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* Justified in ''[[Mac Hall]]''. [http://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-15 A] [http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-21 three] [http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-30 strip] arc, which points out that while anti-piracy measures may be inconvenient, all the blather pirates throw around doesn't change the fact that they'll pirate from ''anyone'', bad DRM or not. The strip was done in 2002, and still remains relevant. |
* Justified in ''[[Mac Hall]]''. [http://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-15 A] [http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-21 three] [http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-30 strip] arc, which points out that while anti-piracy measures may be inconvenient, all the blather pirates throw around doesn't change the fact that they'll pirate from ''anyone'', bad DRM or not. The strip was done in 2002, and still remains relevant. |
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* One arc of ''[[Help Desk]]'' followed a deal between the RIAA and [[Fictional Counterpart|Ubersoft]], wherein pirates could confess their crimes and gain absolution in exchange for giving Ubersoft their personal data. And then one caller [https://web.archive.org/web/20100803060847/http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2003/09/exactly-wrong-kind-pirate confesses to raiding ships]. And then Ubersoft and the RIAA get ''sued by the seafaring [[Weird Trade Union|Pirate's Union]]'' for "violating their trademark and diluting the strength of their product line". |
* One arc of ''[[Help Desk]]'' followed a deal between the RIAA and [[Fictional Counterpart|Ubersoft]], wherein pirates could confess their crimes and gain absolution in exchange for giving Ubersoft their personal data. And then one caller [https://web.archive.org/web/20100803060847/http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2003/09/exactly-wrong-kind-pirate confesses to raiding ships]. And then Ubersoft and the RIAA get ''sued by the seafaring [[Weird Trade Union|Pirate's Union]]'' for "violating their trademark and diluting the strength of their product line". |
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* ''[http://workhate.co.uk/?p=9 Captain Broadband]'' exists solely to promote digital piracy, and comes off as a raving lunatic masquerading as a super hero. His usual adventures revolve round improving the flow of broadband (usually to download torrents), getting angry at Internet Service Providers over the phone, and infuencing innocent children to get their video games over the internet rather than through legitamate retail stores. |
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130817082623/http://workhate.co.uk/?p=9 Captain Broadband]'' exists solely to promote digital piracy, and comes off as a raving lunatic masquerading as a super hero. His usual adventures revolve round improving the flow of broadband (usually to download torrents), getting angry at Internet Service Providers over the phone, and infuencing innocent children to get their video games over the internet rather than through legitamate retail stores. |
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* ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]'' had an interplanetary [[Mega Corp]] that owned all copyrights up to brain-stripping elderly scientists and artists, at which point an alliance led by [[Mary Suetopia|Empire of the Seven Systems]] declared war on them and shot their CEO out of a railgun at the moon. The name of that corporation, [[Anvilicious|the R.I.A.A.]] (though note that it might ''be'' the RIAA; Earth is implied to be part of the Empire). |
* ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]'' had an interplanetary [[Mega Corp]] that owned all copyrights up to brain-stripping elderly scientists and artists, at which point an alliance led by [[Mary Suetopia|Empire of the Seven Systems]] declared war on them and shot their CEO out of a railgun at the moon. The name of that corporation, [[Anvilicious|the R.I.A.A.]] (though note that it might ''be'' the RIAA; Earth is implied to be part of the Empire). |
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* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'' [http://antihero.keenspot.com/d/20090420.html mused] on suddenly being strafed with ''mini-nuclear explosions'': |
* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'' [http://antihero.keenspot.com/d/20090420.html mused] on suddenly being strafed with ''mini-nuclear explosions'': |
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