"So don't. Or buy on iTunes. Next."
Not 50 cents. Next.
"Because something is high-priced doesn't mean you have the right to pirate it."
It's not piracy it's copyright infringement, and it's not even that unless you actually share the files. Just because their lobbyist have money, doesn't mean they have the right to buy laws that aren't supported by the public, but they do it anyway.
"h, give me a fucking break. Now you're pirating because you hate outsourcing? Moron."
Did I say that? No fuckstick I didn't. I was illustrating the hypocracy of companies who run antipiracy ads touting that it causes their employees to lose their jobs, while they outsource every fucking scrap of work they can to BFE.
"Like I said--that partline caters to the anti-social, anti-capitalist, generally-broke Slashdot crowd"
I go out five nights a week, I have shitload of friends, and I spend more money on drinks and women in a week than you probably make in a month, but that is all irrelevant as you obviously haven't noticed.
"If you ever lose your job or your home, I won't care either then."
I dont expect you to, or give a flying fuck what you think. Next.
"In other words, you hate that someone made money heading a company. Apparently you think it's okay to rip someone off because you don't want to pay for it. Guess what, that's called stealing."
They can make all the money they want. I'm not breaking into their houses and taking it. I'm just not giving them anymore of mine. Several of my friends have been sued for basically nothing, so I'll be damned if I pay these fuckers to do just that. Guess what, do you know how much money they would be making off me if I didn't pirate? Nothing! Wow what a unique concept. I'm not supporting them because I think they have unjustified influence over our laws and lawmakers. They have established themselves to be crooks and thiefs, or did you forget about the price fixing issue they bought themselves out of. If you can show me a accounting statement that shows exactly how much in real losses they have from me downloading, I'd love to see it.
"They already do that. Next."
Really, where at? Let's see: Itunes? no. Walmart? no. Microsoft? no. Bestbuy? no. Tower Records? no. Please do share your magical source of music that only costs 50 cents? I'd love to see it.
"Then you're an idiot, plan and simple. Don't come whining on Slashdot if/when you get sued for violating law."
I'm an idiot? I'm not the one paying an artificially inflated price for shitty product, so I can help fund an oligopolly crusade against my fellow citizens.
Yes, because what we need are more people. Approaching 9 billion in the next few years, when the sustainable level is 6 billion. Why don't we encourage people with Down's syndrome and every other genetic abhorration to reproduce so we will not only have a shitload of people, but we will have a shitload of unproductive people that we as a society will have to carry.
Let's encourage people who can't feed or clothe themselves to produce more people who can't feed or clothe themselves. Then we can all work our asses off so that these people can steal half of our stuff, and so that the govenrment can take the other half to feed them.
I never said anything about killing anyone. Anyone who is alive should be allowed to live their life, but they shouldn't pass on negative traits to future generations.
"what cave did you crawl out of"
I crawled out of the one where people have a fucking clue and aren't all bleeding hearts.
When we don't have enough food to feed all of the people who don't have the mental or physical means to feed themselves and their children, I want to see you at the front of the line to give up your sustenance for them. I'm sure as hell not going to do it.
Why don't you educate yourself before you open your mouth in the future. Try not to slip over all the blood from your bleeding heart on the way out.
Walk the party line if you want to. Take whatever shit the Corporate lobbies have railroaded through congress if you want to. I'm not going to pay for an artificially priced product owned by an oligopoly just because the local corrupt politician passed some draconian law to prevent me from doing that. Show me a resonably priced product and I'll buy it. Keep sellling shit at high prices and I'll keep downloading. I don't care if it's piracy, I don't care if these people lose their jobs, I don't care if they are homeless. No one cares if we lose our jobs when they outsource them to BFE, but the second you infringe any major company's copyrights they start whining about their staff being thrown out. A bunch of rich assholes get no sympathy from me. I'm not dropping another 18 dollars on a cd so they buy their fourth gold plated bentley. Sell me a cd for 50 cents or so a track and I'll buy. Otherwise I will not only keep downloading but I will show others how to do so.
Or just download and don't buy it. Illegal or not, I'm not giving another dime of my money to support these schmucks. Interesting to me is that they keep talking about illegal downloading. Downloading isn't illegal, it's uploading. I find it funny that none of the major media ever calls them out on this. They want the mom and pops and kids to think that downloading is a federal offense, when in reality your perfectly safe unless you upload. I personally pick 10 files a week to share out and rotate them weekly, that way I'm still sharing but below their radar.
