Thanks for sticking up for him Binsy, but we all know what's wrong with the system.

i don't think everyone is a plant stfu, just YOU, go & get a real job.

hhahhahahahahaha

I have custom firmware on my PSP, but I don't use it to pirate UMD's. Why? Because most of the games being put out on the PSP today aren't worth the bandwidth. Loco Roco 2, the GTA games and Final Fantasy are the only ones really worth it. I use mine mostly to emulate retro consoles such as the NES, Megadrive, the Scumm engine (for point 'n' clicks) and the Gameboys. The PSP is possibly one of the best development platforms out there. You can even run Windows on it, with the right emulators, and Sony completely ignore the talent of these amateur developers and attempt to stop them with firmware updates.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, everyone.

If we were to establish a party to try & change law we would be prosecuted by the the capitalists to generate even more funds for their so called cause. As Roze says below, we need to educate family & friends about the mafiaa, copywrong & file sharing to starve them of funds,without money they will not have millions of dollars to spend on lawyers to lie for them, only then can we organize into a file sharing party & battle on the same level to have them abolished & put the artists back in control of their art.

I think that the reason why they care so much, and why they have bothered to unite and become active, and why there is an active Piratbyran, and so on, is essentially due to the fact that they realize how important file-sharing is to society, not merely themselves, and that copyright itself is a threat to some basic civil rights such as the right to privacy. The final answer is that I do not know why: this is something for me to figure out.

I think that the reason why they care so much, and why they have bothered to unite and become active, and why there is an active Piratbyran, and so on, is essentially due to the fact that they realize how important file-sharing is to society, not merely themselves, and that copyright itself is a threat to some basic civil rights such as the right to privacy. The final answer is that I do not know why: this is something to figure out.

From what i've seen, Sweden has a brilliant attitude towards file-sharing in public and in parliament. Maybe im wrong, but the people there seem far less apathetic and more open and engaged in IP rights than elsewhere, i don't know why public awareness is more switched on there but perhaps we could learn something from them?

I think that the public perception is very important, but since the people who are already into file-sharing already have a positive view of file-sharing, I think that it is up to the people within file-sharing to give it a positive public image. The apathy is thus something to overcome, but I think that they can do good, since they are numerous – the only thing to do is to remind them why it is important not merely to be concerned with oneself but also to care about the law. Specifically, one thing that file-sharers can do is to introduce family and friends to file-sharing, and for file-sharers to tell their family and friends why it is bad to support the MAFIAA.

We've got no chance of changing anything at the moment because no-one is doing anything proactive to change the status quo. I honestly think BT is amazing but until someone gives a face (figuratively) to the "evil" "stealing" file-sharer then the general public perception of us, and the potential of bittorrent technology will always continue to be negative.

That is the thing that really pisses me off, the internet is great as it is. Its time for the entertainment industry to embrace it. There are plenty of potential new ways to generate income, the EFF has lots of examples of this:

http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntar…

It would not matter how much I do, if nobody else would do anything. The fact is that I perhaps can do many things, but it would be quite meaningless if there are not other people doing the same.

I'm not a fan of the way the entertainment industry conducts itself, but all you are doing is making everyone who loves file-sharing and who wants an overhaul of digital distribution, look like crazed idiots. Calm down.

Why don't u do something about it if you're so passionate about it. Flaming the RIAA and MPAA on TorrentFreak aint exactly gonna get you anywhere…

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Nice one B.

And threatening civilians with lawsuits and stealing tens of thousands of <insert currency here> from them is 'good'? I'd rather be evil, thanks.

Mwuhahahaha. *fiery background and screams of anguish*

The only reason I could possibly explain is NDS games are ways cheaper than PSP. That could explain why they are more popular and people actually go out and buy it.

Roze: "Moreover, you think that the industry support is so important. No, it isn't. Popular support is more important."

That doesn't even make sense. People only support content that they get something out of not content they don't like. By supporting content producers you are supporting the industry. Popular support = industry support so hope can it be way more important.

so its stupid of sony supporting the MAFIAA since they only loose from it… or are they just very ignorant and thing they can have both good software AND hardware sales…

hahahahaahahaha

But to be more on the subject, I feel a little ambivalence on the PSP piracy as it clearly kills the developers… Ready at Dawn, a studio who made the wonderful God of War: CoO for PSP left the PSP game industry a while ago because they felt the piracy was too great, i.e. many just downloaded their games so RaD didn’t get enough money to finance the development.

That saying, I only buy the games I find worthy my money =P
Like Crisis Core.

Is it not obvious who might be behind it?

If the entertainment industry is willing to pay $millions to goons like MediaDefender to spread FAKE files and DoS-attack torrent sites, why does anyone believe they won’t be paying people to write FAKE comments and sabotage P2P discussion sites in the same manner?

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