Comments on: One in Three Broadband Subscribers is a Pirate

By: BluRayRWfreaK

BluRayRWfreaK — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:02:43 +0000

I don’t mind to pay $8 to see a movie in the cinema, some movies you just have to see on the big screen.

What I do mind is when i have to pay $4 for a cup of coke filled with 50% ice and $4 for a bucket of popcorn, now that’s called Grand Theft :)

So these days I go to walmart buy myself drinks, candy and popcorn watch a brand new screener while i download at the same time two other new screeners :) or occasionally br/dvd-rips in 1080p

Long Life Broadband and my Philips BR-RW :)

By: BluRayRWfreaK

BluRayRWfreaK — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:50:57 +0000

I’m a Pirate!! I’m a Pirate!! I’m a Pirate!!

And I don’t give a damn.

308 BR-RW and counting :)

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Blastr.tv » Blog Archive » Blastr 54 - Flying Obama — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:35:45 +0000

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By: Power Shack

Power Shack — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:07:23 +0000

Power Shack…

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By: Watchman

Watchman — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:46:20 +0000

10 in 10 CEOs are crooks.

10 in 10 congressmen are whores.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:30:33 +0000

What’s illegal about file sharing? Somebody bought the file before sharing it.

By: hnb

hnb — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:40:41 +0000

here is another perspective:
the studios dont care who pays them as long as they get their money from SOMEWHERE. consider this. how many times have you watched content that was once available as a movie, later as dvd, then as a paid from cable content, and then via free-to-air TV ? it happens all the time. now if you take the last part, you’ll realize that the free-to-air channels do in fact pay the studios to get the content, but we dont, because the station also broadcasts ads in the hopes to make some money to pay for the content, their expenses and also make some profit. but since they have no mechanism to see who is actually paying (we viewers by buying stuff that they advertise) in reality they give that content to us for FREE. so in reality the studios DO GIVE their content for free, but some one else (the station) paid them. so they dont care since they got their money already. this example clearly shows that the whole mechanism is flawed and needs a new design from the ground up so that everyone can benefit. I used to work for TV and media so we have to admit that companies need to pay their people, so they cant afford to lose money all the time, they need however to find other ways to monetize the content.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:08:03 +0000

Hmm, no numbers?

No numbers no believe say I.

By: Copyrighted Filesharing Will Never Die | It May Be Illegal But People Don’t Think It’s Wrong

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:35:22 +0000

[...] are probably more people sharing copyrighted material online now than ever before. According to TorrentFreak, one in three Broadband subscribers openly admits to flouting the law and doing so. And the survey [...]

By: fafalone

fafalone — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:34:27 +0000

There’s one simple reason why I believe it is absolutely moral, and should be legal, for me to download TV shows and movies:

I pay for cable television and I’m allowed to record the same programs off the TV. And I suspect the vast majority of people that are also DLing from my system have television service too (who has broadband but not basic cable?).

Therefore I do not see it as morally wrong to download and watch these programs when I want on whatever device I want. Why is there not more outrage over the hypocrisy of TiVo being legal but then getting the same stuff from a torrent, and bam you’re in court. It’s bullshit. My friend has hundreds of VHS tapes of movies in his closet, all recorded from TV. I don’t see anything wrong with sourcing them from a computer and storing them on a hard drive instead of his method.

By: Black Matt

Black Matt — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:03:52 +0000

I don’t steal, I don’t rob.
I don’t rape, I don’t kill.
I am not on a ship or an airplane.
I am not in international waters, nor outside the realm of national jurisdictions.

I am not a pirate.

(regardless of how much I desire to emulate your faux-cool)

By: Loganotron » Blog Archive » We’re All Pirates: the RIAA, Broadband Piracy, & Harvard

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:24:48 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak: A recently published survey found that one third of all broadband Internet subscribers worldwide [...]

By: Anomander Rake

Anomander Rake — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:30:22 +0000

copyright is being abused by the industries to leach money from the consumers and the artist. copy right laws were intended for intellectual property not physical property. It protects people from having their ideas or art credited to someone else. I think most people realized the hypocracy of this when vcr’s came out and we used them knowing that it was technically illegal to record shows and movies off television. Selling bootleg copies of something or taking song lyrics and using them in your own song. These are crimes. Filesharing is not.

By: kurye

kurye — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:15:03 +0000

By: Fight_the_Tyranny

Fight_the_Tyranny — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:07:53 +0000

Knowledge is free and without limits, contrary to what the monopolists want us to believe, and therefore they will always fail.

By: slava!

slava! — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:18:59 +0000

“The majority of these downloaders are well aware that their habits are illegal, but it doesn’t play on their conscience.”

Why, should it play on our conscience?! When you borrow class notes from a friend to catch up, do you have to pay him royalties?! And if not, one should feel guilty atleast, right?

By: Belch

Belch — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:28:31 +0000

downloadin 24/7

By: Skunkdogg

Skunkdogg — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:22:47 +0000

man, i don’t care what anyone says, ever since i got my lappy back in June of 08, i’ve pry dled or in this case “pirated” well over a grand in software, movies, videos, music, and games. who cares? what is it to anyone?

By: Free Lunch

Free Lunch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:34:58 +0000

“As opposed to your multiple accounts?

Pot, kettle.”
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no roze (yes, i know it’s you)

unlike you, i never had multiple accounts, only multiple names in an effort to dodge default post moderation. [Mods note - there is no way changing names would alter moderation standards being applied to yout posts. Same username, different ones - it makes no difference]

“Theft
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.”
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that’s one definition, here’s another: “the illegal taking of another person’s property without that person’s freely-given consent.” [moderators note - being deprived of the use is one of the two key elements to the definition of theft. Without it, it's not theft]

“FYI, he doesn’t have an income, is unable to work part-time because animation takes up all of his time and just to let you know, Adobe CS4 costs 4000 or so.”
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really? that’s strange. according to adobe’s website, it costs $200 for students…hopefully karma will come through and he will be negatively affected by copyright infringement in his future career.