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- spaceman0, on 12/04/2007, -2/+310I think they should be fined for each page view. How does $9250 sound?
- z0mbie2099, on 12/04/2007, -5/+255Hah, *****.
- Senn, on 12/04/2007, -3/+200So, how does it feel?
Bastards. - zengonzo, on 12/04/2007, -1/+163Far too light. You've also got to add in potential page saves and redistribution beyond that.
- ChristBehemoth, on 12/04/2007, -2/+128***** the MPAA.
- QGYH2, on 12/04/2007, -3/+128so an Ubuntu developer sent a DMCA notice to the MPAA's ISP and demanded that the material be taken down as infringing
heh - will-rom, on 12/04/2007, -1/+96You also forgot to include possible addition to favorites, mentions in emails, humming the general tune of the site, and cost of caching done on ISPs. (not limited to those) Oh now we should sue the ISP running caches for redistribution of any and all content. My figure came up to be around $17941.42.
- hexydes, on 12/04/2007, -1/+87You forgot punitive damages. After you factor that in, you're well over $100 million.
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -4/+86Not quite irony, I think the correct term here would be Hypocrisy.
- AlanJV, on 12/04/2007, -2/+62Man, that is so AWESOME.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 12/04/2007, -1/+57I guess the MPAA feels theirs are the only copyrights that matter.
- Zuggy, on 12/04/2007, -1/+52that never gets old
- Abatrour, on 12/04/2007, -1/+44OMG terrorists! :P
- Genma, on 12/04/2007, -5/+45" but they don't market it! they give it away for free! how could this have happened? what are they protecting if they aren't making money?? what's the point of all this??? *heads explode* "
- CanadianGuy, on 12/04/2007, -3/+43Oh the irony
- moocow1452, on 12/04/2007, -2/+40I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of executives suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
- EmSixTeen, on 12/04/2007, -2/+40For every byte?
- BoneheadFarker, on 12/04/2007, -3/+40Ok man...you need to lay off the coffee...
- dsmx, on 12/04/2007, -1/+36The irony is strong in this story.
- ronaldinho, on 12/04/2007, -5/+40Hail Ubuntu!
- nallelcm, on 12/04/2007, -3/+37Yay for picking and choosing!
- pigfister, on 12/04/2007, -1/+34stop saying mpaa call them what they are and maybe ppl will start to boycott the mf's:
THE MPAA ARE: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX.
THE RIAA SOUNDEXCHANGE ARE: SONY, UNIVERSAL , WARNER GROUP, EMI. - sirhomer, on 12/04/2007, -1/+34Live by the DMCA, die by the DMCA.
(DMCA is a copyright law addition that MPAA originally lobbied very hard for) - Tippis, on 12/04/2007, -1/+32Link to the source: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/78590.html
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -1/+31Both of you are kind of correct. Hypocrisy would be the MPAA disobeying copyright laws. Irony is them getting a DMCA notice for disobeying copyright laws. The irony would be even more delicious if they got sued for it.
- Radian, on 12/04/2007, -1/+31Why can't these c***suckers be forced to release the code? Who cares if they took it down? They released the product, now they have to release the code. If I break into someone's house, get caught by someone coming down the stairs, I can't just walk out & close the door & say "sorry" and it all goes away.
Based on their logic, I should be able to copy a DVD, and if I get caught violating copyright, I have to "take down" the disc (let's say I destroy it or whatever), and then all is cool. You watch, an analogy like this is gonna show up in a court case at some point. These clowns are hanging themselves.
When they pull double-standard ***** like this, people just want to take a flamethrower to their whole business model. Anyone remember from a year or so ago when they were caught illegally copying a DVD of some film (sorry I recall which one & I'm too lazy to look it up right now), and they looked like the cat who just got caught with the parakeet in its mouth? Bastards.
Remember the Creative Commons tagline: "Your failed business model is not my problem" - Starviper, on 12/04/2007, -1/+29MPAA is teh pirate. Just too ironic XD
- EmSixTeen, on 12/04/2007, -1/+28"We just choose not to respect copyright when it comes to movies/music/games/etc."
