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Mar 28, 2008

Piracy Funding Terrorism: Mukasey

The RIAA, MPAA, and anyone else you can think of concerned with piracy have a new friend: Attorney General Michael Mukasey. In a gathering of Silicon Valley executives and media at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, Mukasey warned that piracy and counterfeiting profits are funding terrorism.

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LOL
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Would that be Free Speech?
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The artist verses the business....

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He just wants to hear about my particular case to fit his exceptions to the IP laws.
I sincerely think that it's not my case Mr Mukasey, and it never was, anyways because my father was a human rights activist in the 70' he was shot down in the 90' how? really simple. by calling him a terrorist and software pirate, both at once as a hidden message which we were not able to decode until recent times.
Anyways i feel real bad when someone uses pirated software and get the serials from websites filled with all kind of perversions and sex offers wich i ignore.
I ask you to be sincere and try to fuel the payment of software products by giving incentive to those who work endless to give supremacy to patenting laws and intellectual property. Like whom after being killed "just to set a black spot in the history of intellectual property" still keep up to date encouraging people to buy software products (until their last days) and basically "to pay for support" because people don't do one or the other nowhere in the world.
But of course in the world we live, it's more probable for me to be beaten or anything else than to be recognized as the first victim of the advance of civilization over foreign commonwealth workers, british descendants as me, or whatever.
The process, no matter what it was, is going on wheels i see. Keep working for it! I will keep my moral values as high as i can too, and i will keep giving people hopes on how to improve their piracy situations, all my life.
Sincerely, brother in christ.

PD: i would love to hear or see any replies from advocates to the cause of intellectual property, because i feel really trashed and i would like to know how the next tenth of my life will be like if i am allowed to live that much. Thanks.
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So Bin Ladin is a file share man?
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Terrorism has been funded in the past by pirates. The Islam religion started by their leader plundering caravans as they traveled.This false religion will always use such methods.

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What happened, Mukasey have a Bush moment? Forgot about the Afghan poppy fields, didya?
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Mar 29, 2008
 
Very short article. It doesn't even really justify the title.

Anyway, maybe with his six degrees of separation argument, he should stop driving a car because he's really killing us all, hypocrit. Heh.
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The REAL terrorism comes from the tobacco pushers: 5,000,000 deaths (addicts) around the world every year and hundreds of thousands more INNOCENT people (who breathed toxic tobacco smoke) killed, too. BAN TOBACCO NOW!

“Are the martinis ready yet?”

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Mar 29, 2008
 
Don't download Ray Stevens 'Ahab the Arab'. It contains subliminal thought messages and helps terroists buy AK47s.
Yeah right!!!!

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Mar 29, 2008
 
This is the stupidest thing I have ever read. Piracy funding terrorism? I don't think so, or at least no more than anything else in this world that we have made illegal and driven underground... if we wouldn't have done that.... duh, no terrorism dollars from those places!

I swear, most 'terrorism' in this world is analogous to our own Founding Fathers fighting against Great Britain more than 200 years ago.
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Mar 29, 2008
 
Tom wrote:
The REAL terrorism comes from the tobacco pushers: 5,000,000 deaths (addicts) around the world every year and hundreds of thousands more INNOCENT people (who breathed toxic tobacco smoke) killed, too. BAN TOBACCO NOW!
Why did george Burns live so long...Why do people die who don't smoke?
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Mar 29, 2008
 
Why with every site you go to there is a advertisement?
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Mar 29, 2008
 
Why are there commercials when you watch TV? Or listen to the radio? Is it marketing? If your computer has a male name how come every boob around pops up? If female.. hunks pop up?
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Mar 29, 2008
 
If the plants outside and around your house are dying what would cause those stress factors?

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Geez, I thought the terrorist were making money on buying smokes in North Carolina and selling them in Chicago and New York City.

I wonder I much money terrorist are making selling drugs that cross our border everyday?
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Mar 29, 2008
 
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What happened, Mukasey have a Bush moment? Forgot about the Afghan poppy fields, didya?
Talk to Merkel about that...Merck....
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Mar 29, 2008
 
We confiscated merck from germany in one of those World wars..they came up with Morphine...
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Mar 29, 2008
 
I don't normally address this forum, as it tends to be a playground of quips and cynicism. But I will tell you that piracy does affect my industry in more ways than people realize. When we make a film, hundreds of people are employed right from the start. By the time it filters down to theaters, thousands upon thousands are involved. If you truly love the film or the people in it, show your appreciation by paying for it. We can then use that money to make more features and keep the circle going. Keep up the good fight.
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I will keep my moral values as high as i can too, and i will keep giving people hopes on how to improve their piracy situations, all my life.
Sincerely, brother in christ.
PD: i would love to hear or see any replies from advocates to the cause of intellectual property, because i feel really trashed and i would like to know how the next tenth of my life will be like if i am allowed to live that much. Thanks.
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Jesus f'in christ! 9 more months of douche bags like this spouting comlete utter nonsense!!!! Hopefully the old coot McCain won't get in for ANOTHER 4 years of this crap.... but never MISunderestimate the intelligence of the American average joe.... add to that the stategery of the repuke machine and there's definitely a chance of a member of the walking dead as president...
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