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“Most of us feel guilt when we masturbate,” he said, “even though we live in 2009.”
Not at all Stephen. The fact is there could be as many as 6 million people in the UK doing exactly as you are doing, largely because there still isn’t an attractive, workable, widespread and convenient legal alternative.

Wait, so masturbation is illegal?

“making an example of ordinary people is the stupidest thing the record industry can do.”

That’s why they made an example of The Pirate Bay. They’re not ordinary people, some people consider them as God. (Well, not anymore, considering they sold themselves out.)

Good going Fry, now the MPAA will try and fire you/remove you from your job some other way/imprison you for “advertising” piracy.

This is worse than Tom Cruise being a Scientologist.

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“Most of us feel guilt when we masturbate,” he said, “even though we live in 2009.”
Not at all Stephen. The fact is there could be as many as 6 million people in the UK doing exactly as you are doing, largely because there still isn’t an attractive, workable, widespread and convenient legal alternative.

Wait, so masturbation is illegal?

“making an example of ordinary people is the stupidest thing the record industry can do.”

That’s why they made an example of The Pirate Bay. They’re not ordinary people, some people consider them as God. (Well, not anymore, considering they sold themselves out.)

Good going Fry, now the MPAA will try and fire you/remove you from your job some other way/imprison you for “advertising” piracy.

http://inmusic.ca/Kelly+Clarkson/artists/the_hook/Articles/kelly_clarkson.htm?isfa=1

Well said. Many might be even better customers than others. Because pirates have access to much more content.

They should be fighting against those people that sell CDs on the streets with programs they downloaded. That is making money with intellectual property. And I’m strongly against such practice.

Plenty of other shows and movies I don’t feel the same way on. They are horrible, awful pieces of garbage I’d be likely to ask my money back for, had I seen them in theaters. Or, a show that was so god awful I’d have written the network and told them how crappy it was. For me, torrenting is all about seeing what’s worth giving up my hard earned money, and what’s not.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/41661-stephen-fry-on-piracy

Its call fair use something the MPAA/RIAA have done their best to decimate along with public domain…

Stephen Fry, a highly respected actor, comedian, writer, presenter and author yesterday admitted to downloading TV shows for free using BitTorrent. Speaking at the iTunes Festival in London last night, Fry told the audience that he’s grabbed episodes…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUU31kHrnw

First of all, the name “Paladin of Truth.” That’s cute! Such a name must make you a heroic warrior fighting the nasty forces of evil in the name of true justice. I hope your “sword” is big enough for the Internet!

You have some pretty interesting vocabulary, too. Much more expansive than that of neostyles or RM.

It’s hardly an Orwellian policy to ascertain that the artists and producers of content aren’t being impoverished by the continuous and unscrupulous illegal sharing of proprietary content.

Translation: “It’s hardly incorrect to state that filesharing does not hurt artists and publishers.” <- Is that what you’re saying? If so, I wholeheartedly agree; filesharing helps authors and artists. If not, I think you used too many big words and confused yourself.

Staying cyber-legal is really the best way to stay cyber-safe!

Wrong. Staying cyber-anonymous is far better than cyber-legal.

As long as you stay on the side of the Law, you have nothing to fear.

Mister Paladin, sir, you truly are a righteous warrior of truth! For Capitalization is the True Way and is Clear Evidence that you are Right! Those who Capitalize the words of the Most Sacred Holy Copyright Law are forever Destined to bask in its Glory. “For the Word of the Industry shall be the Rule of Law, and all shall bow before their Corporate Rulers, and unto them shall each man surrender his Life, in the name of the Divine Profits. Glickman 13:2″

And those are just from small parcel of people who engage in this behavior; had governments not placed so many roadblocks on the path of copyright enforcement, the legal campaigns would had been much more successful than they already are.

Oh, you are so done…

Congratulations on promoting the assumption that corporations are above the governments. Congratulations on implying that profits are above all, even human freedoms. Are these freedoms the “roadblocks” you speak of? Clearly they are just obstacles between the Rulers and the Divine Profits; we should forget about all those silly natural rights that people supposedly have. After all, they are infringing on the Rulers’ natural right to bleed humanity dry! WHAT? That man listened to someone else’s CD? Jail him, now. For life. After all, he would have otherwise bought the CD, so he’s stealing money from the rightsholders! Yes! Damn those governments for promoting freedom above all else, and potentially costing us a few more dollars!

You obviously have no idea what the point of law is, much less copyright law. Laws that are in place to serve a privileged few at the expense of the public are draconian and totalitarian. Laws that serve the overall public are much more likely to be just laws. Can you guess which side copyright law is on? It started out as a public benefit by restricting publishers; today it has become a private benefit by restricting the public and pretending to ultimately be good for everyone. It needs to change, and once it does, your stupid little insistence that sharers are in the wrong will be baseless and do even more to make you seem a fool than they are now.

Mister Paladin, sir, thy blade is too blunt and thy armour is too frail to face this foe that you challenge.

But if I were he, or another persons whose material was illegally downloaded, i would say throw ‘em in jail, i want my money.

Put yourself in their situation and stop being hypocritical.

If you trigger the electronic alarm at an store, the security is allowed to search you

No, they’re not. They’re citizens, and nothing more.

http://www.h33t.com

Arrr, Arrgh, Yarr, Gar!!