File Swapping and the Analog Hole

forehead writes "Lawmeme is running an interesting piece on piracy in the digital age. It covers a number of the logical fallacies often cited by the major media companies and certain lawmakers."

Re:Analog Hole?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would like to thank Mr. Valenti for giving ammuntion and arms to the trolls for his "analog hole" remark. Only a true trolling genius could think up such a brilliant concept.

Mr. Valenti, your remarks will be added to the Troll Hall of Fame along with *BSD is Dying, Right Wing Maniac, and the page widening posts.

Funniest Line from the Article

[telstar]

At a minimum, within a day or two of any movie being released, bootleg videos based on camcorder recordings of showings are available on certain streets in New York City

• Why don't they just come out and say Canal Street?

$250 million seems a relatively small figure to me

[melted]

>> $250 million seems a relatively small figure to me

A quarter billion bucks is nothing for this Yale dude. :0) Wow, now I understand what kind of deep-pocketed-parent kids study there.

D-Disney

[SeanTobin]

For example, one prominent proponent of this argument is Sen. Fritz Hollings

(D-Disney), who made this statement when introducing the CBDTPA:

ROTFLMAO!

Re:what the hell is the loss?

[Anonymous Coward]

Theres a problem with your counter-argument: me. My religion states that i must not give financial support to capitalist-pig megacorporations.

I take it you’re not a Scientologist.

:-)

Re:The real cost of swapping movies

[Anonymous Coward]

One of my friends watches movies on his computer all the time. Of course, he has an almost brand new G4 and the 22 inch cinema display, plus a couch in his room, and since he hooked it up to his stereo, its pretty much like watching it on a tv. Only problem is, his computer makes me drool.