If we have to explain this to you then your sense of morality has obviously not developed to an adult level. There is no point in wasting time trying to illustrate to you what should be an obvious dichotomy.
We live in an information age. You would think if evolution were still in full swing, that smarter people would proliferate. I am surrounded by an ever increasing horde of idiots. If we were animals, the stupid offspring would be culled and the higher rates of reproduction among these lower order members would be cancelled out by their propensity towards dying earlier. The human species as a whole has apparently decided that everyone, no matter how stupid or disease ridden, needs to be kept alive and allowed to not only survive but to reproduce. It seems that we as a species are devolving.
Let's see, what are the top predators of insects in most areas, reptiles and birds. What does DDT do to reptile and bird eggs? It ruins them and drives most of the species to extinction. Great idea, lets use a poisonous chemical that kills of all the natural predators to cut back the moquito population for a year or two. Great thinking there buddy.
Use Firefox and you dont have to worry about this crap. I haven't had a single piece of scumware since I switched. My neighbor across the street kept getting infected with this garbage. I swithched them to firefox and spyware free for 1 month now.
And I'm under no obligation to guaranty their safety if they screw with me without any legal grounds. You have the right to resist and unlawful arrest, at least in Texas, and I'm sure it's the same elsewhere.
Your mistake is assuming we live in a democracy. We live in an oligarchy, where decisions are made by a select group of powerful, wealthy individuals and corporations. Doubt this? When was the last time a blue collar, non-aristocratic individual got elected to any high ranking government office? How often do the wishes of the people overrule the interest of corporate America. We have a DUTY to vote our conscience, and in cases of juries, decide what we think is fair and prudent. You have the right and the obligation to resist unjust laws whether that be through civil disobedience, through your voice in the jury or any other method you choose. Following a law just because it's a law get's you instances like the Mai Lai massacre (spelling?), Auschwitz, the Killing Fiels, etc. Think for yourself, and decide for yourself what is right and wrong. Don't rely on a corrupt politician to do it for you.
I have a pretty horrible working environment story. When I was in high school my dad got me this job working as a summer maintenance guy for the county courthouse. This was in East Texas during the summer , so it was 100 degrees+ outside with 100% humidity almost every day. At the courthouse, there was an old jail that started on the 10th floor and went to the roof on the 14th. It hadn't been used in 25 years and had been sealed off from the rest of the building. Someone thought it would be a good idea to renovate this and use it for storage. As a summer worker, it became my job along with the other two high school kids to clean this up. When we unsealed the door, the heat was almost unbearable. We took a thermometer up on the third day and it was 145 degrees fahrenheit. There was dust 3 inches thick on the floor from the decaying lead paint and debries. There were dead rats, pigeons, and spiders everywhere. We had to wear three dust masks to keep our lungs from being coated with this crap. To top it off, we had to saw the old bars out of the jail with hacksaws. There were windows everywhere, but they were sealed shut, so sunlight and heat got in, but no air got out, and there was no air circulation. We finally ended up breaking some of the windows to let some of the heat out. I hypothesize that hell is pretty similar to this environment.
who gives a damn how they do. They dont hire american workers. You just listed the biggest outsourcers in the country. Fuck those companies, if I could bankrupt them right now I would. They should pay for their greed.
Go to ebay. I bought hero, musa the warrior, shaolin soccer, and volcano high for 7 bucks a piece there. All of them work great and if they are pirated copies, they are labelled pretty well.
"It's the price you pay for living among humans......teenage humans who get access to guns, that is. The ready availability of weapons that kill tens of people in minutes is what leads to the tragedy in the end. A mad kid doesn't hurt many except himself. A mad kid with a gun is a spree killer."
Of course, let's blame guns again. The gun jumped its ass off the shelf, loaded itself and shot these people. The kids had nothing to do with it. A bunch of mentally disturbed psychopaths would have just said the hell with and stayed home if they didnt have a gun right? Wrong, they probably would have gone out and stabbed people or threw bricks of the overpass. Fucked up people are fucked up people, with or without guns. Stop being a Brady Bill Nazi and trying to blame the guns for this. I love how all you guys bitch about no one taking responsibility for anything and then in the next sentence you blame guns. Ironic isn't it.
"Fuck all you hunters, shooters and fishers. I hope you lose your arms in a thresher."
Damn the hunters for going out and culling their own food from the land rather than buying it at the store. It's much more humane to eat meat from an animal that has been made to stand in a 4*6 stall in its own shit its entire life up to the point of being nailgunned in the head. It's really inhumane to thin the herd of an overpopulated free range animal which would breed itself into starvation if left unchecked.
