RIAA Sues Man for Ripping Legally Owned CDs to His Computer

[Vladimir]

Where do you live, that you need to be daily worried about being "blowed up"? If you're in, say, Mombassa, Beirut or Mosul, maybe I could see your point. Avoiding being blown up would be a daily issue. But aren't you in the U.S.A.?


Well dip me in electric kool-aid and paint me paisley -- who's worried about evil corporations? Evil I could live with. I'm concerned about stupid corporations.

Let's take a guided tour through Capitalism 101, shall we?

Corporations exist to make money. If they fail at making money, they go bankrupt, or go crying to the government for protection. The IP industries have known for well over a decade that their business model needs to change, and instead of doing what a proper company would do (change with the market), they've been working very hard to legislate the market back into their comfort zone. As a self-described "conservative," you should sneer derisively at this approach. Instead you're concerned with getting blown up in Akron or Portland or wherever you are.

Clarification:

1. More (relative to) was the key word of the sentence. I'm quite safe, I assure you.

2. Naughty corporations.

Probably should have been clearer.

Don't buy their product, like me, and they'll go out of business. That's capitalism!