you very well know that they wont leave it at that. like, remember how ioc claimed rights on a sportswoman's name. like, some organization claiming rights to a photo of a monument, randomly taken by some visitor. the 'rights' concept in america is so out of control and corrupted that people are able to claim rights to even fundamental thoughts and concepts.
anyone can be hurt. someone posting some photo of something that a person or company thinks that they 'own' anything related to it can take an entire forum down, with this thing and acta (if).
and does a judge and 12 people randomly selected represent the will and opinion of the majority ?
simply put, those on 4chan and this chinese thing are far bigger a crowd than 1 judge and 12 random jury members. its much more direct than the current judicial system.
i dont think that france, germany, spain, scandinavian countries and rest of the eu will just sit and accept u.s. as dominator of the world information.
you think rushing to judgment doesnt happen in legal process ?
in countries which dont employ jury systems, the judge rushes to decisions because there are heaps of cases waiting to be handled.
in countries which employ jury systems, juries rush to decisions because they have their own businesses to deal with and cant spend weeks or months or years on end in courtrooms.
in any country, judicial system is limited with whatever expert can be hustled in to court, or whichever witness can be found.
in such a system however, there are infinite number of judges, juries, experts and witnesses.
and cut hypocritical elitist crap like 'mob justice' and so on. this is direct democracy at work : people brought the case into the light, people provided evidence for it, people judged it, people executed the judgment. this is the way democracy was supposed to be.
but instead of this, we have 'representatives of the representatives of the representatives to the power of n' system in politics. you elect someone who has been able to secure enough funds and connections to get into public through privately owned media channels, s/he gives some promises to you on some broad issues. then the person goes on, and creates laws and rules with 200 or so of similar other people who were elected, WITHOUT ASKING anything to public. rarely does any public reaction invoked by people can change the nature of laws.
so basically, there is no democracy. there isnt representative democracy either, because the representative you elect does not represent you in any respect.
in the end, we end up living under rules and laws that are made by a group of elected few, who were elite enough to have necessary private social connections. this is what we call 'establishment'. you cant influence establishment, cant change their mind, cant force them to do anything. they are basically little different than aristocracies of old.
but on the other hand there is that 4chan and this china phenomenon. these ARE people. these are 'the people' which is mentioned in 'we, the people'. you can call out to them, you can plead with them, and you can change their mind. leave that aside, public consciousness is something that constantly evolves, even if noone does do anything to that extent. it WILL get better over time, just as it got better gradually starting from late 1600s until modern age.
instead of ridiculing or despising, you all should be supporting it and trying to find ways to better it, for it is the true form of democracy that is to be. the people, but this time, directly by the people.
all this harrassment is going to do will be to push the global small internet publishers to services in other countries. Datacenters, Ad services in u.s. will lose customers. There are already strong companies servicing in those areas in Eu. Eu will be happy to receive that amount of business.
the stupor of american corporatism is overwhelming. they can even go to the extent of shooting themselves in the foot.
i can think of only one reason, if they came up with what they claim to be their own 'ip', and it was proven, the code would outright get removed from linux, leaving microsoft with nothing to harrass with. they would also lack the weapon to coerce and subdue the i.t. world at the time when linux becomes established for good worldwide.
in any case, the community should look into this, and discover them, and remove them.
chances are high that they have claimed rights to some basic logic routine or procedure, thanks to the beyond shitty patent system in u.s., and are now waiting for acta to make their claim in u.s. globally valid. you know, since the places like europe werent so stupid enough to let such stupidity like being able to 'own' logical routines and constructs for anyone.
with all undue respect, american system has gone beyond failure, if it has (and it really has) come to the point of letting private people and organizations own logic and thought.
meaning, 'derive', 'derivation', 'copy', 'intellectual property', ALL of these concepts can be modified and amended. there are no hard coded, unchangeable versions of these. these are not natural concepts. these cant be quantified. these cant be sampled from nature.
therefore ALL can be changed. if you want to see this in action, just check your country's laws on various matters. any law starts with definitions of terms and concepts it covers. you will see that throughout law's history, many of those concepts had been modified, and amended as to their definitions.
copy is copy in TODAY's sense and understanding, which was defined some way back. derivation is the same. if someone redefines them in laws and this gets hold, their meaning and application will also change.
i thought the 'free market' capitalism was a system which let individuals and organizations charge whatever they want for their products and services.
turns out, it isnt so, everyone has to charge high enough so that private interests can make profits to satisfy themselves. it seems so, because some prick is able to come up and say that, like people are born to this world to to be profited from. reminds me of the middle ages and serf system.
obama was able to get ahead clinton and get elected, and then able to go through enormous prejudices and overcome the wasp vote that has flown to gop side, only because of internet. only because it was an uncontrollable medium, he was able to get ahead in his race. it was unexpected, unprecedented, the old school machinery of washington didnt even expect internet could be that effective, so he succeeded.
it goes for his second term. its important to have a free internet to secure a second term.,.
