Is Piracy Really More Important Than The Financial Crisis And Climate Change?

from the priorities,-people dept

Reader Virginia notes that in an announcement concerning European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao meeting to talk about various issues, it seems odd that "piracy" was apparently a priority over both the financial crisis and climate change. You would think that the other issues would be much more important, but the old legacy content industry still has been able to convince politicians that piracy is some huge political problem, rather than a business model issue they could take on, if only they bothered to try.

15 Comments | Leave a Comment..


If you liked this post, you may also be interested in...
 

Reader Comments (rss)

(Flattened / Threaded)

  1.  

    Is Piracy Really More Important Than The Financial Crisis And Climate Change?

    identicon
    eleete, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 4:02am

    It is to the polluticians who 'represent' us. It is profitable.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  2.  
    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 4:54am

    When the world is covered in nuclear fallout, a 1000 year nuclear winter and they will still think that piracy is more important. They are dumb assholes, what do you expect?

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  3.  

    That means no

    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 4:57am

    Dear Big Content,
    I am disinclined to aquest your request.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  4.  

    Hunting Piracy == Hurting the Climate!

    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 4:57am

    It is a well known fact that pirates help cool the planet, what with the sails and all. This is why they are highly regarded by those that follow the FSM. Anti-piracy laws are causing global warming!

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  5.  

    Re: That means no

    identicon
    some old guy, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 5:00am

    *Acquiesce

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  6.  

    Pirates and Global Warming

    identicon
    Marmite, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 5:52am

    This proves a loss of pirates caused global warming

    http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/001857.php

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  7.  
    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 5:59am

    "it seems odd that "piracy" was apparently a priority over both the financial crisis and climate change."

    Or was "piracy" a diversion so that the conversation would not be about finance or climate change?

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  8.  

    diversion

    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 6:48am

    ahhh finally someone who can see the box they are in.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  9.  

    Climate Change?

    identicon
    TallDude, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 8:08am

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  10.  
    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 8:12am

    I agree that there are financial issues, of which the Government shouldn't stick their noses in, but what Climate Change are they referring too? The Global Cooling that has been going on for the past decade or so? Everyone knows Global Warming has been disproved, it's a fact!

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  11.  

    WTF climate change ?

    identicon
    Guy one, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 9:23am

    are you serious? The ice caps have been melting since the ICE AGE, its called the CIRCLE of LIFE.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  12.  
    icon
    Crabby (profile), Feb 10th, 2009 @ 11:08am

    I doubt either are worried about piracy for the sake of commercial enterprise; rather, it's about who gets control of the media.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  13.  

    There is piracy and then there is counterfeiting...

    identicon
    Ari M., Feb 10th, 2009 @ 11:11am

    and in this case I believe they mean the latter. I.e. producing fake watches, shirts, shoes. Not necessarily anything to do with content industry per se.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  14.  
    identicon
    anthony7williams, Feb 26th, 2009 @ 11:01pm

    At the time of financial crises we need to come together united and try to solve the problems which are responsible for such a hazard. We need to overcome it. It is meant to bring calm to the population and markets and display government strength and stability. As a large number of people spend their money in movies, making films, sports, nowadays even on internet many casinos offer to win a chance to play in a blackjack tournament for the people interested in gambling but there people lose a large sum of money there in such stuffs which should be minimized as the world is going through a phase where a little wastage of money could be matter of remorse.

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

  15.  
    identicon
    Anonymous Coward, Aug 17th, 2009 @ 5:36pm

    hahhhaaahhhaaahhha very funnny fuck the world man

    reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]


Add Your Comment

Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here
Get Techdirt’s Daily Email
Save me a cookie
  • Note: A CRLF will be replaced by a break tag (<br>), all other allowable HTML will remain intact
  • Allowed HTML Tags: <b> <i> <a> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <hr> <tt>


A word from our Sponsors...
Follow Techdirt
Flattr rss rss
From the Techdirt Archive...
A word from our Sponsors...

Close

Email This