnapping: she claimed to be the mother of a child, but a genetic test reveals she was the aunt: her own ovaries weren't hers but from her "phantom sister"
not that this is an argument against how they caught the grim sleeper, i applaud this use of genetic profiling of relatives to solve crimes. its simple sleuthwork, and plenty of innocent people come under suspicion all the time in criminal investigations that must be ruled out with basic detective work
so in the same brilliant pilosophical vein, let's make sure we feed our children chicken tainted with salmonella in the cafeteria, let's make sure we encourage our kids to text constantly when they drive to school, and let's make sure we bully them in the hallway
uh... no, asshole, i'm sorry, but bad experiences are accidental, not something you purposefully expose your children to. why? because it MIGHT ACTUALLY KILL YOU. ie: you might actually derail a child's academic experience. ther'es another word for your "philosophy": willful irresponsibility
it's amazing what kind of bullshit people will rationalize
darling Zenna Atkins: kindly keep your genius bathroom break epiphanies in the toilet stall, and shut the fuck up
1. it's easy to track down and stop rogue printing presses. it's hard to track down and control tens of millions of tech savvy, media hungry, and, most importantly, poor teenagers
2. luckily, when you give away your book for free, you can still sign deals with hollywood, you can still endorse and advertise off your fame, you can still sell ancillary personalized material, and you can get a lot more exposure making your product free and widely available
#1 shows you that copyright law is unenforceable on the internet. they call it disruptive technology for a reason. the printing press itself was disruptive, and angry monks tried to stop it from destroying their business model of transcribing by hand too. oh well, things change. adapt or die
#2 shows you that the thought that you most control the flow of all media to make money off of it is a falsehood. the only people who are really hurt without copyright are distributors, not authors. you forgot to mention in your idyllic copyright paean above that the distributor makes most of the money off your work. in a pre-internet world, this is necessary. in a post-internet world, you don't need a distributor (and the copyright laws which really serve them, not you), you can establish your fame and make money via ancillary means all by yourself. so there is less money in circulation over all in a post-distributor internet world, but since you are getting the whole pie of income, rather than a sliver of it while the distributor takes the lion share, you actually make more money
stop defending a law which only serves parasitical distributors, not creators. stop spreading or believing that lie
and recognize that on the internet, there is a whole new world of content sharing that will make you more money than under the old system, via all sorts of ancillary means. from now on, your cultural output is your advertising, for cashing in later on your exposure
in true ad&d/ mmorpg fashion, real life caves also involve hordes of subterranean creatures
did you ever wonder where all these cave dwellers come from? in an interesting symbiosis, those who most often play ad&d/ mmorpgs are already living subterraneously in their mom's basement. and after years they grow pale from lack of sun, derive an ability to subsist on day glo orange subterranean food sources like nachos/ fungus, lose the ability to communicate with surface dwellers- beginning to asocially and atavistically attack them mercilessly without provocation (usually as mindlessly negative trolls on internet forums), and after a few more years of evolution, they turn into the very same cave fodder they dispatched in their ad&d/ mmorpg campaigns
so don't get them to leave their mom's basements. we need something to slay to make real life caving as exciting as the virtual versions
i just wish that next time you evangelize about caving/ spelunking, that you put a huge asterisk at the bottom of your sales pitch and explore some of the many easy ways you can wind up very dead in a cave (lost, drowned, asphyxiated, stuck, buried, frozen, steamed, etc.)
enthusiasm is good, but enthusiasm and caution is what is required for caving/ spelunking. otherwise, if there is a rash of deaths in caves from clueless passionate noobs, authorities may outlaw the practice to amateurs, and that defeats the enthusiasm in your words above
its status as highest grossing movie of all time also means it is automatically the highest quality movie of all time
simply because every other measure of quality you can present to me is subjective. using economic response as a measure of quality is the only objective measure we have
"Think for yourself. Subjective assessments are fuzzy and unclean."
you are bouncing my words to you back at me. that's what i'm saying to you: subjectivity is useless. objectivity is the only valid tool to measure quality. and therefore, objectively, economic response is the only valid tool we have to measure quality
"It's also widely derided for its lackluster characterizations and terrible writing"
the rules of economics still applies
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if i stand in the middle of the desert with bottles of water for $100 each, i will have a profitable business
but if i stand in front of a sparkling clean fresh water lake and try to sell bottles of water for $.10 each, i will be out of business
when i can point and click and share thousands of files effortlessly and freely with any teenager from gdansk to johannesburg, i really don't know how or why someone is supposed to force me to pay for that under a dead distribution model and the laws that are made for that dead era
so its simple economics folks: infinite free supply means there is no price point. the internet is an unlimited resource, unless they fundamentally break the internet inexorably (and thereby destroy that which makes the internet attratice to anyone)
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why the hell do you think "natural" has or should have anything to do with legality?
