Paying for just one makes me an “accomplice” for the MPAA and makes me feel dirty, like I have a film all over me, like I’ve stolen a piece of my own soul to sell to the devil.
Bit torrent makes me feel clean again.
But it’s not just one industry. Paying for a lot of stuff these days seems to turns us all into batteries where we have to turn around and work for practically the same industries– “the robots”– so they can then use that money to sue people and buy up all kinds of overseas land and private islands and dictate their new rules to the locals– often their governments, police and lawyers.

The Matrix is a system, Neo…

http://sourceforge.com/projects/mrindex

Anybody got a box to stick this sucker? (Should be sweet when it gets finished)

This is a very WELCOME security feature, please keep it.

You are making the industry-standard, unproven assumption that everyone who downloads a unit of product would have bought it had it not been for it’s free availability on p2p networks.

Your claims about fair use might be true in somewhere like America, but elsewhere in the world, there are plenty of critics/reviewers and researchers legitimately obtaining copyrighted works for free and in some central European countries, duplicating copyrighted works for personal use is completely acceptable and not seen as theft by the law.

Your labeling of everyone who downloads copyrighted material as ‘thieves’ only holds weight in countries sufficiently corrupted by corporate financial influence over politics and policy-making.

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Completely o.t… but still… Neo, have you ever worked for the recording/motion picture industries (maybe cover-art design or something)? ..or for anti-piracy organisations?

The point is to get a bunch of sites like this.

You don’t get it do you?

Sell the artist not the music!

Music is just a vector not a product.