European union bureaucracy wont like this. that bureaucracy has been built on various freedoms and principles that are the core of our modern society. even more than u.s. constitution - you dont need any constitution to ensure those rights in europe - the declaration of human rights is paramount.
if this charade goes further, it will be inevitable for Eu to break away Eu's internet space from u.s. related control sources, to ensure these principles.
acta was being cooked in the last 2 years of bush admn. all the accompanying shit (including this) too. the 'cyberwar' bullshit started back then.
basically, its the same shitheads trying to cramp down internet now as they were back then.
yea, however it is obama's fault in a major way ; he didnt replace the bushies in administration rightaway. instead, he tried to be 'bipartisan' and cooperate.
the most naive act of the last decades by a politician. bushies were of course thrilled, for, see, they were able to further the plans they have set in motion.
that was what i was saying, and the point was that. if you let this concept be, it goes all the way till claiming ownership of entire base concepts and principles in the end. for, there is nothing separating derived concepts and base concepts, the former are only versions and results of the latter, and in most cases more complex meshs of many of the latter. technically they are the same.
the concept of arch, and roof is simple. extremely complicated and unique arches, roofs being possible to create does not change that fact. the concept of a roof, concept of an arc, stays the same, and their purpose too. therefore, they can be patented. just like single click.
they just turned 180 degrees, because some conservative media outlets made a big fuss about something they (deliberately) misunderstood and misrepresented, and now, in lieu of scientific data, suddenly, al gore is 'laughing stock' and climate change is no more...
a normal questioning and criticism of VALID data, which should happen (and actually mandatory) for many science projects, has been enough for those people to ditch the entire thing, because some conservative national tvs made a big fuss about it. trendy as far as trends go. also speaks volumes about the attitudes of apple fans and their responses to criticism. god forbid if you question anything...
design, license, copyright, patent, its not about 'learning' its about thinking. you are telling me to 'learn' the difference in between copyright and design, however you are incapable of understanding that all these concepts are created by litigation, and can be changed, amended, transformed, and new ones added.
these are all abstract concepts.
the only thing that creates and enforces them, and decides what to enforce and what not, and what is enforceable and valid for what and what is not is the law. and law, can be made.
if legislation is passed to allow renewable licenses for architectural designs, it will become applicable.
if someone successfully litigates to the end that because the law was just passed recently, s/he/they are being slighted and their 'work' uncompensated in comparison to recent contracts, the previously made and 'sold' architectural designs can also be subject of reparations.
if they successfully litigate, they may ask you to remove/demolish certain parts or all of your house, because your house 'infringes' on one of their later designs, newly copyrighted/patented.
given the shittiness and stupidity of american system, and the track record of patents they have awarded in patent office, in such a situation simple concepts like 'arcs' and 'roofs' can even be patented and litigated.
second, i have mentioned that they are collections of COMMENTS posted on cnn's news discussion at DIFFERENT times. there is no way to 'properly format' it, for there is no 'proper format' for reciting different timed comments in a godfrigging news comment section.
third, had you read the first sentence, you would have known these, and wouldnt come made a fool of yourself. however, you did.
therefore i think that your problem is not formatting, or anything else, you seem to lack the proper respect for your fellow discussion participants so that you will actually read a few sentences of what they say.
so, i will put it plainly, elaborately, as courteously as it can be put ; fuck off.
My "country" of Pennsylvania has a constitutional, legal right to free speech and security from warrantless police searches, but that didn't stop the U.S. from passing the Patriot Act that violates both. This is why I don't see what's holding back the EU Parliament from doing the same.
european parliament is elected from member countries. they are very center left organization (ie, what is called social democrat in europe, and the basis of success for most european countries, and the freedoms and liberties therein), and numerous stuff bush & co tried to pull have failed at the doors of European parliament.
european parliament doesnt have much authority though. the real authority lies in the european union bureaucracy, and the european commission.
