They could have sold all of there servers, and consolidated all of that power into a single rack.

WTFBBQ @ the switch setup too..

Damn n00bz

When did Hungary become a US state?

Won’t anybody stand up for their sovereignty any more?

The RIAA & MPAA owners make alot of money selling other people’s work and keeping the money for themselves. It’s funny that they can have people arrested for doing what they do.

stop fooling yourself

u can’t put the “pirates” in jail

and if u think u can ,, u better start building more jails ,, u ain’t got enough

you’re a “pirate” too!!!!

He is blinkered and blinded by propaganda and rigged industry-sponsored studies that twist the information to fit their own beliefs. Despite the overwhelming indepedant EXPERT evidence suggesting piracy does not harm the industry anywhere near what they say it does, that extended copyright will damage society, that tightened IP regulations will damage both society and the industry itself, he has absolutely no problem casually dismissing this as irrelevant merely because it contradicts what he dearly, dearly wants to believe.

That he can call into question the morals of “pirates” is nothing but total hypocrisy. As the industry does, Reasoned Mind likes to have double standards and different rules for different “us” and “them”.

He has no problem at all with the CORRUPTION of laws and judges, the BULLYING and HARASSING of children or the aged and proven innocent people. He has no problem with the industries attempts to wholly control our internet connections and SPY on the public. He has no problem with the breaking laws when it comes industry collusion and price-fixing. Lastly, he has absolutely no problem with LYING. On the contrary, LYING is he baseline for him and his industry cronies.

These are the so-called morals of Reasoned Mind. That he should even attempt to call into question anyone else’s morals is nothing short of laughable. He is a deluded fool that should keep his mouth shut as he does not have the intelligence to embark on a civilised debate. Or rather, he has just enough intelligence to avoid a civilised debate since he knows full well that other people of reasonable intelligence have NO PROBLEM whatsoever in showing his tired, repetitive, industry-backed rants as pure and utter bollocks.

Me likely sum cheap servers.

“… ALL whom you deprive of the value of their commercial work…”

Incorrect. This is an assumption. You assume that every download has somehow deprived someone, somewhere, of some type of “mystery money”. What is the basis for this? How can you possibly be certain someone would have purchased something (IE: a DVD they’ve downloaded) in the future? Impossible.

“… And what about the value of the works you take?…”

Again, incorrect. This argument is tired. Get your facts straight. When users download, they are infringing copyright, not “taking” anything. An exact digital copy has been made. Nothing has been removed from anyone else. The uploader still has his copy. In fact, the artist still has his/her copy as well. It has NOT been “taken”.

I tell you what: I do not work for money, I do get payed because it is reasonable and I need to live and that costs money. But I would be a very sad person if my life just a way of making money.

Money was invented to serve people, why would people make themselves slaves of money. Gee… can’t you people use your brain for a second?

Like… torrentfreak… do you guys think this site is up with the goal of making money? Sorry to tell you but then you are very wrong, even in the unlikely case of the owner of this site being a billionaire.

Also, if you think whatever people do whatever ONLY because of money, then I am sorry for you. You will NEVER be able to produce anything really necessary to society, except for maybe some money in your acount that you can use… to make more money I guess.

Now these guys at hungary were such people, they are not for filesharing or whatever, they saw a business oportunity, a moneky business and they went for it. They naturally got caught for fraud.

Budapest is a long way from the US, btw.

so make up your REASONED MIND about which you want as an artist.

and whichever it is; don’t do art anymore, not for a living: you live to make art, not vice versa.

Yes making art costs money and time, and it’s great if it turns out that people like your art enough that they want you to go on making art, as much as you can; in which case you might ‘earn’ enough money through that to pay all your living expenses. But even then, there should be no payment in place (no matter how great your art might be) that entitles you to stop working for the rest of your life.
You won’t even have inspiration for art anymore; would be a waste.

$.02
Take it.

+1

I spend more money buying CD’s from amazon than ever before and usually unheard of bands who dont usually get the exposure like major label bands.

@31:
It’s not so much the issue of torrenting, but the bulletproof hosting, ddos attacks, sms price cheating, and the e-mail spambombs that Coldfusion operated with. The torrents were just the tip of the iceberg, and if the sites that got shut down have a local backup of their database, they can resume operations easily on another server.

> The old distribution systems have failed.
> Until they adapt to the new marked (distribution, pricing etc) fuck’em.
> New innovations will render old services useless and the ones
> that are unable to adapt or lost their functions will vanish.

Damn straight.

I haven’t downloaded a single song since iTunes got mostly DRM free. (One song before that) And iTunes is not even that good a music store or player.

Still loading TV-Shows since I don’t want to pay like $2,49 for something I only watch once.
Also the quality of 720p/1080p rips is much better.