Comments on: Pirate Tax Funds Pirate Album

By: erotik video

erotik video — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:53:11 +0000

frauds is very cool album.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:01:51 +0000

I love the album. So good. Especially his rendition of “Yeah!” from Usher.

By: nuts

nuts — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:29:58 +0000

/Included in it was a refund from the tax that is put on all recordable media in Sweden. Whenever CDRs, mp3-players or similar items are sold, an extra fee of 0,04 crowns/megabyte is added and later paid back to the artists./

Umm, is that math right? Wouldn’t that be around 2800 krona (465 USD) per spindle (assuming 100 700 MB disks)?!

By: Vector

Vector — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:30:01 +0000

How can I be pirating something by creating a CD version of it whe I have already paid a piracy tax to compensate artists for the activity. Don’t i inherently obtain the ability to do the activity by pre-compensating for it. Especially when its the media industry that imposed those fees.

By: blahh

blahh — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:03:29 +0000

album sucks !

By: wat

wat — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:52:28 +0000

huh, suitcases don’t talk…..

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:14:26 +0000

ezee.se is a Swedish site, atleast its a swedish domain (the .se is the swedish tld) The people writing there are pretty gutsy and pull few punches calling the mpaa and riaa slime, douchebags,gangsters and so on maybe piratebay influence? it does not get updated as frequently as here but i still like reading there, and esp like their new RIAA logo, although it might get them into a bit of trouble for going a step too far??
obviously the guys who mantain ezee read here because theres always a comment from them with a link bak to thir site. might be a shamless plug but they do write on topic so does not bother me much, once i did see 3 links in one tiny post… and the guy later apoligised for it.. cant remember the post though maybe 2 or 3 posts back? (sorry english is not my first languge)

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:54:35 +0000

Great article, great read. Thanks!

Poster No.1 is an idiot with the attention span of a 2-year-old.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:50:30 +0000

> “what is http://www.ezee.se/ and why is it always appearing in posts here?”

Someone’s site that they put a link to at the end of their posts.

By: not a TF-Team member

not a TF-Team member — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:40:24 +0000

@ 21 Jun 14, 2008 at 01:56 by confused

thats called “a shameless plug” many people are doing it unfortunately to spam just some totall shit and up until now Ernesto has given to little attention to that annoying problem!

In the case of the plug you mentioned I guess thats a bit differnt since that page has “real” content and therefor get some slack cuted here.

to the other guys that quote each other. DO not jsut use the comment number# if you refer to something since these numbers obviously change in this workpress setup in case when some spam comments gets deleted later by the team or some comment with links that was in the waiting queue get switched life by TF-Team guys.

Do it like i did here, refer to the commenters name (and/or the timestamp shown next to it)

By: Asal

Asal — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:05:15 +0000

Hey, Great article! I always come to your blog because of your interesting articles, Can't wait for th nest one. Review community

By: Jerry Stewwell

Jerry Stewwell — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:25:16 +0000

All the Music should be FREE and with programs like LimeWire they WILL be FREE.

JT
http://www.FIreMe.To/udi

By: Mr. S

Mr. S — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:46:39 +0000

@ #1

You’re an idiot. I’m glad TF talks about this artists, it is important to support them anyway we can. After all we are all on the same boat…

By: ace hall

ace hall — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:34:35 +0000

@ 31, no it’s not. why would anyone want to post malware on the internet ?

nonsense.

this is a false accusation. Unless you download it and clicked the thing, you can’t prove it.

now download it and click, don’t trust the anti-malware scanners.

Click it.

By: #30 needs a good beating

#30 needs a good beating — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:25:26 +0000

@30

This asshole has been spamming his trojan infected malware on several forums. Please post this douchebag’s IP so the trackdown (and the asskicking) can begin.

By: James

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:24:54 +0000

Pirate tax is a bunch of BS. All of this is caused by the RIAA — they say they do it to protect the artists, but they are actually doing it to make more money for themselves. The artists end up getting like 2% of their album sales — they get most of their money from concerts and merchnadise.

So people spreading their songs around actually helps them, not hurt. It only hurts the RIAA. RIAA are a bunch of chocolate-eyed pigs

By: website design

website design — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:47:08 +0000

Yarrgh! I wants my share of the booty!!!

Oh, wait – not that kind of pirate, never mind.

By: .............this is it?

.............this is it? — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0000

Nothing on class action lawsuits?
Nothing on sandvining?
Freepress convention for media reform?
FCC chairman pledging (although not unexpectedly, one day later the FCC betrays us again by saying broadband is “fine” in america) to split duo-polies and enforce net neutrality?
(this is a reply to the first poster btw who wanted other news)
Wow…so unlike torrentfreak to not aggrandize small things to agitate the base.

http://www.savetheinternet.com

By: joe

joe — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:06:02 +0000

Yeah lol nice, it’s crazy how in reality they have become more popular because of file sharing lol
http://www.boomtorrent.com

By: skakidd

skakidd — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:53:20 +0000

@20 i like what you’re saying. if i am paying a pirate tax on burnable media and then use it to burn a home movie or home slideshow or nin/radiohead/mr. suitcase/free music album shouldn’t i be entitled to a rebate of some kind.

