I like that. “Look sharp and watch your back.” Gonna borrow that if you don’t mind.

I like that. “Look sharp and watch your back.” Gonna borrow that if you don’t mind.

I like that. “Look sharp and watch your back.” Gonna borrow that if you don’t mind.

& folks elected Barry ’cause they figured he’d save US from ourselves…LOL!
Now some say he’s a socialist..Heh! A Nationalist Socialist is more like it.
Anybody rich enough to run for office has already sold out to the “corporate state”
and likely to call out ther goons on the protestors.

Look Sharp and watch yer back…
Just passing through

Which brings me to my main point, it’s a shame what happened and what it took to get the corporation to see things from somebody else’s point of view but their own. It took the Army stepping in, on Presidential orders, during a time of peace (as in no war happening) to make that happen. What will it take this time around? Because that was in the 30s or 40s. And the corporations didn’t have as much power then as they do now. Nor did they have the ear of those in power then as they did now. I mean we have in office Vice President Biden, who is known to be entirely on the side of the studios/labels. Can you imagine what it would take to make them see things from someone else’s point of view now?

The MAFIAA et al are on a Holy Crusade to stamp out non-commercial filesharing worldwide and, so far, they’ve managed to fool governments and courts with their lies, deception and perverse logic. It wont last and they wont win of course, but there will be casualties suffered in this battle such as the Swedish guy in this article, Scotland’s Ann Muir, the UK’s 2 Filesoup Admins, and many others.

Such casual victims and unwitting casualties are to be expected until the truth is discovered and governments wake up to this “Great Rock n Roll Swindle” that “the industry” has perpetrated for decades.

The fact that the US government is so entrenched in continuing said swindle is a little disturbing though.

And “facilitating others to break a law” is pretty vague isn’t it? What’s facilitating exactly? Creating the software that enables p2p connections? Providing internet service which can be used to get online? Providing electricity which powers the devices and technology to get online? Etc. Not to mention, if by “break a law” you mean file share, well that’s not breaking a law. At least not everywhere. It’s perfectly legal in quite a few places. So technically, you aren’t facilitating a single thing (depending on where you are).

I think the fines are lower because as I said, stealing an actual cd means an actual item you can hold in your hands. The physical cd. It has a strict value. Say $15. Digital music or movies or whatnot doesn’t. It isn’t something physical. And as such, it currently isn’t bound by the rules in place for the value of physical objects. At the moment, it’s all theoretical. “You downloaded an album. Thus, you’ve deprived Lady Gaga of millions of dollars. And you cost the record label AT LEAST one lost sale. Yours. Not to mention the countless others that downloaded from you, all those are lost sales as well. Etc etc etc.” It’s pure speculation, none of that can be verified at all. And because the laws haven’t caught up with the technology, the courts take at face value what the labels/studios and their lawyers say. That’s why fines for physical theft are lower. Because it has a strict value. There’s no speculation whatsoever. You know how much a cd is worth. You know how many were taken. You know who took it. Etc. It’s easy to verify. When something can’t be verified, you can put a hell of a spin on it however you want. And because it’s not verifiable it’s hard for someone to prove you wrong (or right, as the case may be).