
Ahh I see....
I must be careful not to get fingered for digital piracy in Nigeria.
Sick of anti-piracy schemes that don't work? Bored with endless debates about whether or not to sever infringing downloaders' connections? How about a real deterrent – like amputation? That, according to reports out of Nigeria, is what one of that country's most prominent performers is suggesting. African samba crooner Stella …
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Nigeria, heart of world scams....
Deer Sir,
I is the acclaimed gentilmen to dispose of the estate of our eminant business person Mr U R Ripoff.
I have $200000000000 to deposit in you account. Please send small cheque for £500 to inherits said monies.
Your expectantly,
Mr W.E. Sawyoucoming
Cutting the heads off would be more appropriate.
They're still around. I got one the other day purporting to be from Rev Steven something on behalf of the World Bank, offering to aid me in claiming my "inheritance" from a deceased estate in Nigeria.
I read it for a chuckle at the spelling and grammar, added the sender to my ISP's blacklist, and binned it.
It is absolutely amazing how the smell of big money makes people deposit their brain in the ice box.
I had a girlfriend who was into - inter maxima alia - anthroposophy, and during one of the countless workshops she attended, the teacher distributed photocopied Nigerian letters from a millionaire Steiner couple who wanted to give away all their money to other Steiners, just send us your bank account number, a copy of your passport and a $100 to cover the transaction cost and you'll receive a million dollars within the next few days.
The photocopy had been reproduced so many times, it was hardly legible, but even when I showed her articles about the Nigeria scam, she refused to believe that a fellow Steiner would do something so foul and underhanded. I mean, doh!
I had to threaten to report her teacher to the police, or she'd have beelined for the nearest post office.
Far better off just saying you witnessed the pirate engaging in homosexual acts, that'll get them chucked in the slammer in NIgeria.
Kidnapping kids? Pfft, there's always more kids. But having a gay relationship? That's almost as bad as intellectual property theft!!
Steven R
"making the person suffer without getting anything from all the money he invested in the works?"
Since digital piracy doesn't directly inflict suffering on artists, and only at worst deprives them of some portion of potential income, then I assume the suffering she refers to must be the actual performance work.
If you work in the performing arts where digital piracy is an issue and consider that your actual work is causing you mental or physical suffering regardless of income then it's time for a career change.
What we need is an integrated anti-spammer anti-scammer system. Actually, it should have a provision for bringing in external scams, too, but you basically want to be as open as possible, so no matter which way the spammers and scammers turn, you can still hit them. I'm not saying that they will become decent human beings, even without the fingers, but just that they are driven by the profits, and the smaller the profits, the smaller the problem.
The system should involve several iterations of analysis and targeting. At each point the human spam-fighting volunteer will either confirm or correct the server's analysis. After a couple of rounds of analysis, the webforms will be focusing on the most effective countermeasures. The basic idea is to break ALL of the spammers' infrastructure, pursue ALL of the spammers' accomplices, and help (as mostly protect them from their own stupidity) ALL of the spammers' victims. Yes, I might make a mistake in my analysis of a particular piece of spam, but a bunch of people will be extremely likely to get it right and even reach an agreement on the best responses.
Look at it this way. There are LOTS of people who hate scammers, but only a few suckers out there. If you make it easier to block the spammers away from their suckers, then their money will get really small. Like their penises.
I guess this is more generous than a three-strikes kind of rule - after all, you have ten fingers and I suppose if you have one left, you can still use a PC, so you haven't breached their God given human right to Twitter completely.
Thumbs up - to demonstrate a serial offender.
"Perhaps cutting their ears off would be a more appropriate punishment."
Wrong. Their ears they keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing their hideousness will be theirs to cherish. Every babe that weeps at their approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in their perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means leaving them in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Someone is confused about what constitutes an appropriate and effective punishment. There are many historical examples of amputation being used on thieves. It resulted in many people with missing bits, but no overall reduction in theft. No, in order to do it right, you have to go straight for the most severe punishment. Kill them. Kill them all along with their families and neighbors then resuscitate as many as possible so they can be killed again. That will show them!
Mine is the one with a copy of Draco's legal code in the pocket.
"The fine cited in the story is 10,000 Nigerian Naira, which is in the vicinity of $60 (£36). So we guess that a hand with five fingers rates at a total of $300 (£177)."
This is the usual BS economic comparison made in Western media.
I would hazard to say that 10,000 Nigerian Naira almost certainly means a hell of a lot more to a Nigerian than £36 means to a Londoner.
" But we're almost certain that our commentards can think of something to top Monye's suggestions.."
How about for every video, forced to watch 'Neighbours' for a week, and for every audio track, made to listen to A Bieber album.
P.S. I you are prepared to lose some pinkies, you can hear her here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdC_ONUObk
IP is BS, the arguments for it have been soundly demolished; it's a pity that governments still haven't got the message.
A copyright (BS) ignorer is not a Pirate or a thief; there is never any real loss.
This women would appear to be out of touch, greedy, vicious and a bit mentally lacking.
Here I was, clicking into this story thinking this person had a fix for the real pirate problem - you know, the guys in boats off the coast of Africa who kill, steal, etc. But no, she wants to cut peoples' fingers off for stealing music? That's a bit daft. It's just entertainment, a way to while away the time until death takes us, nothing really real about it. Fix the real pirate problem, then maybe learn to feed your starving masses, then worry about the freetards stealing music.
The reason there are pirates is because of the starving millions.
The reason there are starving millions is because all the aid we give them is frittered away by the despot dictators like mugabe.
The reason there are dictators there is because we put them there....
Its a cyclic pattern....