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You do not have to pay $30 for a blue-ray disc, but you should have to buy your entertainment from a legitimate source such as Amazon or iTunes.
While this is different than movies and music files let me tell you are story about guitar tablature. A few years ago there were a few guitar tab sites where people transposed songs and posted them for free to share. Some where more correct than others but it was info out there given by those willing to share.
Along came the music publishing corporations a threatened lawsuits and the majority of sites where taken down. These publishing corporations wanted people to have access to only tab they sell.
Because I am into Stevie Ray Vaughn and there are ENOUGH songs I want to learn by him I recently bought a SRV tab book published by a so called professional corporation called Hal Leonard publishing. I paid $20 dollars for the book that since being made by a so called professional source you would think that the song transcribes where correct but they weren't, the transcribes were so off I wound up going to a tab site and getting tab for free that was transcribed as SRV played it.
So much for a legitimate source. Maybe had Hal Leonard cared more about their product I might have bought from them again but I won't I'll go back to getting free tab. But corporations like Hal Leonard don't want me to have access to that, they want me to have to pay for a product that isn't even worth it.
They're using it as a form of protest- while I'm sure it violates some sort of law, they don't just go around picking ANY website... they do this stuff to make a point.
Most people on Anonymous are in their late teens to early thirties. Lots of experience between them to hack stuff... and to be honest, many of them are far more intelligent than many posters in Politics/Other Controversies.
Most of the users of that website seem to be over the age of 18 or 19 (I've visited it a few times on occasion) and so a lot of them most likely DO have college degrees. Of course, it doesn't take a college degree to figure out computers... that only requires a source of learning material, or a teacher.
You do not have to pay $30 for a blue-ray disc, but you should have to buy your entertainment from a legitimate source such as Amazon or iTunes.
Why? It's interesting that organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA are reaping the direct results of refusing to acknowledge a new technical reality. They are the dinosaurs.
Who's to say our own government isn't doing this just to point the finger at somebody else and say " see, we need more control."
I refuse to get into hysterics over this and the last thing we need is to give the government more power to control what we say, think or do.
Who's to say our own government isn't doing this just to point the finger at somebody else and say " see, we need more control."
You mean like purposely letting guns (not to mention drugs) get into drug dealers hands and then using it as a rallying cry for stricter control? Sounds kinda tin foil hat doesn't it except for the fact it happened.
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