LONG LIVE FILE SHARING!

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I prefer darwins natural selection. the world is ever changing so things in this world need to adapt to survive in this ever changing world. Filesharing on a global scale is the new player on the scene and its very succesfull. if something is succesfull it will grow and force other beings out of excistence or force them to adapt so they can promote their own chance of survival. it can also promote the growth of other beings in this new worl order.

to put it in other words. the companies that are losing money need to find other ways to prevent piracy otherwise just like 99,9% of other animal species they will go extinct. Companies that can adapt will surive and those that cant or wont are doomed.

I hope this rambling made some sense. if not well too bad haha.

The game i bought after downloading was world of warcraft. why? i could not get the damb thing working. i had everything except a valid serial. Blizzard did a good job to make sure its really hard (for me) to play without an original serial.

Now, the debate is simple. Or we use internet, the good and the bad who comes with it, or we live without it, being sure that the supercompanys make their superbucks.
But you can not sell us faster and faster internet connections and expecting us just to surf arround with it.
Why do governements (EU and USA in frontline) and tech companis spend billions on bringing up the speed of connections? To read poems, emails, and CNN?
They can not punish us for a crime they helped us to comit. Cause, face it, if we all remained on dial up, P2P would not eve exist.

So please leave us alone, and stop blaming us for using internet at its maximum capacity.
Now, sure there will be lees budget in movies and music clips. I don t feel so bad about that. Maybe there will be more space for real music, less Britney shit, Backstree Boys and all these things… And if musician want to make more money thay can go make more concerts, and earn their life like everbody else.
About the movies, they could start spending more times on their scenarios, instead of spending more money on their special effects. (5th Element costed one fifth the budget of Terminator 3…)
Anyway, these are remakrs and ideas… Just to tell to the world to stop attacking us for what they gave us, and start take us as part of an evolution which is affecting all and everywhere.

i mean damn if u have the money to afford a server, AND that good of a connection, surely u can afford to take a trip ( or wire money) to a good friend in a foreign land to host it….
but that’s just me.

and also, i dunno how much of this is true but from what I hear, its the sharing that’s illegal. so if u dload something, and you at least half-ass make it look legit (iso’s?) and there’s no trace u shared it, then its legal. You can tell em you had a copy but sold it, and kept your backup…

I download only the best programs and not the shit ones, I don’t make any commercial profit from using them. No company loses money, because I would never buy cheap shit programs nor would I be able to afford overpriced decent software.

I download half-decent movies, because in this country the only movies that show at the cinema are bullshit stephen shitberg american box office lord of the fag family turd films. No company loses money because I don’t go to the cinemas and if I couldn’t download movies I wouldn’t buy or watch any anyway, its that simple.

I buy every big release game that comes out. And download all the shit games just to play them once then delete them.

Without downloadable music, I’d just survive off of free music releases anyway.

See my lazy-assed average user logic?

it`s funny and strange how this topic is dicused over and over again.
I don`t understand why you guys are spending so much time with this chickens*it. We all got our opinion, somebody has found his one, someone made himself one…and only a hand full of a few poor suckers are just reading this lines without any thoughs.
Well to get to the point, myself is asking, if the gibberish talker here are aware, that the real dudes are not talking in a place like that? To be honest, i wouldn`t be here either, if i had something better to do at the time i`m writing this.

well, let`s see how many roots i`ll bring up:)

Okay, but I fear what its approaching, Caruso. In the depression, when Okies, entire families pushed off their farms because of money, were roaming the orchards in California fighting over baskets of food to sell for a nickel. And the farm owners weren’t obligated then to give money to the poor, either. It never is a problem of those with money, since they don’t want to have to help if they don’t want to. So they don’t have to! And what — the U.S. government FORCES them to let a crop go for a year — hard earned freedoms down the drain. But what choice did we have? And in the beginning, government was supposed to be you and me working together. Doesn’t it always become this way?

I can’t see much to feel strongly about. It’s a big complicated mess. Don’t try to bake up a pure and simple truth, because there isn’t one.

