Ahem.
Dear Copyright Infringers,
I blame you! Piracy is VIRUSY!! You all are making the traditional system of information valuation and ownership exhibit SYMPTOMS! And um, the politicians (quite rightly drawn in their attentions to it by the dutiful ministrations of well-heeled lobbyists who only want what's only fair for their media megabaron megacorporation patrons) are responding the only way they possibly can: with poorly-drafted, ill-considered, and howlingly antithetical-to-the-inalienable-liberties-of-the-individual LAWS.
Wait. Scratch that: bills.
Let's hope it never comes to that. Laws! //shudders//
Lawsy.
But really, you raiders of rightfully-protected content: what were you thinking? What did you THINK would happen? What did you foresee as the consequence to your actions?
Surely you must have realized that if you sow the wind of revolutionary breakdown of inhibitions against the unfettered dissemination of data, you will REAP THE WHIRLWIND OF UNTENABLE, UNENFORCEABLE, UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION!
Have a little more forethought, next time. Show some restraint. Exhibit some CLASS. Would it kill you to?
Sincerely,
A. Concerned Citizen, Esq.
Dear Copyright Infringers,
I blame you! Piracy is VIRUSY!! You all are making the traditional system of information valuation and ownership exhibit SYMPTOMS! And um, the politicians (quite rightly drawn in their attentions to it by the dutiful ministrations of well-heeled lobbyists who only want what's only fair for their media megabaron megacorporation patrons) are responding the only way they possibly can: with poorly-drafted, ill-considered, and howlingly antithetical-to-the-inalienable-liberties-of-the-individual LAWS.
Wait. Scratch that: bills.
Let's hope it never comes to that. Laws! //shudders//
Lawsy.
But really, you raiders of rightfully-protected content: what were you thinking? What did you THINK would happen? What did you foresee as the consequence to your actions?
Surely you must have realized that if you sow the wind of revolutionary breakdown of inhibitions against the unfettered dissemination of data, you will REAP THE WHIRLWIND OF UNTENABLE, UNENFORCEABLE, UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION!
Have a little more forethought, next time. Show some restraint. Exhibit some CLASS. Would it kill you to?
Sincerely,
A. Concerned Citizen, Esq.
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