Sure, y measuring traffic on trackers one can find a botom limit but this is all.

This is because each torrent file can be downloaded multiple time from any computer and each of them can be used to seek a torent multiple time as well.

– GOD

piracy is the illegal manufacture and sale of conterfeit products. piracy is stealing revenue which belongs to the copyright holders

filesharing is copying

If that law passes, I’ll just rent a seedbox in a foreign country, get a usenet access, and stop buying cds/dvds.

As usual, our politicians are complete retards. But that’s not big news, and it’s true in all the lobbies-lead countries.

And who supports that heaven ? It’s the USA \m/

But from a fascist government to another one, it’s only normal everything goes alright.

The same as the USA were so keen on doing business with the nazis, from 1933 and until 1942.

What a great nation ! I’m glad I’m not an american retard :D

The only victims of “pirating” are the ones that are too stubborn or too stupid to change their business model to fit with the technological advances of our time.

Like the horse carriages and typewriters perished, so shall the old music and movie industry. And from the ashes a far more productive and successful industry will emerge.

FUCK ^__^

My opinion is that copyright law is first made to protect the “author”‘s right in having credit for what he has created and to give him a chance of making a “decent” living out of it.

The author’s right not the distributors’ !!!

and this is the first time in my life that i see an industry dealing with its clients as criminals and chasing them!!

Bajo este eslogan, el diario francés Le Figaro muestra un estudio en el que se dice que hasta el 34% de la gente dice tener reproductores con contenidos "piratas", así como un 20% que declara tener un disco duro externo para almacenamiento …

i think the percentages are more around 70%….at least 70% of the online population has committed some sort of “illegal operation” during their everyday browsing, most often uncosciously.

The internet is for anyone, likewise, so should its content.

http://rickyrany.myblog.it/

http://www.h33t.com where all French bastards are not welcome.

ciaoooo

Just like they did to the Jews and Gypsies here in 39-45

The French are always re-fighting the last war.

Just like they did to the Jews here in 39-45

The French are always re-fighting the last war.

I’t going to be a lot of fun!

um he’s right china isn’t communist. it’s because they allow free enterprise that they aren’t. just because i call a sheep a horse doesn’t make it so dumbarse.

Everything you write is full of crap. You must be retarded for misunderstanding everything I write.

Sincerely,
Roze

jk, they can’t kill the hydro

Dude, you keep spouting this line which is patently untrue. People are free to create and distribute anything they wish – WITH OR WITHOUT COPYRIGHT LAW. Right now I can create and distribute my own work, as can you. People are doing this RIGHT NOW.

Do you believe that people will hear about/obtain this hypothetical work, probably not, unless it’s very good – but guess what: THIS IS TRUE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER COPYRIGHT LAW EXISTS…

Why do you persist in saying this illogical statement over and over? Sorry if I seem boorish with the caps… but your statements regarding this are out of touch with reality: meaning the antithesis of what your maintaining is actually HAPPENING – now. You don’t agree with copyright law, OK – who does here? – but you persist in ascribing all this completely false effects to it beiong there like “no one can make cultural artifacts because copyright is there”. Complete crap.

Roze

Seeing a work without pay is not taking anything or being parasitic. This would have to assume that when someone sees a piece of culture, that it is ultimately useless for anything except monetarily benefiting the rights holder. That is idiotic. Culture has many benefits. It can inspire people to do various things. It can change people’s ideas on various things. Finally, and most importantly of all, it can inspire people to create their own. This final bit is important because culture is an exchange – when one sees any piece of culture, one is not “leeching” anything. Rather, one is contributing to the culture by forming one’s own thoughts on it, and by then sharing it by creating one’s own work in response.

Roze

You forget inflation..

Isn’t that amazing? What other product can show the same total lack of price reduction after 26 years? Hard disks? RAM? Microprocessors? Yeah, right…

And those greedy bastards deserve special, draconian laws to protect their outdated distribution methods? I think NOT!

Roze

You sir are a stupid, clueless, gai butt-f*cking noob who obviously dresses in womens underwear.

Yeah, I’ve got an idea.

How about the copyright holders stop charging extortionate prices, give the astists their fair share, and pull their heads of their asses when comes to distribution?

For example… If the copyright holders even bother to release a TV show/movie/CD/game in another region, the wait for the localized version(and usually poorly localized, at that) can be up to several months. So the copyright holders are surprised when people decide to just torrent it instead?

These assholes don’t realize the Internet is a borderless global network. Dividing the world up into artificial “regions” doesn’t work anymore(and it never worked too well to begin with). Neither does demanding impossibly overcharged prices.

The reason filesharing is such a phenomenon is because people are tired of being ripped off(as well as supporting an industry that mercilessly rips of the artists), and given an alternative to being used and abused by the copyright holders, they’re going to take it.

“Anonymous: Why not? It’s willfully taking a product that doesn’t belong to you which cost it’s creators immense amounts of time, talent, and money to produce.”

Taking?

As much as I’m all for personal freedom, I wish somebody would draft a law to ban particularly stupid children like you from using the Internet.

Before a person is even allowed to sign up for an ISP, they should be asked if they know the difference between the concept of ‘duplicating something’ and the concept of ‘taking something’. That way, you would have never made the cut, and the rest of us could live blissfully free from being annoyed by your pea sized brain.

But alas, we don’t live in such a perfect world. So let me provide you with a little free education.

Imagine you have an orange.

If I walk up to you, grab the orange right out of your hands, and then walk off, then I have taken it from you. This is called stealing.

On the otherhand… If I walk up to you, make a perfect duplicate of your orange, and then walk away with the magic copy, then I have NOT taken your orange away from you. It’s still right there in your hands. Therefore, you cannot possibly accuse me of theft. Because… What exactly did I take from you? Certainly not your orange. This is how filesharing works.

You would do well to learn.

“Doesn’t belong” to me? Sure, I don’t own the movie I just downloaded… But no one else does because a movie can’t be owned. On the other hand, the data on my hard drive is mine.

“Why do you feel so entitled to parasitically feed off the hard work of creators?”

I am entitled to receive culture if someone else that has it wants to share it with me.

…or something like that

An idea proposed by some associations is the “global license” (i don’t know the same word in english). The fact you pay montly for a “package” to download want you want. The problem is to redistribute correctly money between creators, it’s almost impossible.