life in error

"The Motion Picture Association of America provided valuable assistance to the investigation."

That is the last line in the Department of Homeland Security's News Release entitled "FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ANNOUNCES CRACKDOWN ON P2P PIRACY NETWORK"

This morning, agents of the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed 10 search warrants across the United States against leading members of a technologically sophisticated P2P network known as Elite Torrents. Employing technology known as BitTorrent, the Elite Torrents network attracted more than 133,000 members and, in the last four months, allegedly facilitated the illegal distribution of more than 17,800 titles - including movies and software - which were downloaded 2.1 million times.

With terrorists on the loose, walking the streets of America, planning their next big act in their unfolding play of anti-Americanism, the FBI and the ICE ( and possibly the military ) turn their sights to a bunch of geek who were sharing files. Aiding the FBI and the ICE was the Motion Picture Association. This action was no doubt brought forth because of the recent release of the new Star Wars movie which was made available on the Internet. 

Work prints which were leaked from studios appeared on the Internet's popular Bit Torrent sites for all to download. Despite the availability of the of the movie an the Internet, every geek, nerd, and what ever the equivalent Star Wars version of a Treky is, show up at local theaters, cash in hand, to make it's opening one of the largest cash cows to date earning to date $317 million. That, for a movie that is mediocre at best.