you will notice of course, that portugal's efforts are aimed at reducing drug use
in other words, their tactics are different, but the goal is the same: reduce drug use
so there will always be a war on drugs, forever. in fact, there always was a war on drugs. tactics change, but reducing drug use in society is merely a constant maintenance function of civilization, like taking out the trash every thursday, that will never end. you don't declare a "war on garbage" and clean your apartment up once, and never again have to worry about garbage. no, that's not the nature of the problem. same with drugs: its not some sort of "war" you win once and never have to fight again. no, its a constant low grade clean up effort
so yes: the notion of a "war" on drugs is stupid, but whatever you call it ("the cleanup on drugs", "the trash collection on drugs"?) you must realize something absolutely true: the reduction of drug use is an effort that will never end, whatever the tactics, forever
and if you don't know why drug use has to be constantly cleaned up, you don't know much about your world and human nature
dideuterium monoxide
but if you say something like caffeine should be legally equal to something like methamphetamine, such a world has downsides even worse than the war on drugs
bing is a case of kgb industrial sabotage?
could you please explain the riddle of schrodinger's chicken?
it laid an egg, and yet it did not lay an egg, and the egg, that may or may not exist, possibly hatched a chicken, which may or may not be the same chicken that laid the egg, because we don't know which came first, if either came at all. and then schrodinger killed the chicken, or maybe he didn't, and nobody knows what the hell he might have or might not have done to the egg, whether or not he killed the chicken, that may or may not have come first. perhaps in an alternate timeline in copenhagen
in which, taking full advantage of the freedoms of the west to say anything you want, you say that there is no freedom at all. or no difference with regimes that frequently jail people for political crimes
this is what happens in china when you express a political opinion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo
but you can sit here, talk about all the bullshit idiotic political ideas you want, and, short of threatening someone's life, no one will care. no one's going to punish you, no one's going to control your mind
proof?
the proof is you felt perfectly comfortable writing the mental diarrhea you just wrote, and no one is going to knock on your door, and you know it, because you live in the west. and yet you assert your reality is the exact opposite. why do you do this? because you're stupid
please, enjoy the freedoms you say don't exist... while you exercise them (smirk). while i have absolutely no respect for your hysterical hilarious "opinion", i fully support your right to say it. because i live in the west, believe in, and support freedom of expression. luckily, it is equally my right to laugh my ass off at you as it is for you to spew the crap you do. unfortunately, some people in this world live under regimes where they don't dare criticize or laugh at the official party line. too bad you are to ignorant to know there is a real quantifiable difference between your life and theirs
you fear loss of freedom in this world, and yet you are absolutely no credit whatsoever to the actual principles of freedom, because your opinion is fucking retarded
microsoft has freely given its source code to the kgb (rolls eyes):
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/09/0042238/Microsoft-Opens-Source-Code-To-KGBs-Successor-Agency
but, like much of the rest of your argument, you project assumptions without any genuine logic
murder images are of interest to anyone with a macabre personality. but child pornography is of no interest to anyone except pedophiles
i agree with you in one respect: the exchange of images and drawings shouldn't be so much shut down... as left open, and baited and tracked. why? for the purpose of catching pedophiles
i'm sorry, but pedophilia is real. i'm not getting in the argument about sex with a physically mature (but mentally immature) 15 year old or sex between a 14 year old and a 15 year old... i'm talking about adults with a sexual desire for prepubescent children... i hope that shuts down your red herring arguments i already see coming
homosexuality is a natural modification of desire, but it is harmless, because it occurs between consenting adults. pedophilia is the same: a natural deformation of normal sexual cues such that the wrong cues are seen as arousing. impossible to act on because it is logically impossible for a child to act with INFORMED consent in a sexual scenario with an adult. a pedophile can only do one thing: damage children psychologically. and can one live their entire lives with their sexual inclinations permanently locked up? can we trust that they can keep their desires locked up?