My bad, hes rotting in a hole somewhere. It's his young children and family that is dead. Either way, ask him how he feels about the statement that white people dont get persecuted "you stupid fuck. By the way, if you have something to say, grow a sack and quit posting as an AC you chickenshit.
60 years ago may as well be yesterday in the historical timeline. Go ask the jews if WWII is ancient history. Your right about the US. We didn't want to get involved in a dispute between neighbors. How does that refute my point about European countries not being all hunky-dorey with one another. If anyone is responsible for the US current military power and cowboy attitude its EUROPE. Before the WW's we were an isolationist country who didn't like to get involved in others conflicts. After being "drug kicking in screaming" into two world wars our attitude changed. Anyhow, I dont agree with our current administration here, and I agree that the US should be more cooperative, but lets not act like the US is the only country in recent history to start a conflict or to go to war.
If the Taliban was his government and Afghanistan his country, then he can move his ass back their and work. If he's going to come here and enjoy the fruits of our nation, then he damn sure should not be allowed to help fund people who are trying to kill our soldiers. If he wants to do that, then he go back to dirt farming in his own country.
"Whereas Europeans are forced to deal with their neighbors as most European states are smaller than many American states, the US has only two direct neighbors, and we don't even treat them that well. Ever heard disparaging remarks about Mexicans? So really, I have to agree with both of your posts. The Earth is a hateful place, but for whatever reasons, America seems to have a special affinity for hatred."
Yeah Europe seems to be doing really well with this. Only two world wars in the past 80 years so they are obviously all getting along.
You dont think white people who wear camo and have shaved heads or look like trouble makers get persecuted. Go ask Randy Weaver how he feels about that statement. Go ask the branch Davidians. Oh wait, you cant. Because their FUCKING DEAD. Go ask McVeigh if he's feeling persecuted. Oh wait Dead again. Now ask this traitor intel guy, oh wait you can. He's only doing 7 years. Yeah, it seems like the whiteys get off scott free. How about you check out the Souther Poverty Law Center publications that many of our good friends over at the FBI, LLE's read regulary. They are chalk full of articles about how any white guy who likes guns is a likely terrrorist and should be wiretapped, surveilled, harassed etc. Get your facts straight before spitting out your bleeding heart liberal bs.
If it looks like a rose, smells like a rose, then its probably a rose. If you fit the profile of a type of person that Commits violent acts, expect to get harrassed, whether your white or arab or whatever. Don't think that its just the arabs who get harrassed.
"Smacks of socialism. More seriously, suppose the wages in the US do fall to 1/3 of current values. I guess if living costs fall as well you should be fine, no? Isn't that what happened when the manufacturing jobs went to China?"
This would be completely catostrophic to the economy. Deflation is absolutely the worst possible thing that could happen to this countries economy. Think about it, you get a mortgage for a 200,000 house right now and a loan for a 20,000 vehicle, based on your current salary of 60k. Next year, the wage rate falls to 10k for your current salary and everyone elses falls equivalently. Now, your in the hole for 220,000 k on a 10k salary. You don't even make enough to live and pay the interest on your debt. You default. Millions of other people default on their loans and the financial institutions go bank rupt. At the same time, no one can get a loan to buy anything or start any kind of business because the credit structure is in ruins. Tax revenues fall faster than services can be reduced. In the end what you would get is a complete collapse of our industrial-economic system and political system. When this type of thing happens wars get started and people die. Is Deflation due to third world wage undercutting what you really want?
"welcom to the Matt Openheimer Federal Corrections Facility. Please procede to the next stage to get your officially liscenced Brittney Spears concert prison blues. Afterwards make your way over to the cd pressing mill and begin your shift printing the new O-town cd. Failure to comply with all RIAA, ahem US penal laws will result in us suing your family into homelessness.....that is all"
I think you're right about not being able to copyright strict information. A good solution to this would be to form a bank/isp. Make each customer of the ISP put 1 dollar in a bank account. Then you are under FDIC regulations and it requires a court order to get that persons records, because they are considered financial records. FCR and Gramm acts are very very strict about what information you are allowed to share. So you could say, sure we will give you the log files on customer x, but they include his bank account number and social security number. Do you have a court order for this information. Then the *IAA's can just whip out their subpoena stick and beat the isp with it. They actually have to go through a lot of trouble to get that information.
