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p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- 3 pirates may be dead in shootout
That’s an Associated Press headline. So it must be true.
Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG already have their own pseudo-cops and use enforcement agencies paid for by taxpayers as corporate copyright cops.
So have they now been issued with gun permits and authorised to use deadly force when apprehending file sharers and counterfeiters?
It wouldn’t come as any kind of a surprise.
“Shot Penang ‘pirate CD’ victim,” said a p2pnet post three years ago.
And a Reader’s Write under the story said, “There was an African merchant named Ousmane Zango (I’ve seen it also spelled Zongo) who was killed by New York city police May 22, 2003 when they raided a warehouse trying to crack down on pirated CDs.”
But the latest shootings didn’t involve corporate ‘product’.
They were real pirates, not the artificial bad guys created by Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels for propaganda purposes.
They were, “holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons,” says AP.
But the way things are going, it won’t be long before copyright infringers will end up on mortuary slabs, dead from bullet wounds received during corporate ‘busts’.
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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September 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Guess they should have stuck with pirating Britney’s latest.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
At last, a story that mentions real pirates. I have been trying in vain to get people to stop using the “P” word when referring to the exchange of information for a long time now. JON, are you getting this? Pirates are people who board ships at sea by force and often KILL other people in the process of stealing cargo. They are ruthless murdering scum. The RIAA/MPAA crowd has just gotta love that sheeple have gladly adopted the word “piracy” and title “pirate” when referring to P2P file sharing. I guess real pirates have been glamorized to the point where people forget what the word really means. The subconscious association that it is something wrong is still there, and that’s exactly what the content “owners” want people to believe. It’s a loosing battle. I know, but I will keep railing against it as long as there is a breath of life in me.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
@Mostly Harmless….
Someone should call The Pirate Bay!
If they only knew what the word meant, before choosing their name!…
September 30th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Anybody’s credibility instantly drops to zero the second they use the word “sheeple.”
September 30th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Yeah, guess I’m the fool.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Unfortunately, sheeple is a too often accurate description of the behavior of US citizens. Or should I have said US consumers? I’m not qualified to comment on Canada. I would like to think that Canada is not filled with the mindless bots that now inhabit the US.
YMMV
SRG
September 30th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
“I would like to think that Canada is not filled with the mindless bots that now inhabit the US.”
I would like to think that, too, and I am Canadian.
Unfortunately, I know differently.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:17 am
Most people in most countries are sheeple, as most people can easily believe something a superior leader says. A good amount of people break this mold, but unfortunately, many of them become dictators themselves once in power.
Anyways, I can confirm the validity of this article. Me and my journalism teacher talked about it for a few minutes. Awesome headlines are awesome.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
“Awesome headlines are awesome.”
Scheel: That’s my new favorite sentence-construction from now on.
“Awesome tautologies are awesomely tautological.”
Devils/Mostly:
1. The RIAA/MPAA scumbags came up with the term “pirate” as part of the same disinformation campaign which has evidently sucked “Sam I am’s” brain right out of his head. They want desperately to portray all forms of IP as “fundamental human rights”, and dismiss any skepticism — or historical evidence — against that line as “totally beside the point” or “rationalizations for selfish anarchy” or suchlike.
TPB and the various “pirate parties” springing up in many countries are engaged in what linguists call “reclaiming”: taking a word which was originally intended to be pejorative and using it instead as a “badge of honor”.
About the word “sheeple”:
yes, it’s descriptive, but, unfortunately, it’s way too “easy” of a word — it’s been bandied about for way too long, and by way too many pundits on all sides of the ideological spectrum, that it’s become just another code-word intended to shut down discussion.
Just like — for example — accusing somebody of being an “anarchist” or “Commie.”
October 1st, 2008 at 11:04 pm
@ Henry:
“TPB and the various “pirate parties” springing up in many countries are engaged in what linguists call “reclaiming”: taking a word which was originally intended to be pejorative and using it instead as a “badge of honor”.”
This is exactly where I was going with my previous remark about TPB.
Nicely put, too!
As far as “sheeple” goes…
It bears the same quality as any of those invented rag media contractions, in that, it only appeals to those who become fascinated with such low-level attempts at creativity. I’d like to see it get buried, along with “Bennifer”, “Brangelina”….
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Mostly:
Spot on!
Glad I explained it reasonably — I’m trying to actually contribute something meaningful to the discussions here, and not just troll-smash (although as anybody reading here can probably tell, I DO engage in a good bit of that as well!)
TPB and similar organizations exemplify the “civil disobedience” aspect of why the thuggery of the RIAA/MPAA won’t work. It CAN’T work, because, to put it bluntly, if you push people around enough, SOMEBODY is gonna push back.
The “backlash” is taking many forms:
1. The development of p2p technology
2. The increasing skepticism about “Intellectual property” in general
3. The rise in remix-culture.
4. Increasing worries over cronyism between corporations and governments, of which the present state of IP law is merely one symptom.)
These issues are WAY bigger than the RIAA strawman notion that it’s just “greedy slacker teenagers” with a “faulty moral compass”.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Now, if only more of the US colleges would start filing proper motions to dismiss and disconnect themselves from their MAFIAA-conceived role as Full-time Entertainment Industry Police/Informants/Illegal Software Distributors, some reality could be restored.