“COINTELPRO…was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.”

The FBI is ostensibly charged with investigating copyright, in which case, along with the MPAA/RIAA et al., they’re probably right here on TF.

This will be my last post on here… and for good reason… I used to think that most of the people on the internet were just like me… interested in technology, new methods of acquiring things and reciprocating that acquisition with mutual distribution… however, I was wrong… from just the 100+ comments on this post, there are countless people here who leave much to my hopes of a unified world.

“I got what I deserve.” Maybe I did… maybe I am completely wrong in my assessments of my own crime, but either way it is over…

RIP: My Troubles
(May 2005-July 2009)

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You enter this contract as its copyright license is the contract itself and you have just, by reading, transfered it to your memory. And by your precicous “copyright” laws in any juristiction that has consented to be part of the Berne convention you agree to be subjected to it.

Failure to pay will result in punishment as in public eletronic shaming, ridicule and no one will take anything you say seriously.

Method of payment will be in paymer notes posted via comments to this or newer article.

(For paymers see paymer.com)

@ sk0t: I am glad that you are free from the evils of MAFIAA and congratulate you of becomming married. I hope you will never buy any DVD made by any MAFIAA member.

You can be brutally mistreated in almost any first world country by the law. If people with money and influence want something to happen, you can be sure that it will happen. The governments of third world countries would gladly hand you over to the MPAA/RIAA/IFPI if they were paid enough. After all, what do they have to lose by it? Certain EU countries are safe for the time-being, but that is not likely to last. Your best bet is a not quite first world country, but many of them have close ties to the US or EU.

In the future, piracy will not be sustainable on the scale it will reach. Not so long ago, piracy was restricted to the few of us who new where to look or had Scene access. The industry feels threatened by this simple, commonplace piracy, because it actually has the potential to destroy their business model. I don’t really think that their extreme attacks against it should come as a surprise.