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[deathboy]

sorry, who's the sad fuck here?

some of the biggest and best hacker/crackers of all time (DrinkorDie crew) or the prosecution that likens them, to Jack Sparrow, "night-time tappers of keyboards"

"You might feel that their lives are rather sad, living as they do for very large parts of their days and nights in a virtual world, in front of a computer monitor, cocooned from existence."

Demagogue prosecution, anyone?

Burn the geeks! Burn the geeks!

Never mind their actual crimes - these people don't shower much, watch CSI and have no girlfriends - YOU MUST CONVICT!

*pours bottle of gin over floppy disk* - this one's for the DoD crew! *sniff*

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[deathboy.livejournal.com]

the typical issue with 'piracy == theft' (which it does NOT) is that theft involves, by definition, depriving someone of the thing, as well as obtaining the thing illicitly.

The Few, that benefit from intellectual copyright legislation have paid many many bucks into campaigns to indoctrinate the idea that "piracy is theft" because when (I believe 2008 was mooted) we finally stop having new thoughts and just believe what the TV says, they'll be able to scrape an extra 1.4% profit out of our undeserving pockets.

[failed-bard.livejournal.com]

They've pushed hard to get laws changed here since, I can't remember the year, a judge ruled that any signal you can legally receive you are free to do with as you please. It had been in response to descramblers for cable and early sattelite dishes, but is still in effect.
That's why the canadian sattelite companies had the US sattelite signals declared illegal, on the premise that they had not been licensed for broadcast here.

It's all about making the very rich companies that control the governments richer. I don't look at the police and courts as anything but corporate thugs. They certainly don't do the job they're supposed to of 'Maintaining the right', whatever the hell that was supposed to mean.

wwm.