Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched 402
gwoodrow writes "Forbes has a brief article about, essentially, the ultimate futility of fighting online pirates. From the article: 'As the world's largest repository of BitTorrent files, ThePirateBay.org helps millions of users around the world share copyrighted movies, music and other files — without paying for them ... That's illegal, of course — at least it is in the U.S. But when Time Warner's (nyse: TWX — news — people ) Warner Bros. studio accused them of breaking U.S. copyright law in 2005, the pirates gleefully reminded the movie company that they didn't live in America, but rather in the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls.' The article also touches on the many YouTube clones and AllofMP3.com."
That's because... (Score:5, Funny)
obviously... (Score:5, Funny)
Where? (Score:4, Funny)
North Korea?
can't the submitter (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Where? (Score:2, Funny)
Cute blond girls? North Korea???? You must be an american...
Re:Article is flawed. (Score:4, Funny)
Put down the bottle, man. What the hell does Alcoh...al..alcho...boozers anoni...anon..an...dammit, what dows AA have to do with copyw...copir...copyrit...that stuff anyhow?
huh? (Score:5, Funny)
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Should I point out thepiratebay doesn't really host any copyrighted material or did that argument get old already?
Re:Please everyone: (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, now I get it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Have you ever been to Minnesota? It's not like they have anything going on at the moment. I heard they were planning to invade Wisconsin, but then someone mentioned a problem they had with lactose, so it was called off in favor of a quilting bee and a curling contest.
Minnesota, more Canadian than Canada.
Re:That's because... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm moving (Score:5, Funny)
I'm moving. Vikings, blonde girls, AND pirates? Irresistible!
lost money (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Where? (Score:1, Funny)
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Thank you! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder? (Score:2, Funny)
AllOfMp3/PirateBay/et al: "We don't charge anything near that for our service, we just make enough on ad banners to justify paying for most of our server accounts and bandwidth"
RIAA: "Then we will force you all into servitude for the rest of your lives, and your children's lives!"
AllOfMp3/PirateBay/et al: "But we're geeks! There's a very high likelihood that we won't ever have kids!"
RIAA: (thinking) "Hmm...this may be true, and if it is, we'll probably only be able to collect on several million, and that's nowhere near 1.65 trillion...guess we'll have to go back to backdooring college kids and grannies computers again, and up the ante to 150k per file"
The scariest, yet most hilarious, thing about that is that from all indications, that could actually happen. (I say hilarious, because it shows exactly how insane and out of touch with reality the RIAA really is)
Re:can't the submitter (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who's the victim here? (Score:3, Funny)
Like political conservatives, you are pining for a bygone era which never existed.
Re:That's because... Noooo, not the answer. (Score:1, Funny)
No, seriously, and can you provide links? Closest I found was a DVD Rip (on-topic, haha!) of Lovely Leprosy Lesbian Lickdown.
I ALMOST posted this non-AC, but fuck, I freak even myself out sometimes, can't be doin that to the masses. Well, not under my ACTUAL handle.