Th0m sent a nice letter to the people who run his local mall in Dublin, Ohio, telling them that the big MPAA anti-piracy ads were offensive and got on his nerves, and they took 'em down!
The ads are tantamount to a legal threat to the general public about their property, and they do it opposite advertisements for children's movies. My response is that I do not want them to do that in my community, in the public space where I'm trying to live. I am an artist too, and just because they have a problem with free downloads, doesn't mean they can give the impression that people in *my* community can't download my copyrighted works for free.
It is not that I think that copyright infringement is justified. Rather, corporations are giving legitimate downloading and new internet-based media a bad name by claiming they are a victim of new technology.
(Thanks, Th0m!)
