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- remisser, on 01/27/2008, -15/+1268The people at The Pirate Bay need to illegally download a spell checker.
- PtoS382, on 01/27/2008, -10/+522Some of the download bars aren't even finished, and your posters are insinuating these people were fined for that? Congratulations RIAA propoganda, you fail.
- Centurion890, on 01/27/2008, -3/+491Picture taken in a DePaul University Dorm Room
- unearth, on 01/27/2008, -10/+464***** the RIAA
- AROZ, on 01/27/2008, -5/+447They used even used colour ink. Excellent work.
- slipperysnider, on 01/27/2008, -7/+362I love nerdy rebels.
- t3soro, on 01/27/2008, -10/+252LOL I didn't even notice that
- rubenz, on 01/27/2008, -7/+227I'd like to buy a vowel. An A please.
- AlienMushroom, on 02/21/2008, -4/+183Downloading copyrighted stuff is far more serious than murder in the US. Good job, lobbyists.
- ceris, on 01/27/2008, -6/+185The odds of being sued by the Riaa are probably about the same as the odds of being struck by lightening. That's free enough for me.
- TheAkolyte, on 01/27/2008, -0/+164Arrr ... you try typin with a' meat hook, an' eye patch and 12 pints o' mead!
- ryanonfire, on 01/27/2008, -0/+146RIAA: Sueing people who can't fight back since 1999.
- Despero, on 01/27/2008, -5/+136This is so perfect.
- inactive, on 01/27/2008, -4/+132They misspelled downloading...lol.
- screensnot, on 01/27/2008, -3/+130They are trying to download a spell checker, but they are stuck at 97%. SEED PLEASE!
- chingy1788, on 01/27/2008, -3/+111from what I read on digg it seems that the MPAA/RIAA or other anti piracy organisation just randomly sues anyone with a computer or other electronic device, even a toaster
- wordglue, on 01/27/2008, -1/+104Now if only you were a hot chick...
- smacksaw, on 01/27/2008, -0/+102All of those fines are hilarious. Fear is such an effective deterrent.
- Xerces, on 01/27/2008, -2/+101In this special case 1 beats 2.
- mode7even, on 01/27/2008, -1/+95I always loved the RIAA commercial that you'd see during the trailers for a movie, you know, the one where theres a party and everyone's dancing, then you cut to a girl somewhere else who's downloading the song that the party's dancing to. then, when the song is finished downloading, the music stops and the power goes out at the party. hmm, last time i checked, when you download something, you make a copy of it, not take it away from another location. that's why it's called sharing! :D
- animalmuther76, on 07/30/2008, -7/+96thats the l33t spelling
- sgtcaboose, on 01/27/2008, -0/+88Well played PirateBay fans, piracy will never be stopped no matter how many people they fine :)
- ceris, on 01/27/2008, -6/+84What do you expect, it's only DePaul. ;)
- russianfool, on 01/27/2008, -6/+78College propaganda.
Finding new ways to fail every day. - Vajrapani, on 01/27/2008, -2/+72I used to live in a Sanctuary townhouse...downed at 2mb/s, upped at 5 consistently. Damn I miss that connection. Thanks for the speedy porn, DePaul!
- Corvias, on 01/27/2008, -1/+68Um. No.
I'm the sysadmin at a small university. We have about 600 on-campus students. We get about 2 pre-litigation letters per semester. At that point, the RIAA does not know the student's name. We are legally obligated to pass the letter on to the student that used the IP in question. If we don't. or the student decides not to respond to the letter, the RIAA just sends along a subpoena and a warrant for the students info, and an official suit is issued --no option for a settlement. It's never gotten that far, though. Of the 9 pre-lit letters I've had to hand out (worst part of my job, btw), all those students settled out-of-court for between $3000 and $16,000.
The RIAA is kinda weird. The other tactic the RIAA uses is they'll just give us a warning that a certain IP has been downloading copyrighted material. We then meet with that student, let them know what they did, and shut them off for a week. If they get busted again, they get it shut off for a month. After a third time, it gets shut off for the rest of the semester, and I teach them how to make patch cables, and they make 20 of them for the next years incoming freshmen.
The weird part is that there is no correlation between who just gets a warning, and who gets a pre-lit letter. In other words, you don't have to have gotten a warning from the RIAA for them to send you a pre-lit letter. In fact, most of the students that had gotten pre-lit letters, had not gotten warnings previously.
