Long time. How goes it?

Cheers!

Consider this.. (using RIAA/MPAA logic)

Why do people like popcorn. Smell, taste, texture, good memories from past experiences.

If I were to cook popcorn and a little child (we’ll call him Timmy) were to come by and smell the aroma. If Timmy walks out of the store without buying the popcorn, he’s stolen 25% of why people purchase popcorn.

Sure, Timmy might come back and buy the popcorn because we all know once you smell it, you have to have it (if your a popcorn lover) but it might take him a range of time before he has the money.

Oops, too bad for Timmy here come the RIAA/MPAA cops, knocking down his door and taking his lungs to use in court.. Oh, he doesn’t have the money to pay for court any more than he had the money to buy the product he stole? Too bad, let’s sue him!!

Timmy comes to court with only the defense that he had just smelled the popcorn and had intention to buy a lot of popcorn some day when he had enough money but he needed to pay for stupid things like rent, electric bill, etc, instead..

(SLAM) *goes the gavel*

GUILTY!! Here’s your 200Million fine for stealing the MPAA/RIAA’s product!!

Whoa, wait? What??!

Well, Timmy goes bankrupt, loses everything he ever had.. all from being interested in a product but not having the money to buy it right when he wanted to.

I guess that’s life.

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Hmm, too extreme right? But now let’s take this into a more similar platform.

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Timmy makes $2000/mo. Timmy, spends $900/mo on rent, $300/mo on his car, $200/mo on food, $150/mo on car insurance, $300/mo on gasoline, $100/mo on his power bill, $50 for his phone/internet bill.. oops, Timmy has $0 at the end of every month like most people do.

Timmy cant afford cable so he watches movies on hulu and when he drives his car reallllllly easy he can save $10-20 a month that he can spend on “fun stuff” like music or dvd’s. Heck he’s even gone months just eating “Ramen” just so he can afford to buy two or three movies.. but now he really hates Ramen.

Obviously Timmy wants to make sure if he buys a cd or dvd that it’s pretty darn good because he can realistically only buy about 6 a year. Timmy loads up Kazaa and downloads a few songs he thinks he liked from the radio… yup he liked them, so he’ll save up for them for the end of the month when he gets his paycheck and can buy that kewl hawt cd from WalMart.

A week passes ..*Someone knocks on the door… Timmy answers…. Some kid hands him a letter and tells him he’s been served and to have a nice day*.. Damn, I guess he won’t be able to bring an attorney.

Timmy comes to court with only the defense that he had just downloaded the two songs from the cd he’d heard on the radio and wanted to make sure he was thinking of the right songs and that he really wanted to buy that specific cd before he bought the cd with his limited funds… He’d had full intention to buying the cd when he had enough money at the end of the month.

(SLAM) *goes the gavel*

GUILTY!! Here’s your 200Million fine for stealing the MPAA/RIAA’s product!!

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This circle of events does not change anything. Most people that download only do so to try a product, not to replace it. Most people that download ARE customers but they’re tired of being screwed over by buying a cd and having it consist of mainly CRAP along with the two songs worth listening to.

MPAA/RIAA – stop faking charts and numbers. Your business functioned like a leader to our economy and nothing more – a sign that our economy was in trouble because people were not buying as many NEW products.. but let me point out that cd/dvd RESALES at ‘used’ stores going up at the same time because they were/are more AFFORDABLE.

/sigh

I don’t know why I rant occasionally, it’s not like they’re listening..

But just the same, that’s my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_

Even if Jammie win this, as I hope she will, we will not put our guns back into the rack and of course the boycott shall continue!

BOYCOTT THE RIAA/MPAA AND THE 7 MAJORS!