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Originally Posted by riemann42
These arguments are great!
Ok. Limewire is busted. This proves that idiots can be caught and tossed in jail / fined / or otherwise justly punished. Now we just need to find a way to get smart people (like the insidious iphinome) to get tossed in jail / fined / or otherwise punished for "infringing" on the only capitalist way to produce good art.
I suggest the following:
* Increase enforcement
* Create IP blacklist and enforce them at ISP level (if the Chinese can use it to suppress thought, the american's can use it to suppress theft).
* And finally, start working on changing the culture. We don't want our children thinking that theft is OK.
Oh, and if you have a problem with me using the term theft to describe the acquisition of an item without payment, I apologize. It's just that no other term is both (a) pejorative enough and (b) polite. Yes calling such lowlifes "infringers of copyright whose goal is acquisition of material without payment rather than expansion, derivation, or other new creative work" a thief is polite. Feel free to disagree with copyright terms. Feel free to disagree with pricing. But don't you dare justify stealing by calling it things like sharing. Admit that you are a lowlife or a communist. Admit that you don't value art, artists, or a society based on capital.
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Seriously, all this post needed was the title 'REDS UNDER THE BED' and it would have made my night. Hilarious. And if any of what you said is actually serious (please let our debate not fall into this Bush-level IQ stupidity), then you're breaking the TOS of this site by name calling and using inflammatory language.
In any case, your misguided, ill-informed, hyperbolic and shamefully knowledge-retarded rant, reminded me of this:
