oh canada

[holy_devil]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/Technology/

damn canadians !

but seriously. shouldn't it be reversed? /. subject was;

 P2P Users More Likely to Cheat, Shoplift

what about

 Cheaters, Shoplifters more likely to be a "p2p user"

p2p doesn't instantly mean you're stealing copyrighted files =\ most often they're mislabed things, cant really tell until you open it. <forest gump chocolate reference here>

ediT: point of this thread btw, is that i hate how people look at the internet and all they see is piracy. what of the games? what of the actual information? what of the ability to speak to others so far away? so many good parts, dissapointing to see the focus on the set of people who decided to upload copyrighted stuff

[Manta]

There are now two uses for the internet: piracy and porn.

Seriously though, I think it's because all the information, gaming, and other uses for the internet have just become so ordinary that they are just part of the background noise. There's a reason you only hear about the piracy: it's sensational, and we all know that anything sensational is automatically picked up by the media.

[Diablus]

after illegally pirating a song from my favorite band I went and robbed 3 banks, then looted from 4 local grocery stores

[rad4Christ]

point of this thread btw, is that i hate how people look at the internet and all they see is piracy. what of the games? what of the actual information? what of the ability to speak to others so far away? so many good parts, dissapointing to see the focus on the set of people who decided to upload copyrighted stuff

[snapback]53800[/snapback]

There are now two uses for the internet: piracy and porn.

Honestly, how much conversation in-game, IRC, chat, etc. is NOT centered around piracy and porn? I see your point, but honestly, you don't realize how numb you are to constantly seeing porn or hearing about illegal movies/games/apps/music until you describe it to someone else.

For instance, my wife is beginning to use the internet for more than just shopping and simple gaming. Do you understand how hard it is to explain goatse to someone who has never been privied to graphic images foolishly clicked on?

How about the fact that there are 10 obsene images or links  for every valid one.
Think about it, in order to safely browse the net, you have to have a healthy understanding of bogus domains and/or sensibility about what you click, and even then, you see on average 3-4 bad images/sites/links in a given hour of web surfing. As much as I want to agree HD, I don't. Porn and piracy are rampant (edit: as are my spelling mistakes). I mean, some of the teens on our IRC channel have probably seen more detestable things in the last week than i have in my whole life.

That coupled with the fact that most online communities and IRC channels filled with teens and CS nubs are synonamously filled with porn links, foul language, and talk of piracy. It is rampant. And even though a few communities thrive without it, it's alot harder to find a community free of that garbage than to find one dedicated to it.

I was looking through ytmnd.com at random sites, and there was a comedic thing about myspace.com being down set to emo music, but then it showed real home pics of people who sliced their wrists open and such. I mean, thank God I'm not desensitized to the point that images like that don't bother me.  But how many times does a porn banner pop up while I'm searching for a no CD crack and I don't even notice it.  o_O


not that I've ever done that.  :ph34r:

[aeroripper]

The day I stop using nocd cracks is the day publishers quit putting buggy, slow, and bureaucratic anti-piracy checks on software I have legally bought.

[lolfighter]

Well, comfort yourself with the thought that there is nothing morally wrong with nocd cracking software that you have legally bought.

[Black Mage]

the internet is for pirating porn

[Anarki3x6]

the internet is for pirating porn

[snapback]53813[/snapback]

amen.

[lolfighter]

The internet is for porn!
The internet is for porn!
Why you think the net was born?
Porn! Porn! Porn!

[ziggot]

I like how they found out that School aged people are more likely to cheat on an exam than old people.

Stats rule.

[Mr.Bill]

Did you know that 75% of stats are made up? crazy eh?

[Leaderz0rz]

AAARRR

[lolfighter]

Did you know that 75% of stats are made up? crazy eh?

[snapback]53825[/snapback]

I'm pretty sure it's 83%.

[ziggot]

ZOMG, chronically over used joke time.