Why not? That is how the entertainment industry presents theirs.
1 download = 1 lost sale as far as they're concerned, despite the fact that they cannot prove that. They couldn't even prove that 1 million downloads = 1 lost sale.
My proof is in the absence of proof from the other side. I made no blanket statement that every single incident of piracy was victimless.
I said:

in certain circumstances piracy is a victimless crime

Those being the case where the person never would have bought the item in the first place and only uses it because it can be obtained for free and in obtaining and using the product the individual doesn't use any resources from the company (like an online service they didn't secure properly)

How about in a country/region where the rights holder refuses to make the product available? Do the people there have an obligation to wait months, years, or until the end of time for something to be made available?

All horseshit. If there's no value in having a thing then there's no reason to download it.

People download these games and play them. They download these movies and watch them. They download this music and put it on their ipods. Whether or not they later thought it would have been worth purchasing legally is largely irrelevant.

There isn't though. The only value is in that, to them, it's free. Any other price and they wouldn't download it.
For them the product is worth no monetary compensation. if they can't download it for free, they'll go without and be no worse off for it. You can't translate this or analogize it though.

I asked where the damage was, and I see you've failed to show any. In order for something to be a crime there has to be some kind of damage done to the victim, and it's non-existent. So why exactly is this a crime? What about in places where it's perfectly legal behaviour, is this then suddenly "ok"?

I'm increasingly nauseated by the people who can't seem to understand that in certain circumstances piracy is a victimless crime and then trying to force their morality on others.
If an individual would under no circumstances purchase the product in question, and the rights holder loses no resources in their making a digital copy, where exactly is the damage to anyone occurring here?

There is no mythical lost sale, there is no loss of bits and bytes. Some hurt feelings, but their attempts to manhandle various world governments hurts my feelings, so I'd say we're even.

Now, if the individual is truly stealing simply because they don't want to spend the money on that, that is one thing, but you really have no idea who is being cheap and who simply would never spend money on the product in question.

Their business model may or may not be broken but the fact remains that how they are doing it isn't making them happy. The entertainment industry still seems to have lots of money to throw around, so it seems to be doing fine. If they were truly losing so much money you'd think they'd be broke and destitute from all the years of bitching they've done.

The only thing I think that might be broken is their greed meter and their inability to logically think about what is happening when someone downloads something. I can guarantee you there has never been a single business or person harmed by piracy and I'd dare anyone who claims they have been to prove it. I'm not saying some company claiming 90% of the copies of their game is pirated so they closed their offices or killed the office dog because they couldn't afford to feed him. I'm claiming definitive proof that
1)the people who pirated the product would have actually paid cash for it
2)no sales were generated by people who used piracy as a demo and then turned around and bought it later because of that
3)the money they would have generated from #1 would have kept them afloat

They won't be able to prove a single one of those. They could make suppositions and guesses and theorize into the night, but they'd never be able to actually prove that piracy did any genuine damage to their business.

It's much much closer than "anonymous coward" is.
Though it is a rather apt description.

Because the stereotype is about Japanese and to a lesser extent Koreans, not Chinese speakers.

Mandarin Chinese has both sounds, and there's typically no difficulty differentiating them. It's a Japanese stereotype (based on the fact that in Japanese these two sounds are allophones) that has grown to be applied to speakers of other East Asian languages. It might be compounded by the existence of facetious Chinese transliterations of English words, such as yimier for email instead of the literal diànz yóujiàn, "electronic message".

Some dialects of Chinese have little to no erhua, the tendency to suffix words with an R sound, so they may have difficulty pronouncing an R sound syllable-finally, because their own speech never calls for it (compare Standard Mandarin nàr, "there", versus more Southern nàli). In addition, L is frequently used in transliterations in place of R syllable-initially, as in luqièstè for Rochester.

So it's not so much that these sounds are confused, but that they're just used in different contexts, and a Chinese speaker might conceivably have some difficulty with that. But again, this probably affects Chinese speakers less than Japanese speakers, who might find it difficult to differentiate between the sounds in the first place.

So no, he's not showing awareness of stereotypes, he's showing ignorance, as last I checked, it isn't the Japanese building the iPhones.

at least I have the stones to stand by what I write.

racist and ignorant.. an obvious combination and modded funny on slashdot no less. It's good to see where the priorities are and what the community supports.

Why is this even a story? Is there anywhere that Facebook actually enforces this policy?
I've seen no evidence that facebook remotely cares about this. Several groups I belong to have people using business pages as personal accounts (Yes I'm sure your name is Division Marketing, nice to meet you) and trolls using clearly fake names (Rusty Mcfuckertrollson) and despite having been reported for months or nearly a year at this point, all the accounts are still permitted to spam these groups or harass members as the admin is absentee.

In fact I've rarely, if ever, seen facebook enforce a single policy. /b/ used to have threads devoted to listing your troll accounts so that they could friend each other to appear more legit. A long time ago you used to be able to report with an explanation. Even explaining that, and pointing out 100 grouped accounts were all fake? a month later when someone started the thread again, all the same accounts showed up.

People who need gifts and things in games and whose friends have all blocked them started making fake accounts to play those games. I knew someone who had like 25 on their friends list, all with clearly fake names, all friended each other, and all with some cartoon picture as the profile picture.
As far as I know they're all still there despite having been reported like 2 years ago.

If people in germany want to use fake names, just do it, facebook clearly doesn't care.

But I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing about raspberry pi.

If you don't need to actually call out and talk with external people no. Or if you do it so infrequently that it's a non-issue no. Probably whole floors of workers could have their phones removed and perhaps a couple of "phone rooms" added to the floor, so that on the odd chance they had to call a landline out, they could have a quiet place to make the call, and numbers associated with it if they needed to give someone a number to call.

XP showed that people were happy keeping on OS for a very long time on their machines.

Windows 7 is working for a lot of people who are using it. They've got no real motivation as the home user to switch. It's still new, and most of them probably expect they could get the life of their machine out of it.

Windows 8 will be the skip version then Microsoft will come to their senses and gives us another regular version of windows next.

You need an Alien Registration Card, which is weird, because if you sign up via their android app you don't need one. If you have an android phone, try checking out their app there.

It's called Bugs
http://www.bugs.co.kr/
but it's only available in Korean, and I'm not sure how you'd pay for it outside of Korea. At least through their website. With their android app, you can charge the fee directly to your phone.

But for the most part, just use bittorrent because since I stopped using emusic, I more or less stopped downloading music. The 3 or 4 songs I want to actually download a year haven't really necessitated my trying to find another acceptable service until recently.

I used to use Emusic for quite some time. Got quite a bit of indie music there..browsing wikipedia though looks like they sold out in 2010. I think I stopped using them late 2008 or early 2009.

Not allowing people to redownload tracks is just insulting. They were already raising prices just before I left, cutting subscription downloads by 20-30% or something like that, effectively raising the per track price.

Their prices are really high now. the top plan which gives 73 downloads a month was like $14.99 when I was using it a few years ago, now 31.99

Here in Korea, you get 40 downloads for about $5 a month.
including a fair bit of western music, I think they've got 2.5-3 million tracks on their service.

This is exactly what I was going to say. Provide movies that can't be downloaded.

If you can buy it, 99.9999999999999% chance someone has ripped it and put it up for download.
Usually it's only not ripped if it's extremely extremely obscure to the degree, that no one has heard of it outside of some tiny circle of people which means it probably wouldn't even make it to that kind of store, or it sucks so bad that no one would ever possibly want to consume it. Even those usually end up ripped at some point.