Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
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Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
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Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#2Don't bother trying to load the MPAA's contact page if you reject their cookies. It just loops a reload. I'm not exactly surprised that they value tracking over usability.
Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#3The 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.
Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#4IANAL. Is it illegal to photocopy money and send it? Or, is it just illegal to use the photocopied money?
Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#5The 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
Yeah, this is one of those things like joking around in the airport security line where it just isn't worth doing.
Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#6IANAL. 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.
Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
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Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#9The 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
As you say, that refers to printed copies, photocopies etc. That isn't what the article is suggesting.
Re: Send Them Your Money: A Campaign to Send The RIAA/MPAA Billions
#10Very 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 free is unfair against the store that stocks the DVD, the trucker who moved it, the actors, producers and supporting staff or the media ads that promoted it is another question. The question comes down to how much Joe blow WOULD have paid for avatar.mp4 had his only option been to purchase a DVD, wait and rent it, or watch it at a friends house.
When we replace avatar with "schematics for a 3d printable car/computer/cup" then we will have to deal with this problem of rewarding the creators of valuable data according to how badly people want it, preserving our freedom from censorship and preserving net neutrality. Yarr!