HOWEVER, if european parliament is a reflection of european social democracy and accompanying freedoms and liberties, european union bureaucracy is even more solidly in that nature. that was the real force that established european union and their principles in the first place.
???. Britain had a Bill of Rights (1600s) before any other EU country had one. It was the basis of the U.S. Bill of Rights. I don't understand how you can say it's not compatible with other EU states.
you really really need to do a lot of history reading.
britain's 'bill of rights' is an update of magna carta. it is not the basis of human rights declaration, which is the successor of declaration of rights of man, which is the successor of the enlightenment and revolutionary movements that were centered mainly in france in 18th century. u.s. constitution is the inheritor of french enlightenment ideology. the evolutionary routes of britain's rights bills and the revolutionary france's are quite different, and the french enlightenment principles form the basis of our current modern society.
our problems, as citizens of various countries around the world, is not tax, but our freedoms. if you dont have your freedoms, you cant decide how taxes are going to be.
The following excerpts of text are taken from a person's comments in a (then) ongoing discussion in comments section of a CNN news piece about digital 'piracy'. The guy
was arguing with copyright activists and shills, and have made innumerable good points to the ultimate end of silencing almost the most shrill shill. i have taken the
liberty of gathering his comments, and i will be posting it on discussion in slashdot in relevant subjects, so that it will help many people who are having difficulties
in understanding how flawed the copyright business and intellectual property is, and how little sympathy one should have for those perpetrating and enforcing them.
These comments are krehator's comments. they are listed in a last to first fashion, the first comments being at the bottom of the text, and the last comment he made being
on top (directly below
==
The truth anti-pirates don't want anyone to believe? I'll use myself as an example. I have been a pirate for decades. I know more about pirating and the facts behind it
than any of the anti-pirates on this sound-off who spew fallacies without any experience.
I download and share movies, software, and rarely music. I'm not a big music fan but I will admit that music is highly pirated. I have no interest in pirated books and
honestly have never witnessesed a big demand for it, outside of students in college. Plus, there is a lot of free material on the Internet which is better. I also use a
lot of freeware "open source" software, because it is quickly becoming better than commercial products.
I support freeware and open source and I do donate to those causes because they EARN my loyalty. Every Operating Systems I have installed is legal. I use Linux
distributions on many of my computers, instead of Windows, because only computer dummies pay for faulty products! Microsoft should be sued for knowingly selling faulty
products. However, according to anti-pirates, businesses are allowed to do that. Only people must live up to moral standards. Wait a minute......aren't businesses
operated by people? Hmmmmm.
Anyway,
I pirate (directly through me) approximately 100 gigabytes of mixed data each month. It varies depending on what is out there. I don't get it from torrents, P2P, or web
sites. Those are not the most reliable, secure, fastest, or primary routes. Those are distractions for novice computer users and the media looking for a story. The
primary routes for pirated data cannot be stopped. Copy protection is not designed to stop hardcore pirates. It is meant to stop the Average Joe from easily sharing with
his friend. A lot of pirating work is done to enable the Average Joe, who then initiates a wave of sharing. Look, some things are true even if you don't want to believe
it.
The deeper inner workings of the pirate community are secured better than the launch codes for missile silos. The people getting caught are low level people who get
replaced in minutes. Anti-pirates have no idea what they are talking about when they try to uncover the real pirate world or describe our motivations. They are akin to
cavemen describing an airplane as an "evil hungry fire bird". Most of what anti-pirates and the industry tells the media and consumers is smoke and mirrors to defend
their own greedy immorality. Pirates get labeled as evil, while greedy and dishonest companies play victim. "oh poor us, we can only make 1 billion dollars this year".
Shyeah, that wins support from consumers and small businesses living on a real budget (laugh).
Of all the data I download per month, 80% is not even for me, and will never be used by me. It is shared with others like me who may or may not value what I have. Of the
20% that interests me, only a very small portion will be deemed as worthy of keeping, after being thoroughly tested. I may find a single good program out of a 1,000 I
download. If that program is superb, and provides m
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you very well know that they wont leave it at that. like, remember how ioc claimed rights on a sportswoman's name. like, some organization claiming rights to a photo of a monument, randomly taken by some visitor. the 'rights' concept in america is so out of control and corrupted that people are able to claim rights to even fundamental thoughts and concepts.
anyone can be hurt. someone posting some photo of something that a person or company thinks that they 'own' anything related to it can take an entire forum down, with this thing and acta (if).
