Comments on: Birthday student’s RIAA surprise

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:02:11 +0000

I notice that neither of you intellectual giants bothered to actually address my points. That’s what’s fascinating about the “scene” — you’re so willing to heart-tug about how the “Big Evil Corporations” are oppressing the poor little file-sharers (Patti Santangelo, the poor disabled mom who doesn’t even have a computer, is a better PR risk than, say, a “ripping crew” who call themselves the “MovieRunners”, or some shit.)
Fuck “Copyright Hitlers?” Great. So you want “stuff for free”, and anybody who complains or tries to make the point that, just maybe, those who ORIGINATE the stuff you want actually DO deserve to have some say over…..ah fuck it. You just want “free” stuff. Clear enough, from your responses.

Third-rate leeches, all of you.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:50:05 +0000

Exactly!! Fuck Intellectual Property Hitlers like the Original Poster!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:10:19 +0000

Fuck you.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:13:01 +0000

Good for them! Why is it that there is NO discussion permitted anymore about how these people are, in fact, doing things that are arguably immoral (at least if you accept the idea that the creators of content should have some say over what is done with that content.)

Fine. If rampant p2p should be just fine with NO conesquences, then fuck Stallman AND the GPL. Use GPL’ed software any goddamn way you feel like it. (After all, half of you seem to not believe copyright has any validity whatsoever, and the other half don’t give a fuck.)

This is what’s so shameful about the whole p2p “scene” — the digital equivalent of “swag off the back of a truck” is “kewl”, but any and every attempt to make that MORE DIFFICULT is somehow villainous.

Does this also hold for content produced by private citizens?
What if I record a shitload of cordless-phone stuff with a scanner, and make those files available via p2p “for free?” What should happen if the originators of said content (the people having the conversation) complain about violations? “Fuck ‘em! No money changed hands, so it’s all good!”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:52:40 +0000

Now I really wonder how the mainstrean press would have reported this incedent, if this was done by a group of people with “the” in their name,ã€€and the university was buckling under similar threats?

It’s almost too funny that these attempts my **AA in trying to get money of their customers, really resembles that of the mafia in New York in many areas until recently. Which should not come as a surprise, being that they have been strongly involved with the music industry for a VERY long time.

Just my two cents,