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 DSLuckyPremium
join:2002-04-23
Maud, OK | Illegal? Switch Piracy to Illegal Immigration, and I'd believe 58b in losses. If the govt worked HALF as hard dealing with the invasion of job stealing, benefit sucking aliens as they do against illegal downloaders of copyrighted materials, we soon would have NO illegal aliens in the USA. | |
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join:2007-09-04
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| $58b ?!?!? I'm sure to get these inflated figures they are probably doing this:
estimated number of pirated content X cost of legally buying the content
In reality, it's completely different. Many many many people who pirate shows, movies, and music would likely not spend the money on it in the first place. This is not to say that everyone wouldn't, of course there are some people who would spend the money if they couldn't pirate, but I'm quite certain that figure would be considerably lower than $58b.
To the guy at NBC who thought up this idea of filtering content in home network hardware -- what a complete dumbass. Do we really need additional useless crap to home networking equipment that already struggles to do what it's meant to? And you own the hardware, you can do whatever you want with, if that means wiping out the default firmware/program and substituting it with your own, there shouldn't be anyone to stop you. | |
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