You stupid son of a lawyer. You’re just another lawyering troll. Stop being such a retarded laywerhole already! ;-)

Once upon a time, such a system existed and it WORKED. Shareware, my friends, it helped a lot of companies sell their games. Doom is a fine example.

In this economy, people are choosy what they do with their money, and thus are probably just not going to buy games, if it is a choice between that and paying $60 for one that they might not like. Given this, it is no wonder that some people choose to download them illegally.

It is interesting to note that the people who spend the most money on games also tend to be the people who pirate them; the same is true of the music industry. More and more studies are pointing to this interesting fact.

Similarly, when legal means of downloading content are available, consumers flock to them en masse- outweighing what is pirated by a wide margin; for example, look at Hulu.com, and Netflix.

The biggest problem with the copyright industry is that they are too heavily invested in business models and legal precedents that are rapidly becoming antiquated; they want things to stay the same because their business model that works depends heavily on the current status quo. They’ve spent more money than they could possibly have “lost” from piracy on legal cases and the purchasing of politicians (by which I mean massive campaign contributions and even more massive giving of soft money).

This is unfortunate, because in attempting to protect their privileges they become the enemy of the arts, and indeed the enemy of their very own customers.

What I’m saying is, these cases almost never go to court… there are only a handful of cases where they have.

It’s not about winning or losing for this lawyer, it is without a doubt just about earning money. ;)

Officially, lawyers don’t take sides, they don’t decide what is legal or illegal; their job is to protect the best interests of their client, in whatever capacity that may be. Except when it comes to, you know, the bill.

In reality, he probably realised that there’s no money in defending these cases because they almost never go to court- people settle quickly because they want to avoid paying lawyers like him $600 an hour. On the other hand, working for a billion-dollar industry, they can afford to have a few lawyers working for them, who bill in an hour what the people they’re suing earn in a fortnight.

1) The moral fiber of lawyers is not unduly influenced by their citizenship.

2) Apologize to every cunt worldwide for making that comparison!

If a lawyer “really” believed in protecting those that are accused of copyright infringement, would they throw away their belief system for money?

As for the rest of wall of text, I stopped reading after the above section. It was probably more pro-piracy BS or insults.