Lastly, most (if not all) of the letters were sent to kids using limewire. I've only recently started seeing warnings for kids using BT.
Bottom Line: If you're downloading stuff illegally (and you're really stupid about it) on a public university network, it's like shooting fish in a barrel for the RIAA to get you. - o5rob5o, on 01/27/2008, -3/+70the posters should say i was a dumbass and left limewire open on a highspeed connection all night sharing my britney songs while i drank mr boston out of water bottles playing xbox with the fat kid from down the hall.
- ryanonfire, on 01/27/2008, -0/+62toasters are dangerous
- captainspud, on 01/27/2008, -4/+63All that hippie "sharing is great!" crap aside, my argument's always been that while file sharing is not necessary legal, it doesn't fit within the crime they say we're committing. They call piracy theft, but it's not. If someone steals your TV, which is more upsetting: the fact that some criminal just got a free TV, or the fact that YOU no longer have one? I'd wager it's without a doubt the second one. Theft has two very important components, the criminal getting, and you losing. If thieves could magically clone your stuff and walk away with your TV without depriving you of yours, you wouldn't give two farts about it.
PIRACY IS NOT STEALING BECAUSE YOU DO NOT DEPRIVE THE RECORDING INDUSTRY OF ANYTHING.
That said, it may still be illegal, but I wish they'd stop calling it theft. Cuz it's not. - imikedaman, on 01/27/2008, -0/+59You have to wonder, though... if the RIAA was really pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars from every dorm across America like the poster suggests, wouldn't it be in their best interest to not warn people?
- egonSchiele, on 01/27/2008, -0/+54damn right. enough with the foreplay.
- Enfecktion, on 01/27/2008, -5/+57downloading music illegally makes record execs sad =[
no sports car for you! - Mactrekr, on 01/27/2008, -0/+48Only if that toaster made toast available to others.
- LaerrusFish, on 01/27/2008, -8/+51I for one am glad i can steal over priced ***** with bittorent. With that said, can someone please explain to my why they think this isn't a crime and why people are so against legal action against it?
- zaxang, on 01/27/2008, -0/+43Blatant, fearmongering propaganda. That's just hilarious. Not to mention completely false.
- joegibes, on 01/27/2008, -0/+40"Think illegal downloading is free? It is, but we're gonna arbitrarily fine you tens of thousands of dollars for it."
- Greengoo, on 01/27/2008, -3/+42Pirates don't need to ***** spell ***** right.
- HeroreV, on 01/27/2008, -2/+39We have tons of ridiculous posters with a similar message in the dorms here at the University of North Texas. The current generation say something like, "$750,000 per song. Free never cost so much." What a crock of *****. When did colleges become government training camps?
- TheAkolyte, on 01/27/2008, -2/+38Now if only you were a hot nerd...
- elipodio, on 01/27/2008, -1/+36I go to this school and can say that the "facts" on these posters are totally false. DePaul has only had a few students caught for downloading (my roommate was one of them) and the only thing to come out of it was a slap on the wrist from the school.
I feel stoopid for going to a school that promotes such filth. - streetr8cer13, on 01/27/2008, -1/+36i love how there is 2 "***** the RIAA" comments and both have 30+ diggs, although i cant say i didnt help
- rawheadrex, on 01/27/2008, -0/+35Nevermind buying, I just downloded it.
- inactive, on 01/27/2008, -1/+35Your expectations must be extremely low for this to be epic. It's a sheet of paper with bad spelling.
I'll digg you up on the assumption that you were being sarcastic. - Xerces, on 01/27/2008, -1/+34you mean 1337 spelling?
- mpdid, on 01/27/2008, -1/+34Indiowned.
- wordglue, on 01/27/2008, -4/+36Bittorrent = spreading more indie music = getting more of a name for your crappy indie band = more people come to your live shows = good thing.
On top of which yours is a dumb comment for a bunch of reasons anyway, too lazy to type them out. - edd17, on 01/27/2008, -0/+32Everyone knows that illegal downloading eventually leads to murder.
- Borgcube, on 01/27/2008, -0/+31People shouldn't even own toasters.
- mikewhite314, on 01/27/2008, -1/+32Bottom Line: Anonymize yourself
- blackmesa, on 01/27/2008, -1/+31If by "fined" the RIAA means "coerced with BS lawsuits into paying an out of court settlement for a grossly inflated arbitrary figure which is far more than we could have actually won in a court of law had they challenged us" then yeah... maybe those other posters are closer to correct.
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