We have just released my debut album as a FREE HQ Mp3 download.

It was a tough decision for us to make because of the vast amounts spent on the album. We had two of the biggest record producers in the world work on it…. at Peter Gabriel’s Realworld studio and at Abbey Road studio in london.

Despite all that, we recognise the massive potential the internet and free albums in particular offers. We launched last friday and have already had 1000′s of DL’s all over the world.

Come over and download for FREE.. it takes 2 minutes to DL because we have a dedicated server.

http://www.jackrubinacci.com
Thanks
Jack

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Of course it isn’t gender discrimination, sweetums. It’s that you’re morosely stupid, and are consequently too cought up in your own feeble shtick to tell the difference between the words “he” and “she”.

Speaking of your feeble schtick, one more reason that it fails is because it operates on the premise that freedom itself is NOT the antithesis of oppression, but is infact just another KIND of oppression.

I give you bonus points for walking straight out of Orwell’s 1984, but I’m afraid I have to immediately take them away due to the unbelievably retarded execution, which culminates in your belief that you’re posing clever, subversive satire.

Also, here’s you:
http://jj.am/gallery/d/239-1/fattyorig.gif/quote

Your attention to detail will take you places in the communist hierarchy. Fear not though Dear Leader, those snippets of text which may incriminate you on the same principle,like misspellings, childish name calling, nonsensical rants and lack of content, will be purged by your loyal storm troopers to maintain your infallibility (officially we never saw your shortcomings).

How many more pronoun-Americans are going to have to suffer at the hands undesirables? Dear leader, this is exactly why your campaign is so noble. I too envision a world where nouns are not restricted by gender, nationality or race but by their party approved filing numbers (which are all equal as well).

Our associates at the ACLU will see to it your will is peacefully imposed (by whatever means necessary) so us freedom fighters can continue our moral crusade of online media liberation.

Masses, please welcome our first ever Gender Defender to the party ranks!

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Of course it isn’t gender discrimination, sweetums. It’s that you’re morosely stupid, and are consequently too cought up in your own feeble shtick to tell the difference between the words “he” and “she”.

Speaking of your feeble schtick, one more reason that it fails is because it operates on the premise that freedom itself is NOT the antithesis of oppression, but is infact just another KIND of oppression.

I give you bonus points for walking straight out of Orwell’s 1984, but I’m afraid I have to immediately take them away due to the unbelievably retarded execution, which culminates in your belief that you’re posing clever, subversive satire.

Also, here’s you:
http://jj.am/gallery/d/239-1/fattyorig.gif/quote

wow, that is really inappropriate; for several posts you have spend around 10 words calling the guy an idiot for accidentally using the wrong pronoun at one point in one of his posts, for every 1 single word you use criticizing his actual posts. That is neither respectable nor impressive. Your one and only point that does not revolve around generic threats of stupidity and obesity is as follows:
[quote]one more reason that it fails is because it operates on the premise that freedom itself is NOT the antithesis of oppression, but is infact just another KIND of oppression.[/quote]
Now that is a very intelligent sounding statement; could you go into more detail about why you think his words make that statement, and what that statement means?

thanks

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Of course it isn’t gender discrimination, sweetums. It’s that you’re morosely stupid, and are consequently too cought up in your own feeble shtick to tell the difference between the words “he” and “she”.

Speaking of your feeble schtick, one more reason that it fails is because it operates on the premise that freedom itself is NOT the antithesis of oppression, but is infact just another KIND of oppression.

I give you bonus points for walking straight out of Orwell’s 1984, but I’m afraid I have to immediately take them away due to the unbelievably retarded execution, which culminates in your belief that you’re posing clever, subversive satire.

Also, here’s you:
http://jj.am/gallery/d/239-1/fattyorig.gif

first, isnt the gear a onetime investment. imean, ofc if u want to buy 235325325 guitars that costs alot but once u have bought one u got one, travling isnt that expensive, u take a buss etc. living on the road, ok acceptable.
does really illegal downloads fuck that up. you say “meaning that they simply cant afford to throw away revenue on illigal downloads ” its not like any artists have had to cancel their tour because of piracy?Lol. ofc its expensive to get makeup etc. but dont they get paid to do an concert??? dont they get paid for the cd’s that they sell to the people who like their music? if people like it they buy it, if not they probly wouldnt have bought it in the first place, you know.[/quote]

i appreciate what your saying there mate, but the instruments etc… its not just the £600 odd quid for a gituar, its getting two or three of everything in case it blows up, its the having to eat out every meal cos you dont have a cooker etc…

and the side with album sales, a lot of promoters/labels gauge how big a tour an artist can do by record sales, so low sales means smaller tours, which means a band is more likely to jack it in, which means theres one less band out there to write your fave. ever song

You comrade,

Putin 08

*Party lessons are subject to change without notice[/quote]

Your satire fails for many reasons, one of which is that the 15 year old in question is MALE.

