“We’re right, you’re wrong, and if you don’t agree, you MUST be a thief ”

They never back up their claims.
They always start with the name-calling.

The strong statistical proof AGAINST the RIAA claims is what really ‘owned’ them.

Name calling is all they have left.

Jon is doing a service to humanity by operating this site, in my opinion. Can’t see much fanancial gain to this at all and that’s usually the way it is for those who help row this big boat we’re all in.

LOL, the banks the friends of hollywood are calling time to silly lones for $1 Billion for 1 film.

Any study on ANYTHING that is funded by someone who wants the study to come out a certain way becomes an instant BS generator.

Politicians as well as corporate thugs will do anything they can to shut down the Internet. However, most of them are cowards and do not do so openly, for the people will not put up with it without a fight. To shut down the Internet they work together and make back room deals to pass laws to thwart competition, pass the DCMA, allow priority traffic, etc. What they WILL find out (some already are) is that throttling the Internet will not keep information from being spread. Other networks will form. A box of DVD’s sent through the mail contain as much useful information as can be transmitted over many broadband connections. A local homebrew WIFI network can be set up for very little money, and the information transmitted by it will not be subjected to government-corporate bandwidth limitations or surveillance. Yup, what Gutenberg did to the papacy is going to be done to the corporate-government stranglehold on peoples’ lives.

The Internet and like networks have freed people from oppressive taxation and exorbitant cartel prices. Why get ripped off at the store and by the tax man when the same or better product can be bought for much cheaper or obtained for free online? I don’t see a good reason. If governments and corporations want to outsource people, then people will outsource governments and corporations. It is already happening with music, video, software, and communications. It will soon happen with governments as well.

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He got his undies in a bunch.

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From what I see there is a large group of us that would be willing to spend our money, as we normally do, only under different circumstances…. As many around me. I too am so tired of the CorpoRats brains storming over how they can push, bully ,screw us out of just one dollar and disgusted by there lack of responsibility when it comes the mess they create. They refuse to shoulder the part of the blame that they own. But the King wears no cloths and we don’t mind admitting that any more. We are not the ignorant cash cows of bygone days. Thanks to in part to the internet we are well informed whether the Government or the CorpoRats like it or not. Things will not get better by throwing you customers/citizens in jail. The USA does not even have a legal IRS yet they collect with swat teams. 10’s of thousands of laws are broken by the CIA every year. These are facts that can’t be denigh because they are in the public domain. If the Government and the CorpoRats want average Joe to play fair then they will have to do the same. Stop looking at people as a mark to push around and start servicing us as they were meant to do. That way they will create value and receive their rewards. Balance will return and everyone, not just a select few can enjoy a happy quality of life they deserve.