Attacking the internet and liberties therein won’t help their case, it’ll only sicken regular users who will then seek to find any way of getting back at them whether it be via peaceful boycotting or malicious hack attacks.

if only we could find a way to unite… the way the politics game is now played it seems that only a small amount of the population actually has their voices heard politically, and that needs to change. people need to unite to bring forward a new political movement or these types of injustices will just continue forward.

There are exceptions, but usually I’m unable to decide if I like the content itself unless I can fully experience it. So I’m not interested in reading self-serving hype or reviews from people I don’t trust, nor do I want some poor quality little clip of it served up on a site full of ads or on a site requiring special software and a handover of personal data to even access like iTunes. I want to hear/see the thing and decide whether to keep it or delete it or pay for or rent a better/physical copy ASAP, or whatever. Until the industry provides an affordable, anonymous way for me to do that without incurring liability for “piracy”, I’ll continue to take advantage of black market sources online.

Sorry, that should read “…justify piracy is if you like…”. Should be “if”, not “is”.

That’s total bullshit.

If you don’t like the content itself, just don’t have anything to do with it at all. The only time I can see when you can justify piracy is is you like the content itself, but if you don’t like the packaging it comes in, with all the DRM, shrink-wrap licensing, etc. it comes in.

By pirating in that case, you’re sending the message that you like the content, but not the stuff it comes with. You can even pay the company for it if you want!

So, instead, you should be saying, “I pirate stuff because I like it, but I don’t want to have to put up with DRM and shrink-wrap licenses.”

A very well written article.

You have partially restored my faith in the danish people :)

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The state of the USA today is in large part the fault of greed. The responsibility is not just that of the offenders but also those who sit around watching it happen without lifting a finger to help.

The US economy, the music industry, the movie industry is not hurting because people “steal” its because we the people let the companies steal from us.

599,000 of those downloads were by those of us who were never going to actually “SPEND MONEY” on this stuff. If the crap you were peddling was any good you’d still be able to sell plenty of CDs at Wal-Mart and run a lot of paid downloads through iTunes regardless of the P2P download rate.

Come to Canada.. DPI is full blast with Sandvine boxes.. When they detect Bit Torrent or p2p traffic in general you go real slow.. As for the RIAA(CRIA)\MPAA asking for Canadians info.. We have been there before and they lost.. This was YEARS ago though.. They will try again soon egnough.. Probably this year..

1. Outlaw file sharing
2. Outlaw personal encryption and anonymization services
3. Set up a global, privately-run Internet surveillance program to spy on everybody all the time without a warrant — run by ISPs and paid for by the taxpayers
4. And finally, get the authority to block anyone from the Internet entirely, without the involvement of police, courts or any verifiable trail of evidence

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Jan would you care to explain how the RIAA\MPAA are attempting to outlaw encryption\ anonymous services? Did you pull that out of your arse? For all the articles I’ve read over time on TorrentFreak I have not once seen the RIAA\MPAA attempt to bring those services into the picture.. Am I missing something? Probably not … This is one of the first Torrentfreak articles im going to say isn’t vetted properly.. It is a puff piece for the author.. Although I agree with 1,3 and 4, by including 2 you have tarnished the validity of the post.. Did anybody research point #2? I see other users are confused aswell..

Bad Enigmax!

http://www.tech3d.net

Using their index everything approach would be great for even such groups as organised crime, hackers, evil santa etc etc. Why who else would a search engine index unsecured live web-cam feeds. Server configuration files and countless other web site objects when the only conceivable group who would use this is are people looking to snoop around. Every trained web savvy person knows this.

REASON: the search engine is an indexing service, so is TPB, plenty of stuff on there which is perfectly legal. Its how the user uses the service, the distinction here and where your analogy fails is that unlike an AK-47 which is designed for malicious intent it is not designed by the user. Where as with dynamic web content indexed by TPD designed cumulatively by the users by means of uploading torrent files specifically what that torrent file seeds.

Look at the language used like “anti-file sharing”. One would argue file sharing is rather ambiguous and at what degree does this become the “transfer of copyrighted material without creators consent”.

We also see that their stance is “banning peer to peer”… what so there will be a ban on a theoretical network topology? Using a previous analogy lets ban the wheel because it is used to build devices which can run over people!

At the moment there is a focus on WWW applications specifically torrent indexing sites. In the past we have seen other internet applications targeted. Its conceivable that if there is a crack down on torrent indexing sites that torrent indexing will move to another internet application or work in conjunction with another protocol/service which allows for indexing of torrents. Back to IRC for torrent downloads anyone? Or perhaps they could target google because they provide just as much capability to share torrent files / files as TPB or anyone else.

Are RIAA/MPAA going to demand full deep packet inspection of all internet traffic beyond their already ridiculous moves to monitor torrent indexing websites?
Ok could we use the money this would take to be implemented globally on something useful… like curing disease or something, equally vague as it is ambitious.

This notion of internet censorship has disastrous consequences as it will piggyback well with policy drafted by government eg: Australian governments plan for internet censorship which would probably break the internet in Australia. (slow it to the point where applications dont run properly for business or individuals everyday purposes).

Great! so who do citizens decide to sue for incompetence first… their government or RIAA,MPAA when we loose our privacy and the internet?

And it wont stop what they call ‘file sharing’ anyway. eg: Just look how easy it is to get around china’s internet censorship.

This is not new news it has been happening for a long time and the SpecTrial is there to speed it up.

The problem is the article is about the RIAA trying to take away filesharing for LEGAL purposes as well. Stealing tax payers money to do it. Learn to read.

Of course, the bigwigs have panicked and generally gone overboard. The whole suing and charging £20,000 per song or whatever is just downright foolish. That isn’t going to help your cause, just makes everyone hate you.

The bottom line is that we ‘downloaders’ or sharers are in the wrong and ARE killing the music industry, PC gaming industry etc. Its a shame, I do ever so like free stuff.

“Thank you very much all you goons that sent my little record label into bankruptcy. We invested $250K into our recordings, and more than 600,000 copies were distributed in one month on the Pirate Bay. We sold less than $50K worth of real product.”

Who are you and what was your record label? Was your company private or was it publicly traded, i.e. can we see the books, can we see what your product was, and can we see what kind of marketing you did? Why on earth did you spend $250K on recordings when recording costs have plummeted to rock bottom in the past decade? And 600,000 or 600 million, 98% of them spent their disposable incomes on other industries’ products already, so that money never going to be yours anyway. Every download is not a lost sale; you & your cronies said so yourselves right here. Sounds to me like you would’ve mismanaged the money anyway. Even if you did everything right with your marketing and your artists are filling stadiums, you somehow managed to project 6 to 10 times the amount of sales you could realistically generate in this market & economic climate. And you think you deserve to stay in business? Bwahahaha! I’ve got friends who run labels. They are not rich but they are still in business and aren’t blowing 5X their income on recording costs, I’ll tell you that much.

dont get me wrong i love the internet and file sharing.but it sounds to me like we are LOSING this fight…theres just too many crooked judges and misinformed people in the world…

what… do we do now?

And anyway, you’re going to give me crap about copyright on this board? Really? *wipes away tear of laughter*