“And I doubt very much if government is simply going to roll over and hand this remarkable domain over to anarchy.”

Government can not “hand over” that which they do not possess. Cyberspace has never been the property or domain of governments or corporations. Nor will it ever. It has, is, and will always be the great equalizer, the leveling of the playing field. It is owned by all and the fact that you equate ownership by all/ownership by none as anarchy exposes you as one who has no reasoning mind because you automatically assume dominion by, and subservience to, governments and corporations. You, sir, are the typical mindless drone preferring to live on your knees letting Big Brother do your thinking for you. And it is time for you to wake up and unplug. A free man reasons and thinks for himself.

Your a retard… However I think its sad that you can only download at 1-5kbps are you on dail up?!?! lol.. What private tracker are you using :P Demonoid?!? lol get SCC, GFT, TL, ScT, etc and then say that its slow! I get a minimum of 700kbps at SCC, GFT, and TL!! Most of the time I get 800kbps-2mbps anyways.. When I use my seedbox i dl at over 10 mbps.. so thats slow huh?? All I have is cable internet and I get around 1mbps on private trackers!! lol

Choose your trackers more wisely next time, sir.”

Care to give any clues which trackers these are?

I sense a trend, that, if not reversed, will result in a 1984-like police state, all due to copyright.

~~~~~~VERY TRUE~~~~~~

1080p FTW.

http://www.greaterunion.com.au/cinemas/cinema.asp?Cinema=6

http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/australian/nsw_blacktown.htm

i’ve been there once…think it was to see Crocodile Dundee in LA

NubCakes…oh sorry i’m mean reasoned mind, you’re about to die out with the rest of the dinosaurs.

2010 is the beginning.

If “pirates” were retaliating as hard as you and the scumbags lobbyists are intending to do, you would live your last days by now.

Take the DoD case for example when the Australian Co-leader was sentanced to 51 months in America.

Yes, but that probably means PreVail was beaten to it by another group.

“…It also comments how Scene ‘Top Sites’ sell their releases to ‘criminal groups’ who then mass produce DVDs for sale. Apart from scene groups often being very anti-sale…”

The fact that scene groups are anti-commercial usage mean precisely nothing as that are not associated with top-sites directly. Traders (or couriers) are the ones that take releases from release site dumps to topsites and some topsites most certainly do have “pay to leech” accounts – which some trackers amongst others use.

“With $60,500 AUS ($39,000US or €31,000) and 5 years imprisonment per offense, that can yield a maximum sentence of over a million Aussie dollars and 90 years in prison. In fact, he’s looking at a potential punishment greater than most murderers.”

That’s true, however I seriously doubt that any judge would sentence using that maximum penalty for each offence – that would be ridiculous. He’s probably going to face some years in jail though and hefty fines.

More and more games have to be ‘activated’ online, re-activated whenever hardware changes, and you only get so many activations. Run out, and you can only get another *if* the company is still going, *if* they still support the game and *if* you can send them proof of purchase. The latter may well be a problem for any secondary customer.

(Oh and realistically a game might be resold twice at most, your infinite reselling chain is unrealistic.)

You always talk as if a policed internet is an inevitable future.. and although I can see the government attempting to lock it down.. I do NOT however see this as a unstoppable force.

One thing you need to remember, is that the internet would still be completely porn if it wasn’t for pirates.

The very reason why the internet is so great is because of pirates and copying. Our dream has always been to have free information readily available at any time.. complete communication of data in real time.. no lines drawn.

When you start drawing lines.. you start separating everyone yet again. The internet knows no boundaries, ethical or racial differences. It is a free world, and me and countless others will fight to keep it free. No one will gain control, no one will monopolize it, no one will enforce there pointless rules.

It will remain neutral.

Pirates are not imposing the internet police state. The industry is, and the industry must be fought.

Someday, digital will be like the covered wagon, but for now, it’s the point.

We can also agree that anything digitized, anything at all, is inherently intellectual property. It can be open source, creative commons or locked up with DRM but in every case, it was created somehow by some entity and by it’s nature, it is IP. But just because it is in tangible does not make it “imaginary” property. It will belong and have value to SOMEone.

Pirates are determined to create the equation….. Digital=Free and/or Freely distributed.

So the issue appears to be that either there is to be no security for data or databanks, no monetary value for anything digital and consequently, no ability for government to use the network and no financial incentive for industry to ever digitize anything, or, government and industry has no alternative but to take on the challenge of control and security to preserve the digital realm as valuable to business and government, at the cost of our privacy and freedom online.

This is the choice that pirates appear to wish to require. And I doubt very much if government is simply going to roll over and hand this remarkable domain over to anarchy. In the longer run, this goes very badly for pirates and indeed, anything illegal online, and an internet police state is likely the government response. Sound government always responds this way to anarchy, and the losses of privacy will historically be viewed as the fault of the piracy itself.

a) person 3 cars over to the right was raping children

b) someone was doing lines off the dashboard 3 cars to the left.

c) someone robbed the concession stand at gunpoint.

d) cheap hoes making their rounds

…and the CAM guy is looking at decades of imprisonment and massive fines? glad I live in a half sane country.

CRIKEY!

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I have a hard time believing that someone would go to all the trouble and expense of tinting vehicle windows, purchasing tickets, acquiring “spy” video equipment of decent quality, and investing the time necessary to capture/rip/convert/upload these cams for nothing but the right to say “FIRST!”

What gives?

Choose your trackers more wisely next time, sir.

Some people will still go to the theatre and drive-in for the experience of going.

Some people will still buy the DVD.

Some people will download and watch on their home theater system.

Why not profit from all instead of trying to control it all for fear of losing some $$. If a site like IMDB offered downloads as well as DVD sales and had all movies ever made, as well as guaranteed high speed seeds for filesharing, and even direct downloads (some people will pay for that) I can’t see how that would not be a great revenue generator.

I suppose they are afraid they won’t make as much as they are now, but I bet they are wrong. Why would you want to be part of a private movie tracker which may or may not be seeding the movie you want and put up with speeds of 1 to 5 kBps when you could belong to one that offers 500 kBps or even 1 MBps?

The site that can attract the most users will be able to generate the most $$

Some people want it digital and they want it now. Provide it and profit.

how are they gonna prove that?

dickheaded lobbyist make me wanna paint the walls with brains.