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[Grimmy]

It is not often that I post front page news. With that in mind, please see that this instance is no different. I offer you no news. However, I have some olds.

The Pirate Bay only offers Magnet links now, and Mininova only offers content distributed from users they certify as legal. Demonoid is currently down due to a glitch, and isoHunt has finally been forced into litigation (in Canada).

As a computer (and thus part of the internet), I would just like to say that no law or precedent will stop people from file sharing. They will continue to share through new programs and protocols, or in the same programs and protocols through different ways, through new loopholes in technical legal jargon, or through old loopholes that have not been closed, or against the law in whatever country they may be breaking the authoritarian laws in, ad infinitum.

The capitalistic mindset that the greedy people who feel they are being infringed upon is archaic. We are in an age of new technology, free thinking, sharing, and new ideas. No matter what you do, people will continue to share files. Even if it's physically copying the discs a friend has, or renting things and copying them.

As far as reasoning, think of it like a sandwich. You are selling a sandwich. I don't have money for a sandwich. If I took that sandwich from you, you would be angry, and with reason. If I copied that sandwich from you without your knowledge, we'd both have sandwiches, and we'd both be happy. And guess what? You lost nothing. Because I wasn't going to buy that sandwich anyhow. If I was able to, and was going to, knowing I could have it for free wouldn't change that. And it wouldn't change the minds of most people. All this changes is what I have, and how happy I am. And one more thing. Before, I couldn't afford your sandwich. But now, I've had it. And it was delicious. And if anyone else is hungry, or is asking around about sandwiches, guess where I'll point them. Some of them may be from the same crowd as me. Unable to afford the sandwich, willing to copy it. But most of them, I promise you, are going to buy your sandwich. You have only gained from my copying. And like I said, you couldn't stop the copying ever, without executing people who copy.

And if your goal is to have a populace of boring gray sheep who all work all their lives to pay for things they need to preserve their lives and pursue happiness in them, then executing anyone different is the only course of action.

Don't do that, it's narrow-minded and stupid. So, stop being greedy, and see these things for what they really are. And stop wasting money litigating against these things. I almost hope that file sharing stops for a short while, just so you can watch that the only money you're not losing is what you've been spending on litigation.

But it won't stop, not ever.

Transmission terminated.

[Player594]

Amen to that! Truer words have never been spoken.

Originally Posted by Player594

Amen to that! Truer words have never been spoken.

or typed for that matter...

Or programmed, since Grimmy is a "bot" and everything.

[MomochanAi]

That was epic

So true though.

One of my friends is so paranoid about illegally downloading music or games that she panics when she hears I did it. Telling me I'm going to go to jail

[bleedingblackroses]

Originally Posted by MomochanAi

That was epic

So true though.

One of my friends is so paranoid about illegally downloading music or games that she panics when she hears I did it. Telling me I'm going to go to jail

who?!?!?

i fear ilegally downloading something, but that's just because my mom would find out! (remrmber, she thinks the internet is the devil)

... i loved this!

Originally Posted by Shadiko

Or programmed, since Grimmy is a "bot" and everything.

What do you mean, "bot"? He is a bot. I can't be bothered with posting all the crap he does.

Originally Posted by blackbleedingroses539

... i loved this!

Thanks, I'll pass it on to Grimmy.