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"So don't. Or buy on iTunes. Next." Not 50 cents. Next. "Because something is high-priced doesn't mean you have the right to pirate it." It's not piracy it's copyright infringement, and it's not even that unless you actually share the files. Just because their lobbyist have money, doesn't mean they have the right to buy laws that aren't supported by the public, but they do it anyway. "h, give me a fucking break. Now you're pirating because you hate outsourcing? Moron." Did I say that? No fuckstick I didn't. I was illustrating the hypocracy of companies who run antipiracy ads touting that it causes their employees to lose their jobs, while they outsource every fucking scrap of work they can to BFE. "Like I said--that partline caters to the anti-social, anti-capitalist, generally-broke Slashdot crowd" I go out five nights a week, I have shitload of friends, and I spend more money on drinks and women in a week than you probably make in a month, but that is all irrelevant as you obviously haven't noticed. "If you ever lose your job or your home, I won't care either then." I dont expect you to, or give a flying fuck what you think. Next. "In other words, you hate that someone made money heading a company. Apparently you think it's okay to rip someone off because you don't want to pay for it. Guess what, that's called stealing." They can make all the money they want. I'm not breaking into their houses and taking it. I'm just not giving them anymore of mine. Several of my friends have been sued for basically nothing, so I'll be damned if I pay these fuckers to do just that. Guess what, do you know how much money they would be making off me if I didn't pirate? Nothing! Wow what a unique concept. I'm not supporting them because I think they have unjustified influence over our laws and lawmakers. They have established themselves to be crooks and thiefs, or did you forget about the price fixing issue they bought themselves out of. If you can show me a accounting statement that shows exactly how much in real losses they have from me downloading, I'd love to see it. "They already do that. Next." Really, where at? Let's see: Itunes? no. Walmart? no. Microsoft? no. Bestbuy? no. Tower Records? no. Please do share your magical source of music that only costs 50 cents? I'd love to see it. "Then you're an idiot, plan and simple. Don't come whining on Slashdot if/when you get sued for violating law." I'm an idiot? I'm not the one paying an artificially inflated price for shitty product, so I can help fund an oligopolly crusade against my fellow citizens.
Yes, because what we need are more people. Approaching 9 billion in the next few years, when the sustainable level is 6 billion. Why don't we encourage people with Down's syndrome and every other genetic abhorration to reproduce so we will not only have a shitload of people, but we will have a shitload of unproductive people that we as a society will have to carry. Let's encourage people who can't feed or clothe themselves to produce more people who can't feed or clothe themselves. Then we can all work our asses off so that these people can steal half of our stuff, and so that the govenrment can take the other half to feed them. I never said anything about killing anyone. Anyone who is alive should be allowed to live their life, but they shouldn't pass on negative traits to future generations. "what cave did you crawl out of" I crawled out of the one where people have a fucking clue and aren't all bleeding hearts. When we don't have enough food to feed all of the people who don't have the mental or physical means to feed themselves and their children, I want to see you at the front of the line to give up your sustenance for them. I'm sure as hell not going to do it. Why don't you educate yourself before you open your mouth in the future. Try not to slip over all the blood from your bleeding heart on the way out.
Walk the party line if you want to. Take whatever shit the Corporate lobbies have railroaded through congress if you want to. I'm not going to pay for an artificially priced product owned by an oligopoly just because the local corrupt politician passed some draconian law to prevent me from doing that. Show me a resonably priced product and I'll buy it. Keep sellling shit at high prices and I'll keep downloading. I don't care if it's piracy, I don't care if these people lose their jobs, I don't care if they are homeless. No one cares if we lose our jobs when they outsource them to BFE, but the second you infringe any major company's copyrights they start whining about their staff being thrown out. A bunch of rich assholes get no sympathy from me. I'm not dropping another 18 dollars on a cd so they buy their fourth gold plated bentley. Sell me a cd for 50 cents or so a track and I'll buy. Otherwise I will not only keep downloading but I will show others how to do so.
Or just download and don't buy it. Illegal or not, I'm not giving another dime of my money to support these schmucks. Interesting to me is that they keep talking about illegal downloading. Downloading isn't illegal, it's uploading. I find it funny that none of the major media ever calls them out on this. They want the mom and pops and kids to think that downloading is a federal offense, when in reality your perfectly safe unless you upload. I personally pick 10 files a week to share out and rotate them weekly, that way I'm still sharing but below their radar.
If we have to explain this to you then your sense of morality has obviously not developed to an adult level. There is no point in wasting time trying to illustrate to you what should be an obvious dichotomy.
