| Starkers, you crack me up. |
I'm glad that I helped make your day somewhat more humorous....since enduring many trials & tribulations over my 15 y/o runaway stepdaughter and receiving absolutely no help from the authorities, I've made it my life's mission to amuse my wife and myself in as many ways possible....and if that translates to helping others see the funnier side of things/life, then all the better.
I've always had a good sense of humour (as warped as it is - for the most part), so it's an inherent part of me to enjoy a good laugh/joke and want to share it with others ....whilst seriously cleaning up the really filthy (but funny) jokes I know so as not to offend anyone with more delicate sensibilities.....
And what's more, I don't give a hoot that some will 'think' of me as a total nutcase/crackpot/lunatic....I've 'known' that for years and have been able to live quite comfortably with it....damn these meds are good.
Now back to this corporate thuggery issue. Okay, so this time it was a hoax
, but when I read somewhere that the RIAA is now pursuing the orphaned children of a woman who passed on prior to being able to extract a cash settlement from her, it's obvious these industries will sink to extreme depths to impose total control/their will over all others, thus making hoaxes such as these seem quite credible....
Sadly, these corporate thugs care not what people think of them - the much despised reputations they've earned themselves, they will continue to lobby gov'ts and persecute innocent people until they have the world's entertainment industries under total control - paying the MPAA and RIAA huge sums of money to oversee (supposedly) their better interests.
Furthermore, for the actual impact-inroads into piracy the RIAA and MPAA have made, it seems to me they're extremely well paid, toothless tigers, who seek to appear to be doing their jobs by tackling 'small-time' downloaders of minor consequence. The fact is, they've hardly put a dent in large scale piracy, which in effect is where the artists and producers of music/film/entertainment are really losing profits, due reimbursement for their talent, time and efforts.
I don't condone piracy, be it on a large or small scale, but these effwits at the RIAA and MPAA have gone about reducing lost sales/profits through piracy all arse backwards. There's dozens of bootlegging operations making millions right under the noses of several world governments, yet very little has been done to shut these down....no, they're more concerned with pusuing some 10 y/o girl who downloaded Roseanne Barr's rendition of Star Spangled Banner off an illegal site. Okay, that's an exaggeration...but it makes the point.
Some artists/actors have opted out of these organisations in protest of the bully boy tactics they've employed, but I fear it will take many, many more to follow suit before these arsewipe feuhrers get a real grip and tackle the piracy issue objectively....to wheedle out industry insiders who leak intellectual property to pirate organisations long before their own companies have released it.
