why do you so vigorously defend your right to steal from artists?

If you keep stealing music, many musicians will stop making it.

you will end up with music being totally free but also totally shit.

well done, fuckers!

I wonder if we can recruit some brainwashed muslim suicide bombers to walk into the Sony, EMI, Virgin etc offices and for the love of Allah and music blow them up?

hihi.. just joking. but then again copying is becoming a sort of religion is it not?

While I support the existance of Copyright, in it’s current form it fails to:
a) protect the rights of the artist to make money from their work (They get screwed by their publishers).
b) They restrict creativity because copyright terms are far too long.
c) Overly long copyright terms are holding our culture to ransom.

Copyright terms need to be reduced, Artists need a bigger share of revenues inshrined in law, software patents need to be eliminated entirely.

till then the bulk of the population will continue to be treated like criminals, judged guilty before innocent, and western culture will continue to be stiffled of any vigor.

It is time to push back the corporate greed.

http://www.tpuc.org

and

http://www.fmotl.com

All is revealed with no strings attached. With the information provided there, for free I might add, these skim-off FUD-based companies will fade as quickly as they sprouted.

So who are the greatest copyright thieves?

RIAA and the Big Distributors.

Thanks to this one sentence, TorrentFreak has insured that everyone who reads this article, and millions more by hearsay and word-of-mouth, will promptly ignore these letters.

#17 – I could say that the music companies are persuading me to pirate music by charging an inordinately high price for their music. I bet if you could find a law firm willing to figure out just how much a music CD is worth, you could really stick it to the man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion

“The Yankee Group estimates that there are currently about 58.2 million P2P users worldwide, a number estimated to grow to 135.6 million by the year 2010.”

Just a wee bit more than the “agents” in my 73 spoof. ;)

“Strategies for Managing the P2P Phenomenon”

‘Manage’ seems like some kind of control-focused thinking; a questionable way of regarding some things; and a reason why we have some of the problems we do.

“What do all men with power want? More power.”
– The Matrix Reloaded

You are both lying, hypocritical sycophants who ignores EVERY single transgression against our liberties and freedoms by the music industry but whines and crys about a 12 year old downloading a Britney single.

Stop PRETENDING shills.

from “Strategies for Managing the P2P Phenomenon”

Some food for thought…

Also interesting how after days of silence, both Reasoned Mind and neostyles suddenly post comments back to back!

1) how do they differ from pirates when they “DETECT” piracy? they need to try and succeed to DOWNLOAD stuff, and then VERIFY that it’s copyrighted material.

2) how are they allowed to get PERSONAL INFORMATION about people?

2) since THEY ARE NOT COPYRIGHT HOLDERS how can they claim for damages?

they are illegal in 3 terms, they are worse than pirates, sue (kill) them!!

HOW THE F*CK do they “DETECT” that????????

if i share a file with the name “Britney Spears – F*ck me Now.mp3″ even though it’s some PDF they automagically “DETECT” i’m a pirate??????

that shit blows my mind, seriously.

Welcome to the year 2009.

If you choose to, you can have content distribution overheads at nearly zero.

The sheer saturation of media content through what is available online (including that offered for free by it’s creators) has greatly reduced the perceived value of content.

The industry refuses to accept that a song, using the Internet as the form of distribution, is really worth $0.10 and still thinks that one dollar is reasonable per track.. IT’S NOT!!

Piracy will never go away because the RIAA will never accept the devaluing of their product, which was inevitable from the rise in popularity of the Internet and the pressures caused by other forms of new media.

Yes, it’s a stalemate and until the RIAA drop their per-track price to $0.10 or something even remotely reasonable… they will continue to fail in their efforts to thwart piracy.

Sadly, for the industry, the times of peddling out cookie-cutter tracks from half-talented, over-hyped artists… and everyone leeching a luxury lifestyle from it… ARE OVER!!!

You can’t work a couple of months and expect to be made for life, yet the RIAA, etc. still continue to think this is how it’s going to be, while everyone else has to work their entire lives just to pay off their damn mortgage.

They shat on consumers with price-fixing and they stubbornly refuse to accept that saturation has caused a major devaluing of pretty much all it’s “product”.

The RIAA, et al, have themselves to blame.

We know how cheap it is to produce and distribute music, pirates are simply consumers that refuse to continue the trend of being suckers to a greedy and stubborn industry that has shafted us all, for over a decade.

If content was available at a reasonable price, I’d stop pirating, but it’s not, they (RIAA, etc.) continue to price things as if the production and distribution overheads were still the same, and that, to anyone with a brain, equates to being conned!

Do I choose to be ripped off? or choose to get stuff for free, knowing that my defense would be far more solid than most people who post here?

The answer is obvious.