–TG

Furthermore, if they did have these staggering ‘losses’, they were never reported to the SEC as an event or circumstance that would materially impact the viability of their business. Recall the huge flap at Kevin Mitnick’s sentencing where Motorola was supposed to have lost over $100,000,000 because Kev copied the source code for their proprietary version of Unix. The Government called this copying ‘theft’ and put the value at $100,000,000 because that’s how much Motorola said it cost to develop the software in question. Yes, no where on it’s financial statements in the years in question did Motorola indicate that they experienced a $100,000,000 loss due to ‘theft’ of their source code.

Now that’s fuzzy math that even beats out George W’s version of fuzzy math.

–TG

before p2p i bought all of the cds i listen too to this day. since then i have accidentally destroyed them all.

buy them all? eff that. thank u internet for lower quality replacements i’ll only lose by mechanical failure, or some freakish magnetic accident, instead of destruction by my own fingers.

as for movies, before p2p, i never payed to see them. i still don’t, i just see them 2 years earlier than i would have before.

besides, i don’t like the fact that people in them make about as much money for one film than i will in 100 years (and thats average actors) just to play pretend. pricks.

If they are, #4 carefully and silently breaks in, opening the door to the remaining team members who overpower their victim, stealing his (or her) computer, now holding the illicit downloads.

that had me wondering if there was some sort of typo or something…

Then I read:

The HDs simultaneously download the mp3s into Sony holding units which read the incoming files, automatically sorting them into artist / genre categories.

That almost won me over again although it did seem a ridiculously useless thing to do… but that’s typical **AA behaviour so reaffirmed the story a little…

Then thankfully I proceeded to read the next paragraph which made everything else come into focus!

I can believe that tobacco companies are heavily involved in the black market cigarette trade to avoid various import/export/sales taxes but surely the cartels would have nothing to gain from this?!

Anyway, a masterful parody/lampoon type piece IMHO. But i’ll bet there are guys out there doing this for fun and not for the cartels benefit!

anyway, what i find absolutely incredible is that anyone believes the “losses” that they make out

“film industry loses around $3 billion each year, and the recording industry has estimated that it has lost almost $5 billion ”

thats an unbelievable amount of punters who dont go to record stores or to the movies - who wouldve gone before ?

do the sums (caveat: i hope i have) - a cd costs say $15, so that means around 33 million albums that “wouldve” been bought by people who download chose not to do so - tosh…

ditto for films - everyone knows that the overwhelming majority of ppl who download films, tv or music would not buy the same or go to the same movies etc if p2p werent there

its just not REALITY

its complete b888888s -

“xyz film is on at the cinema, do you want to go?”
“nah cant be arsed, not that bothered”

bored at 2am…. a torrent of xyz film appears on mininova
“oh sod it, start the download now, i’ll watch it sometime when i’m bored”

ade

i want my points….