so being a pedophile is sort of an innate tragic sentence, like being born with cystic fibrosis or huntington's disease: you are genetically endowed with a life-deforming handicap. its not anyone's fault, but it is what it is: a desire that renders someone incompatible with society
cutting off their balls doesn't work. jail time doesn't work (when you let them out, they are still pedophilies: you can't be cured of an innate desire), so anyone with a sexual desire towards children is a time bomb waiting to go off
i for one wish that we could just round these tragically deformed people up and send them to some antarctic island
self-knowledge is the only gateway to genuine knowledge
if you don't know yourself, if you don't admit to or understand your own failings and weaknesses for being a simple human being, then you will always suffer because of your unadmitted weaknesses
humanity has good parts, bad parts, and ugly parts, and you are part of all of it, inside you are the seeds of everything you look outside yourself and detest or hate about others
our own pride, egotism, and arrogance leads all of us to our own doom
when someone consumes child pornography, they drive the creation of pornography
why do paparazzi follow celebrities around? because their photos get cash, to be put in media to be bought, because those photos appeal to someone
if some dude makes some photos of sex with children, he is able to get money for that, because a marketplace exists for the consumption of that media
therefore destruction of that marketplace is a perfectly valid way to fight child pornography, because if that dude can't sell his pictures, he's disinclined to make them
when you possess child pornography, when you distribute it, you are helping to feed a criminal activity, and you should be punished
on everything, including you freedom
when someone tries to block child pornography, for example, you are not witnessing some horrible slippery slope to fascism. no, really. to believe so is to be a hysterical twit and absolutely no credit whatsoever to an authentic fight for freedom
"Anybody else see the problem here?"
no, not at all. are you a paranoid schizophrenic?
the fight for freedom must be patient, shrewd, and wise. not a bunch of halfcocked lightweights spazzing out at every wisp of smoke
you make music because you love to make music. whatever you invest you do out of your own passion for your craft. your audience owes you absolutely nothing for that
i want to make an album. so give me $10,000. make any sense? no
you have this odd sort of entitlement, that your audience owes you something just because you sat down with a guitar. your audience doesn't owe you a goddamn thing until they go to a concert hall and sit down in front of you
your mp3s are just free advertising. your mp3s are the flyers stuck on telephone poles to get people to come to your concerts. that advertising fills warm butts in concert venues, and THATS how you make money
its called an INVESTMENT. you INVEST in your album and you MAY or MAY NOT reap a profit from the effort, just like any other business in this world. from investing in new pharmaceutical research, or decorating and stocking a new restaurant, or filming a movie: there's a big up front investment that YOU shoulder, and it is not guaranteed to pay off. that's the way the real world works honey
your sense of entitlement is unfuckingbelieveable, and shows out of touch you are
you don't need a recording studio, you need a laptop. additionally, if you really love music, you will pay to make it. i don't owe you money because you want to make a song. make the damn song yourself, if its good, you'll make a profit, if not, tough luck. same as any other business venture
additionally, using free internet mp3s to build an audience, to put butts in a concert hall, is a perfectly acceptable standard of living. why do you think creators are owed any more than that?
they had a guy four square for a brutal rape, but the guy was unconcerned. sure enough, the dna test came back and turned out he only shared half the dna with the culprit: the murderer must be the guy's brother
so they let him loose and track down brother after brother, sample his dna, and it turns out to be yet another brother. meanwhile, the woman who was raped is murdered, and they find a hair on her body that matches the original suspect's dna 100%
while examining the original suspect again, grissom sees that his skin is strangely mottled, and he has an interesting statue in his house: the legendary greek chimera
grissom cracks the case: the guy committed the rape because he knew he was a genetic chimera. the dna of his semen was the "brother" of the dna of his blood
http://www.csifiles.com/reviews/miami/bloodlines.shtml
a genetic chimera is an extremely rare individual in which fraternal twin zygotes are created, then fuse. so different organ lines in the body are from two different "individuals". you are your own twin, you are a mix of two people. there is also the real life case of a woman who became a criminal suspect because she was suspected of kidnapping: she claimed to be the mother of a child, but a genetic test reveals she was the aunt: her own ovaries weren't hers but from her "phantom sister"
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2315693&page=1
not that this is an argument against how they caught the grim sleeper, i applaud this use of genetic profiling of relatives to solve crimes. its simple sleuthwork, and plenty of innocent people come under suspicion all the time in criminal investigations that must be ruled out with basic detective work
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
so in the same brilliant pilosophical vein, let's make sure we feed our children chicken tainted with salmonella in the cafeteria, let's make sure we encourage our kids to text constantly when they drive to school, and let's make sure we bully them in the hallway
