Dr. Dre did the same thing by saying how mad he was that an imcoplete music track from his forthcoming album was accidently leaked by one of his homies. Sounds a bit fishy.

Just thinking out loud though I like to hear both sides of the story.

Time to donate.

Don’t trust them.

Commonly in London I get these charity types coming up to me trying to get my details on their nice PDA strapped to their neck, they’re wearing nice “company” t-shirts.

My solution is to tell them that they and their COMPANY disgusts me.

If you donate to charities you’re a twat.

Guys, just cause you don’t bother to READ the news, doesn’t mean it wasn’t covered. TPB trial didnt make the tv news much because they only have like 30mins and, hey, they have to prioritise.

It was covered pretty extensively on the bbc website (tho obv. not as extensively as here!)

Look:
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2F&q=pirate%20bay&tab=ns&scope=all

The Guardian too ran big coverage on its Technology section, with specific articles on several days of the trial.

Jiss

I AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETELY!

I too only heard the UK news mention TPB when they handed out the final sentence.
Why didn’t they cover the story before and after the trail?

I would say BBC new appears impartial but when you focus on the stories they cover. They miss out important facts, use video in deceiving ways, select quotes, favor some stories over others and the thing that i really hate, they patronise the viewer.

This is why i like sites the the pirate bay. They stand for progress.
I would still like to see P2P evolve past bittorent sharing sites but this what people want to use ATM.

Anyay at least though file sharing we have the internet we have today. Because would our internet really be so good right now if p2p didn’t exist? Would millions of people have bought those expensive connections for browsing the web?

All people want is to get their media quickly and easily for a reasonable amount of money.
I don’t think that will be possible for another 5 years or so though and if file sharing was stunted or stopped … i don’t hat that will ever happen.

Anyone anti-piracy is just as greedy as hell, retarded, or so ignorant they don’t see things for how they are.

What I want to know is… how many people who might not have purchased the cd did so after downloading and listening to the song (and enjoying it)?

It is one thing to take a song where the money will go to artists and music labels making millions but taking a song that goes to charity, thats to low for my standard. However i do agree i would rather download the song and then give to charity directly.

Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors are the idiots behind this pushing for criminal charges. Those idiots first get attention not to long ago in Spain with an illegal wedding crashing to attempt to discover if they were owed royalties for public performance during the event. SGAE was fined $82,000 dollars as a result.

This latest is a new low, just when you thing they can’t get any lower. You see, even though it is a charity song, they want their pound of flesh. Just because the artists are doing it for charity, doesn’t mean SGAE will go along…they won’t. They want their money, plain an simple, all 10% of it.

So yes it is about the money and not the money for charity! Read here for the source of the previous statements…

http://torrentfreak.com/music-piracy-controversy-surrounds-charity-fund-raising-090610/

spoken like a true parasite.

“Donations should skyrock now, if P2P is what we claim it to be ;)”
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lol, don’t hold your breath…

how is it that we are physically smarter then them.. yet they are the ones in power? how did this happen..

I disagree. RIAA/MAFIAA fully acknowledges that the song is leaked and that be undone. Yet, I think they still pursue the ‘criminals’ because they can make examples out of them. What does this do? One word: fear. I think they try to scare the public and the sharing community into a state where we can never feel fully safe.

Just an opinion, no sources.

The money spent on tracking these guys down could have been spent much better I think. They seem to be forgetting what a charity is all about.

Morally, logically, lawfully..

1. As said before, people who want to donate will donate .. and most will actually just donate money, since that’s much more effective than a cd .. since that money goes through 30 stages before it (or a bit) actually ends up with the charity.
2. It is very low to use this kind of situation for your own benefit, a charity has ZERO loss, since it is a charity. This is purely for either direct gain (fines) or indirect gain (public opinion). It is not about justice .. not even slightly.

This sickens me.

Er…. its a charity FUND. If it didnt come down to money it’d be kinda pointless.

I do agree that FIMI are opportunistic money-grabbers for using this to their own advantage but i think quite a few people commenting are seriously failing to underastand that if a charity record doesnt earn money, it is a failure….

I am Italiam and I don’t support Berlusconi nor the mafia. Like me, there are many people here with the same common sence. The people who voted are scum, I agree with you on that.

The song sucks bid time anyway, I can’t believe I am reading this on TF and I haven’t heard anything on the Italian news.

i was studying there a couple years ago and I see all the kids their using Direct Connect….

I HATE THAT PROGRAM SOO STUPID

The only safe way to help out these days is to actually buy the stuff they need yourself and bloody send it to them!

Good for the italian police.

Just like the biased judge on thepiratebay.

Did you hear about this? The judge for the appeal has been put down because he was affiliated to the same copyright organization of the first judge. So, if the second judge was biased, wouldn’t it be so the first one as well?

http://trial.tepiratebay.com

We need someone from Europe that comes to help us!

An italian …

and Cant believe they arrested those people for uploading it to a dc++ hub. they ust have caused a download or two to occur. but still they are arrested and treated like a criminal organization would be.

What a Pathetic world we live in.

In england most charity records are hideous pop rendidtions of classics or songs that you can’t stand as soon as the radio stations get bored of them. Therefore the purchase of these records is simply to show off your charitibility rather then just donating.

Basically the charity record thing is a pointless sham. Yes it raises money but only because people are dicks

It’s charity.

So many times I have donated money to charity using my phone, and never received nothing back.

Idiots!

In the Netherlands we collected a half billion euro’s for the tsunami a couple of years back. It just got lost. All of it. Now where waisting money on ‘independent investigations’ to find out where the money went. It’s just ridiculous. In bangladesh (I believe it was…) the situation is still horrible, and people with the money and power to make it a better place just don’t give a fuck.

From that point I’ve decided to never donate again.

those people deserve to be arrested.

That’s precisely why they are pissed off it leaked. “They heard our shitty music?!? now we’ll never sell any!”