I’d ask how you could possibly mistake him for being FEMALE after he was explicitly referred to as male, but you are clearly a moron; the question would be redundant.

Another reason it fails(and by extension, you), is that without a grain of truth behind it, satire is completely ruderless.

In summary… You suck.[/quote]

Great observation comrade, but I assure you it is not gender discrimination (you may redeploy the feminist blitzkrieg back to Berkley).

Party elites in the propaganda dept. will have you know that statistics from enlightened countries with state run media, like Iran, Venezuela, etc., suggest females are more effective victims. We are all victims here aren’t we? I suggest you get with the times and liberate yourself from your oppressive meat missile if you haven’t done so already (highly unlikely).

Together we shall facilitate the demise of all entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic capitalist exploitation and, Stalin willing, embrace the glorious utopia people’s achievements such as open source software. Behold 2.01% of you are Linux users and have already freed your desktop from Mikkkrosoft. (http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php)

But I digress, a comrade can dream can’t he? The answer is no. The moral of this story is now completely null and void due to the gender technicality pointed out by our concerned friend, and rightly so. The unruly mobs may disperse, return to your mother’s basements and continue the struggle.

Comrade Anonymous, in our utopia of equality you have proven yourself more equal than others, prepare for an upgrade.

Your comrade,

Putin 08

And I meant my closer to be more effective; 10% profit on 100,000,000;
because a 10 million dollar profit is, alas, more provocative than a 10 thousand dollar profit.

Cheers

Budget: $200 million dollars
Gross: $783 million dollars

So, every body punched the clock that year (sound guys, CG guys, actors, actresses, PR, catering, director, etc.) and got paid:
plus there was over $500 million dollars left over.

How about, oh, Pirates of the Carribean:
Budget: $140 million dollars
Gross: $650 million dollars
Again, every body punches the clock, gets paid, plus there was over $400 million dollars left over.

Let’s try my favorite, The Matrix [a dark horse].
Budget: $63 million dollars
Gross: $460 million dollars
Again, everybody punched the clock, got paid, plus there was over $350 million dollars left over.

Hell, I’ll go for a flop(per) now: Flyboys.
Budget: $60 million dollars
Gross: $13 million dollars (American)
BUT once again, everybody punched the clock and got paid; the INVESTORS lost money.

But did they? Poor men don’t invest $60 million dollars, rich men do; i.e. people who have $60 million dollars and more. They took an educated risk, and lost. All of the creators still got paid, all of the investors now own a movie, and all of the investors still have all of their other investments [diversify, diversify, diversify]; its commonly understood that when you are investing you win some and you lose some.
The point isn’t to win everytime, its to win more than you lose.

My point is, if the movie is produced, then everybody is paid, and there’s really good odds there’s a heap of money left over. THE MOVIE IS ALREADY PAID FOR!
Let me repeat that:

THE MOVIE IS ALREADY PAID FOR!

THE MOVIE IS ALREADY PAID FOR!

THE MOVIE IS ALREADY PAID FOR!

Not only that, but there are very good odds that not only did they all get paid, but once everybody was paid off, THEY KEEP CHARGING YOU THE SAME PRICE. Covering your costs, legit. Making a profit for your creative work (say, 10% profit on a $100,000 film), legit. Making 400% profit on a film? NO! Bad! Stop stealing our money, we already paid you bastards!!!

people only download HDTV cos they can… theres still not the demand for it on regular TV due to the cost of the service…

Gallus

No offense, but I strongly disagree with you.
Google censors out all politically dissident websites in China; Yahoo “accidently” made The Pirate Bay disappear until an ENORMOUS uproar brought it back; youTube regularly removes videos it considers politically dissident, religiously incendiary, or otherwise counter-establishment; MSN Live is a joke, backed by a company with a history of 100% abuse-of-power. Even Wikipedia is constantly in hot water for mentioning public speculation and even proven facts which are damning to political leaders and governments all over the world.

Our searchable internet, as we know it, has been brutally raped. Although it still exists in theory, the necessary / unrestricted search engines are completely unheard of by the vast majority of people.

