For example, you can't prosecute someone just for producing "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life."

We need tighter legislation NOW!

"In a sense, Internet technology is a metaphor for the new morality. As long as you can get it, it doesn't matter how."

I don't get it.

I know how we can defeat the RIAA. Go to their main office building and ask to see someone. Make sure to take the coffee they offer you. Spill it in your crotch. Sue the RIAA for a million dollars.....

Illegally copying a copyrighted article about illegally copying copyrighted articles.

Oh, the irony.

• opening its massive detention facility in the high desert of Movaje, CA

That is on US soil & human rights would eventually be enforced. They should have learned from the US government and located the facility in Cuba, I gather that there is some spare space in Camp X-Ray.

Well, that would have been one way of improving the story!

Yes, but you've got to realize that the theft alluded to by the Slashdot story, as explained in the article, was that of a record executive getting a copy of an analyst's report without paying the $895 to Forrester to have that copy. If a song valued at ~$1 (observed price for an electronic copy of a song from iTMS) is worth $150,000, then Forrester should sue the record executive for $134.25 million dollars! Let's see how the RIAA like a taste of their own medicine!

It doesn't matter.

So, anyone know whether they are running Linux in the RIAA offices? Maybe we could get McBride onto the scent and turn him loose. Sic'm boy!

Any programmers at SCO download any music?

This could be fun.

I could swear most of us take part in that model at least once a week. Well at least those I presume are capable of typing. It is called shopping.

Nonsense. You can get all your basic necessities from mother nature. Out here in the forest you can hunt and grow your own food, build your own house and even Access /. by generating your own electr..... Error detected on squirrel_running_wheel_generator1. Phase mistmatch. Shutting down power grid in 10..9..8..7... Ahhh help! Squirrels flying everywhe... @^&#% NO CARRIER

I'm still getting used to the term 'barratry'. It certainly applies here, as does the technical legal term "fucking assholes."

Best bet is just to lose the cloting altogether. :)

But then she could bleed to death in hours.

(And if you want to see Jolie nekkid, go rent Gia.)

While you're online, visit a blog with links to published movie gossip and use your pirated e-mail program to send tidbits to your hundred closest friends.

Because when faced with the choice of downloading untold numbers of movies, music, or expensive software like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office, the humble file trader always opts for that hot new copy of Outlook Express...?!

Watch out for this John Leland guy. He's in the know.