Comments on: RIAA’s Hostile Takeover of the Internet

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:14:55 +0000

They’ll never learn. Prior to the internet the record industry struggled to combat people duplicating tapes and CDs for friends or on larger scales in markets etc.

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.

By: Manix

Manix — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:10:19 +0000

@245

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.

By: zaphod4269

zaphod4269 — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:53:25 +0000

The greedy corporate a$$holes are hopelessly outnumbered. every time i use my torrent client there are over 1,000,000 people using the system.
1 million+ people is an unfuckwithable group!
As long as people stand up for their rights, and don’t pussy out when the revolution comes, everything will be fine.

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By: Bloodyscot

Bloodyscot — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:43:55 +0000

This is a war nobody wins, stopping piracy completely is not going to happen but they can make it so hard to do that is stops most people. The large companies and goverments are taking over the internet, its only a matter of time until they force the ISPs to block any questionable packets or encrypted files. Some of the new software to check packets for copyrighted material is very good and getting better. Encryption is great until they start blocking it if they don’t have a key to read it. With the new terrorist laws it could happen sooner than you think. Some goverments will use this to stop any information they don’t like, the Nazist and Communist were good at this with radio and newsprint. The small and new artists are getting hurt the most so far but soon everyone will be impacted. Piracy is wrong(it does some good much like radio) but these new laws are worse and how bad are the laws coming if they have to keep them secret until they become law.

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By: Stammerer

Stammerer — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:59:32 +0000

@240/241 – “The only time I can see when you can justify piracy is if you like the content itself, but if you don’t like the packaging it comes in, with all the DRM, shrink-wrap licensing, etc.”

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.

By: Mikaeal

Mikaeal — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:12:41 +0000

This is BS, I'm tired of RIAA pooping on everyone's parade. - web design studio

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:07:36 +0000

@ my previous post:

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

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:05:22 +0000

I keep on hearing a message here: “We pirate it because it’s crap, it sucks, and it’s a rip-off.”

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.”

By: Wolfie

Wolfie — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:19:27 +0000

ALLIANCE FTW! thats what we need, and of course willpower to succeed with such a thing

By: Zionism For Supremacy!

Zionism For Supremacy! — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:57:06 +0000

I think this is an amazing idea! HAIL TO THE RIAA. Now you right-wing extremists will be dealt with.

By: Neverhood

Neverhood — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:02:47 +0000

Thank You Jens.

A very well written article.

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:13:30 +0000

@16

Check
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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:54:46 +0000

33 “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.”
What if you never knew about TPB?
The problem is that as you do look for rapid number is easy, you can actually track each time a pirate copy has been done, what if that could had been done with cassete tapes or VHS? Would you blame Teac or Maxell?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:52:31 +0000

I live in a country where 300 euros is what most people earn in a month ,now from that ammount you pay 200 in bills (electric ,gas ,water ,etc.) so you are left with 100 euros ,now a game on a pc is roughly around 70 euro here and sometimes 100 for new games “Crysis is about 120 euro” …so my question to you is ,what to do ? buy a game and starve for 1 month ? buy a music CD (30 euro and good luck finding the band you want ,cause there are little to no specialized music stores in here) ?
It’s easy to compare all people of the world with you ,it’s easy to think evryone makes at least 2000 euro a month .
If the companies compalin about piracy and not having money …hmm …well then i guess they would have to stop sponsoring bad movies ,movies like :Disaster Movie ,Date Movie(and those retarded “farts are funny” movies) ,stop making the 1000 edition of scary movie and for god sake stop with “i got muscles but no bran and i got a big hun” movies ,they are waste of film rolls .
As for music ,how about more concerts ,how about some nice song previews .I love the idea that i can go to myspace and check out bands site and get a nice look at they’re sounds and if i like i can buy the cd .
I guess that’s all i had to say ..my post doesen’t mean to offend anyone all i wanted to say is if you go on a business ,of any kind ,there’s bound to be some losses and we all take that risk ,that’s the way it was and that’s the way it will be
ohh and one last thing if piracy is costly then how come Ubisoft made this year 1.5 billion euro’s ..i would say that’s alot

By: Puzzlerf

Puzzlerf — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:17:09 +0000

I have to say I’m really disappointed in the world today. Especially in my fellow Americans, particularly the elders.

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.

By: Billy Boo Bob

Billy Boo Bob — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:38:30 +0000

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.

By: StijnS

StijnS — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:27:07 +0000

Well, if they can attack the pirate bay because people use it in an illegal way, next time I get hit by a car (on my bike) I will sue the people who made the road, the car, the signposts towards where the accident happened, the people who invented the orad, the car and all of the components needed to hit me with that car. It’s basically the same as they’re doing to the internet

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