and does a judge and 12 people randomly selected represent the will and opinion of the majority ?
simply put, those on 4chan and this chinese thing are far bigger a crowd than 1 judge and 12 random jury members. its much more direct than the current judicial system.
i dont think that france, germany, spain, scandinavian countries and rest of the eu will just sit and accept u.s. as dominator of the world information.
and what is different in between an aristocratic system and a representative democracy ?
in the first, a small mob rules them all. in the latter, a bigger mob.
in direct democracy, mob is the biggest. so, it IS democracy.
you think rushing to judgment doesnt happen in legal process ?
in countries which dont employ jury systems, the judge rushes to decisions because there are heaps of cases waiting to be handled.
in countries which employ jury systems, juries rush to decisions because they have their own businesses to deal with and cant spend weeks or months or years on end in courtrooms.
in any country, judicial system is limited with whatever expert can be hustled in to court, or whichever witness can be found.
in such a system however, there are infinite number of judges, juries, experts and witnesses.
and cut hypocritical elitist crap like 'mob justice' and so on. this is direct democracy at work : people brought the case into the light, people provided evidence for it, people judged it, people executed the judgment. this is the way democracy was supposed to be.
but instead of this, we have 'representatives of the representatives of the representatives to the power of n' system in politics. you elect someone who has been able to secure enough funds and connections to get into public through privately owned media channels, s/he gives some promises to you on some broad issues. then the person goes on, and creates laws and rules with 200 or so of similar other people who were elected, WITHOUT ASKING anything to public. rarely does any public reaction invoked by people can change the nature of laws.
so basically, there is no democracy. there isnt representative democracy either, because the representative you elect does not represent you in any respect.
in the end, we end up living under rules and laws that are made by a group of elected few, who were elite enough to have necessary private social connections. this is what we call 'establishment'. you cant influence establishment, cant change their mind, cant force them to do anything. they are basically little different than aristocracies of old.
but on the other hand there is that 4chan and this china phenomenon. these ARE people. these are 'the people' which is mentioned in 'we, the people'. you can call out to them, you can plead with them, and you can change their mind. leave that aside, public consciousness is something that constantly evolves, even if noone does do anything to that extent. it WILL get better over time, just as it got better gradually starting from late 1600s until modern age.
instead of ridiculing or despising, you all should be supporting it and trying to find ways to better it, for it is the true form of democracy that is to be. the people, but this time, directly by the people.
now, without having to deal with the immense STUPIDITY of ubisoft management and their beyond stupid 'drm' ?
all this harrassment is going to do will be to push the global small internet publishers to services in other countries. Datacenters, Ad services in u.s. will lose customers. There are already strong companies servicing in those areas in Eu. Eu will be happy to receive that amount of business.
the stupor of american corporatism is overwhelming. they can even go to the extent of shooting themselves in the foot.
i can think of only one reason, if they came up with what they claim to be their own 'ip', and it was proven, the code would outright get removed from linux, leaving microsoft with nothing to harrass with. they would also lack the weapon to coerce and subdue the i.t. world at the time when linux becomes established for good worldwide.
in any case, the community should look into this, and discover them, and remove them.
chances are high that they have claimed rights to some basic logic routine or procedure, thanks to the beyond shitty patent system in u.s., and are now waiting for acta to make their claim in u.s. globally valid. you know, since the places like europe werent so stupid enough to let such stupidity like being able to 'own' logical routines and constructs for anyone.
with all undue respect, american system has gone beyond failure, if it has (and it really has) come to the point of letting private people and organizations own logic and thought.
ill get to the point straight.
ABSTRACT concepts can be REDEFINED.
meaning, 'derive', 'derivation', 'copy', 'intellectual property', ALL of these concepts can be modified and amended. there are no hard coded, unchangeable versions of these. these are not natural concepts. these cant be quantified. these cant be sampled from nature.
therefore ALL can be changed. if you want to see this in action, just check your country's laws on various matters. any law starts with definitions of terms and concepts it covers. you will see that throughout law's history, many of those concepts had been modified, and amended as to their definitions.
copy is copy in TODAY's sense and understanding, which was defined some way back. derivation is the same. if someone redefines them in laws and this gets hold, their meaning and application will also change.
i thought the 'free market' capitalism was a system which let individuals and organizations charge whatever they want for their products and services.
turns out, it isnt so, everyone has to charge high enough so that private interests can make profits to satisfy themselves. it seems so, because some prick is able to come up and say that, like people are born to this world to to be profited from. reminds me of the middle ages and serf system.
if you have been following them as i had, you too would.