We live in an information age. You would think if evolution were still in full swing, that smarter people would proliferate. I am surrounded by an ever increasing horde of idiots. If we were animals, the stupid offspring would be culled and the higher rates of reproduction among these lower order members would be cancelled out by their propensity towards dying earlier. The human species as a whole has apparently decided that everyone, no matter how stupid or disease ridden, needs to be kept alive and allowed to not only survive but to reproduce. It seems that we as a species are devolving.
Let's see, what are the top predators of insects in most areas, reptiles and birds. What does DDT do to reptile and bird eggs? It ruins them and drives most of the species to extinction. Great idea, lets use a poisonous chemical that kills of all the natural predators to cut back the moquito population for a year or two. Great thinking there buddy.
Use Firefox and you dont have to worry about this crap. I haven't had a single piece of scumware since I switched. My neighbor across the street kept getting infected with this garbage. I swithched them to firefox and spyware free for 1 month now.
And I'm under no obligation to guaranty their safety if they screw with me without any legal grounds. You have the right to resist and unlawful arrest, at least in Texas, and I'm sure it's the same elsewhere.
Your mistake is assuming we live in a democracy. We live in an oligarchy, where decisions are made by a select group of powerful, wealthy individuals and corporations. Doubt this? When was the last time a blue collar, non-aristocratic individual got elected to any high ranking government office? How often do the wishes of the people overrule the interest of corporate America. We have a DUTY to vote our conscience, and in cases of juries, decide what we think is fair and prudent. You have the right and the obligation to resist unjust laws whether that be through civil disobedience, through your voice in the jury or any other method you choose. Following a law just because it's a law get's you instances like the Mai Lai massacre (spelling?), Auschwitz, the Killing Fiels, etc. Think for yourself, and decide for yourself what is right and wrong. Don't rely on a corrupt politician to do it for you.
I have a pretty horrible working environment story. When I was in high school my dad got me this job working as a summer maintenance guy for the county courthouse. This was in East Texas during the summer , so it was 100 degrees+ outside with 100% humidity almost every day. At the courthouse, there was an old jail that started on the 10th floor and went to the roof on the 14th. It hadn't been used in 25 years and had been sealed off from the rest of the building. Someone thought it would be a good idea to renovate this and use it for storage. As a summer worker, it became my job along with the other two high school kids to clean this up. When we unsealed the door, the heat was almost unbearable. We took a thermometer up on the third day and it was 145 degrees fahrenheit. There was dust 3 inches thick on the floor from the decaying lead paint and debries. There were dead rats, pigeons, and spiders everywhere. We had to wear three dust masks to keep our lungs from being coated with this crap. To top it off, we had to saw the old bars out of the jail with hacksaws. There were windows everywhere, but they were sealed shut, so sunlight and heat got in, but no air got out, and there was no air circulation. We finally ended up breaking some of the windows to let some of the heat out. I hypothesize that hell is pretty similar to this environment.
who gives a damn how they do. They dont hire american workers. You just listed the biggest outsourcers in the country. Fuck those companies, if I could bankrupt them right now I would. They should pay for their greed.
Go to ebay. I bought hero, musa the warrior, shaolin soccer, and volcano high for 7 bucks a piece there. All of them work great and if they are pirated copies, they are labelled pretty well.
"It's the price you pay for living among humans... ...teenage humans who get access to guns, that is. The ready availability of weapons that kill tens of people in minutes is what leads to the tragedy in the end. A mad kid doesn't hurt many except himself. A mad kid with a gun is a spree killer."
Of course, let's blame guns again. The gun jumped its ass off the shelf, loaded itself and shot these people. The kids had nothing to do with it. A bunch of mentally disturbed psychopaths would have just said the hell with and stayed home if they didnt have a gun right? Wrong, they probably would have gone out and stabbed people or threw bricks of the overpass. Fucked up people are fucked up people, with or without guns. Stop being a Brady Bill Nazi and trying to blame the guns for this. I love how all you guys bitch about no one taking responsibility for anything and then in the next sentence you blame guns. Ironic isn't it.
"Fuck all you hunters, shooters and fishers. I hope you lose your arms in a thresher." Damn the hunters for going out and culling their own food from the land rather than buying it at the store. It's much more humane to eat meat from an animal that has been made to stand in a 4*6 stall in its own shit its entire life up to the point of being nailgunned in the head. It's really inhumane to thin the herd of an overpopulated free range animal which would breed itself into starvation if left unchecked.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, Because we dont have to deal with so many godless commies writing stupid poems about how bad our country sucks.
