Well now if I were the president of this land
You know I'd declare total war on the pusher man.
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he run,
And I'd kill him with my bible, and my razor and my gun....

Whoops! must have been a momentary lap of Freudian pils.

This may be pedantic, but when did we start to translate names? The guy's name is Axel Stahl. So long, Paul Schneider.

and allow downloaders to download as much as they want to.

You, the MAFIAA, could be sitting on a goldmine easily 10x the size of Apple's Itunes right now.

Keep it simple - if you take the downloader contract with your ISP then you're legally downloading anything. Allow any p2p type program, it doesn't matter about that because it's the content you're interested in.

How to work out who gets the moolah? Simple, a download chart of the top X amount of files (movies, songs, software, anything). The more popular something is the bigger the slice of the pie they get.

You could also give a small amount to the most popular p2p applications, and make other awards for adding features like ease of use and security. Afterall you want the whole world on this monthly donation to your pockets, so make it easy for everyone, kids, adults, oldies.

The internet is the greatest and cheapest delivery method ever created, I just cannot get over just how stupid on a global level you guys have been for over a decade. It's just incredible. It's staring you in the face, just how easy this is to do, but you're not going for it. Please go for it.

Summary: FIle sharing is legal if you pay £5/$10/€7 a month. All the payments systems are already in place, users just get the addon from their ISP, and that gets passed on to you minus admin. Money for nothing.

Will cannabis ever stop getting a bad name?

I am quite disgusted that it's trade is seen to be as bad as illegal file sharing.


I still think that the MAAFIA should provide definitive proof of file sharing going on, and not the shared folder BS they have been trying to pass as legitimate piracy.

This makes sense, and is refreshing to hear.

It seems a good place to start, although the cannabis analogy is a bound to be too controversial for some. But we need more people to take a stance like this, as the war is currently being lost through rhetoric, and actually using financials to justify not criminalising the small-fry might just work.

More and more this is all a matter of public perspective, and more intelligent arguments like this could just swing it the way of common sense.