I had an epiphany the other day….
For years we have been told that file sharing is illegal. That music piracy is the tool of the Terrorist gangs and is their major source of financing.
The content industry has always calculated 15% as the value attributed to physical piracy.
This allowance is entered at the commencement of every year as a “cost” of doing business.
Recently the Government have got in on the act and attempted
to use “Terrorist Financing Copyright infringement” as the justification to
introduce ACTA and other legislation designed to enforce economic dependence on
If illegal file sharing is damaging the Content industry to
the extent that they claim – then surely it must also be damaging those same
terrorists that depend on physical piracy to raise money to buy guns (from
In other words – if file sharing can be done for free – how are those poor terrorists ever going to be able to afford to buy SAM’s or C4 or other “neat stuff” so necessary for blowing up large buildings?
They can’t. Their funding from file sharing is drying up. To the point where there are noticeably less and less acts of Terrorism.
That’s a good thing.
So do your patriotic duty – download a file – don’t buy the copied DVD at the markets……. We may save the world yet.
From the Tongue in cheek department.
