Use fear to stop piracy in your neighborhood

[Resurrection]

Use fear to stop piracy in your neighborhood | Geek.com

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Publishers around the world are trying to come up with new and effective ways of stopping us downloading content illegally online. It’s so easy to sit there with a fast cable connection downloading movies, music and games, what on earth could make us all stop?

Well, forget DRM, letters warning you to stop from an ISP, or all those pointless anti-piracy adverts at the start of DVDs. This household has come up with the perfect solution:

If you feel piracy, or any dubious online activity for that matter, is a problem in your neighborhood, just go into your wireless router settings and change the public name to something that gets people scared. Genius.

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Funniest thing I've read all day...

[ErRor]

idont use wirelesss
so no worries
lol

[anon]

I saw this on the What.cd forums some time ago. Nice one.

[slikrapid]

Publishers around the world are trying to come up with new and effective ways of stopping us downloading content illegally online. It’s so easy to sit there with a fast cable connection downloading movies, music and games, what on earth could make us all stop?

its called the digital era, a natural development in such an era, a common feature of all digital data, etc. - if the publishers are to stubborn/lazy/unwilling to find a suitable business model or the legislators too slow to address the developments in a satisfactory way, why would people all around the world have to tolerate such incompetence or reward it with their hard earned money (or wait for someone with an official title to steer their behavior)? as if they don't get abused/manipulated enough as it is

forget DRM, letters warning you to stop from an ISP, or all those pointless anti-piracy adverts at the start of DVDs.

forget? on the contrary, remember it all, remember it real good, as it will guide your decision well next time they try to profit from you and it provides an undeniable proof of how you as a customer are (a priori) treated

If you feel piracy, or any dubious online activity for that matter, is a problem in your neighborhood, just go into your wireless router settings and change the public name to something that gets people scared. Genius.

'idiot' is more like it, one that should mind his own business, ie. keep his own connection/network/computer working/maintained and let the others use their own connections as they please, respecting basic privacy, not playing the local police department's extension - by using such labels, the owner is crossing the 'boundaries of decency', acting like an immature child, actually, it might even provide sufficient legal grounds for verizon or fbi to sue him for misrepresentation or something similar (if they wanted to do it)