Funny error messages. really funny. not 'microsoft' funny.
if google managers invoke eu laws and regulations, italian judge's sentence will amount to shit.
obama was able to get ahead clinton and get elected, and then able to go through enormous prejudices and overcome the wasp vote that has flown to gop side, only because of internet. only because it was an uncontrollable medium, he was able to get ahead in his race. it was unexpected, unprecedented, the old school machinery of washington didnt even expect internet could be that effective, so he succeeded.
it goes for his second term. its important to have a free internet to secure a second term.,.
European union bureaucracy wont like this. that bureaucracy has been built on various freedoms and principles that are the core of our modern society. even more than u.s. constitution - you dont need any constitution to ensure those rights in europe - the declaration of human rights is paramount.
if this charade goes further, it will be inevitable for Eu to break away Eu's internet space from u.s. related control sources, to ensure these principles.
acta was being cooked in the last 2 years of bush admn. all the accompanying shit (including this) too. the 'cyberwar' bullshit started back then.
basically, its the same shitheads trying to cramp down internet now as they were back then.
yea, however it is obama's fault in a major way ; he didnt replace the bushies in administration rightaway. instead, he tried to be 'bipartisan' and cooperate.
the most naive act of the last decades by a politician. bushies were of course thrilled, for, see, they were able to further the plans they have set in motion.
that was what i was saying, and the point was that. if you let this concept be, it goes all the way till claiming ownership of entire base concepts and principles in the end. for, there is nothing separating derived concepts and base concepts, the former are only versions and results of the latter, and in most cases more complex meshs of many of the latter. technically they are the same.
dont read if you dont want to. noone is going to screw you in the butt if you dont read it.
the concept of arch, and roof is simple. extremely complicated and unique arches, roofs being possible to create does not change that fact. the concept of a roof, concept of an arc, stays the same, and their purpose too. therefore, they can be patented. just like single click.
they just turned 180 degrees, because some conservative media outlets made a big fuss about something they (deliberately) misunderstood and misrepresented, and now, in lieu of scientific data, suddenly, al gore is 'laughing stock' and climate change is no more ...
a normal questioning and criticism of VALID data, which should happen (and actually mandatory) for many science projects, has been enough for those people to ditch the entire thing, because some conservative national tvs made a big fuss about it. trendy as far as trends go. also speaks volumes about the attitudes of apple fans and their responses to criticism. god forbid if you question anything ...
design, license, copyright, patent, its not about 'learning' its about thinking. you are telling me to 'learn' the difference in between copyright and design, however you are incapable of understanding that all these concepts are created by litigation, and can be changed, amended, transformed, and new ones added.
these are all abstract concepts.
the only thing that creates and enforces them, and decides what to enforce and what not, and what is enforceable and valid for what and what is not is the law. and law, can be made.
if legislation is passed to allow renewable licenses for architectural designs, it will become applicable.
if someone successfully litigates to the end that because the law was just passed recently, s/he/they are being slighted and their 'work' uncompensated in comparison to recent contracts, the previously made and 'sold' architectural designs can also be subject of reparations.
if they successfully litigate, they may ask you to remove/demolish certain parts or all of your house, because your house 'infringes' on one of their later designs, newly copyrighted/patented.
given the shittiness and stupidity of american system, and the track record of patents they have awarded in patent office, in such a situation simple concepts like 'arcs' and 'roofs' can even be patented and litigated.
first, i noted that they are not MY 'ramblings'.
second, i have mentioned that they are collections of COMMENTS posted on cnn's news discussion at DIFFERENT times. there is no way to 'properly format' it, for there is no 'proper format' for reciting different timed comments in a godfrigging news comment section.
third, had you read the first sentence, you would have known these, and wouldnt come made a fool of yourself. however, you did.
therefore i think that your problem is not formatting, or anything else, you seem to lack the proper respect for your fellow discussion participants so that you will actually read a few sentences of what they say.
so, i will put it plainly, elaborately, as courteously as it can be put ; fuck off.
