Comments on: ISPs and Copyright Holders Fail to Reach Piracy Agreement

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:07:30 +0000

An author with a good web presence do can do ok out of Piracy.
Lawrence Watt Evans publishes his books on line and for 5 dollars he sends you the chapter as soon as it is written(thats not 5 a chapter thats for the whole book) the thing is most of his books are available unoffically on P2P people pick up on it and send the 5 dollars anyway.
and some put in a bit extra for the books they didnt “pay for” I hope more people would operate like this

By: Orlusha

Orlusha — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:27:35 +0000

In the days of Soviet socialism the approach of Bautista was called “uravnilovka”, that is “levelling”. It lead USSR to crash.

“The source of piracy is the unleashed greediness of labels”, — said Mick Box in Moscow 2006 at Rock Against the Piracy festival. The whole world heard him. You see, talentless people are becoming as greedy as labels. It intimidates greatly. :(

By: FairnessFairy

FairnessFairy — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:39:23 +0000

Give them a mile and they want 10 miles.

They want to TAX people for piracy but then they want to ban piracy. Which means, ultimately, if they succeed and no one is pirating, they will still be charging a tax.

I swear. Time for extreme measures.

All-you-can eat TV/Movies through torrents is fine with me. If they tax my connection, I’ll just hook up 2 cups to a string and see how data modulation works on it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:47:06 +0000

Im the same poster as above:

Also wanted to add that this entire piracy war is just a way for people to blame their losses on the consumer for not buying their shitty product/service.

This blame game doesnt play well with the people. We BUY your shit, so please dont blame us for every other piece of shit movie or game or musical CD you make.

If you make something well enough, It WILL make money, i guarantee it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:44:24 +0000

Honestly, This entire war against piracy seems so stupid. The main reason this is such an issue is because people think Piracy is the reason why studio execs and musical artists are losing money with releases of their pieces of media. The real problem is people making shitty pieces of media, and expecting US to buy them.

Put some damn work into your projects u damn studio executives, and stop blaming ISPs and the average ISP user for downloading things off the internet.I reserve the right to download whatever the hell i want to download, WITHOUT your authorization, oh great piracy overlord.Be less money grubbing, and more about QUALITY, and less about the quick dollar. Then lets see how that affects their profits. That means GREAT profits.

Take for example, Iron Man, by marvel.

Movie was great,funny, action packed, and had a great script. On screen it came together witht he work of the hardworking crew and directors.
Did they complain about losing money?
no.

Checkmate. Any other points these people wanna make? Same goes for musical artists and game creators.

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:38:33 +0000

LMAO, this is hilarious. History repeats itself on so many occasions, governement intervention on civil liberties never works. Notice:

“Internet users or consumer groups were not represented in these discussions”.

Just like when England refused to let the taxpayers be represented before the Revolutionary War, and we all know what happened there.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:27:57 +0000

PUTA SGAE partida de ladrones mafiosos
Well done in Spain.

Spain is one of the few countries, were copying for non-profit purposes is still technically legal, something which the major labels are desperate to change.

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:46:13 +0000

If the actually do start charging customers for that doesn’t that give them carte blanch to download stuff owned by the companies that are receiving the fees? You would have already “paid” for the use of their products.