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““Think First, Copy Later,”

this is a tad hypocritical on the part of torrent freak methinks

If someone has led you to believe that people are downloading books, then you better do some more research. The only books being downloaded en masse are textbooks and you should be blaming the schools for forcing students to purchase them since they were already given tax money to do that.

If you feel that way then maybe you should stop pirating and use bittorrent legally the way millions of people do every day.

More and more artist are seeing this and are capitalizing on it.

These small presses and book publishers should be capitalizing on whats in front of them now use the new means of promotion to their advantage.

If the small guys scan adapt faster then the big guys then that will prove bigger isnt always better.

But people, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of small presses out there, and self-publishers. I expect the majority of books are small press or self-published. SOMEBODY has invested money in them. Often they have invested everything they have. And then the pirates come along and scuttle their little boat trying to sail the publishing waters. And even if the only publishers were the Big Boys (who, I admit, don’t always play nice)that still doesn’t change the fact that to download free, copyrighted material that someone else created and invested money and/or years of sweat is … just … plain … stealing.

My children were brought up to believe in honesty and fairness. Maybe those are too old-fashioned today. They should be taught to respect intellectual rights as well as other rights. And if they’re not being in the home (and apparently some are not) then the schools have to do it. Schools have to teach a lot of things these days because the parents are too lazy or unconcerned to do it. Ethics should be taught, and that includes respect for the property of others, whether intellectual or physical.

the small guys will be hit in this fight against the big corporations yes

the same can be said when we stormed the nazis and defeated them im sure innocent smaller people got hurt in the process but it was for the greater cause and we are all happy now. the small guys will not have died in vain

ROFLMAO — Believe me, if you spent months and sometimes years CREATING (as in making something from nothing; that’s what creating is)a work, be it music, art, books, poured in your life’s resources, your toil and often your tears, and it was what you worked at to pay your bills–you’d change your tune. (Assuming you’d created one.) That big ol’ juicy open heart would not be quite so generous if you actually had anything to lose.

When anyone downloads a (thankfully) copyrighted work from a pirate site they’re STEALING. End of story. Is stealing right just because you can? Is keeping the artist from earning money (and believe me, few of them earn much!)right because you can do it? Hey, I think I’ll kick that old lady’s cane out from under her!! Why shouldn’t I? After all, I CAN do it. So why should I? Huh?

I have never seen such a collection of comments from people who don’t know what they’re talking about, who have nothing at stake because they have created nothing, and who will pretty much turn themselves inside out to justify what they know perfectly well (IF they understand the difference between right and wrong, between stealing and fair compensation for work done) is wrong.

This isn’t a new problem. Charles Dickens fought this same fight in the 1800′s. American papers were serializing his work AND HE DIDN’T GIVE PERMISSION AND WASN’T PAID A DIME. But I suppose people here who think intellectual piracy is ok would think that was ok too.

Maybe we’re just a world of immoral pirates at heart. Take it because you can. Screw the artist. Because you can.

It can’t last long…

I would also like to point out i know several rich people who down and share with others are they criminals too? Are they bad for believing in a system that rewards you for making good products?

has the copyright alliance, in fact, violated a copyright?

Can you imagine the money to be made in that way?

Why the industry don’t do that?
Why do they let millions of people around the world take what is “theirs” for free and do nothing?

Of course people should be paid for their work the real question is in what form and for what LoL

Definitely not for filesharing(pirating) that is more like TV or radio, that by the way passed 80 years without paying royalties. I mean the radio guys got 80 years without paying and the industry still did flourish an have had some of the biggest profits of all times.

In the digital age when supply and demand don’t apply anymore CDs and DVDs will die eventually after all who wants to buy a plastic disc that will be obsolete in 10 years and force you to pay thousands of dollars in replacements? or have to pay for something(filesharing) the is more like free TV then anything else?

Sharing is not stealing if it was every single radio listener or couch potato in the world is infringing on copyright right now.

Care to offer proof for any of your lies?

Look at my post and see for yourself
“Nice try. But I’m not going to let you dodge the point, and the point is this; you lied through your teeth that filesharing is theft.”

I never mentioned filesharing EVER in this thread, so maybe you should look into hooked on phonics yourself?

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And my point is.. you made up something and have been using it to falssly refute my argument from the get go. I never mentioned filesharing. I mentioned piracy.

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Many pirates do this. They play games with words. Sharing, when it comes to something someone else created, is in effect stealing, because you are making one a copy of it and distributing it instead of paying for it.

Haha. Ironic that you say I can’t put two and two together when you apparently can’t read. I said you have a *rat* sized brain. A rat’s brain is larger than a pea.

Maybe I was being too generous.

@trollstyles
“I wasn’t talking about filesharing IN GENRAL. I was talking about the pirate bay.”

Nice try. But I’m not going to let you dodge the point, and the point is this; you lied through your teeth that filesharing is theft.

Or… Wait, did you think I was replying to the part where you were talking about the Pirate Bay since you’re partially illiterate? Oh. In that case you’re forgiven. Just learn to read, okay? I hear Hooked on Phonics works wonders.

@trollstyles
“When someone creates something it’s theirs NOT YOURS FOR THE TAKING”

You’re damn right it’s not mine for the taking. It’s mine for the *sharing*. :D

This is a real problem that effects Americas youth, and it’s better that t they learn the facts now than get in trouble later.

Again, as someone else said, all these anti copyright people baffle me. When someone creates something it’s theirs NOT YOURS FOR THE TAKING. I think #87 is right. People here don’t understand the real world and they think that money grows on trees. Most people here probably don’t have jobs, so they don’t understand the value of hard work. Instead they go on selfishly believing, like young child that everything in the world is theirs. It’s sort of like the “gimme gimme” phase, where the child thinks everything is theirs.

Many of the anti copyright people here deseperately cling to the notion that everything in the world is theirs for the taking.

@148 : you got it. People here are just opposed to the idea of paying for what they own.

This lesson was bought to you by venture captalists and devote christians, good night.

how does 95+ year copyright benefit society?
How does life +95 years do it. more people = more copyrights = less ability to innovate off them.

Values are to be taught in school and church NOT in a govt run class room.

Education = facts only sirs. FAIL, and if i were a parent when will this end, them telling my kids what religion is best next? where is the line. BELIEF and the STATE are supposed ot be separate, OBAMAWOOD is becoming NOT ONLY CHANGE BUT AWFUL CHANGE

WELCOME TO 1984

They’re actually using a, too kindly stated, sub-par review from a self proclaimed think tank that studies the digital revolution. And the first and brightest shining idea that think tank had, was choosing pff for initials. …

Oh, so I guess artists can’t make a living in Spain and Canada? Because Spanish and Canadian law holds that filesharing for personal use is legal.

But wait a minute… Artists *can* and regularly *do* make a living in Canada and Spain! Uh oh.

You hear that? It’s the sound of your bullshit failing.

Every single person on the face of this earth is risking seeing their privacy go out the window.

For them to stop people from sharing anything they have inspect what goes on in the wires(tubes if you like) so there goes privacy, someone somewhere will be watching everything you type or send and in some countries they want to go even further allowing law enforcement to put keyloggers and trojans in peoples computers without any supervision.

Will should I care I don’t do nothing wrong you say. Well that is not true every single country in the face of the earth have a body of law so extensive covering so much territory that no one not even judges and lawyers can know all the laws that are in existence today so if even the professionals don’t know how would you actually know if you did nothing wrong? You can’t and privacy is a layer that protects everyone for persecution and harassment. So even if artists don’t survive economically or make less they are not relevant for society.