Hmm, I think you may be speaking only for yourself there.. I'll happily pirate until my heart is content, and regularly do, but I still have 'respect' for the copyrights involved and associated with what I'm getting/using. It's more of a lack of respect for the business models involved with retail, I suppose.
At least for me. :) - BoneheadFarker, on 12/04/2007, -1/+28A link to a blog, that links to Slashdot, that links to the article. Ok, I think I'm going to take a break from reading the articles today...too much clicking...
- init100, on 12/04/2007, -1/+26That's chump change for the MPAA. Any fines should be in the hundreds of millions at least.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 12/04/2007, -1/+26There is no link to the source... and that's the problem!
- Robcataus, on 12/04/2007, -3/+27No, irony is the correct term.
- GAMER135, on 12/04/2007, -1/+25OMG, that was hilarious, MPAA are pissed about copyright violations while THEY themselves violated copyright under the GPL. I couldn't stop laughing because of this.
- cybrguy, on 12/04/2007, -1/+24As a point of irony, they should be sued for the exact sum of all funds gathered from their own copywrite infringement lawsuits in recent years.
- BoneheadFarker, on 12/04/2007, -2/+24Seems fair to me. They tend to pick and choose when to obey copywrite and fair use...
- n0c0ntr0l, on 12/04/2007, -1/+21No, every bit!
- Jedwards32, on 12/04/2007, -2/+21One word best describes this: Pwned.
- psyjoniz, on 12/04/2007, -4/+21ATHF ASCII ART!!!! **FLAWLESS VICTORY**
- elfprince13, on 12/04/2007, -8/+24seems fairly hypocritical to me ;)
not that I'm against filesharing, but you need to rethink your evaluation of why you do it, and what differentiates music and video from software. - fluxion, on 12/04/2007, -1/+17homeland security will be at your door any minute now
- EmSixTeen, on 12/04/2007, -1/+16No, I want to see the results of moar. :X
- mithrasinvictus, on 12/04/2007, -1/+16No, the ISP got the notice because the MPA(A) refused to respond
- BoneheadFarker, on 12/04/2007, -3/+18You know what...filesharing is not evil. Filesharing is actually good for the music business. And here's why:
Around 2001, at the height of filesharing and the beginning of the end of the free-wheeling music loving, I decided to stop downloading music. It was getting to be too much trouble, and I wasn't really into the music coming out. I had already downloaded or bought everything I wanted already. Coincidentally, that's when I stopped buying CDs as well. In the passed 6 years, I haven't bought or downloaded anything. Except last week. I was surfing around checking out that Google search string that was on Digg, and came across some interesting music. And the first thing I thought? "I should go buy this CD." I found it online, and wanted to buy a copy. Had I not heard it, I wouldn't have been interested in buying it. Think about that the next time you hear the RIAA and their counterparts whining about filesharing... - shark72, on 12/04/2007, -25/+39This is great.
It's time that the anti-pirates understand this: we are not AGAINST copyright. In many cases, like the GPL, copyright is good. We just choose not to respect copyright when it comes to movies/music/games/etc.
I'm tired of tne anti-pirate crowd painting us as a group of some sort of anti-IP communists. Hopefully this will send a message to the MPAA: we respect copyright and we'll use it when it suits us. We just don't respect YOUR copyright. - Viral, on 12/04/2007, -0/+14That's not irony, it's justice.
- dogbyte_13, on 12/04/2007, -2/+16bwwwhahahahhaaha, this is why i like the ubuntu peeps, they make a good operating system, and they stuck it to the man! MPAA FTL
- jon30041, on 12/04/2007, -3/+17Potential wear and tear to the programming code tips it past $500mil.
(I know that code can't wear down, but does the MPAA know that?) - HentaiJeff, on 12/04/2007, -5/+17Win, simply win
- thefandango, on 12/04/2007, -1/+13Folger's Crystal (meth)
- SniperGX1, on 12/04/2007, -1/+12The RIAA is a bit more complex. They have smaller labels under those four big ones. RIAA Radar provides a list http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=a ... The same site can be used to just check if an album is RIAA Safe or not, which I think is the info people are generally looking for.
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