Any _actual_ data you hear is NOT through Google’s internet; it is through IRC, through p2p, and through darknets.

PRIVACY

When you buy almost ANYTHING online, you could just as well agree to a body cavity search, have it filmed and posted online.
In a manner of speak … ;)[/quote]

Agreed.
Just one of the many, many reasons why e-business is stagnant / a tiny fraction of what it could and should be;
the mafIAA dinosaurs are only a problem in that although it would be easy to put them out of their misery if the tools [for a free-market digital economy, i.e. e-cash] were available, the tools themselves just don’t exist.
It would be easy to cure the disease if we had the pill [e-cash], but no one has invented the pill / the pill has been violently suppressed and repressed by not just the dinosaurs, but the actual power-brokers of the world [basically, anyone who stands to lose if online transactions are untraceable; untraceable = untaxable, traceable = inconvenient].

In short, prevalent e-cash –> free-market conditions online –> REASONABLY priced music, and MUCH more, available in a way that profits the creators and the workers directly, bypassing the middleman.

and heavens forbid, the taxman too….

You comrade,

Putin 08

*Party lessons are subject to change without notice[/quote]

Your satire fails for many reasons, one of which is that the 15 year old in question is MALE.

I’d ask how you could possibly mistake him for being FEMALE after he was explicitly referred to as male, but you are clearly a moron; the question would be redundant.

Another reason it fails(and by extension, you), is that without a grain of truth behind it, satire is completely ruderless.

In summary… You suck.

OK, I know you corrected it in your next post, but that was the funniest thing I read today. lol

…

I download music all the time via torrent, and I would according to the MAFIAA, be considered a pirate. (which BTW is the coolest title they could ever have given me)
And there have been many times where I will buy an album from smaller bands, even when the music is top notch, but I download it because they are doing OK, and they aren’t filthy rich. But when it comes to artists who are multi-millionaires, I wouldn’t drop a penny to them. They are FAR more rich than I, and I work just as hard (if not harder (specialty farming isn’t easy, nor is delivering papers)). And I don’t know about you guys, but I have seen they way celebs live, and how wasteful they are! The money that I would have paid them would have probably gone down the garbage with the food they just throw away, and the gas they burn.
Now, if they only accepted 60,000 of the money that comes in, I would probably pay them.
It goes for the same with giving a tip in a restaurant, I only give tips to workers who make less than I. (but I gratefully give money to a waitress who makes less)

I almost never DL movies, since I don’t watch much TV ever. (although I am DLing a movie now, just to see if I like it, and if I like it I may buy the DVD (if I can find the DVD somewhere). I like to watch movies before I pay, because there are too many duds these days.

So my main point is: if artists were less greedy, I would pay them. (and as soon as I have some money again after college, I plan on donating money to various OSS projects since I am not much of a coder)

That is what is missing in the internet today: music, movies, games available without DRM, at a fair price, able to be saved to your choice of media (DVD, Blu-Ray, whatever), and a ONE TIME PAYMENT FOR ANY FUTURE FORM OF SAID ARTICLE.

Oh Pah-leeze. We all know that is a crock of shit. Amazon.com, among others, has a huge catalogue. I wonder how much outrage there would be if TPB charged, say, a $20 monthly fee for accessing its trackers.

I dont even want to start in the incredible amount of ways I can burn these excuses, fact is there fucked, we win, we always will win, shut the fuck up and download something.[/quote]

Right you are comrade! The nazi right wing fascist lawyers are many things, like baby eaters and oil war mongers, but they aren’t naive enough to challenge your authority on this issue. All the young comrades and comradettes: take note of this truly compassionate display of mercy whereby Party Chairman Rycon spared the infidels his wrath of ‘incredible amount of ways I can burn these excuses’!

Your evidence is overwhelming.

Your comrade,

Putin 08

Newsflash, pea-brain: If hitting The Pirate Bay and downloading a copy of the latest summer blockbuster is “theft”, then so is recording it once it airs on television.

Ever use a VCR? Maybe you own a DVR like TiVO? Ever record a song off the radio? If so, then you’re a nothing but a filthy little thief who should be directing his righteous indignation at none other than his lowly self.

[quote comment="304586"]I have a 15 year old and do not let him steal content online – the same as he knows he can’t steal money off my dresser draw (after all that is easy to do and I won’t notice).[/quote]

What if your 15 year old had the magical power to make the money on your nightstand divide itself into a perfect 1:1 duplicate, and then put the duplicate money in his pocket and walked away? Would that be theft? Yeah, it could more or less be considering counterfeiting, but would it be *theft*?

