i knew it...

oops, we were caught lying again.
Well as long as the current administration can lie to the faces of the American public AND smirk, then by god we can too.

Did we say 44% we meant 51% ! which is the number you got but are too dyslexic from illegal downloads to read it correctly enough to attempt to not slander us. We're gonna sue you!

\you are so sued.

bwahaha

the MaFIAA lying? That's unpossible.

What a massive waste of time and money.

"We take this error very seriously and have taken strong and immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report," the group said in a statement.



Translation: 'Well, we got caught lying again. Not that it really matters, because those dumb farks up on capital hill will sign whatever legislation we send them into law. Sure, it's expensive to buy a few congressthings but boy howdy does it pay off! The best part is that about 30% of the voters are so sexually repressed and yearning for a firm boot stamping down on their necks that we can pass just about the most ass farking restrictive bills we can imagine and they'll actually *agree* with us! Good thing our customers are slobbering idiots, I don't know what i'd do if I had to go and get a real job!'

Nice try sub-aper but headline was lifted verbatim from Agnes Agneson's June 2003 letter to the editor of the Ruthven Zipcode.

None of this changes the fact that anyone dl and sharing on a college net is a moran.

They're watching those and everyone knows it.

Dear MPAA,

People are more likely to steal from people/organizations that they don't like.

Your's truly,

Common sense

barneyfifesbullet: None of this changes the fact that anyone dl and sharing on a college net is a moran.

They're watching those and everyone knows it.

On the other hand, most of the colleges i've been to have been pretty light on network/wi-fi security. So while they might be watching those networks, they're also pretty open and easy to abuse with lots of problems tracing just who's doing the trading.

Good thing Congress is actually getting their news off hand from some guy who briefly glanced at the news feed this morning, plus the guy who doesn't actually work for the MPAA.

However his boss does, and an employee of his did the study.

jonasborg: Good thing Congress is actually getting their news off hand from some guy who briefly glanced at the news feed this morning, plus the guy who doesn't actually work for the MPAA.

However his boss does, and an employee of his did the study.

If they're only now beginning to learn that the Internet is not, in fact, "a series of tubes," then you can't be shocked.

Weaver95: "We take this error very seriously and have taken strong and immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report," the group said in a statement.



Translation: 'Well, we got caught lying again. Not that it really matters, because those dumb farks up on capital hill will sign whatever legislation we send them into law. Sure, it's expensive to buy a few congressthings but boy howdy does it pay off! The best part is that about 30% of the voters are so sexually repressed and yearning for a firm boot stamping down on their necks that we can pass just about the most ass farking restrictive bills we can imagine and they'll actually *agree* with us! Good thing our customers are slobbering idiots, I don't know what i'd do if I had to go and get a real job!'

Whats the phrase from our Fore-fathers?
Make no law that is total B.S. And that will get the politician lynched one day.

/Hangings aren't used on the right people anymore.

What I want to know is, how many people got fired as a result of this "mistake"? I work in research... if I made a mistake this big, I'd not only be fired, I'd probably be blackballed.

log_jammin: Dear MPAA,

People are more likely to steal from people/organizations that they don't like.

Your's truly,

Common sense

People tend to not be bothered by stealing from thieves. The music conglomerates are nothing more than a bunch of thieves. Hence you have the current state of affairs.

Benjimin_Dover: People tend to not be bothered by stealing from thieves. The music conglomerates are nothing more than a bunch of thieves. Hence you have the current state of affairs.

there truly is no honor among thieves.

/thief

sadly, I make up the 15%.

well, thank god thats all cleared up!

i can't fault them, sometimes, on my taxes, i accidentally write down almost three times my normal yearly income.

Setsuna: sadly, I make up the 15%.

By yourself? I want your connection. o_0

Setsuna: sadly, I make up the 15%.

How many personal T-3's do you have?

Setsuna: sadly, I make up the 15%.

In bandwidth or weight?

RodneyToady: What I want to know is, how many people got fired as a result of this "mistake"? I work in research... if I made a mistake this big, I'd not only be fired, I'd probably be blackballed.

I'm going to guess that the guy who came up with the number works in the 'pulling figures out of our asses' dept, and got a raise instead.

ApatheticMonkey: RodneyToady: What I want to know is, how many people got fired as a result of this "mistake"? I work in research... if I made a mistake this big, I'd not only be fired, I'd probably be blackballed.

I'm going to guess that the guy who came up with the number works in the 'pulling figures out of our asses' dept, and got a raise instead.

So... accounting?

The original report, by research firm LEK, claims the U.S. motion picture industry lost $6.1 billion to piracy worldwide, with most of the losses overseas.

With bullshiat like that, it surprises you? They didn't lose anything other than a potential income assuming that everyone that downloaded would purchase and I'd love to see them prove that claim. The MPAA and the RIAA spout this crap constantly and governments buy it, but it's still crap.

Well, DUH.
We all know that large companies in the public eye never go after the biggest cause of their problems. First they try to eliminate the ones that are easiest to vilify in the public eye.

when is someone gonna do a study to counter the 'lost revenue' claims?

ie, ask the downloaders: "Would you have paid money for this?"

or did most of the 44% graduate since 2005?

Hey, that's only a 29% margin of error. Not bad for a bunch of communication majors.

barneyfifesbullet: None of this changes the fact that anyone dl and sharing on a college net is a moran.


Concurred.
I took a music appreciation class the second semester of my freshman year with the sole intent of stealing as much music as possible from others in the class through OurTunes, a Java applet that lets you nab music from others' iTunes. Luckily, the others in the class had good musical taste and I was lucky enough to nab such gems like all four disks of Laurie Anderson's United States Live and every Die Kreuzen record.
But I never ever ever downloaded anything on campus. Even though I'm sure it's done left and right, it's frightening to think about how much a university could blackball someone for farking up.

/goes to the same school as Sam Rassenfoss (NSFW) did, so we all know full well not to fark around with downloading, even if it's just music
//bored in class? check out ourtunes.

Theft is okay if it's from bad people.

joethorne.: Theft is okay if it's from bad people.

"Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."

You know what's silly? My university bans nearly every port known to man except 21 for ftp, and a couple others.

I can't torrent or play games on yahoo (Ugh!!) but I can download from gnutella just peachy. It's funny.

Music industry = bad peoples.

/goes back to folding concert merchandise

Could the mistake being discovered have something to do with a push to monitor ALL of the internet like colleges have been asked to do?

uh so hey none of this is related to music. it's movies.
mpaa.

/jeez sorry

Maynard G. Muskievote: Hey, that's only a 29% margin of error. Not bad for a bunch of communication majors.

This.

Corporate interest VS personal interests

:(