Communication Breakdown
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Friday 5 October 2007, 9:41 AM
Filesharing: four things to remember
Some handy definitions:
Theft (noun): the act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Share (verb): to partake of, use, experience, occupy, or enjoy with others.
Some handy quotes:
Brian Toder (lawyer for Jammie Thomas, Native American single mother of two ordered by a US court to pay £110k to the starving folks at RIAA): "This is a girl that lives from paycheque to paycheque, and now all of a sudden she could get a quarter of her paycheque garnished for the rest of her life."
Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails frontman and filesharer): "Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these mother f---ers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right."
Theft (noun): the act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Share (verb): to partake of, use, experience, occupy, or enjoy with others.
Some handy quotes:
Brian Toder (lawyer for Jammie Thomas, Native American single mother of two ordered by a US court to pay £110k to the starving folks at RIAA): "This is a girl that lives from paycheque to paycheque, and now all of a sudden she could get a quarter of her paycheque garnished for the rest of her life."
Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails frontman and filesharer): "Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these mother f---ers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right."
PreviousComments on this post
Well, I never thought i'd see NIN mentioned on ZDNet :)
$9,250 per song, wish I knew how that figure was calculated perhaps Trent knows.
Hey, we always aim to represent the cutting edge interplay between tech and foulmouthed music icons. Don't forget our Chuck D piece from last year...
