01-19-2006, 05:36 PM
kandrathe,Jan 19 2006, 12:27 PM Wrote:Any organized criminal enterprise (Terrorists, North Korea, Cosa Nostra...) can profit by counterfeiting (Money, Software, Media, Toys), and at the same time believe they are striking a blow at the western capitalist infidels. In this day, if you can find one example, it is taken as a trend and a new law must be written to close that loop hole.
According to some reports I read recently, North Korea earns about 1/2 a billion per year counterfeiting US 100$ bills, and another 1/2 a billion distributing drugs. That's about 1/3 of their economy. Of course, most terrorist operations don't require more than a few thousand.
North Korea's Counterfeit Goods Targeted
Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed by Rachel Ehrenfeld
BBC - What is a superdollar?
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Ok, so selling a few pirated DVDs might bring a few bucks to the wrong pockets, but damnit, somebody explain to me how exactly the terrorists are making money off of Limewire mp3 sharing? People that support file sharing support terrorism... HOW?
Using that kind of fractured logic... I say, if you don't use file sharing, you support terrorism. If you go out and buy a pirated DVD instead of ripping it off and getting it for free off of Limewire, you are supporting terrorism. For the sake of American safety, it is your civic responsibility to not spend money because you don't know where it might go. Better to just get it for free and not pay anything at all.
Please note that the sarcasm meter here is off the charts and tongue isfirmly in cheek.
Once again, I have no problem paying for something. I want to pay for things. I just want my money going to the right place and I don't want to have to worry about being reamed over something.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."