Cary Sherman
2003-11-08, 06:53
All of you pirates and thieves who have the airs of victory ought to appreciate the incontrovertible facts as I present them to you here. The RIAA is winning against p2p. Here are the reasons why.
None of you ever paid for a damn thing in your life
The strength of your 60 million is as potent and pathetic as watching Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli fighter jets. Though you believe there is strength in numbers, you are all cheap bastards who do not want to shell out money on behalf of your community. Just look at the p2p defense fund recipient list (http://www.downhillbattle.org/defense/recipientList.shtml) if you don't believe me. Only two people on that list have chosen to fight us, and they have been collectively given $500 out of a total need of $30,000. Where are all the 60 million people? They seem to be lacking when the highest duty of their community calls them. Your impotence and lack of solidarity is astounding, and it has sent a loud and clear message to us that you approve of the lawsuits. We have at our command an annual operating budget of around $50 million.
There are too many generals and not enough soldiers
Too many of you are into self-promotion. I get a good laugh every time an owner of a bulletin board is asking for money for a vBulletin fund, or to buy an extra domain name. Plenty of board spamming has been made on behalf of self-promotion efforts. Your leaders are all out for themselves. They don't know how to reach out to other leaders and to subjugate themselves to an even bigger cause. They will only undertake a cause if it furthers their self-promotion. Your egos are so big that you need to haul them on heavy-duty trucks wherever you go. You have no ability to work together.
You are all cowards and you lack the spirit of civil disobedience
The coward dies a thousand deaths, and in your community there is always fear of something or other. This fear has driven you underground, to champion private networks such as WASTE, Freenet, or to simply become leeches. You want stealth and anonymity because you are terrified that we will sue you. In the interests of preserving your safety, you have willfully chosen poor networks with small potential and performance. Because p2p is going underground, you are now at the same level as child pornographers. You think you are being stealthy when in fact you are doing a disservice to your community, because you will not publicly take a stand on its behalf. It shows that you really are ashamed of who you are and what you represent.
It was pretty funny seeing how Zeropaid and Slyck got into a panic, after they received a threat from Sharman Networks about references to Kazaa Lite on their websites. These are people who are your supposed leaders, and yet they backed down under the slightest bit of pressure. If you are scared of Sharman Networks then you will be no match for the RIAA.
You are slaves to fashion and habit
Despite your complaints about DRM, I would like to see how many of you actually have the will to boycott something fashionable that uses DRM. Your coddled software aficionados, who never paid for anything, will also have trouble saying no when Microsoft releases its latest version that forces you down the path of DRM. How many of you will be able to resist the lure of Microsoft's next operating system Longhorn?
Thank you for being such willing slaves. It makes the job a whole lot easier for us. We have won the battle before it has even started. You are your own worse enemies.
None of you ever paid for a damn thing in your life
The strength of your 60 million is as potent and pathetic as watching Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli fighter jets. Though you believe there is strength in numbers, you are all cheap bastards who do not want to shell out money on behalf of your community. Just look at the p2p defense fund recipient list (http://www.downhillbattle.org/defense/recipientList.shtml) if you don't believe me. Only two people on that list have chosen to fight us, and they have been collectively given $500 out of a total need of $30,000. Where are all the 60 million people? They seem to be lacking when the highest duty of their community calls them. Your impotence and lack of solidarity is astounding, and it has sent a loud and clear message to us that you approve of the lawsuits. We have at our command an annual operating budget of around $50 million.
There are too many generals and not enough soldiers
Too many of you are into self-promotion. I get a good laugh every time an owner of a bulletin board is asking for money for a vBulletin fund, or to buy an extra domain name. Plenty of board spamming has been made on behalf of self-promotion efforts. Your leaders are all out for themselves. They don't know how to reach out to other leaders and to subjugate themselves to an even bigger cause. They will only undertake a cause if it furthers their self-promotion. Your egos are so big that you need to haul them on heavy-duty trucks wherever you go. You have no ability to work together.
You are all cowards and you lack the spirit of civil disobedience
The coward dies a thousand deaths, and in your community there is always fear of something or other. This fear has driven you underground, to champion private networks such as WASTE, Freenet, or to simply become leeches. You want stealth and anonymity because you are terrified that we will sue you. In the interests of preserving your safety, you have willfully chosen poor networks with small potential and performance. Because p2p is going underground, you are now at the same level as child pornographers. You think you are being stealthy when in fact you are doing a disservice to your community, because you will not publicly take a stand on its behalf. It shows that you really are ashamed of who you are and what you represent.
It was pretty funny seeing how Zeropaid and Slyck got into a panic, after they received a threat from Sharman Networks about references to Kazaa Lite on their websites. These are people who are your supposed leaders, and yet they backed down under the slightest bit of pressure. If you are scared of Sharman Networks then you will be no match for the RIAA.
You are slaves to fashion and habit
Despite your complaints about DRM, I would like to see how many of you actually have the will to boycott something fashionable that uses DRM. Your coddled software aficionados, who never paid for anything, will also have trouble saying no when Microsoft releases its latest version that forces you down the path of DRM. How many of you will be able to resist the lure of Microsoft's next operating system Longhorn?
Thank you for being such willing slaves. It makes the job a whole lot easier for us. We have won the battle before it has even started. You are your own worse enemies.