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you summed it up when you said “Just when you start to think the lawyers for Hollywood couldn’t be any more ridiculous than they already are, they open their mouths. ”

’nuff said!

OMG!!!

Are they f*&%&^g serious??? I’m NOT about to approve a refocus of our Law Enforcement personnel from violent crime to ‘intellectual’ soft crime!!! Sorry, buddy but your law degree has left you ’soft’ in the head!!! MORON!

These are the same lawyers who defended Paris Hilton??? No wonder she’s in jail! “NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton” should be checked for illegal drug usage…at the very least, a full psych probe for starters…

The hundreds of billion of dollars in loss is hitting them in OTHER countries, not the US!!! OTHER COUNTRIES that do NOT enforce the US patent/copyright laws!!!

MORON!

Somebody get the straight-jacket for Mr. Cotton!

Cheers!
pcwiz…

One of these days Hollywood might wake up to reality.
If and when that day comes along, they’ll again get their facts straight.
Until then, they’ll continue to think that their property is made of gold and they rest of us own nothing but worthless trash.

So, Every man, woman, and child in America downloaded at least six illegal songs or a movie?
NOT
A huge part of that number has to be Mr Bill’s assertion that every poor slop who had their Windoze crash and got an “illegal copy” of Windows installed because he made it impossible to put the HP/Compaq/Dell version back. $300 a pop eats up “hundreds of billions” much faster; though it’s still bushwa.

Lawyer: Why did you rob that bank?
Robber: NBC/Universal told me it was okay as long as I didn’t share any files over the internets.

I hope that people who make such comments at some point, stop, think about what they’ve said and realize how ridicules they’re statements sound. If they don’t, I feel sorry for them. I hoe that they don’t really think that enhancing NBC/Universal’s profit margin is more important than pursuing burglary, bank robbery and theft crimes?

I’ve been hearing studios crying about lost revenue ever since the tape recorder became ubiquitous, followed by VCR’s and now computers. The stupidity will never end. We as consumers have the right of fair use, that means copying for our own personal use. If anyone is really concerned about piracy, then don’t pursue consumers, go after the real pirates who reproduce and sell thousands of copies of CD’s, movies and software as their livelihood. But are we too afraid to point the finger at a certain Asian country that not only tolerates piracy, but encourages it.

Man, Cotton’s little Hollywood lawyer brain must be seriously fried, One too many martinis at lunch maybe? The boy and NBC/Universal (and all the rest of the studios) need to take a reality pill. His comments would be truly laughable if not that they are so moronic.