Does no one else see the irony in this thread? Now, most of the thread is a valid complaint about a corrupt system, but like 1/3 of the thread is just people being upset that they can’t pirate shows as easily as they once could. Pirating created this whole situation in the first place.
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you guys need to see this…
Piracy is a loaded word for a screwed up system imo.
It’s true that some people just wanted free shit, but many real research projects (read: those not published by RIAA, FBI, MPAA, etc.) have already determined that this so called “piracy” actually helps the industry more than it harms it (when it comes to Americans, anyway.)
Piracy didn’t do jack shit because it’s completely intangible by any means.
The real problem is the fucktards everywhere who don’t know what to do about it.
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while it is true, piracy has helped the studio’s, it’s not a 100% thing. I stopped buying CD’s a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago. Like before Napster. I just thought it was stupid they were charging such high prices on crappy products.
The problem is that the studio’s (movie and music) didn’t move forward with the times. People don’t want to wait 8 months for a movie to release on DVD for a retarded price. Sure, it’s a dick move to offer free viewings or usage of a product to people who haven’t paid for it, but a lot of these people have no other options. Not being able to afford to buy a movie, or view it, versus being able to download it and watch it in the comfort of my home…hmmmm gee i wonder which sounds better.
With regards to that argument of “it’s too expensive”, the more logical response is simply that these things are not necessities. Entertainment items are luxuries. “I can’t afford it but I still want it” is a terrible justification.
It’s not justifiable that said entertainment items are overpriced, but it’s one of those stupid fire-fuelling actions being excused because of “piracy”. The fact still remains that the “money lost” is not nearly the levels they claim, but that claim gives them the bullshit justification of keeping prices high, which causes more piracy, which keeps compounding the problem. Sadly, there’s no way out of this whirlpool of shit, because our current society just doesn’t get that by giving someone money, it gives them no reason to ever considering lowering their prices. It is VERY rare these days to see our consumerism actually speak about something negatively on price alone.
“Piracy” is a political buzzword and has no place in a serious discussion about this subject. Let’s get that out of the way before it gets any further.
Digital filesharing isn’t hurting the entertainment industry anymore than VCRs, cassette recorders, or anything else that they previously claimed would absolutely ruin their business. The movie and music businesses are making more money than ever.
How is this possible? Is there less filesharing now than there was before? Did those terrible “pirates” (i.e. many of the same people who actually still go to the movies and buy new music in the first place) see the error of their ways? Or could it be that claims of catastrophic lost sales have no credible evidence to back them up and that trading this stuff actually serves to raise people’s interest in it? Could it be that all the things they CLAIM are piracy (copying your own CDs to your own computer for your own use!) are, in practice, innocuous to the bottom line?
i only used megaupload to download porn fast now they took it away from me
You make it almost sound like their real goal isn’t to protect sales, but to control the flow of information across the internet, and possibly allow the government free reign to incarcerate anyone for absolutely nothing…
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news flash…if they raise the price of chocolate to $500000 a chocolate bar, I bet you you will see more people stealing chocolate. Sure it’s still stealing, but I can understand.
The problem with MPAA and RIAA is they are overcharging for their product, and its antiquated. There was ALREADY copying technology out there, there STILL IS copying technology out there, and it’s NOT going away. So rather than release a product that is more for the times (movies online, music singles), which OTHER MEDIA has proven is successful (Netflix, iTunes), they want to instead bring everybody back to their level.
Stealing music and movies is as illegal as smoking pot. End of discussion, it ain’t going away, and wasting money on pointless wars is just a waste of intelligence.
I was getting to that, but the veins in my forehead were throbbing hard enough to make me stop and contemplate going to the hospital.
People like Lamar Smith, Chris Dodd, Lindsey Graham, etc, making up bs just so they could steal from Americans and get black and colored people to do physical labor like the times of slavery.
SMH :shake: at the racism still going on in this country.
The more this bs continues the more Ron Paul looks good just because he would vote against a ton of bs and would get rid of things like Social Security which are a government ponzi scheme anyway to steal more from Americans. He’s at the bottom though because no one cares about how technology is being used to kill privacy and various freedoms to a point of a slave owner telling a slave exactly what he can and cannot do, especially with the economic situation. Then you got things like government destroying religion and taking over religious marriage and using divorce as a form for the government to make more money and gain more power while forcing indentured servitude on the American and if he can’t pay he can become a slave by putting him in jail. Government spending (and power) needs to be cut by over 75% and taxes and bs unneeded laws need to be reduced to bring business and jobs back to America so every American could have the most basic freedom of being able to just work and live in peace with family and being able to afford food, water, and shelter. This country is an embarrassment and even has the audacity to open its mouth about Russia and China and then tell them how to operate. Just :shake: at all this stupidity.
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correction, now you are going to use torrents or magnet links.
bingo…on to the next one, baby
When Napster went down, everybody went batshit crazy because they couldn’t get MP3’s. Then Kazaa or whatever came, and it was better.
So all the lame as simple to find sites are gone. So we go back to torrents. Or magnet links. Or mIRC. Or we go all the way back to BBS days, and make 1000 small zip files, and people can download it that way.
This is a losing war. Every time they take something away, we learn from that, and make it harder for them to take it away.
When the internet is empty of all copyrighted materials, it will be a dead cold husk.
Usenet > *
One of these days I need to actually get a new one. Haven’t had it since my ISP stopped offering newsgroup support.
Anyone post this yet?
I’m surprised more people are concerned by the actual ability to share content than what the government is actually doing.
Instead of worrying about DHT/Magnet Links/PEX, you should be more worried about government and corporations growing out of control.
I would be for banning corporate money if that also means we ban taxes for corporations. But if it wasn’t for corporations paying taxes we would have no country. And this is a silly idea since most companies are either a Subchapter S coporation or a Limited Liability Company (LLC) filing as a S-corp. These are “Flow Through” meaning the profit/loss flow through the company and taxes are paid on the shareholders personal return. This is to avoid the double taxation that Subchapter C corporations must pay. Income is taxed first when the money is made and a second time when shareholders are paid…look at your paycheck, imagine having to pay the taxes that were already taken out a second time when you try to cash your check lol. This is also why anyone who says that raising taxes on people who make more than $250,000 a year are brain dead. Most people who file a return at that income level are Business owners filing as A S-corp and LLC’s . Any local restaurant in your area with 30+ employees brings in about $1 million a year in sales, raise there taxes and they are going to trim their staff because the have to make up that lost money somehow.