IANAL. Is it illegal to photocopy money and send it? Or, is it just illegal to use the photocopied money?
Illegal to photocopy money. Also illegal to mail cash, but if it is fake they probably can't charge you with anything there.
Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
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#13What are the odds that two articles at the top the front page of HN refer to the same obscure (?? I hadn't heard it before) tale of Ōoka Tadasuke and the stolen smell?
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#14The irony here is it's a much worse federal crime to photocopy US currency. You can get around this by making sure it's (much) smaller than the original and only copied on one side. http://www.secretservice.gov/money_illustrations.shtml
That and you will need a copy machine that actually copies bills. Some machines use software to block it.
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#15Very creative and thought provoking, but wrong. A DVD version of avatar sells for say $20 and Riaa gets some percentage of that. Joe blow downloads avatar for free from google or some other website, ptp or sneakernet. Joe blow sends the riaa some percentage of $20 in photocopied money. That does not provide the same utility for riaa as the avatar.mp4 did for Joe blow. Whether or not Joe blow's download of avatar for…
What if Joe Blow watches Avatar and then comes to the realization that he's wasted 2 hours of his life?
How shall that be recovered?
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#16What are the odds that two articles at the top the front page of HN refer to the same obscure (?? I hadn't heard it before) tale of Ōoka Tadasuke and the stolen smell? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3694672
This one was inspired by the other post... It's mentioned in the footer.
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#17Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#18Very creative and thought provoking, but wrong. A DVD version of avatar sells for say $20 and Riaa gets some percentage of that. Joe blow downloads avatar for free from google or some other website, ptp or sneakernet. Joe blow sends the riaa some percentage of $20 in photocopied money. That does not provide the same utility for riaa as the avatar.mp4 did for Joe blow. Whether or not Joe blow's download of avatar for…
What if Joe Blow watches Avatar and then comes to the realization that he's wasted 2 hours of his life? How shall that be recovered?
Should it be recovered? If you buy a product that you wish you didn't buy, wouldn't you normally return it? I see no reason for businesses to get money by basically tricking their customers into buying something they later find out it's not what they expected.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Illegal to photocopy money. Also illegal to mail cash, but if it is fake they probably can't charge you with anything there.
It's illegal to mail cash?
ACK! Didn't mean to downvote; and now the joke I was going to make won't make sense..
Either way: "Your grandmother has been a terrible person all those years for sending you money in your birthday card >:V"