Legal downloaders will now download music for free, as much as they want. Downloads are reported and the money collected is distributed accordingly. It is similar to radio: radio stations play music as much as they want by paying monthly fees. They report their playlists and artists are paid accordingly. It’s the same model.

Yes, pirates will be pissed off. But nobody gives two shits what they think. They don’t matter anymore.[/quote]
and how do you plan to report downloads? you can’t trace every individual that receives a complete mp3 file over p2p sharing. If somehow a way is found, torrents will just go underground.

Someone should steal the original recordings of an album one day so the recording industry has no COPY of it anymore. Then they may realize the difference between stealing and copying.[/quote]

Oh how I chuckled when I read that.

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Hi, anonimo, where do you live?
What about someone is stealing from you some money, and telling you, be not upset – is quite rigth, because you have made the thing possible to happen, and you have some money to eat, so be quiet?

Copyrights and trademark are not so bad, and i do not want to ignore them. If you are a man of some mental work, you know, what about i am speaking.

The problem is, that the music industry will have a lot of money, and they see, they cannot get what they want. Why? They have not realized, that we do not need them at the same level anymore where they were for some years.

In some countries peolpe think, success is equal to money. So, the other side must be true, anyway.
As more money i have the more succes i have.

Wrong. Jung people do not listen what is expensive, but what is fine for their taste. And, if they will have money, they will buy original, because originals have their values.

“Atlantic Records, for T.I. Clearance”

Good times…

Well, even if God was perfect, the Bible was written by men, so anything in there is imperfect. Not to mention, all of those ultra-conservatist Christians that won’t change their views period are going to Hell anyway. They think they’re perfect (like God) and that pride (albeit slightly indirect but none the less prevalent) is going to send them to the same level of lucifer. I’m glad the big business leaders are going to a worse place than us “pirates”/”thieves”/whatever else they want to call us!

And that tax won’t work, if someone doesn’t illegally download, they’d get taxed as well for the easiest way for it to work, and no one wants to get taxed for no reason. So either they sue for taxing for no reason, or they start downloading with p2p and soon enough everyone will be getting their moneys worth and the music industry will lose more money. It’s a never ending cycle of increase taxes and lose more money until no one can pay, and thus revolution.

On topic though, to decrease movie priating too, they should add in voice overs in the actual movie as well, then there won’t be any screeners or bootleged movies at all because of the poor quality. You know, every few minutes a voice over tells us not to pirate. Sounds great! /sarcasm

They’re suing people that are stealing from them.

What kind of idiot is unable to grasp that distinction?[/quote]

nobody is stealing anythink el idiotto. they just share it. What, it’s copyrightet? we don’t give a shit about any copyrights or trademarks ha ha ha.

They’re suing people that are stealing from them.

What kind of idiot is unable to grasp that distinction?