Operation Black March

[gezegond]

Civil disobedience is much more likely to have an effect, at least people would see that shit is happening. But rather than rioting, how about real pirating?! Put on an eyepatch and stick a parrot on your shoulder, walk over to Gamestop and get yourself Mass Effect 3 for free! Bring a gun too, if it's scary experience everyone will want piracy back on the internet where it belongs

I concede.

[HunterKiotori]

Noooo! Save teh internetz...


1-Print Op's pic.
2-Find retail shop.
3-Stick it on the "BUY THIS!!!" signs with glue.
4-???
5-Profit.

Or atleast try to spread the word online, it won't hurt.

btw is this legit?

It's as legit as you make it brother.

Please spread the word at least brothers, for the internet, For our Freedom!

[Cookie Monster]

It's pointless to stop purchasing things in March when you are going to get them in April..

[foggy_han]

It's pointless to stop purchasing things in March when you are going to get them in April..

If they are holding themselves to do that, they will probably
just buy in April all the things they wanted to buy in March,
still buy the things they wanted to buy in April, and maybe
even buy more things due to the rush of being one month
waiting to buy anything.
(of course, those who actually have the money for that... )

So yeah, maybe it would even have the opposite effect in the end.
(mass behaviour is unpredictable as unpredictable can be... )

[Andy_Jerk]

I suppose it's fitting that since piracy is such a passive form of theft that the fight for piracy would be the path of least resistance.

"Now that you're done NOT buying things and getting them for free; don't buy anything!"

[gezegond]

It actually makes sense if you think about it. They have this power to do whatever they want because of their money. Who's giving them that money? People. Who are they calling pirates and thieves and putting in prison? People. It could be some form of reminder to show them who's the boss.

Unfortunately, we are not the boss. The boss are the masses who believe anything that is said by the media.

[Englebert3rd]

It's pointless to stop purchasing things in March when you are going to get them in April..

I agree, it would only work if a lot of people would stop purchasing anything. But of course, only a minority will see this message and that won't matter anyway.

[Cookie Monster]

It actually makes sense if you think about it. They have this power to do whatever they want because of their money. Who's giving them that money? People. Who are they calling pirates and thieves and putting in prison? People. It could be some form of reminder to show them who's the boss.

Unfortunately, we are not the boss. The boss are the masses who believe anything that is said by the media.

If it were successful, the people boycotting purchases in March would be the boss that month. But the boycotted companies would be the boss in April, May, June, etc It doesn't make sense to me.

[foggy_han]

Unfortunately, we are not the boss. The boss are the masses who believe anything that is said by the media.

Yes, it all comes down to the masses in my opinion too.

I still find unbelieveable how so many people let themselves be carried away (or go with the crowd)
and swallow every word of "big entities". It is somewhat frustrating realizing that the large portion
of mankind does not stop its "gears" to think (logical thinking) a little.

I mean, there are so many clichés outthere too, but even the newer generation seem to get that
"formatted attitude", or "roboticized", if I may. (Hee, Sonic analogies... )

I would say "selfishness" some time ago, but in so many cases now, I find it to be plain "dumbness".
(read 'dumbness' as: inability to think for themselves... reasonably! )

...

(and 'Cookie', is that a chase, or... )

[JKDarkside]

I'm poor and can't buy anything.

I'll probably try buying something in March just because this idea is so stupid and impractical.

[Gypsy]

forget that! Tales of graces comes out in march!

Back to back months where I pre-order a game. QQ

Edit: @topic: This whole thing is pointless though that mostly goes without saying.

[gezegond]

If it were successful, the people boycotting purchases in March would be the boss that month. But the boycotted companies would be the boss in April, May, June, etc It doesn't make sense to me.

They're always the boss. It would only send them a message, a message saying: "you may be the boss, as long as we want you to be". We can't break the multinational corporations in one month, but that's not really our goal anyway.

But in the end, it probably isn't gonna change anything unless lots of people do it. But doing it ourselves or at least spreading the word won't really hurt. All the big things start off small. This may be the beginning of something big, or it may be nothing. We're the ones that decide that.

I still find unbelieveable how so many people let themselves be carried away (or go with the crowd) and swallow every word of "big entities". It is somewhat frustrating realizing that the large portion of mankind does not stop its "gears" to think (logical thinking) a little.

The brain's functionality is focused on survival. When surviving is not an issue, there's no need to use it.

[JKDarkside]

You seem to live in a world view where gray is yellow and ice creme causes massive explosions.

[Joe Blog]

March with me, brother, and have all of your wildest dreams come true.
I have everlasting gobstoppers.

What, so ill win the lottery?

[TheRealSpiders]

What, so ill win the lottery?

You're dreaming too small.