ANY broadcast can be recorded.
sharing it over the net. by p2p means. Is only new tech

Don’t shun new tech or it won’t grow & and become helpful in every day life.

piracy is the illegal manufacture and sale of conterfeit products. piracy is stealing revenue which belongs to the copyright holder, piracy is stealing

filesharing is copying, filesharing is not piracy

http://www.h33t.com

“did none of your parents teach you not to take things that aren’t yours?”

This article is about downloading TV shows. TV, in case you hadn’t heard, is broadcast for people to watch for free in most countries. In others, people have already paid for the content via a “TV License”. How can downloading TV shows be considered taking what isn’t yours when anyone can watch the shows on a TV?

Why can I record the shows on a VCR or DVR and it’s perfectly legal, but if I download shows off the internet, suddenly it’s a crime?

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“No. Not quite. The copyright lobby’s RESPONSE to your theft is what’s turning the world into 1984.

I hate it how you pirates yank on the dragons tail then act all surprised and self righteous when it retaliates.

Cause and effect, moron. You are the cause. They are the effect.”

So what was the cause that made them try to get the VCR banned? Or that made them put region codes on DVDs to keep people from playing DVDs that were LEGALLY purchased in other countries? Or that made them include HDCP in the HDMI standard so that anyone with older HD TVs can’t benefit from HD content today?

The content industry has a long history of trying to control and suppress every new technology that they don’t agree with.

As for the article; It’s too bad there’s no way to count Usenet downloads in the total. I download all my TV shows from the newsgroups.

Give it up?

Sorry, but we already have a copyright-free culture.

The lobbyists and politicians just haven’t cought up yet.
And apparently neither have you. Say, do your Mommy and Daddy know you’re using the internet?

We already have an example of this: internet + free web hosting. God know this has bought us SO MANY GREAT WEBSITES made by RANDOM PEOPLE.

Not.

Give it up you communist retard.

AHAHAHAHA!!

You’re comparing the copyright lobby to some kind of fearful dragon? Dear, are you unaware of their long track record of astonishing failure in their inherently futile “war” against filesharing?

Yanking on a dragon’s tail. That just makes me chuckle, ’cause it’s more like punting a crippled chihuahua.

So piracy isnt stealing, its piracy.

You make it sound like they were sitting on their hands all this time and just kicked in after downloading started.
Nice joke, talk to letterman about having you on the show.

As for the whole dumb downloading is stealing:

http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2008/03/20/downloading-is-stealing/

and

http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2008/03/23/download-if-you-love-your-mom-and-increase-her-love-for-you-plus-its-good-for-the-environment/

Indeed, free information shall enhance culture – I think that the most important positive effect is the blurring of the line between audience and creator, so that anyone can just jump in and “be a part of the community of a part of culture” or something like that. Thus, it is the democratization of culture itself – not by the people merely just choosing what is good or bad, but the people creating it themselves.

Roze

Roze

Need I give you an example? Here is an example of a “derivative work” made by a random individual:
http://www.geocities.jp/i26k4i3/istspring/no17.html

Roze

Roze

preventing piracy is not an acceptable excuse for introducing universial survailence and can thus not be blamed on pirates. If you accept it as an excuse it is you who are to blame for allowing it.

The times, are changing. information no longer can, nor should be, controlled, so you’d better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone.

You will notice that it is not the artist that are fighting piracy, many of them openly embrace it. It is the businessmen that fight it because piracy has made their method of distribution obslete. It’s like abacus makers trying to outlaw computers because they are losing profit.

Roze

Remember:

Piracy is not theft, it just making a copy of the original and its environmentally friendly!!!

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w240/TwoPerfect/funny/6akm2kh.jpg

No. Not quite. The copyright lobby’s RESPONSE to your theft is what’s turning the world into 1984.

I hate it how you pirates yank on the dragons tail then act all surprised and self righteous when it retaliates.

Cause and effect, moron. You are the cause. They are the effect.