Here is a nugget of wisdom that should hit around 20, sometimes much later depending on your level of ignorance: everyone is the enemy! The “big bad corporate crooks” who garner politicians, the “peasants” who just want that “gub-ment check”, the leave it to beaver syndrome, they are all of you. Civilisation is a struggle between all members. When a member gets used to watching free movies (which were only made as a marketable commodity, you fucktards), he will protest to the ends of the earth against someone taking it away. You can bet the same happened to the producers – getting used to actually making money on movies is much better, don’t you think?

Scarcity principle, folks. High school econ. The arguments here are made by people who only know an argument they’ve heard. People who depend on expectations instead of observations. I pity all of you.

THINGS ARE NEVER, EVER TOO EXPENSIVE. IT’S THE WORLD’S AQUISITIVVE POWER THAT IS TOO LOW.

Godd Night

I’ve actually done this, minus the 1000 licenses. I had a company buy 5 photoshop licenses tho which is a hell of a lot more than I’ve pirated the software. Ch-ching.

PEACE And get it all for free.
F@#k the big companies and Gov.

First I work for a big Software MNC (Multi National Corp.) and to me it seems that these software MNC’s mostly release software for each other and not for the common man (ironically computers started as a common man’s hobby). For example, Microsoft’s OS os most convenient for these MNC’s to purchase than for a kid on the street. If these people really want to beat piracy, the only way to go is to make the process of piracy more expensive than buying the software. That is the only way to ELIMINATE piracy. Any other way – No Joy ! There is some headway – with the release of Visual Studio Express Editions that are free – atleast for now.

The Linux (Open Source) front is not making enough waves with Free Software because even they gotta live. So they have ended up saying Open Source is not free. I agree that to live people gotta make money. But that does not mean make pople pay through their nose. “If you like it, you buy it” is a good thing if you are Mr. Money Bags.

But all this doesn’t mean Piracy is a good thing. It still is bad. But what do we do if there is no solution to it ? We cannot use our desktops as paper weights (Damn Expensive if you ask me). But till the time that the decision makers listen to the common man and make software affordable to them this will happen.

By the way – I am from India too. I agree that the West owes us nothing and we should make it ourselves; but we were not a “Piss poor third world nation”. Dude, we gave you the ZERO the other half of the binary language for your computers. So think first and get your facts straight before shooting your mouth off. This is a proverb that every Indian knows.

for compairison:

We don’t have a DMCA laws in Europe that take away about every bit of fair-use rights a consumer has.

We don’t have Mitnick-like cases over here.

The fact is that when you play with fire u burn your fingers.

but if I wanted to play with it I still would do it in Europe since I don’t like 130Kg cellmates called Bob.

Europe is a much nicer place where still some correct laws exist. Too bad the US Entertainment lobby is gaining ground here so some dumb ass politicians think its better to bust a kid or 2 put them on trial and dance on his grave later on. It’s not like that didn’t happen in the US yet.

So stop trying to say the US is better than Europe, it isn’t. I’ve lived there I know what it’s like. Europe is a much more friendly place to live in. Atleast here they can’t fire my ass after 20 years of service with a 2 weeks notice. Now that’s illegal imho.

India was a piss poor third world country before the”evil” white man invaded, and it’s now a very polluted smelly third world country today. They should be thankful the evil Europeans taught them how to exploit they’re resources. P.S The west owes you nothing. Create it yourself.

Hobhouse, Henry Writes: “Finally, the VOC (Dutch East India COmpany) ruled over eight foreign governments in Amboyna, Banda, Ternate, Macassar, Malacca, Ceylon, Java and on the Cape of Good Hope. Factories stood in Bengal, on the Coromandel coast, in Surat, Thailand and on the Persian Gulf. In the end, the Dutch East Indies Company was the richest company in the world; it helped to finance the blossoming of Dutch civilisation: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, Vondel, Grotius, Spinoza, the largest publishing operation in the world in the 17th century with numerous authors and poets, some forgotten today, all the painters architects and above all the patrons.

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Today, Microsoft can easily release its Windows 95 or even WIndows 3.11 for free usage by the 3rd world.
Adobe can release its old versions of Photoshop for free.
Do they do that? Hell, no. They think of profiting immensely and more than their work merits.

Piracy is real world. Welcome to the real world.