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Haha, that is brilliant.

It is like when the MPAA says they lost $200,000,000 or some ridiculous number to piracy, where if those pirates could not have downloaded that content they believe that each and every one of them would have translated to a full retail sale; obviously this is not true.

Instead we should grant them karma on IMDB or something :)



We should just send them billions of scanned dollar bill images.

That'd be a great campaign actually. The entire internet sending billions of "dollars" to the RIAA/MPAA for their "property".

Update: Put this page up: http://www.sendthemyourmoney.com/


To ease the logistics, perhaps someone could just send the RIAA/MPAA a torrent containing a lot of dollar bill images? I can think of no more fitting way in which to spread out the bandwidth costs.


that's a clever idea. i've been looking for something to do with "iamnotacriminal.com" - perhaps i'll have a simple site where you can pick an MPAA member (ie an executive at a MPAA member company) and send an "e-payment" of $150,000 scanned dollar bill images for each song you listen to... on the honor system for you to properly account for the songs for which you "owe". :)


Ah. I went ahead and put this up on http://sendthemyourmoney.com/ and submitted to HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3695546

It amuses me if nothing else :-)


That is awesome!

Where did you host this?

Submitted to Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/qtie0/new_campaign_to...


On my own server. Static file + nginx crosses fingers.


A man is caught speeding by a speed camera; he is sent a picture of the car with his license plate visible, the speed measured and the ticket to pay.

He sends back the police a picture of the money to pay for the ticket.

The police send back a picture again -- this time of handcuffs.

This time, he pays.




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