By: GoogleSearchGame.com

GoogleSearchGame.com — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:11:44 +0000

Always great coverage. Love coming to your blog.

—-

http://googlesearchgame.com

By: zarathustra

zarathustra — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:16:59 +0000

Huge props to Mr.Suitcase – looking forward to hearing his stuff (downloading as I type).

P.S. @#1 ‘MJMC’: You have even less of interest to write about, you unamusing, lackwitted twat.

No offence…

By: Mr Rucksack

Mr Rucksack — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:18:05 +0000

Nice One :) Keep up the good work!
Are we related?

By: confused

confused — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:56:41 +0000

what is http://www.ezee.se/ and why is it always appearing in posts here?

By: Rod S

Rod S — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:09:42 +0000

If I’m paying “pirate tax” anyway, then burning disks of copyrighted works must be legal, since you can’t legally tax something illegal. This sounds like another good defense.

By: Rod S

Rod S — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:04:21 +0000

I only buy dvds if a good brand but dirt cheap. I’m not paying extra for those scabs, which is what schoolkids called those who go around trying to bludge money off everyone. Only these bloodsuckers actually do it.

By: bRPp

bRPp — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:35:58 +0000

so a new cassetteboy ?

By: unk

unk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:17:51 +0000

First: we have this ripp off in germany for quite some time .. It paid some idiot in holland ( i think ) for a smurf song a castle, no joke. Probably this is the case or whatever why we in germany have so many idiots singing while we are the biggest state in europe 8 with > 80 Mill people.

Apart from that : please change the display of comments to last first.. apart from not getting iÂ´m first comments it is much more interesting

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:17:53 +0000

Mr. Suitcase has such a healthy and optimistic view of piracy. That story was really quite inspiring.

“I think it’s the opposite, I think the beautiful aspect of the digital era is that anything recorded can be remixed, tweaked and modified.”

That’s a great quote! More power to you, Mr. Suitcase! You’re welcome to my pirate tax any day… if only the government was as nice as you when it came to other taxes! :-)

By: Lord of Pirates

Lord of Pirates — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:24:31 +0000

I love Mr. Suitcase =D.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:21:28 +0000

Nice to see musicians/artists thinking this way but i think its still inviting trouble from arseholes like Prince… i mean look at his history, he has pulled all he can of his stuff from you tube, even went as far as to issue a DMCA on youtube for the bottleged copy that someone made while he sang another artist’s (radiohead) song: creep
Not to mention he has asked/insisted that many guitar tab sites take out tablature and tutorials for his songs… wouldnt surprise me in the least if he acts like an arsehole and goes after Mr.Suitcase for using a “portion” of his music.

Cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/ Copyright is CopyWRONG

By: egg

egg — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:08:29 +0000

very interesting concept, definitely going to give it a download/listen.

By: molock

molock — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:55:10 +0000

great music too!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:36:37 +0000

The problem with basing it on money is that it presumes that money for the artist is the most important part of culture, as some way of “making money” that must be preserved. Of course, this is nonsense, because what people do with culture is more important than a money-incentive for creativity, and such an incentive was never necessary in the first place.

By: skakidd

skakidd — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:26:37 +0000

thats awesome.

By: yahoo

yahoo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:13:23 +0000

hooray for mr suitcase.

By: Crandom

Crandom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:16:16 +0000

^ Sorry, STIM (PRS in the UK). Where’s the comment editing? I want a TF account :(

By: Crandom

Crandom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:15:26 +0000

For every Â£1 he got, the PRS kept Â£10.

By: BlanK

BlanK — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:13:51 +0000

Hmmm… money going to artists from anti-piracy schemes? This is definitely new.

By: @2

@2 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:12:41 +0000

..HE BOTHERS BECAUSE HE’S A DOFUS!

Btw, bravo Mr.Suitcase!

By: Ants and mute

Ants and mute — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:57:49 +0000

cool news, good to see another artist highlighting serious problems with government approaches to piracy, and using the situation to produce something positive for fans; for both customers and pirates.

By: $aze

$aze — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:42:47 +0000

Who burns CDs these days neway? I plug my USB drive full of PIRATED music straight into the head unit! Kiss my azz suckers!

By: @1

@1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:32:08 +0000

We could say the same to you MJMC, why bother commenting if you have nothing interesting to say??

By: MJMC

MJMC — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:26:43 +0000

Nothing more interesting to write about no??