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This new law will greatly accommodate the government's friends in the so-called creative industries. Surely, their sales will go up. Oh, wait, they won't – because "pirates" buy more music than anyone else (mirror). But they won't be buying it from prison, or when they're trying to pay off a €300,000 fine.

That is, of course, assuming that they're at all guilty. Which, as the geekier ones among us know, can never be proven beyond doubt with a simple IP address. Ever.

… mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases, as Theodor Billroth said. The latter definitely applies to the vomit spewed forth by the music industry claiming they lose ever so much well-deserved cash because of all those evil, Satan-worshipping “pirates”.
In May 2009, “illegal downloads” were blamed for billions [...]