NationStates Jolt Archive

Illegal File-sharing Flares

The Issue
A surprise raid conducted on ISPs over the last week in Kinky bunnies shows that more than 30% of all Internet data transfer in Kinky bunnies at one time or another is used by illegal file-shares to illegally distribute files, most notably songs.

The Debate
"What we need to do is hack their computers and format their hard drives," says Zeke Dredd, recording industry representative. "People need to be taught to not mess with the law. This is theft pure and simple. And they're not only halving our revenue to tune of billions of bunnys, but you are also stealing a few hundredths of a bunny from the artist for every song they steal. THINK OF THE STARVING ARTISTS!"
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"Yo, dude, like, don't be hatin' man," says teenager Jennifer Wu. "We're like, going to change the whole structure of our society. Everything should be like, publicly available to, like, everybody, dude. Copyrights are so, like, uncool man and we need to get rid of them. That'd be totally radical, and cool as well."
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"Yo, dang, blizzity blang, yo, this ain't, right, yo," says Tobias Frederickson, famous rapper with three platinum albums. "Dang, yo, we dang need to copy-protect my dang CDs, yo. That dang playability life dang decreases, yo, but it's the only way to stop this, dang, yo."
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The Government Position
The government has yet to formalize a position on this issue.

If you wish, you may simply dismiss this issue.

Issue by: The Radical Libertarian Paradise of Frigben
Editor: SalusaSecondus



Can anyone translate the third option into plain English?

OK, attempted translation on #3 here...

"That's not right man." says Tobias Frederickson, famous rapper with three platinum albums. "What you need to do is copy-protect my CDs. So what if some people with older hardware can't listen to them, it's the only way to stop this."

#2:

"Don't be so angry," says teenager Jennifer Wu. "We're trying to change society. Everything should be free. Copyrights are out dated, and we should stop using them. It'd be much better."

#1

"we rip every one off " says Zeke Dredd, recording industry representative

Look on the bright side...IIRC, the third option was originally even messier. :p

Anyway, here's a translation for the second and third for reference(of course, these will probably be slightly inaccurate, due to editing by Sal):
"Yo, dude, like, don't be hatin' man," says teenager Jennifer Wu. "We're like, going to change the whole structure of our society. Everything should be like, publicly available to, like, everybody, dude. Copyrights are so, like, uncool man and we need to get rid of them. That'd be totally radical, and cool as well."
Jennifer Wu says all information should be available to anyone who wants them for free, and copyrights should be banned.

"Yo, dang, blizzity blang, yo, this ain't, right, yo," says Tobias Frederickson, famous rapper with three platinum albums. "Dang, yo, we dang need to copy-protect my dang CDs, yo. That dang playability life dang decreases, yo, but it's the only way to stop this, dang, yo."
We need to allow studios to copy-protect artistes' CDs. How long these CDs will last will decrease, but it's the only way to stop piracy.

Thanks for replying. :)