XiaoMay said:
it's not going to make me any saint but it will make it easier for me not to get entitled for 3 years of prison and not to be condamned to pay 300.000 € for it... moment, mister yet-to-become attorney |
You know what, one of my friends was actually charged by the RIAA for piracy (she is a college girl who was using Limewire in the dorms) and she got a $3000 settlement. Hell, that would be a small price to pay for all the songs I have downloaded and DVD's I have copied. Those are definitely worth $3000 to me. Yet I didn't have to pay for ANY of them. Life is great isn't it!
The RIAA has their thumbs up their asses when it comes to piracy. The amount of piracy that goes unchecked in this country is insane. The only effective solution to piracy is offering the same services for a small fee, like Itunes, coupled with the average person's fear of doing something illegal based on anecdotal reports, etc. of things happening to others.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
