#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares

A surprise raid conducted on ISPs over the last week in Cipher Nine shows that more than 30% of all Internet data transfer in Cipher Nine at one time or another is used by illegal file-shares to illegally distribute files, most notably songs.

The Debate

"What we need to do is hack their computers and format their hard drives," says Emily Peters, recording industry representative. "People need to be taught to not mess with the law. This is theft, pure and simple. And they're not only halving our revenue to tune of billions of Imperial Credits, but you are also stealing a few hundredths of an Imperial Credit from the artist for every song they steal. THINK OF THE STARVING ARTISTS!"

"Yo, dude, like, don't be hatin' man," says teenager Jacob McAlpin. "We're like, going to change the whole structure of our society. Everything should be like, publicly available to, like, everybody, dude. Copyrights are so, like, uncool man and we need to get rid of them. That'd be totally radical, and cool as well."

"Yo, dang, blizzity blang, yo, this ain't, right, yo," says Renee Jones, famous rapper with three platinum albums. "Dang, yo, we dang need to copy-protect my dang CDs, yo. That dang playability life dang decreases, yo, but it's the only way to stop this, dang, yo."

Result:

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Cipher Nine is using the excuse of copyright violation to attempt to hack into its citizen's computers.