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LOL @
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Hapless customers download files. Hapless customers send extra big checks to ISPs. RIAA takes extra big checks and hires extra big lawyers. Extra big lawyers use extra big checks to buy extra big SUVs. Extra big SUVs are perfect for extra big vacations and have extra big phones that lawyers use to send hapless customers to extra big prisons. So get your friends to practice baking extra big cakes with extra big files inside.
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great content, as usual 
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I agree completely.
I liked the "User Friendly" strip a lot!
It really sums up the entire issue perfectly.
From the
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The Washington Post said the ruling gave "the recording industry a powerful new weapon in its efforts to crack down on what it considers digital piracy."
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They finally got it right!
I discovered
this article via one of the links you provided. An interesting development in my government's policies I must say!
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WHEN Microsoft introduced a new licensing model for its software late last year, simmering resentment within government finally boiled over.
For months the State IT Agency had winced at the incessant expense of buying software licences for hundreds of thousands of staff spread across government departments. Now the agency has declared that it will ditch expensive brand name software in many cases and switch to opensource alternatives.
The move should save at least R3bn a year, says agency chief information officer Mojalefa Moseki. The policy should also help to create a new generation of programmers skilled in developing their own applications.
Last week the company {Microsoft} followed up with the surprise news that it will open its source code to governments worldwide so they can enhance the security of its software. That is a calculated move to entrench its position in government markets. But Microsoft's move has come too late to affect the agency's decision.
"The logic for open-source is so compelling that after a year of debates we decided to stop talking and declare government an open-source zone," says Moseki.
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Just say "No" to F.U.D.
Two quotes sum up nicely how "out of touch" record executives are with not only their customers, but with their patrons i.e. the artists :
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There are a lot of artists out there who haven't signed Robbie-like deals," Berman said, referring to Williams' estimated $125 million mega-deal with Britain's EMI.
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That's
SO true... I wonder why that's the case?
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"I'm appalled at Robbie Williams' statement. He has an £80m contract and probably doesn't worry too much about all those singers, songwriters, musicians, and music publishers who depend entirely for a living on receiving honest revenue from sales of their product," said Mr Howells.
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Actually many of these artists make less than a McDonald's employee does. And you can't deny the fact that this was true before "internet piracy". Could there be a common factor here?
They really don't get it, do they?
