Its people like you touting " Ethics " that are propping up this broken anti consumer business model.

where are the Ethics, when a company announces a feature, sells millions of units because of this feature, and then removes the feature remotely via patch. How is that in any way Ethical ( PS3 OtherOS option ring a bell here ) if your " ethics " hold true, Sony should have bought back every console that users bought solely for the " other OS " option, that would have been the Ethical thing to do.

Or where is the ethics when MS LifeBans your Xbox, even with a valid Live account, for one of your snot nosed little bastard childrens friends trying to go on live with a pirated game copy?

Licensing, is a model designed by rich assholes, to ensure they get richer, at the expense of the cash spending consumer.

When i pay money for any object, that object becomes mine, I traded my currency for a product, that product just became mine, and i can use and abuse it in any way i see fit, as it is MY property now. With licensing, i am in essence RENTING whatever it is i paid currency for. Since Sony OWNS my money when i buy a PS3, that means i OWN my PS3, and can do whatever i would like to do with it, including hack it to play Atari games, cook me breakfast, or spam emails out.

Its people like you, who are selling our entire society into corporate slavery. to say the wool is pulled over your eyes is putting it mildly considering the sheep mentality you have displayed with that comment, i would say your just about right for a shearing.

i saw a comic once, cant recall where. but it really hit close to home as to why this is such a huge issue,

shows two guys, one watching a downloaded movie, the other, watching the legit purchased copy of the same movie.

Guy 1, hits play, and enjoys the movie, no previews, no hour long dvd menus that cant easily be bypassed. etc.

Guy 2. HIts play, gets warned 2-3 times about how he is going to hell for software and media piracy, watches 12 dozen movie previews, more anti piracy messages. etc.

Last i checked, it was still " innocent till proven guilty " , at least on paper, may not be so much in practice these days unless you have the cash to buy your freedom, but to me, it would seem bad business practice to accuse every person who willingly correctly purchases your product or services, of obtaining them Illegally.

I would like to know what the RIAA's stand is on the Radio, for MANY years, i would record songs from the Radio to tape. According to their thinking, that is Piracy, Why were they not losing this money then, back when i was a kid, a blank tape was 2 bucks, and a radio with a record button could be had for under 10 bucks. so for 12 bucks, i could pirate whatever i wanted as long as it played on the Radio.

Sure the Radio stations pay royalties, but if 100 listeners record one song off the radio, and that one song is the only reason those people would have bought that one tape/CD/pile of steaming shit called Justin Beiber , they just lost themselves a HUGE chunk of profit. Realistically, the RIAA should be suing every radio station every time they play any RIAA Artist, for " potential for piracy " as just one time playing a song over the radio, might mean Billions of potential losses for them, since in this day and age, ripping audio from a radio to a computer is very simple.

Not sure how music played from a .music gTLD is any different then music played from KBER101 or any other local area radio station or website. the RIAA can try to control the Mediums used to distribute the content all they want, they will NEVER control the consumers, and their actions will make many otherwise legal consumers resort to piracy to get what they want.

Gotta hand it to the RIAA though, never ending greedy fucks cant seem to stop dragging themselves through the mud every chance they get. I would consider it a terminal case of " footinmouth" gone horribly extreme. Kinda wish we could round them all up, toss them in a spaceship, and launch them into the sun, but i think ill be more entertained by watching them fuck themselves over every time they open their collective mouths the way they do, and Death is far to nice a punishment for greedy assholes like them, watching them suffer, flounder,and eventually be flipping burgers while taking orders from a PFY is justice in some sense.

Im just glad they have not decided to find a way to charge fees about news on the RIAA, its one of the few remaining " Free entertainments " out there.

LOL, this must have been one of the Utah Legislatures more " quiet " resolutions. I live in Utah, trust me, everything you have heard about stupid people and Utah is true. Only more so.