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So PG doesn't finish the story of Ooka Tadasuke and how he solves the case of the cook asking the student to pay for enjoying the smell of good food.

The judge asks the student to take a few coins. But instead of paying tangible coins for intangible smell, he asked for the coins to be put in a handkerchief and shook hard. And the payment to be made with the sound the coins made.

(I had heard this story as an Indian story - not a Japanese story. And Ooka Tadasuke was replaced by Birbal - the prime minister of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. "Akbar Birbal" stories are full of such awesomeness.)

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Haha, that is brilliant.

It is like when the MPAA says they lost $200,000,000 or some ridiculous number to piracy, where if those pirates could not have downloaded that content they believe that each and every one of them would have translated to a full retail sale; obviously this is not true.

Instead we should grant them karma on IMDB or something :)

We should just send them billions of scanned dollar bill images.

That'd be a great campaign actually. The entire internet sending billions of "dollars" to the RIAA/MPAA for their "property".

Update: Put this page up: http://www.sendthemyourmoney.com/

that's a clever idea. i've been looking for something to do with "iamnotacriminal.com" - perhaps i'll have a simple site where you can pick an MPAA member (ie an executive at a MPAA member company) and send an "e-payment" of $150,000 scanned dollar bill images for each song you listen to... on the honor system for you to properly account for the songs for which you "owe". :)

Ah. I went ahead and put this up on http://sendthemyourmoney.com/ and submitted to HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3695546

It amuses me if nothing else :-)

That is awesome!

Where did you host this?

Submitted to Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/qtie0/new_campaign_to...

On my own server. Static file + nginx crosses fingers.

To ease the logistics, perhaps someone could just send the RIAA/MPAA a torrent containing a lot of dollar bill images? I can think of no more fitting way in which to spread out the bandwidth costs.

A man is caught speeding by a speed camera; he is sent a picture of the car with his license plate visible, the speed measured and the ticket to pay.

He sends back the police a picture of the money to pay for the ticket.

The police send back a picture again -- this time of handcuffs.

This time, he pays.

Does anyone know of a good book about Ooka Tadasuke? He sounds like an interesting guy to read about.

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