uh... no, asshole, i'm sorry, but bad experiences are accidental, not something you purposefully expose your children to. why? because it MIGHT ACTUALLY KILL YOU. ie: you might actually derail a child's academic experience. ther'es another word for your "philosophy": willful irresponsibility
it's amazing what kind of bullshit people will rationalize
darling Zenna Atkins: kindly keep your genius bathroom break epiphanies in the toilet stall, and shut the fuck up
1. it's easy to track down and stop rogue printing presses. it's hard to track down and control tens of millions of tech savvy, media hungry, and, most importantly, poor teenagers
2. luckily, when you give away your book for free, you can still sign deals with hollywood, you can still endorse and advertise off your fame, you can still sell ancillary personalized material, and you can get a lot more exposure making your product free and widely available
#1 shows you that copyright law is unenforceable on the internet. they call it disruptive technology for a reason. the printing press itself was disruptive, and angry monks tried to stop it from destroying their business model of transcribing by hand too. oh well, things change. adapt or die
#2 shows you that the thought that you most control the flow of all media to make money off of it is a falsehood. the only people who are really hurt without copyright are distributors, not authors. you forgot to mention in your idyllic copyright paean above that the distributor makes most of the money off your work. in a pre-internet world, this is necessary. in a post-internet world, you don't need a distributor (and the copyright laws which really serve them, not you), you can establish your fame and make money via ancillary means all by yourself. so there is less money in circulation over all in a post-distributor internet world, but since you are getting the whole pie of income, rather than a sliver of it while the distributor takes the lion share, you actually make more money
stop defending a law which only serves parasitical distributors, not creators. stop spreading or believing that lie
and recognize that on the internet, there is a whole new world of content sharing that will make you more money than under the old system, via all sorts of ancillary means. from now on, your cultural output is your advertising, for cashing in later on your exposure
going into mother earth's forbidden secret hidden dangerous cave
so what you are saying is that going caving may later lead to an opportunity to go... caving
in true ad&d/ mmorpg fashion, real life caves also involve hordes of subterranean creatures
did you ever wonder where all these cave dwellers come from? in an interesting symbiosis, those who most often play ad&d/ mmorpgs are already living subterraneously in their mom's basement. and after years they grow pale from lack of sun, derive an ability to subsist on day glo orange subterranean food sources like nachos/ fungus, lose the ability to communicate with surface dwellers- beginning to asocially and atavistically attack them mercilessly without provocation (usually as mindlessly negative trolls on internet forums), and after a few more years of evolution, they turn into the very same cave fodder they dispatched in their ad&d/ mmorpg campaigns
so don't get them to leave their mom's basements. we need something to slay to make real life caving as exciting as the virtual versions
i just wish that next time you evangelize about caving/ spelunking, that you put a huge asterisk at the bottom of your sales pitch and explore some of the many easy ways you can wind up very dead in a cave (lost, drowned, asphyxiated, stuck, buried, frozen, steamed, etc.)
enthusiasm is good, but enthusiasm and caution is what is required for caving/ spelunking. otherwise, if there is a rash of deaths in caves from clueless passionate noobs, authorities may outlaw the practice to amateurs, and that defeats the enthusiasm in your words above
is that chinese people like being slaves
this is incompatible with human nature, and saying what you just said renders you incredibly out of touch with reality
of all time, no more no less."
its status as highest grossing movie of all time also means it is automatically the highest quality movie of all time
simply because every other measure of quality you can present to me is subjective. using economic response as a measure of quality is the only objective measure we have
"Think for yourself. Subjective assessments are fuzzy and unclean."
you are bouncing my words to you back at me. that's what i'm saying to you: subjectivity is useless. objectivity is the only valid tool to measure quality. and therefore, objectively, economic response is the only valid tool we have to measure quality
"It's also widely derided for its lackluster characterizations and terrible writing"
you just broke your own rules about subjectivity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes
if i stand in the middle of the desert with bottles of water for $100 each, i will have a profitable business
but if i stand in front of a sparkling clean fresh water lake and try to sell bottles of water for $.10 each, i will be out of business
when i can point and click and share thousands of files effortlessly and freely with any teenager from gdansk to johannesburg, i really don't know how or why someone is supposed to force me to pay for that under a dead distribution model and the laws that are made for that dead era
so its simple economics folks: infinite free supply means there is no price point. the internet is an unlimited resource, unless they fundamentally break the internet inexorably (and thereby destroy that which makes the internet attratice to anyone)
yes, brazil is in the southern hemisphere (mostly)
this is their map they share with the other antipodeans:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Blank-map-world-south-up.png