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Listed below are comments made by JaredEarle between Tuesday, 29th July 2008 and Tuesday, 12th May 2009.

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How damaging is illegal file-sharing? 07:33am on 12 May 2009 If the entertainment industry wants to be taken seriously on this topic, they need to start being realistic in their claims. The more hyperbole and dummy-spitting they use, the more they distance themselves from reality.

Are sales and revenues down more than any other sector and can any of this be attributed directly to piracy?

On another note, if you give ISPs fictional data with which they can reduce the amount of bandwidth they allow customers, they will use it. It's in their interest to charge for bandwidth you can't use.

Tone down the hyperbole: piracy doesn't fund terrorism any more than any other industry, legal or otherwise, and it doesn't throw people on the streets, destitute and ruined. For a start, it's not theft in any real legal way - it's copyright infringement and doesn't deprive an owner of their property or cause a direct loss of a sale.

Show us what it really does to content producers and let us act on it in a calm and rational way.
Can Stephen Fry kill a gadget? 11:13pm on 27 Nov 2008 "What's the lesson for the gadget-makers?"

Oh, that one is easy. Make better gadgets.
How cool is Cuil? 5:39pm on 29 Jul 2008 I searched for "Munchy Box", that wonderful Western Scotland delicacy, and all I got was Wikipedia and sites using Wikipedia content. Completely different from what was expected.

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