also , for the record , id like to recommend that everyone here download , illegally , buena vista social club mp3;s instead of buying the cds. the musicians dont get a smidgen of the cash accumulated from sales , they're not allowed to - due to some cuban law. there was/is a legal battle going on trying to get them their dues.
http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/ ... /%20Hacks/
check out the bit on the new blu ray discs. sony want to implement a technology that would know when a blu ray disc enabled machine was tampered with (via an obligatory net connection , apparently) and would disable the machine remotely....hehe , what a crock of shit. of course - all these little precedents snowball into acts like this.
medicine is the same , herbs and plants are becoming illegal (easy to grow , and free) and only the pills that pharmacutical companies make are to be obtained (virtually impossible to make yourself. actually wait , they are impossible to make yourself. and probably illegal to make yourself for fear of depriving some ballbag a few dollars.) thats how it is in ireland now anyways. big companies fund medical schools , and in turn big companies educate the doctors , and in turn the big companies dictate what you are to buy when your sick from breathing the big companies noxious factory omissions.....etc etc
this topic really is a tin of worms , it will take solidarity and an abscence of greed to right the wrongs , we should not stand for it. the sound of revolution is the sound of glass breaking
the world is full of gullable people , and sociopaths who tell them what they want to hear. and a few people who see the truth , and try to tell the gullable whats going on. but its not what they want to hear , they want to be believe the flattering bullshit they're being fed by the fat , rich sociopaths.
so when this ideology filters through everything , from medicine to music....well , we're fucked.
also , the polls question is worded incorrectly. by saying pirated , you are automatically saying its wrong , immoral , incorrect.......perhaps 'have you ever downloaded commercially available music without paying for it' would be better , and adding a NO option , and removing the 'yes but only once' option