and those headlines (amongst others) – are getting published “all around the world”
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=44092&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=1425

and those headlines (amongst others) – are getting published “all around the world”

“A Hertfordshire couple in their 60s were horrified to receive a letter last week from a London firm of lawyers accusing them of dowloading a hardcore gay porn movie. It demanded they pay £503 for “copyright infringement” or face a high court action. The 20-page “pre-settlement letter” from lawyers Davenport Lyons, acting on behalf of German pornogaphers, insisted they pay £503 to their clients for the 115 minute film Army Fuckers which features “Gestapo” officers and “Czech” farmers.” (The Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/28/internet-porn-bill-mistake

Dude, where’s your brain?

LOL. I’ve seen some stupid comments here but that one takes the price hands down. WTF does buying a house have to do with having a good computer and games? HAHHAHA. Just cant stop laughing, that comment is so idiotic that even the movie and music industry’s stupid stunts seem wise in comparison :D

Dude, your a stupid loser. Does it make you mad that im unimployed and i have a decent computer, lots of games, movies and music, while living in a 2 room rental apartment? Hope it does :D

Really?

Then I must be just imagining all these freeware multiplatform, multilangauge compilers, IDEs, graphic editing suites, and 3D modelling applications.

…Oh, wait. I’m not.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go point and laugh at all the stupid dipshits who actually spend money on writing software when all the necessary tools are free these days. Ha!

dude: “Companies have to pay money to developers who make software”

Only bad companies have to rely on paying money to outside developers. Good companies can produce their own code & assets.

Sorry, but you’ll have to try fishing for sympathy some other way.

dude: “Good progrmamer has learned 5-10 years before getting a nice paid job in some respected company. And by respected i mean popular.”

Meanwhile, smart, talented programmers realize that instead of wasting 5-10 years of their life taking programming courses, and becoming a work-a-day wage slave for some faceless developer… They can learn programming for free on their own terms, and write their own software and sell it themselves.

And before you say that’s unrealistic, once again; Jeff Vogal.

dude: “What you really thing in Microsoft people write their code lines as they wish? And they don’t get paid, because according to your logic software development doesn’t cost shit:)”

Employee salary != development costs.

dude: “Get the facts, “businessman””

Get a hint, Clueless.

dude: “I bet you all work in some post-office and/or car mechanics earning as little to even buy bread. Sorry, if you can’t buy a normal house you shouldn’t have a good PC and games at all. Get used with the fact you were a shitty student back then.”

Ah hah! So that’s why’re against filesharing despite your recognition that it isn’t even killing the industry. Because it threatens the rigid caste system that seperates the poor from the middleclass.

If somebody poor, who floundered in the public education system, can afford to buy a normal house and a nice PC thanks to the fact that they don’t have to spend money on music/movies/games etc. anymore, then it throws a wet blanket over your own achievments now, doesn’t it?

Suddenly, you look like a sap for toiling away at school so you could land a wellpaying job, because now a person doesn’t need a well paying job to afford what you can afford. And you look like a downright fool for spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on entertainment, when it can now just be downloaded for free. You wake up one day and find your DVD collection isn’t that impressive anymore.

Well, your Majesty. What can I say? You can’t close Pandora’s box. I’m afraid you’ll simply have to come to terms with the reality that the margin between you and the lowly peasent-folk is getting smaller.