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Spammer's Bin / A Modest Proposal on Copyright Infringement
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Date: Mon, May 14 2012 23:39:36
Everybody is so negative about SOPA and PIPA and ACTA. Nobody sees the opportunities! In the US legal system, plaintiffs who can prove willful infringement are entitled to up to $150,000 per work in damages. Let’s make a conservative estimate that a million Americans have downloaded 100 songs each. This would mean potential damages of $15M ($15,000,000) per person. Across a million people, that’s 15 million million, or 15 trillion US dollars in damages. What does this number remind you of? You’re right, the US gross public debt. So hear me out on this modest proposal. Use this money to pay back the public debt. Then give each of the million people a 400 year prison sentence (not unheard of in the US) and let them work their asses off for 400 years to pay back the debt that is now on their shoulders. (Should anyone try to die from natural causes prior to the end of the sentence, you simply threaten to kill the person in question, which is usually enough to make him or her want to stay alive.) Putting another million people in prison won’t even double the US prison population, so the relatively small increase would hardly be a strain on the American correctional supervision system. It’s doubtful whether anyone could object to this modest proposal which would instantly solve the two biggest problems America is facing today, copyright infringement and rampant public debt.
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Date: Mon, May 14 2012 23:59:14
America has two other large problems: the energy crisis and obesity. Solution? Get all of the people in America who want to improve their health to run on giant hamster wheels and generate energy.
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Date: Tue, May 15 2012 00:08:43
Fuse wrote: America has two other large problems: the energy crisis and obesity. Solution? Get all of the people in America who want to improve their health to run on giant hamster wheels and generate energy.
LMAO I actually used that idea in a model United Nations conference last year 8D --- On another note, 400 years? Let's first try to live that long. -
Date: Tue, May 15 2012 00:09:24
It does kill two birds with one stone ^_^
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Date: Tue, May 15 2012 00:17:48
Eternity wrote: On another note, 400 years? Let's first try to live that long.
Easy, the backbreaking work prevents obesity. Simple. -
Date: Tue, May 15 2012 00:19:45
We should also eat their children too. Just for good measure.
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Date: Tue, May 15 2012 00:23:46
iColor wrote: Easy, the backbreaking work prevents obesity. Simple.
And even most healthy people don't make it past 100 ^^ Other than that, good idea 8D -
Date: Tue, May 15 2012 07:51:04
Seems like a good idea, but humanitarianly (or humanistically or w/e) speaking, it seems unfair nowadays. But since when has life been unfair? :/ if everybody would drive towards this idea, it would be like history all over again. Dictatorship or something :))
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Date: Tue, May 15 2012 23:39:53
iColor wrote: Everybody is so negative about SOPA and PIPA and ACTA. Nobody sees the opportunities! In the US legal system, plaintiffs who can prove willful infringement are entitled to up to $150,000 per work in damages. Let’s make a conservative estimate that a million Americans have downloaded 100 songs each. This would mean potential damages of $15M ($15,000,000) per person. Across a million people, that’s 15 million million, or 15 trillion US dollars in damages. What does this number remind you of? You’re right, the US gross public debt. So hear me out on this modest proposal. Use this money to pay back the public debt. Then give each of the million people a 400 year prison sentence (not unheard of in the US) and let them work their asses off for 400 years to pay back the debt that is now on their shoulders. (Should anyone try to die from natural causes prior to the end of the sentence, you simply threaten to kill the person in question, which is usually enough to make him or her want to stay alive.) Putting another million people in prison won’t even double the US prison population, so the relatively small increase would hardly be a strain on the American correctional supervision system. It’s doubtful whether anyone could object to this modest proposal which would instantly solve the two biggest problems America is facing today, copyright infringement and rampant public debt.
Jonathan Swift would be proud. @chris woosh -
Date: Tue, May 15 2012 23:59:17
Its simple, we kill the Batman
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Date: Thu, May 17 2012 05:19:59
You don't have a clue in the world what you're talking about.
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Date: Thu, May 17 2012 19:21:40
*Sees that nateiskewl posted* *Rubs hands in anticipation* Not sure who he was replying to though.
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Date: Mon, May 21 2012 22:28:36
lol nate either got trolled or he's doing some new-age meta trolling or some shit
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Date: Wed, May 23 2012 20:08:53
He is trolling the troll, get with the times man.
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Date: Sat, May 26 2012 10:28:18
Wankers. Copyrigtmeans nothing. Iwoerk at an IP firm.... bisggist customer China. Sent from my DROID2 Global using Tapatalk 2