No.

Hey… What’s that going up in smoke?

Oh, it’s your harebrained logic.

If I were your 15 year old, I’d smack you upside the fucking head.

[quote comment="304586"]
Do the right thing you fucking criminals. It is not your content to steal.[/quote]

Awww… Are the commonfolk being mean to the sleazey criminals that compose the RIAA and MPIAA? Is the the wittle baby crying for the plight of the poor MAFIAA?

Get bent.[/quote]

We can all learn a valuable, party approved*, lesson from the brave comrade Anonymous.

How could the fascist he is re-educating have been so blind as to oppress his own daughter and deny her such natural birthrights as free Ja Rule MP3′s?

Thanks to his wisdom we now have the financial capacity to feed all the starving children in the universe.

To the money printing machines comrades!

Shoot, does anyone have a printer? I guess we’ll have to ‘duplicate’ some from Best Buy.

Quickly men! Equip your freedom fighter ski masks and capes, then ask mother to drop you off at a store near you, for the children of course.

You comrade,

Putin 08

*Party lessons are subject to change without notice

Untill then I’m just going to buy well made, well written, well acted movies and down load the new stuf to get an idea of todays “standards”.

I dont even want to start in the incredible amount of ways I can burn these excuses, fact is there fucked, we win, we always will win, shut the fuck up and download something.

This story has been submitted to Stirrdup. Your support can help it become hot….

http://www.defamer.com/topic/mpaa-ready-to-sue-pirates-024974.php

What a charmer, eh? Know your enemy folks.

Oh, and just for the conspiracy minded, check out the last sentence of Wikipedia’s page on Glickman.

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

Yikes! Maybe there’s something to all that Illuminati stuff after all. :D

1.) make it better
2.) make it available to EVERYONE
3.) price it affordably
4.) make a lot of it

seems to me the model the entertainment business has had for too long is this notion of only the people who can afford deserve my best. other’s can simply fuck off.

hey…that’s the way the health-care industry works in the USA!

this strategy works. case in point: NIN just made $750K in TWO DAYS of downloads. and that’s money that goes straight into Reznor’s pocket.

we gotta stop listening to the pricks who own the business. they’re gasping for air and the fuck lawyers are putting the blame on anyone who doesn’t understand this.

Newsflash, pea-brain: If hitting The Pirate Bay and downloading a copy of the latest summer blockbuster is “theft”, then so is recording it once it airs on television.

Ever use a VCR? Maybe you own a DVR like TiVO? Ever record a song off the radio? If so, then you’re a nothing but a filthy little thief who should be directing his righteous indignation at none other than his lowly self.

[quote comment="304586"]I have a 15 year old and do not let him steal content online – the same as he knows he can’t steal money off my dresser draw (after all that is easy to do and I won’t notice).[/quote]

What if your 15 year old had the magical power to make the money on your nightstand divide itself into a perfect 1:1 duplicate, and then put the duplicate money in his pocket and walked away? Would that be theft? Yeah, it could more or less be considering counterfeiting, but would it be *theft*?

No.

Hey… What’s that going up in smoke?

Oh, it’s your harebrained logic.

If I were your 15 year old, I’d smack you upside the fucking head.

[quote comment="304586"]
Do the right thing you fucking criminals. It is not your content to steal.[/quote]

Awww… Are the commonfolk being mean to the sleazey criminals that compose the RIAA and MPIAA? Is the the wittle baby crying for the plight of the poor MAFIAA?

Get bent.

LETS GO FOR LUDICROUS SPEED!

That would be “space balls” I believe.

However, these things take time.

The downloading revolution is really only about ten years old, max.

Movie studios will provide content across borders when they have the infrastructure, capacity, and legal ability to do so.

Remember that there are many deals in place that are legally dependent on the concept of “windows.” For example, movie studios would LOVE to provide electronic sell-through day and date with home video release, but some of the downstream ancillary licensees have contracts that forbid them to do so.

Which is why you’ll see a movie title available on a legal site for rental or purchase, and then disappear for awhile.

This also occurs across borders. Some territories have contracts that guarantee them

As these deals expire and the economics change (when those downstream licensees become less valuable), we’ll see a borderless, windowless world where content is available all at the same time in all media.

It’s not being done to screw anybody.

You DONT need a professional recording studio, you DONT need music videos that cost thousands to produce.

Open source my friends.

a)Quit whining
b)Get another job

I’ll have to think about that one.