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Robert Ring was the first of a bunch of you to send in this gem.

You may recall the reports that the producers of the Oscar-winning movie Hurt Locker were supposedly gearing up to sue tens of thousands of fans for unauthorized file trading of the movie.

Even if you're against infringing on copyrights, it's not hard to see why this is a strategy doomed to backfire massively.

Last week the world was speechless when we learned that Phillip Garrido had