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Silly? Hardly.

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As Techdirt notes, a choice of no P2P use versus no Internet access entirely isn't much of a choice, making the survey (which was released last Spring but covered today by the BBC) a little bit silly.
It's certainly not silly. A lot of people engage in criminal acts regardless of the possible penalty so it's certainly not surprising that some people would continue engaging in copyright infringement even at the risk of losing their service.
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I salute xkcd and their common sense overlords.
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Here's something in a similar vein:

The original can be found at »markshroyer.com/files/piracy.png
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Re: Silly? Hardly.

said by Doctor Four See Profile :

Here's something in a similar vein:

The original can be found at »markshroyer.com/files/piracy.png
...except that one's ridiculous. The idea of IP is not difficult to comprehend; if you were a content producer, you wouldn't want to give away your works for nothing. The only thing I have a problem with is what xkcd brought up in their comic - whether you buy DRMed media or steal it, you're a criminal. If you buy the DRMed stuff, you've simply limited yourself to specific software and devices. That's why I only buy music from Amazon as DRM-free MP3.
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