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"All you dirty P2P music stealers beware.."

"A mother has received a demand for £4,000 in compensation by solicitors acting for the music industry after her daughter, Emily, was caught illegally downloading songs by her favourite artists.

Mrs Price, a self-confessed computer illiterate, said: "I don't know where I'm going to get the money from. I'll have to go to prison because I haven't got that kind of money."

As well as using the PC to help with her homework, 14-year-old Emily had been using file-sharing to download 1,400 songs for free."

From the Guardian. [URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1511068,00.html[/URL]

How stupid is this? I know it's making an example but even so.

On a more personal note, Tphi wonders whether turning off LimeWire now might not be a bad idea.

Memorandum!ette wrote:
> Alfonse;
> you have to be the most illiterate, ignorant, idiotic,
> imbecilic wankshaft I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with on
> here

No, that would be 'kevstar', surely?

Alfonse;
you have to be the most illiterate, ignorant, idiotic, imbecilic wankshaft I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with on here

Okay... but I'd like to point out that you're talking about the problems of hurricanes a lot. Why not input a definition, along with gory pictures of people impaled on street signs?

I swear i do use it for homework check this piece of crap out I just wrote for geo.

Hurricanes

What Is A Hurricane?
A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more. Hurricane winds blow in a large spiral around a relative calm centre known as the "eye." The "eye" is generally 20 to 30 miles wide, and the storm may extend outward 400 miles. As a hurricane approaches, the skies will begin to darken and winds will grow in strength. As a hurricane nears land, it can bring torrential rains, high winds, and storm surges. A single hurricane can last for more than 2 weeks over open waters and can run a path across the entire length of the eastern seaboard. August and September are peak months during the hurricane season that lasts from June 1 through November 30.

Hurricane Threats
The 74 to 160 mile per hour winds of a hurricane can extend inland for hundreds of miles. Hurricanes can spawn tornadoes, which add to the destructiveness of the storm. Floods and flash floods generated by torrential rains also cause damage and loss of life. Following a hurricane, inland streams and rivers can flood and trigger landslides. Even more dangerous than the high winds of a hurricane is the storm surge-a dome of ocean water that can be 20 feet at its peak and 50 to 100 miles wide. The surge can devastate coastal communities as it sweeps ashore. Nine out of 10 hurricane fatalities are attributable to the storm surge.

I love plagerism.

a) fair enough

b) I don't believe you.

c) and d) are the same thing.

I use mine for

a)Coursework (I hate my school i'm not even in my GCSE years yet).

b)Homework

c)Porno

d)Looking at weird wand disgusting pictures.

Hedfix wrote:
> Rai wrote:
>
> Kids don't use their PC for homework anymore.
>
> They don't? :S

Of course not. You can guess what people get up to on their personal computers nowadays.

Sounds like bully-boy tactics from huge corporations against the most defenseless individuals.

If I download 10 albums I think I might like, they count that as 10 lost sales. Bullsh-t. I can't afford to pay for 25% of the amount I get for free.

I say free, but when broadband is 20-odd quid a month you have to get something out of it. It's not stealing, it's making a copy of something which already exists. F--- the record companies.

i would imagine that the main offence was uploading the songs, i mean if she had 1400 songs for people to download....... thats a lot of songs, i suggest not having ne thing to upload.

Rai wrote:
>
> Kids don't use their PC for homework anymore.

They don't? :S