Piracy now funding Terrorism

[KillingFrenzy]

So I was just watching an import Disc from the UK, and the "FACT" anti-piracy commercial with the fat demonic guy and the big burning "X" brand was on it. Now, I guess I can handle a little hyperbolizing/literal demonizing of pirates. But what the heck is up with making the statement "Piracy funds Terrorism." The drug war has always been fraught with this sort of guilt by association, but it seems callous and offensive to pull the "T" card on acts of economic crime when theoretically acts of real terrorism involve, well terror. I don't find a drop in economic gain to be a "terrorifying" situation.
More proof that ad execs shouldn't be allowed to deal with serious issues.

Downloading MP3s kills little kittens!
Masturbation causes blindness!
Jews drink baby blood!

Just adding more fuel to the various fires burning in this self-hating society.

[robotfunk]

Terrorism justifies Dystopianism!

[hookturn]

Does that make me a terrorist for making copies for my own use??

:shrug:

[vjpixylight]

and then there are the terrorists funding the pirates (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601625_pf.html):rolleyes:

Of course when you have terrorist funding projects like "Total Information Awareness" (http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/15578res20030420.html)
it's not so difficult to see how terrorism is bandied about whenever the hawks want to demonize something...

So back to piracy..
I'm wondering when HD piracy will be available?

[sleepytom]

www.fact-uk.org.uk are really funny - they offer the most incoherent set of reasons why piracy is sooo bad. (and they have a really crappy domain name)

why can't they just tell the truth and say "Piracy costs our rich mates money, and there's nothing a rich bloke hates more than losing money"

All the cobblers about terrorism or my new favorite "Piracy funds benefit fraud" WTF?? i thought the government funded the benefits system? do people startup a housing benefit scam with the profits from selling DVDs down the pub?

what ever next?
"shoplifting funds pedophiles"??

[mxmai]

i saw a piracy funds terrorism advert as the cinema once; i thought it was brilliant.

but seriously, if you're paying for piracy, you're doing it aaall wrong.

[ristuuk]

it does happen..... in northern ireland video/dvd piracy has been linked to paramilitaries
professional piracy brings in big money.

[bryandod]

but seriously, if you're paying for piracy, you're doing it aaall wrong.

My thoughts exactly.

[xangadix]

gee, silly me, I thought terrorism was funded by oil-dollars and heroine sales;

one can wonder why they need even more money then two of the most profitable products in the world

[frenki]

laws of mathematics. there's always +1.

[ewanuno]

you know, i wouldn't be suprised if usenext were paying for something evil, but then again probably something more evil than mere terrorism.

[mlv1]

Alex jones never mentioned anything about piracy :)www.infowars.com :)
duck!
:grouphug:

[asterix]

We don't get that advert here in Australia. I reckon it'd be a fkn funny visual though - can someone pirate it and upload so I can be a terror vj?

[prupertplum]

I think the real question is - what DVD could you get in the UK that you couldn't get in the States???

That advert has been around for a couple of years - really rather terrible aint it. It makes me have more faith in the US and less in the UK if you guys haven't been subjected to such cr&p. Though I doubt it'll be too long before Bush blames global warming and inflation on The Axis of Evil/Arc Of Terror/Democrats/Hippies/Single Parent Families/Non-Far Right Christians/People not working for Haliburton.....

Not entirely unrelated, but taking the piss out of all this ridiculous hysteria, you should check out Brass Eye - excellent satire of over the top news reporting - made way before the state of the world as we know it...

check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye

[magiclantern]

it brings to mind salty sea dog types handing over brown paper envolopes to supicious looking bin laden types!!!

"ahharrr jimlad binladen"

"heres some of the money from davey jones' locker for ya"

and as we all know...this is a huge problem!!!

[PCProject]

gee, silly me, I thought terrorism was funded by heroine sales

for sale one barely used princess leilla will consider part exchange for small tactical nuclear weapon

hat, coat, door