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more about #piracy more comments → Rhymenocerous: Don't you have to pay for most commodities? I don't get it. more » edosan: You can steal news? I didn't know that, say, The New York Times has some sort of copyright regarding Michael Jackson's death. more » daveyjonesisdead: Like the recording industry, the newspaper industry needs someone to blame besides their executives and money-hungry stockholders, who are canablizing... more » avoidz: And the CEOs of the banks and corporations that just crippled the world's economies get... How much time in the hole? more » iplaudius: Are they cracking down on illegal downloading of copyrighted porn? Hypothetical question, of course. more » Colonel Mustard: The Love Guru already costs 91 minutes of your life — isn't that enough? more » Wrongavore: You ended that post like Perez Hilton. more » Smitros: Half a year? It only felt like that, I've heard. The running time was 87 minutes. more » Spirit Fingers: Soooo, let me get this straight you go to the clink for pirating the movies, not for buying them for $5 on Canal Street, right? I just need to know wh... more » Mount_Prion: "So the terrible leaking of The Love Guru..." Heh. It burns. more » Tremonius: It's very helpful for a writer who is past his Sell By date, like that Ellison, to pretend his work is worth stealing. He can think down in his remnan... more » Mama Penguino: Honestly? I think he was referring to the fact that the people he'd be trying to catch are more than likely without funds (read: deep pockets), not to... more » sassenach: I wouldn't expect such classist comments from Steve. more » Steverino Begins: You'd think the author of Misery would know better than to piss off his fans, especially basement-dwelling rednecks. more » scroll_lock: To pirate a quote from Stephen King and direct it now to Stephen King, "Shut ya head, Trout." more » -
#mediawars
Online News Theft a Truly Teeny-Tiny Problem
The Wall Street Journal is up in arms about it; the Associated Press is building a robot army to fight it. But it turns out online news piracy is at most a $250 million-per-year problem. Just how small is that? More » -
#thelaw
How The Love Guru Could Cost You Half a Year of Your Life
Guys, if you're going to go to jail for six months for movie piracy, please make sure it's not because of The Love Guru. Let poor young Jack Yates of California be an example to us all. More » -
#copyfight
If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
Writers are getting mad as hell about digital versions of their books getting pirated online. Ursula K. Le Guin and Harlan Ellison will sue you. But we like horror mogul Stephen King's approach: insults! More » -
#somalipirates
The Somali Pirates Never Thought They'd Be On a Boat
Yes, pirates are dangerous criminals, blah blah blah. And yet in their home movies, they come off as kind of charming! More » -
#therich
Boarding School Threatens to Sell Tykes to Somali Pirates if Parents Don't Pony Up
The biggest threat to the children of the rich is the rich themselves. Like Bob Arnot, the former NBC medical correspondent, who made a frighteningly loopy fundraising pitch for Eaglebrook, a private junior boarding school: More » -
