I believe in file sharing. That’s why I support the use of Linux, OpenOffice, etc. That said, people often wonder why I don’t “download music over the internet”. Here’s one reason, from TorrentFreak:

According to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI, following a high-profile leak, Chicago resident Jorge Romero uploaded the first 4 episodes of this season’s ‘24′ to a YouTube-style site before it aired on TV and is now facing 3 years in jail.

If anything shows that corporations run the country this should. While laws regarding some things (like these) are routinely ignored by the government agents, they have no problem going after dead people, blind people, poor people who are legal residents of the United States when you share a file that the corporations care about. That said, I have had other people who had tried to get help with copyright enforcement for their intellectual property and were told to go pound sand. I guess when you have billions, you have an in, if not, well too bad.

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