Stop fear mongering you fool. That may be the case in whatever third world failure of a nation you’re living in. I’ll say this once again people, nothing can be proceed in court unless proof is obtained. Learn to read, and reread the article. Intimidation is their goal.

However, an easy and cheap way to prevent such inspection is to use a commercial VPN, located in a foreign country, with a pptp tunneling or any other method of low/average or high encryption level. This method has been experimentally proven to be ultimately succesful against level 7 deep packet inspection. To say it all, just with 128-bit encryption all filters by italian ISPs are not effective anymore (many Italian ISPs limit heavily p2p traffic with packet inspection)!

Configuring a VPN client is a matter of a couple of minutes.

Kind regards.

Now, on to how things should be:
They get their money from donations, or from live performances, etc. The fact is that it is about the freedom of the people to do what they want with it in socialization. Copyright is inherently against socialization i. e. human-human interaction. Even if you buy a CD, you don’t own it because of copyright. It still belongs to someone else. Now, this is just absurd. I mean, you have this CD in your possession, why shouldn’t you be able to do what you want with it? You should be able to share it with others as much as you want.

Well they give free condoms down at the clinics, that’s got more value/use than a song but in most places a song costs more… even on a crappy jukebox in a bar.

and “vote with your wallet”? Yeh fair enough I’ll ’steal’ music so I can actually afford to. If you don’t give a crap about any of the stuff a site like this stands for then why are you here? honestly? You were one of the loner kids at school right? couldn’t even fit in with the nerds?

I don’t like big corporations anymore than the rest of the world does but if that’s how an artists wants to do business then you need to respect that.

Kermode. i agree that copyright is becoming a annoying pathetic excuse to collect as much money as they can on so much as a minor mistake.

Sites like Youtube are a unfortunate example of this i think i have lost count on how many companys sued that video site, google is the only thing preventing that site from being sued out of existence.

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Toadboy. im seriously getting sick and tired of this overused `digital theft` argument downloading a file made from binary CODE and stealing a physical OBJECT from a store are not the same, otherwise we would be seeing 70,000,000 people steal from stores daily.

I don’t follow the ethics of others, not the ethics of the media business at any rate.

I spend my money on developing and other shit, if I spent money on all the music and software I use I’d be no where. I’d don’t charge for the stuff I do, I’ll happily share knowledge.

If I was paying directly to an artist and the REAL production cost I wouldn’t mind but it isn’t.

Alot of people think prositution is a legitimate business except when a pimp is taking a large amount of the cash. How is the media industry any better?

Besides, it needs to be remembered the main people we’re “stealing” from are not the artists, but those parasitical record companies that are the true enemies of the artists and, as this article shows, even democracy. Music will survive without them, the demand is obviously there, and everyone involved, from the artist to consumer, will be better for it.

Your thoughts are abit premature. The Anti-Pirates won’t give up because they lowered downloading by 20%. Prosecution can happen and at the moment probably will happen.

It’s not about stealing, but there’s little point in explaining it to you. If you want to pay, go do so and get off are backs for it. The only one I hear bitching here is you.

Anonymous..the demand is there, there are plenty of places to obtain legal copies of media. There is supply, people are just to cheap to take advantage of it.

“You need proof to prosecute people. Threatening me changes nothing.” Lol

Thank you Lol, that is absolutely correct. Can’t shit be done without proof.

“@7 , you mean you used to need proof. Democracy died some time ago now, the world is loving the new Chinese model.” James

You sir just need to STFU. Just STFU, there’s so much ignorance in that statement I don’t even know where to start.

“..where there is a “computer class” in which they teach that “piracy is unethical and illegal.
Now, this really needs to change. They need to start teaching the opposite.” Izumi-sense

No, no, it needs to continue, and you need to STFU as well.

All I see in these comments are a bunch of whiney ass thieves that are complaining because they are gonna get charged for music they are stealing. And if the truth be told, no charges will probably ever be brought against them.

I don’t support of represent or support the music/movie industry but I do know that stealing is stealing. Stop being cheap asses and pay the fucking 1 dollar per track. The crap you people are spewing out of your mouths is incredibly low and pathetic. El cheapos.