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Hopefully this girl will create a paradigm shift. All of this anti-piracy prosecution makes me feel like im in a dystopian future where hearing music and watching movies is forbidden. :(

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I wonder if that's part of why the geek community is fighting harder than most: we've all read a couple cyberpunk/farenheight-451-type books and realize that future is not as impossible as once thougnt.

I heard a great song on Spotify today, a service I pay for. Interestingly enough those payments are not for the music, just the ability to listen to the music, as I abruptly realized when I started contemplating using that song in a DJ mix.

Buying the CD wouldn't give you public performance rights, either.

DJing in my bedroom is not a public performance.

Nightclubs are the ones who pay the danegeld to ASCAP et al.

Intellectual property is the Inquisition of our times.

Hopefully things will turn for the better and people of the future will see our outlawing of non-commercial sharing of data as one of those stupid things the troglodytes of the 21th century did. But IP will die a slow and ugly death.

I suppose we should be grateful that your foolish hyperbole didn't compare IP to the holocaust.

Do you similarly object to comparisons to "witch hunts" (such as perhaps The Crucible) if people are not actually being crushed or burnt alive?

"witch hunt" has entered into cliche much like "foot of the stairs" or "roof of the mouth"

The play The Crucible was not a cliche... The play was an allegory comparing the blacklisting of actors for suspected communist sympathies to the brutal humiliating executions of innocents for the invented crime of consulting with the devil.

The fact is that metaphors and allegories do not necessarily suggest the magnitude of compared incident are themselves comparable. Attacking such comparison for having an imbalance of severity is intellectually bankrupt. Reading suggestions of absolute equivalence into them is to not read them as an adult interested in mature conversation; but rather argument.

> The play The Crucible was not a cliche...

I didn't say it was. I said the phrase "witch hunt" is a cliche. "The Inquisition" isn't a cliche. "The Salem Witch Trials" isn't a cliche. "The Holocaust" isn't a cliche. "witch hunt" is a cliche.

Why would this girl be any different than the number of other people that have been prosecuted for piracy?

There hasn't really been any outrage beyond articles like this before, and there doesn't seem to be any outrage except articles like this now. The public at large doesn't seem to have a problem with any of it.

Because it's not quite the same when some employed 30 year old pirates something. This case has an aura of "THINK OF THE KIDS!" - a scam that seems to be working with other issues, but this time in reverse. It's high time these %^&*-suckers got a taste of their own medicine.

I'm all for making a living our of art, but not like this. MAFIAA kind of stuff must end now; they live in the past while ruining the future.

http://brainz.org/14-most-ridiculous-lawsuits-filed-riaa-and...

A 12 year old girl, a Vietnam Vet, several grandmothers, a homeless man.

This 9 year old isn't going to change anything, people in general just don't have a problem with it.

It won't be forbidden, the industry wants to make money! What will happen is that the microchip implanted in your brain at birth will recognize watermarks in any and all manner of copyrighted works and automatically charge the license fee from your bank account.

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