Posted by Don M. on 12/27/06 18:00

"anthonyberet" wrote in message news:4vdtqbF1b2kncU2@mid.individual.net...
> anthonyberet wrote:
> > From:
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36574
> >
> > HD disk format wars are over
> > <snip>
> > Piracy, the better choice(tm).
> >
> Sorry - I lost the bottom section in my first post:
>
> On the down side, the RIAA/MPAA/PATSY/TOOLBOY have sued probably
> 10,000 people now, and each 'settlement' is, well lets just use $5000
> for the sake of round numbers. Now, the conservative estimates of P2P
> usage was around 30 million people, but I am pretty damn sure that is
> far lower than the actual usage. Last time I saw anything serious, it
> was 35M and growing fast. Lets just assume that it is now 50M users.
>
> 10,000 * $5,000 = $50,000,000. The net cost to each P2P user, assuming
> everyone out there settles is $1. To look at it another way, if you look
> at it in the worst case light, you have a 1 in 5000 chance of getting
> nailed. A lot of people buy lottery tickets with far far worse odds than
> that, and spend more than $5000 doing so every few years. To be even
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Your per capita "settlement cost" is not meaninful. It doesn't cost anybody anything when
others are sued; it's not like everybody pitches in to help.
Being sued is not a random event and the plaintiffs don't just pull an IP address out of
50,000,000 from a big hat to determine who gets sued.


> more cynical, hands up everyone who personally knows someone who got
> sued by the RIAA. Now, hands up everyone who knows someone who
> downloaded music or movies. Any guesses which one is bigger? Piracy, the
> better choice (tm).
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What does piracy have to do with this group?

>
> What do we end up with? A year or more where the CE industry pushed,
> pulled, legislated and litigated their way to obscurity. Along the way,
> they killed yet another promising consumer technology, well 5 or 6
> actually, and made Intel and AMD their bitches. We all were on the verge
> of losing this format and DRM infection war until a dark horse champion
> emerged to snatch victory from the jaws of evil. Piracy, the better
> choice(tm)
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"to snatch victory from the jaws of evil"... Please identify this which you're naming
'evil'. Do you believe 'evil' exists?


Don

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