Now the kid must be told to go and find his music on MySpace Music, or else…

hong kong is really stupid about these laws, they enforce it only after something big happens

the whole edison thing cause “lost of face” for the division so they are grasping at straws to get back their reputation..so stupid

Hey guys! Lets go support the music industry! They sued my mom last week and now were homeless but who cares! I want that new brittany spears cd!

Or….. am I wrong?”

First I must congratulate on your being one of the few (if not first) anti piracy poster here with a civil tone. I, for one, always welcome a fair “fight” such as it is.

To keep this semi-short, ip rights have some place in the world no doubt. Due compensation for creative and/or beneficial works makes sense lest there wouldn’t be as great an incentive to invest the time to make them.

However, in an age where replication and redistribution can be made at a cost of virtually nil the method of compensation needs to change. To criminalize anyone who is essentially allowing another to listen in on a work, which the new consumer may or may not like, is certainly not the way to go about it. Would any reasonable company turn down free advertising? There are several artists that had the name not come up in some random browsing of torrent sites I would likely never have heard of much less purchased any works of.

Rather than go on for miles I’ll nip this off here, but real quick I’ll add that the old bit of “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” is no longer an altruism. Public perception is the driving force behind your markets and those leaving a bad taste with the public seldom benefit from it.

the people are things to harvest. and destroy when they become fallow.

when you pass on the responsibility of saftey and freedom to a small group of people, you basically gave away any rights you had at that point.

Or….. am I wrong?”

Bad intent of manipulating words and concepts…

The chinese kid was not ‘pirating goods not allowed in any civilized society’.

The chinese kid was SHARING some songs with other persons with similar music tastes and hobbies… you know, SHARING is something innate in the human nature and ALLOWED in any civilized society and DEMOCRATIC country.

That you are talking applies only to UNDEMOCRATIC regimes, as in China and in this moment in USA for example.

You are another corrupt moron trying of justify a corrupt industry based in the speculation and theft of intellectual property, and worse, now abusing children.

enigmax you had an 8-bit girlfriend?!

i am jealous. i have only ever found the 1-bit version :-/

Or….. am I wrong?

Kids are evil!!!

Evil I tell you.

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Tom and Rootkit both raised extremely good points.

Roze
http://www.28chan.org/apstdt/

We killed 12 year old Volksjugen in 1945 during the fall of Berlin.

Who says Children are except?

Fuck, we killed over 1 million Vietnamese children during the “Starve” them out campaign of the Tet’ offensive. Seriously, who are we all kidding.

Look in the sky, its a Bird, its a plane? it IS a plane… its a B-52G dropping Napalm drums!

Damn, Daddy’ why do you have to be a rice farmer? Damn, why do you have an opposing view? You have condemned us all! When I grow up I want to work for 3 cents an hour to make shoes for Nike :)

Whatever do you mean? He’s an EXCELLENT writer and COMPLETELY impartial and he’s got the typos down to about half a dozen per article. Surely this is someone we can all look up to and respect for their exemplary journalistic abilities….

LOL!

I doubt that there’s much chance 11 would get irony… And he’s probably some bastard troll who’s probably never had to pay for anything himself. Or the fun times when you spend a bit more than you should and are broke for the rest of the fortnight…

We keep getting told there’s so much we can spend money on, but they never want to help us afford it…

Report the facts, no one cares about your anecdotes.

Jiff
http://www.anonymize.us.tc

Good job government! Our world is now terrorist free.

Really. We should start opposing illegitimate with legitimate force. No immoral law can withstand the power of determination and the means to defend what’s legitimate.

When my child gets sued for sharing his favorite music.. why WOULDNT I want to vote and pay tax dollars?

The mere thought of hating my government and promoting anarchy is just ABSURD! Why.. they have our best interest at hand! SURELY we can all live in a better world after this hardened criminal has been put to rest!

I am so glad I live in a world where criminals are not allowed to run free and just upload whatever they want.. the sun is shining bright today my fellow humans.. but not for that kid.. ahaha what with his pop music interests.. DISGUSTING I SAY!

another CRIMINAL that is going to jail to taste som HUGE chocolate poles!

torrentfreak thinks they are cool earning cash off the sh!!tty ads!

You can all sleep easy now.. the danger is over.

Does the change our national threat level to orange? Or what? Can sombody wake that guy up and tell him to change it?

Imagine if we had to live in a world where 14 year olds could upload whatever they want to the internet.. omg i cant even think of it.

im so glad i have the government to protect me from 14 year olds uploading pop music.

do you guys feel safe now too?

I do.

The ONLY PIRATES, PARASITES and THIEVES are the RIAA industry which has made its fortune of STEALING and EXPLOITING the hard work and talent from the musicians, paying to the musicians only 7% to 14% from the sale of each album in the last 40 years!!!

They (the RIAA) are the only ones who obligatorily must be in the jail.

BTW; are you an UNETHICAL person, Potatos?

For you, this is “cool” that a 14 years old kid (that has not committed any crime) is abused for a corrupt industry of criminals?

Or maybe; are you a CHEAP WHORE that was paid by the record industry for putting UNETHICAL comments here?

This kid gets a criminal record for sharing music with people. He can’t get a job because of it, he can’t make money because of it, now one of two things happens;

a) He goes without music and movies because he can’t afford them.

b) He downloads all the music and movies he wants, because he can’t afford them.

HMM. Even so, after this I’d be surprised if he ever paid money for a single CD or movie ever again.