My bad, hes rotting in a hole somewhere. It's his young children and family that is dead. Either way, ask him how he feels about the statement that white people dont get persecuted "you stupid fuck. By the way, if you have something to say, grow a sack and quit posting as an AC you chickenshit.
60 years ago may as well be yesterday in the historical timeline. Go ask the jews if WWII is ancient history. Your right about the US. We didn't want to get involved in a dispute between neighbors. How does that refute my point about European countries not being all hunky-dorey with one another. If anyone is responsible for the US current military power and cowboy attitude its EUROPE. Before the WW's we were an isolationist country who didn't like to get involved in others conflicts. After being "drug kicking in screaming" into two world wars our attitude changed. Anyhow, I dont agree with our current administration here, and I agree that the US should be more cooperative, but lets not act like the US is the only country in recent history to start a conflict or to go to war.
If the Taliban was his government and Afghanistan his country, then he can move his ass back their and work. If he's going to come here and enjoy the fruits of our nation, then he damn sure should not be allowed to help fund people who are trying to kill our soldiers. If he wants to do that, then he go back to dirt farming in his own country.
"Whereas Europeans are forced to deal with their neighbors as most European states are smaller than many American states, the US has only two direct neighbors, and we don't even treat them that well. Ever heard disparaging remarks about Mexicans? So really, I have to agree with both of your posts. The Earth is a hateful place, but for whatever reasons, America seems to have a special affinity for hatred." Yeah Europe seems to be doing really well with this. Only two world wars in the past 80 years so they are obviously all getting along.
You dont think white people who wear camo and have shaved heads or look like trouble makers get persecuted. Go ask Randy Weaver how he feels about that statement. Go ask the branch Davidians. Oh wait, you cant. Because their FUCKING DEAD. Go ask McVeigh if he's feeling persecuted. Oh wait Dead again. Now ask this traitor intel guy, oh wait you can. He's only doing 7 years. Yeah, it seems like the whiteys get off scott free. How about you check out the Souther Poverty Law Center publications that many of our good friends over at the FBI, LLE's read regulary. They are chalk full of articles about how any white guy who likes guns is a likely terrrorist and should be wiretapped, surveilled, harassed etc. Get your facts straight before spitting out your bleeding heart liberal bs. If it looks like a rose, smells like a rose, then its probably a rose. If you fit the profile of a type of person that Commits violent acts, expect to get harrassed, whether your white or arab or whatever. Don't think that its just the arabs who get harrassed.
When we start ramming airplanes into buildings and blowing up hospitals and taking hostages in theatres, thats when.
"Smacks of socialism. More seriously, suppose the wages in the US do fall to 1/3 of current values. I guess if living costs fall as well you should be fine, no? Isn't that what happened when the manufacturing jobs went to China?" This would be completely catostrophic to the economy. Deflation is absolutely the worst possible thing that could happen to this countries economy. Think about it, you get a mortgage for a 200,000 house right now and a loan for a 20,000 vehicle, based on your current salary of 60k. Next year, the wage rate falls to 10k for your current salary and everyone elses falls equivalently. Now, your in the hole for 220,000 k on a 10k salary. You don't even make enough to live and pay the interest on your debt. You default. Millions of other people default on their loans and the financial institutions go bank rupt. At the same time, no one can get a loan to buy anything or start any kind of business because the credit structure is in ruins. Tax revenues fall faster than services can be reduced. In the end what you would get is a complete collapse of our industrial-economic system and political system. When this type of thing happens wars get started and people die. Is Deflation due to third world wage undercutting what you really want?
"welcom to the Matt Openheimer Federal Corrections Facility. Please procede to the next stage to get your officially liscenced Brittney Spears concert prison blues. Afterwards make your way over to the cd pressing mill and begin your shift printing the new O-town cd. Failure to comply with all RIAA, ahem US penal laws will result in us suing your family into homelessness.....that is all"
I think you're right about not being able to copyright strict information. A good solution to this would be to form a bank/isp. Make each customer of the ISP put 1 dollar in a bank account. Then you are under FDIC regulations and it requires a court order to get that persons records, because they are considered financial records. FCR and Gramm acts are very very strict about what information you are allowed to share. So you could say, sure we will give you the log files on customer x, but they include his bank account number and social security number. Do you have a court order for this information. Then the *IAA's can just whip out their subpoena stick and beat the isp with it. They actually have to go through a lot of trouble to get that information.