if your address is west wallaby street, the brick would probably revolve and then go down 100 feet on pistons and deposit the key in a thunderbirds-style underground chamber beneath the swimming pool.

A fantastic post, I couldn't agree more, but sadly it shows the mentality of the kids here that you arent even modded up :(

hahaha the little kiddies have modded me troll. It must be so sad to be unable to bare to even read stuff you don't agree with eh kiddies?
Now tidy your rooms.

if the hitman went to court and stood there and admitted it, then yup, I think he should be found guilty. don't you?

No it isn't. I work in the free market. Nobody prevents me making games, selling them, promoting them, advertising them, changing my business model or charging any amount in any currency.
Explain to em why the free market I work in and sue every day of my life is somehow a 'fiction'?

There are places where the free market doesn't work and is abused. music, Movies and games are not one of them, although the anti-copyright zealots like to kid themselves that it is, so they can justify theft.

oh really?
So where do I stand? I am a 'person' but I also own my own company. So am I evil or not?

This bullshit that COMPANIES ARE EVIL and that they are some foreign entity that are not owned by, employ and benefit people is just silliness beyond words.

Maybe the poster should have said 'the people who own, work for and are employed by companies will stop producing'. Would that be clearer?

Too much of this pirate-party crap is schoolboy teenage 'sticking it to the man' philosophy that implies everyone older than 20 who has got a job has sold out. I'm sure it seems romantic to fight against capitalism and show the rich jerks who run the country how it should be done when you are 18 years old.

later when you need to buy a house and pay bills, and earn money, you will find that companies are not 'evil', they are just a vehicle by which means people participate in the free market.

"hint: you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee)"

Total and utter BULLSHIT.

But I guess it helps to have such bullshit stories floating around if its the only way a political party can anyone to listen to their whacked-out views...

If I steal from the local corner shop, the shop shouldn't have to get peer-reviewed studies to prove that it impacted their business. The law defines theft, or in this case copyright infringement, and he was guilty as fuck.

This guy didn't 'deliberately get caught breaking an unjust law to bring down the system'
He got caught downloading music. Warned, did it again, and knowingly broke the law.
I have fuck-all sympathy, apart from the fact that he has clearly been talked into fighting an unwinnable court case by the kind of people who post about the RIAA being a 'fascist state'.

Feel free to go fight fascism. Don't pretend downloading mp3s is doing that though.

But the guy *was* guilty. he clearly obviously and without any doubt DID share those songs, DID download copyrighted material, and DID know what he was doing was illegal. This wasn't a single track, he had shared hundreds of songs over a long period.
You waffle on about how "the case should have been handled better", but that's because you are a lawyer who wants his fee.
If this guy was a friend of mine, my advice would be "dude, your guilty as fuck. Settle out of court and get on with your life".
Only a friend who was a lawyer or an anti-copyright zealot would advise any differently.

I thought the lesson was to actually use itunes?

True, but nukes only get compared to coal on this basis. I never hear of any accidents involving solar or wind, and certainly no deaths.
Apparently some sheep have to move a few feet when they actually put the turbines up.

of course the marina is popular. Everyone wants to catch a three-eyed fish once in their lives :D

I'm guessing your crashing python script just caused a blue screen or a hard reboot, not a Chernobyl style meltdown?

I'm pro-nuclear. When it is economically viable, after the waste disposal, decommissioning and security costs have been taken into account by the producer, rather than the government, and when the company operating it has no record of lax safety measures or trying to cover-up previous problems.
That would seem to rule out every nuclear power station and company on earth right now.

Not everyone who opposes nuclear power is scared of the whole concept. The current execution just sucks big time.

maybe because you understand that games arent delivered by faeries, but by people who work (fucking hard) for years to make them, and you gvi a damn about more games being made in future?
Ones that are not purely evony style micro-transaction hell-holes or online only WoW clones...

Of course that requires medium term thinking, or empathy.