Few Takers For RIAA's "Clean Slate" 252
gbulmash writes "In the wake of the RIAA's highly-criticized "Clean Slate" program, a recent article about P2P United reveals that the RIAA has only had 838 takers for their file swapping amnesty offer. That's less than 1/1000th of one percent of the estimated number of P2P users worldwide."
Do the "takers" really count? (Score:5, Funny)
22 I.P. Freelys
20 Hugh Jasses
C'mon people, they are trying to run a business here, not deal with cranks.
the poor blighted souls (Score:4, Funny)
Did the RIAA at least send them a t-shirt with a nice target design on it? (your choice of in the back, or on the front)
[on the other hand, maybe the signees are lawyers setting up some sort of a legal honey pot.]
How Much for the List? (Score:2, Funny)
Failed to notice the word "percent" (Score:4, Funny)
I think that one in a thousand is actually a pretty high rate.
Yes, but what they got was less than one percent of that.
In the metric system at least, 1% of "pretty high" is roughly equal to "quite low".
-- MarkusQ
Unfounded pessimism (Score:5, Funny)
I think that this statement comes from the "glass is 99,999/100,000 empty" viewpoint. I'm more of an optimist, and I prefer to look at it as 1e-5 full.
Must be a lie (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do the "takers" really count? (Score:3, Funny)
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Hugh G. Rekschon
More statistics... (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously... why doesn't the RIAA just make the amnesty form into a business-reply card and put them in all the kids magazines?
"Clean Slate" - hmm, I've heard that before... (Score:3, Funny)
Agent Smith: "We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice."
Neo: "Yeah. Wow, that sound like a really good deal. But I think I got a better one. How about I give you the finger... and you give me my FSCKING MP3s back?"
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do the "takers" really count? (Score:2, Funny)
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I want to.. (Score:2, Funny)
Only 838 criminals (Score:3, Funny)
I mean.. that's what logically follows, right?
Re:the poor blighted souls (Score:2, Funny)
Did the RIAA at least send them a t-shirt with a nice target design on it? (your choice of in the back, or on the front)
This is the RIAA. They're shipping pants with a target design on each pair. In the back, of course.
Re:Nothing unexpected. (Score:3, Funny)
838 takers ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Must be a lie (Score:2, Funny)
That's only because they misspelled it "enema" the first time and wanted to be damn sure they didn't make that mistake twice.