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Mark_Wallace wrote: "Oh, look at me, I'm pretty because I overpaid for this!"
To quote Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate
"Vanity, my favorite sin."
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Do you hear a whooshing sound?
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If you actually read ALL the history on this, then you will know that they have been trying to get this guy for some time, and other like him - too many loopholes to prevent success in evasion, etc.
Frankly, I am glad they got him - at any cost. I am more bothered by the fact that this bothers you. --> Scratching my head in complete confusement. 
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Slacker007 wrote: If you actually read ALL the history on this, then you will know that they have been trying to get this guy for some time
Why?
Give me a reason that actually makes both financial and moral sense.
I've spent hours reading up on this stuff, today, and all I can see is greedy morons trying to get money by mistreating people, rather than by working with people/for people.
They actually sued one "pirate" for more than the GDP of the entire world, and made a judge's life a misery after he dared to say (in his own court) that that was a stupid amount.
These greedy morons are making a mockery of the law. They're worse than gangsters, and have nothing whatsoever to do with genuine claims of copyright infringement or plagiarism.
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My take is that the hollywood elite and producers don't like it when someone is making money for nothing on their products/merchandise, and I kind of agree with them on this. Pirating is illegal; you can't really say it is not.
So, he has to be punished, right? I agree that some of this is stupid, it is, but ultimately you can't pirate stuff that is not yours to sell.
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Slacker007 wrote: you can't pirate stuff that is not yours to sell
Umm, yes you can. You just need to change your name to Google.
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Slacker007 wrote: My take is that the hollywood elite and producers don't like it when someone is making money for nothing on their products/merchandise, and I kind of agree with them on this.
The trouble is that that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about morons who can't even make good movies, TV, or music are acting like they own the world, and people/governments are letting them get away with it. The Law is being perverted and abused far more by the morons than by the pirates. The cost to the taxpayer of piracy is 0, but taxpayers all over the world are paying millions upon millions to sponsor the morons' witch hunts.
These perversions of the law do not benefit the people, and they do not help individuals or small companies to retain their intellectual property; they just give more power to the morons.
Handling copyright issues was always very simple: if someone rips off your work, you get a lawyer and sue.
Nowadays, if a corporation rips off your work, you have to just let them keep it -- there's no way you'll get them to cough up, because you have to pay for everything yourself, and they've got way deeper pockets (which are being refilled with money that rightfully belongs to you).
But if someone sort-of-but-not-really rips off a corporation (in a way that makes the corporation more money, by the way), the corporation can persecute them to their heart's content, because the taxpayers -- i.e. you and I -- pay for it.
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I have no issue with major corporations going after pirates or thieves. I am a capitalist, so I have no problem with corporations making money off of bad movies and films, etc - it's relative and opinionated.
The law is the law, if you steal you get punished, at least that is the way should be.
Now, you are so upset about this, that if I didn't know better, I would think you were a pro-pirate supporter. Just saying... 
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Are you sure I'm not a terr'rist? A paedophile? A rapist? A mass-murderer?
Any more mindless accusations you'd like to throw my way, in the typical, close-minded "If you don't agree with me 100%, you shouldn't be allowed to live!" fashion?
The law is not to be abused by Anyone, not even those whom you wish you could be.
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Ah, the joys of the interwebs...
In cyberspace, no-one can hear you chuckle...
Maybe I've spent too much time dealing with trolls; I get too much of a kick out of "playing into their hands".
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If the wind turns we'll have to evacuate. 
<edil>
The fire is under control since eight o'clock.
Four firefighters are at the hospital.
Save a thought for those real heroes of our society!
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modified 24-Jul-16 18:26pm.
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Well if you will holiday in hot countries... 
You should try Wales one year. We don't have forest fires because all the rain just puts them out... 
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Every country suffers Elemental disasters:
Some have fires
Some have floods
Some have hurricanes or typhoons
Some have earthquakes
(The really unlucky get them all )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You forgot the Plague of Locusts!
(Otherwise known as my elder brothers family)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Plague of Locusts
Weren't they all mugged by the mosquitos?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nah - they all moved to Scotland years ago!
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You know, Sweden is a really booring country. For good and for bad.
We have extrordinary few elemental disasters. Or any other disasters.
Which of course is a problem in itself, because when the sh*t does hit the fan, no ones prepared, and the blaming circus will start.
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Been to Wales, and it was lovely. Except for Snowdonia we had mostly sun for two weeks.
And great food aswell!
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If you can't see the top of the (mini-) mountain in Holyhead*, it's going to rain.
If you can see it, it's raining.
* My spell-checker doesn't recognise the place, maybe because it's changed so much.
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Where are you?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Outside Blanes in Catalonia.
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It seems like the fire is under control now, they've been having thirteen helicopters and aircraft flying around here.
My son was amazingly unimpressed by Dusty Crophoppers twins.
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He was probably hoping that Thor would drop by and deal with it.
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Re your update. I am a volunteer firefighter. (Too old and wise to climb on a truck, so I work in command/communications.)
We feel deeply for any injured colleagues anywhere in the world. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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