This just in: Pirating Windows helps support terrorism

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-14 10:31am

SlashDot wrote:GuyMannDude writes "[Yesterday's] Oversight Hearing on "International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism" featured the MPAA and Microsoft testifying that software and movie DVD counterfeiting is an acute problem, with criminal gangs operating factories in Russia, Malaysia and other countries that have weak copyright laws. They further claim that intellectual property piracy is a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror." There's another article about the hearing at Infoworld.

There you have it. If you don't have the money to pay for Windows, download Linux ... oh wait, that probably supports terror, as well. Um ... buy a Mac ... wait, that probably supports terror, too. Okay, just don't use a computer. Well, wait, that would mean the terrorists win. Fuck it.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2003-03-14 10:41am

How long before masturbating supports terrorism?

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-03-14 10:59am

Galvatron wrote:How long before masturbating supports terrorism?

It already does, remember? It's "Immoral", just like the terrorists

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-03-14 11:00am

Galvatron wrote:How long before masturbating supports terrorism?

um, you didn't get that memo?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-14 11:01am

I still think the SUV's support terrorism spoof ad was the most sane of all the ones in the asylum

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 11:03am

Well shit, I thought terrorists flew planes into giant skyscrapers, not sell cracked copies of Windows.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-14 01:01pm

More from our wise and just lawmakers:

Representative John Carter, a Texas Republican, suggested that college students would stop downloading if some were prosecuted and received sentences of 33 months or longer, like the defendants in the DOJ's Operation Buccaneer. "I think it'd be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids," Carter said. "If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody's got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials."

3 years for downloading music?! Are these people fucking insane?! Like we need more small-time criminals filling up federal fucking prisons. Wouldn't want to have too much room left over for rapists and serial killers, would we?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 01:04pm

Durandal wrote:More from our wise and just lawmakers:

Representative John Carter, a Texas Republican, suggested that college students would stop downloading if some were prosecuted and received sentences of 33 months or longer, like the defendants in the DOJ's Operation Buccaneer. "I think it'd be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids," Carter said. "If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody's got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials."
3 years for downloading music?! Are these people fucking insane?! Like we need more small-time criminals filling up federal fucking prisons. Wouldn't want to have too much room left over for rapists and serial killers, would we?

The answer is yes, they are insane.

The solution? Build more prisons and let bigger offenders off on parole early, obviously!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-14 01:09pm

Well, you can settle in and suck down a stream of this bullshit for the next 20 years, or you can try to get people under 30 to get off their asses and fucking vote. That's the reason someone can sit up on Capitol Hill and say that 3 years in Federal prison is a reasonable punishment for copyright infringement, while fucking over tens of thousands of employees, investors, and the entire American economy with accounting scams is only worth having to sell your yacht (Jesus, when I start using class warfare language, there's something seriously fucked up going on). It's the same reason you can go to prison for smoking a joint--the very large potential voting bloc that could put a stop to this horseshit is too fucking apathetic to punish these ballot leeches for the legislative assraping they've been dealing to us.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-14 01:20pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Well shit, I thought terrorists flew planes into giant skyscrapers, not sell cracked copies of Windows.

They must use Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice that.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 01:39pm

neoolong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Well shit, I thought terrorists flew planes into giant skyscrapers, not sell cracked copies of Windows.
They must use Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice that.

But of course, my bad.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-14 01:39pm

neoolong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Well shit, I thought terrorists flew planes into giant skyscrapers, not sell cracked copies of Windows.
They must use Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice that.

I wonder if that violates the license agreement.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 01:42pm

Durandal wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Well shit, I thought terrorists flew planes into giant skyscrapers, not sell cracked copies of Windows.
They must use Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice that.
I wonder if that violates the license agreement.

I should think using your program to help cause such an atrocity would get mild disapproval on behalf of the programmers.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-03-14 03:47pm

Gahhhh!!! 33months? What the fucking hell do these people think they are doing? Honestly. It would be interesting to see what their kids get up to... illegal drugs & drink in the case of Pres Bush

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-03-14 03:52pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Durandal wrote:
neoolong wrote: They must use Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice that.
I wonder if that violates the license agreement.
I should think using your program to help cause such an atrocity would get mild disapproval on behalf of the programmers.

Hardly. I can see them using it in an ad:
'Used for terrorist pilot training in 37 countries'

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-14 03:53pm

This is the epitome of ridiculousness. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Pirating Windows terrorism????

Nowdays, people are using terrorism as an excuse to everything. Geez.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-03-14 03:55pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote: I should think using your program to help cause such an atrocity would get mild disapproval on behalf of the programmers.

This is Microsoft you're talking about....

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-14 04:47pm

NecronLord wrote:Gahhhh!!! 33months? What the fucking hell do these people think they are doing? Honestly. It would be interesting to see what their kids get up to... illegal drugs & drink in the case of Pres Bush

You know what? I say that if they're going to imprison any students, they should start with the children of the congressmen. Bust into those fuckers' houses, find all the MP3's on their kids' machines and lock 'em away for 3 years. Let's see how willing they are to impose such strict sentences when they find out their kids aren't as law-abiding as they thought.

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-03-14 05:15pm

Three years, well whaddya know, we're gettin' the same sentences as thieves and abusers.

Reminds me of these same people jailing people who defend themselves and letting the criminals go free.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-14 05:33pm

Shinova wrote:This is the epitome of ridiculousness. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Pirating Windows terrorism????

Nowdays, people are using terrorism as an excuse to everything. Geez.

Next thing you know, they'll say anal sex supports terrorism.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-14 05:40pm

Fucking slime.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-03-14 05:46pm

SlashDot wrote:They further claim that intellectual property piracy is a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror."

Gee, sounds like the CIA really should poach the MPAA's antiterrorist intelligence staff since they're good enough to penetrate al Qaida to the extent of identifying their funding sources....

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2003-03-14 06:00pm

I'm almost positive this is similar to the ban on suicide. It's a "moral law" - one produced more to prevent and put forth a point than for the purpose of conviction.

Computer crimes are a form of terrorism, yes. But on the same level of, say, holding a hostage in a bank. It's "understood" that you're prosecuting an illegal act to change people's opinions. Is it worse than what Osama Bin Laden does? Not nearly.

Again, I don't think this law is a serious concern. You should be more worried over multi-billion dollar lawsuits.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-03-14 06:18pm

Actually, making threads about things supporting terrorism, supports terrorism.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-03-14 06:20pm

No, no, no. Thinking supports terrorism. Know your place, shut your face, and do what Fearless Leader wants without question.

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