My "country" of Pennsylvania has a constitutional, legal right to free speech and security from warrantless police searches, but that didn't stop the U.S. from passing the Patriot Act that violates both. This is why I don't see what's holding back the EU Parliament from doing the same.
european parliament is elected from member countries. they are very center left organization (ie, what is called social democrat in europe, and the basis of success for most european countries, and the freedoms and liberties therein), and numerous stuff bush & co tried to pull have failed at the doors of European parliament.
european parliament doesnt have much authority though. the real authority lies in the european union bureaucracy, and the european commission.
HOWEVER, if european parliament is a reflection of european social democracy and accompanying freedoms and liberties, european union bureaucracy is even more solidly in that nature. that was the real force that established european union and their principles in the first place.
???. Britain had a Bill of Rights (1600s) before any other EU country had one. It was the basis of the U.S. Bill of Rights. I don't understand how you can say it's not compatible with other EU states.
you really really need to do a lot of history reading.
britain's 'bill of rights' is an update of magna carta. it is not the basis of human rights declaration, which is the successor of declaration of rights of man, which is the successor of the enlightenment and revolutionary movements that were centered mainly in france in 18th century. u.s. constitution is the inheritor of french enlightenment ideology. the evolutionary routes of britain's rights bills and the revolutionary france's are quite different, and the french enlightenment principles form the basis of our current modern society.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100027366/british-tea-party-movement-to-launch-on-saturday/
our problems, as citizens of various countries around the world, is not tax, but our freedoms. if you dont have your freedoms, you cant decide how taxes are going to be.
The following excerpts of text are taken from a person's comments in a (then) ongoing discussion in comments section of a CNN news piece about digital 'piracy'. The guy
was arguing with copyright activists and shills, and have made innumerable good points to the ultimate end of silencing almost the most shrill shill. i have taken the
liberty of gathering his comments, and i will be posting it on discussion in slashdot in relevant subjects, so that it will help many people who are having difficulties
in understanding how flawed the copyright business and intellectual property is, and how little sympathy one should have for those perpetrating and enforcing them.
These comments are krehator's comments. they are listed in a last to first fashion, the first comments being at the bottom of the text, and the last comment he made being
on top (directly below
==
The truth anti-pirates don't want anyone to believe? I'll use myself as an example. I have been a pirate for decades. I know more about pirating and the facts behind it
than any of the anti-pirates on this sound-off who spew fallacies without any experience.
I download and share movies, software, and rarely music. I'm not a big music fan but I will admit that music is highly pirated. I have no interest in pirated books and
honestly have never witnessesed a big demand for it, outside of students in college. Plus, there is a lot of free material on the Internet which is better. I also use a
lot of freeware "open source" software, because it is quickly becoming better than commercial products.
I support freeware and open source and I do donate to those causes because they EARN my loyalty. Every Operating Systems I have installed is legal. I use Linux
distributions on many of my computers, instead of Windows, because only computer dummies pay for faulty products! Microsoft should be sued for knowingly selling faulty
products. However, according to anti-pirates, businesses are allowed to do that. Only people must live up to moral standards. Wait a minute......aren't businesses
operated by people? Hmmmmm.
Anyway,
I pirate (directly through me) approximately 100 gigabytes of mixed data each month. It varies depending on what is out there. I don't get it from torrents, P2P, or web
sites. Those are not the most reliable, secure, fastest, or primary routes. Those are distractions for novice computer users and the media looking for a story. The
primary routes for pirated data cannot be stopped. Copy protection is not designed to stop hardcore pirates. It is meant to stop the Average Joe from easily sharing with
his friend. A lot of pirating work is done to enable the Average Joe, who then initiates a wave of sharing. Look, some things are true even if you don't want to believe
it.
The deeper inner workings of the pirate community are secured better than the launch codes for missile silos. The people getting caught are low level people who get
replaced in minutes. Anti-pirates have no idea what they are talking about when they try to uncover the real pirate world or describe our motivations. They are akin to
cavemen describing an airplane as an "evil hungry fire bird". Most of what anti-pirates and the industry tells the media and consumers is smoke and mirrors to defend
their own greedy immorality. Pirates get labeled as evil, while greedy and dishonest companies play victim. "oh poor us, we can only make 1 billion dollars this year".
Shyeah, that wins support from consumers and small businesses living on a real budget (laugh).
Of all the data I download per month, 80% is not even for me, and will never be used by me. It is shared with others like me who may or may not value what I have. Of the
20% that interests me, only a very small portion will be deemed as worthy of keeping, after being thoroughly tested. I may find a single good program out of a 1,000 I
download. If that program is superb, and provides m