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Mocking people trying to get the listings off the tracker wasn't their best move now they're paying for it.
If you can't pay $1 for a song that is yours for the rest of your life, let there be no doubt - you are a LOSER. There is no defense - you are a LOSER.
there are people who aren't rich out there
and they deserve music too
No, burning a copy isn't considered "Fair Use". As for the food, shelter and health care thing, there's lots of countries where even that is hard to come by, the RIAA and it's equivalents all over the world want those people to pay up too.
The only loser here is the mikestatic1's who fill up threads with 30+ posts calling poor innocent people losers. I hope you never sang Happy Birthday, or sung/hummed a song in public.... you just might be a loser.
Back on topic, I am glad for the appeal. Either way of the final outcome, I applaud anyone who stands up for what they believe in, even in the face of world politics. Keep up the good work, alot of the netizens are rooting for you.
Whose profits are they cutting into again? It's certainly not the profits of the musicians since most of their money comes from touring, it's not the profits of the movie stars since last I heard pretty much all of them are beyond filthy rich who would be speaking out against it, it's not the little guys profits since they work just like anyone else does for a set wage no matter the profits of the movie.
Are you seriously sympathizing with the lawyers here? The ones who would sue you til you're standing naked in a field somewhere because that's all you can afford to do if they found even a single not provably legal song on your hard drive?
Copyright infringement is copyright infringement no matter who sues who.
Not all actors are Rich, most are like the rest of us just making a living. And artists do make a % per copy , and royalty fee's. It is one of the reaons a majority of the artists are against this.
This has become the allure of the Broad Band internet age. Almost all media can be downloaded, so people do, they feal that since they can download it they have the right to do so.
Some argue the CD/Tape years, and that is true people did copy but it typically went to friends, and each blank CD/Tape had a fee built into it, knowing that there was a possibility it was going to be used to copy something.
Legal ways to obtain music, movies, and TV episodes exist on the net today. The fee's are not huge, and Music if you like to find something you may possibly like to hear or listen to there is TV, and Radio. And my gosh many of them stream!!!
If you want to watch movies, Netflix and its counterparts are dirt cheap.
The new ERA "Culture" figure everything should be free
What better way to watch a movie that you don't know will be good or not. then go buy it if you like it. Sharing music has been around forever and is still legal in Canada. go buy the album if you like it. And how about software that normal people would never be able to afford yet want to use it for educational or personal projects. Sure if you love it buy it but if you don't delete it and stop seeding.
Photoshop is a popular one that many people i know have pirated copies of. they could never afford the program itself and would probably limit them to Microsoft paint otherwise. Wouldn't that be sad to limit an artist to paint just because he cant afford the program. but when he does have money he will buy it.
sure we could argue pirating is bad and yes it is. but whats the point of targeting a SEARCH ENGINE. go after the crackers if you can.
If you are not sure if you will like something, rent it first. This is not exactly a new concept...
Photoshop is not the only art application as advocates of GIMP (free) will testify - if you can't afford something then, just as with anything else in life, you either wait until you can or you find a cheaper alternative.
Targeting the search engine is a good idea since it is how most users of illegal content gain access to that content. It's comparatively cheap to target and has a significant impact, as long as you can keep up prosecutions against other such sites so that people eventually decide that the risk isn't worth the reward.
Using this analogy, every auto maker whose product is used as transportation by someone committing a crime, is subect to prosecution as a facilitator. Also, every State or Federal highway department that builds and maintains roads or highways, is also subject to prosecution as a facilitator to criminal activity.
These other things weren't your logic is flawed.
You know what well they weren't technically hosted on the server screams? Lack of a defense they weren't charged for the torrents they were charged for promoting illegal activity.
Sorry someone got in the way in your program theft.
No people kill. Without a person to hold the gun, load the gun with the bullets, aim the gun, and pull the trigger a bullet and a gun are both harmless.
I'm so happy that they're going to see some jail time. Damn punks.
Cody
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The only people who lose out on this is the music, film, television and software industries but if they had made their products more accessible to the masses and done business properly. Instead of herding people into cinemas and charging extortionate amounts of money for what is essentially a sequence of binary that makes up a song.
The reason the industry is scared of these guys and is singling them out is because they are powerful and not under their control. Copyright means nobody can copy it and say it is theirs to make gains however these guys are just making it accessible for free.
Bigger men have tried to take down the pirate bay and it's still there. LONG LIVE TPB
There are kind of converter too,which can remove DRM Protection from iTunes, Napster, Pandora, Spiral Frog and other online store,you can put removing drm video on digital media player: iPod,iPhone, Creative ZEN, Zune, PSP and other MP3/MP4 players.
In fact, I get these info from one article,it detail how to remove drm from video
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http://www.removing-drm.com/drm-tips/remove-drm-from-protected-music.html#146
They fought legal music downloading at every turn, claiming it would bankrupt the industry. Now, revenue from music downloads has surpassed revenue from CD sales. They are have no idea what they are doing, and going after a search engine, who does not physically host the content is just ridiculous.
Let them have this one and you could be next. You have a computer connected to the internet? You are facilitating the downloading of illegal content. Sound absurd? You bet it does. But rights are taken away in tiny, tiny increments my friend. Then one day you wake up and tobacco is illegal, you can only use cell phones in a private residence, they tax you for every web page you view, and a special license (and fee) is required to operate a computer.
Yes folks. It happens in tiny, tiny increments...if you let it happen.
- by WAlexanderP October 15, 2009 4:54 PM PDT
- by monkeyfun14 April 20, 2009 9:04 PM PDT
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(57 Comments)So its better to defend criminals?
Copyright infringement is copyright infringement no matter who sues who.
You F*cking tool