Other Crap

Movie fans buying cheap pirate copies of new films could be helping fund al-Qaida, police warned today. I'm opposed to piracy, but this gets an award as the most astoundingly clueless article in history. The author seems to think that people download pirated internet movies in Pakistan, then smuggle hard copies of the CDs and DVDs into England to sell. Yeah, right. Well, call me crazy, but if I were going to sell pirated movies in England, I would simply download them in England, and therefore not have to worry about getting caught at the border with thousands of illegal CD's. Amazingly enough, the internet will also work in England! It's no wonder these guys can't catch the pirates. They have no idea how the whole thing works. (Now that I've had my rant, they may be right about pirated profits going to support criminals and terrorists. That, I don't know.)