Masked Cucumbers
03-12-2004, 17:14
A surprise raid conducted on ISPs over the last week in Masked Cucumbers shows that more than 30% of all Internet data transfer in Masked Cucumbers at one time or another is used by illegal file-shares to illegally distribute files, most notably songs.
The Debate
1. "What we need to do is hack their computers and format their hard drives," says Gregory Licorish, 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 liquid bretzels, but you are also stealing a few hundredths of a liquid bretzel from the artist for every song they steal. THINK OF THE STARVING ARTISTS!"
[Accept]
2. "Yo, dude, like, don't be hatin' man," says teenager Calvin Broadside. "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."
[Accept]
3. "Yo, dang, blizzity blang, yo, this ain't, right, yo," says Akira Gutenberg, 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."
[Accept]
2 of the solution are almost the same (except that the solution of the famous rapper is almost unreadable). We have the choice between:
1) Formatting hard drives that can have important files in it, which is clearly stupid (it is like: someone stole something? We'll take everything he has).
2) a solution that isn't bad in my opinion, except the artists gain absolutely nothing and therefore either die or stop playing
3) the solution to decrease the quality so CDs are even less bought.
While the only solution that could work, and it is the solution that is currently happening in real life, is a better offer of music by the corporations, throught the internet as well.
This is a common problem with issues: we always have the choice between extreme right and extreme left :/
The Debate
1. "What we need to do is hack their computers and format their hard drives," says Gregory Licorish, 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 liquid bretzels, but you are also stealing a few hundredths of a liquid bretzel from the artist for every song they steal. THINK OF THE STARVING ARTISTS!"
[Accept]
2. "Yo, dude, like, don't be hatin' man," says teenager Calvin Broadside. "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."
[Accept]
3. "Yo, dang, blizzity blang, yo, this ain't, right, yo," says Akira Gutenberg, 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."
[Accept]
2 of the solution are almost the same (except that the solution of the famous rapper is almost unreadable). We have the choice between:
1) Formatting hard drives that can have important files in it, which is clearly stupid (it is like: someone stole something? We'll take everything he has).
2) a solution that isn't bad in my opinion, except the artists gain absolutely nothing and therefore either die or stop playing
3) the solution to decrease the quality so CDs are even less bought.
While the only solution that could work, and it is the solution that is currently happening in real life, is a better offer of music by the corporations, throught the internet as well.
This is a common problem with issues: we always have the choice between extreme right and extreme left :/