Yep! Every day I convince more people to boycott completly the 7 major entairtainement companies! These parasites give me so many argument in this direction that it is not even funny! Thanks for your help RIAA/MPAA parasites!

stw

but angling towards inaction ‘hoping’ to overlooked is not the same as addressing the fundamental lack of valid intelligent laws concerning intellectual property. I can guarantee they will abuse the position of power, and I agree that as ineffectual as they may turn out, it still misses the point of shoving a white-hot poker up the MAFIAA’s anal orifice in order to ‘motivate’ them to expire.

imho

1. Let’s have some perspective here, y’all:
The U.S. Economy is staggering drunkenly toward collapse (Corporate “Capitalism” busily Enronning us all into the ground).
The “War on Terror” is a colossal flop (yeah baby, significant chance for a nuclear/biological attack on United States soil by 2013 == win!)
Eight years of swaggering, punch-in-the-face “diplomacy” and (failed) attempts at nation-building coupled with a near-total disregard for human rights (Gitmo, anyone?) ensures that the word “Ugly” will probably precede the word “American” for a hell of a long time to come.
Dare I mention a significant proportion of the population’s unwillingness to vote for a guy based on HIS MIDDLE NAME?

The “War on Piracy” will go exactly the same way as the “War on Terror”/”War on Drugs”:
Namely, complete inability to actually do anything other than inconvenience a relatively small subset of the populace at any given time.

Hell, I personally think it’s a GOOD thing the RIAA and their dumb-as-dogshit cronies are blustering. I mean, think about it: if they’d actually taken the sensible approach back during the Napster era, then people would probably think “signing” with them was a good thing. THey’d probably still be seen as socially-relevant taste-makers/Trend-setters/whatever you call it.

If they’d played nice during the Napster era, most people would never have heard Valenti’s idiotic “Boston Strangler” quote.

Please remember: it’s NOT what “laws” are on the books that ultimately counts.
It’s which laws they can afford to “enforce”.
How much manpower do you REALLY think they have to devote to yet another “crusade” — let alone one explicitly dedicated to shoring up a bunch of morally-bankrupts, money-grubbing, multinational corporate megaliths. (Oh wait, scratch that — the banks and auto makers got their FIRST!)

Seriously, folks: the p2p “movement” is global, it’s pervasive, and further ham-fisted fumbling by the RIAA/their tool-puppets in Government can only serve to wake more people up.]

Examine Youtube:
You REALLY think DMCA takedown notices “stop” anything?
The thing may get taken down for a few days, but eventually twenty or thirty others upload it again.

This isn’t looking “pretty grim”: it’s just more waste-motion fighting a “war” that’s already been lost.