• chovy
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Topic: Congress To Pay $30 Million to Fight Piracy

The United States Congress is set to provide $30 million dollars to fund efforts with the aim of curbing piracy. The money, earmarked as part a bill passed last year, will be used for grants, new FBI agents, and to further prosecution.

http://freakbits.com/congress-to-pay-30 … iracy-1215

Fighting piracy is counter-intuitive -- they should be working on a way to make it profitable. Hollywood Video in my town closed recently (filed chapter 11 from what I hear). With firms like Netflix and technology like bit-torrent, piracy and easy access aren't going to disappear -- infact the opposite will happen, it will only become easier and more readily available for the masses.

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Re: Congress To Pay $30 Million to Fight Piracy

chovy wrote:

The United States Congress is set to provide $30 million dollars to fund efforts with the aim of curbing piracy. The money, earmarked as part a bill passed last year, will be used for grants, new FBI agents, and to further prosecution.

http://freakbits.com/congress-to-pay-30 … iracy-1215

Fighting piracy is counter-intuitive -- they should be working on a way to make it profitable. Hollywood Video in my town closed recently (filed chapter 11 from what I hear). With firms like Netflix and technology like bit-torrent, piracy and easy access aren't going to disappear -- infact the opposite will happen, it will only become easier and more readily available for the masses.

I was about to flip a shit because I thought the author was referring to piracy on the high-seas. I thought s/he was making the argument that shipping wasn't affected by the recession, at which point I contemplated leaping through my computer screen and strangling the person.

As for the issue he was actually referring to - we should be thankful they're only wasting $30 million...

... and I wish I was being sarcastic.

Last edited by Abraxas (2009-12-15 15:15:57)

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