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101 Feb 28, 2006 at 06:57 by Alphasee

THey realize they’re losing this war, so they bitch and complain. Sad.

102 Feb 28, 2006 at 09:14 by Optazon

These new movies are shit to begin with. Most of them don’t even deserve a download. Same goes for music. If I had to pay somebody I’d rather pay to artists directly, not sponsor some middleman’s swimming pool. Fucking greedy bastards. Making money out of nothing, they should get a real job, not me!

103 Feb 28, 2006 at 11:42 by Skipper

So What happened to freedom?

104 Feb 28, 2006 at 13:10 by whatever

I downloaded Transporter 2 a few monts ago and i liked a movie so i invited my two best friends to watch this movie in a teater. I dont know what is really wrong with this caind of downloading things.And i think it is wrong to download stuf and making money with selling them to others.

105 Feb 28, 2006 at 15:47 by Shin

Nah, capitalism does fucking blow. It’s based on a mans right to be filthy stinking rich and charge what he likes, whilst his neighbour is poor and has nothing.

Tom Cruise doesn’t need 6 million for a film. In my lifetime, I’ll get by without spending 6 million. So can he.

I’m not a 10 year old. I have a job. I recently got in contact with a frontman from a very popular swedish band and told him I own his entire collection twice. Once, illegal copies on my computer and the second the enire collection I’ve bought on CD. He said “Well the collection on your PC is entirly legal then, in my opinion”

I explained how if it wasn’t for bit torrent, I’d never have heard his music, ever. As clubs around here play the popular shit and I don’t ahve the money to go and buy a CD without kowing what it is like. I don’t have that money and I don’t want to waste my money on potential crap.

I don’t download films. I don’t go to the cinema. I own more illegal music than I do legal music. If the MPAA want to come and track my IP and sue me, take away all my money. I’m not going to be able to go out and finish buying my collection, Am I?

Now I’m sure they are losing some money from this. But they need to realise that one man, downloading one album, is not going to destroy you. Because he might go buy it. One million men downloading one million albums is a bit crippling, so they go all out and start to sue people when they see these figures, do they wait around to see if album sales actually spike? As I predict they will? All my friends downoad music illegally and we all go buy our CD’s too, fucking hell, we buy the same ones at times. How can they claim we’re losing them so much money? When they’re only interested in making profit? Who isn’t? Right, but it’s this capitalist world that lets them oligopolise and monopolise this industry, charging what they want and bitching when they dont get everything thier way. The thing is, it’s free, we want it free, but we know it’s wrong to take it for free, we all do, no-one can claim they think it’s right to steal this music, after the hard work the artist put into it. but we also know the artist has no say in it’s sale and how much it will cost. Make them cheaper and more people will buy them.

See. You make an album £17. Its expensive, everysale brings in alot of profit, but not many will buy it, so let us say that 1 million people buy that CD, that is 17 million currency. That CD did not take 17 million to make. Now, imagine you make the CD cost £10, that’s alot cheaper, this time 3 million people buy it, why? Because that is affordable for most. That makes you a cool 30 million. Now unless you are fucking stupid, that is significantly more than 17 million. Now imagine you make the price £5 and demand fucking sores…instead of being big business pricks and raising the price to “fit” the demand (which CD’s wise is bollcoks, there are more than enough CD’s and the time it takes to make them cannot ever claim that there isn’t enough) So yeah, £5 and 100 million people buy them. That is 100 million happy fucking people,who get to listen to music they LOVE and that is £500 million in you pocket. Now I’m fucking sorry to say, but if I was a business man witha roduct so good as music people like, I’d be selling it for high profit. Now £500 million is more than £17 million, furthermore on a basis wher ei can feel good, that is 100 million people who are happy to pay £5 for a CD.

Also, Napster was just seized and forced into the pay to download thing. Either comply or be sued.

106 Feb 28, 2006 at 18:04 by guy

ok so they take down torrentspy ( if they actually could) then they would just have to go searching for all the other sites people have turned to to find torrents. Doesnt it just seem easier to quit, and know that torrentspy, isohunt, whatever, are the sites being used, and not some sites that they have no idea about?????

107 Feb 28, 2006 at 18:25 by Conspiracy 1

This is an obvious attemp to bring torrents into the spotlight! In hopes of turning it into something else to make millions off of. Lets face it to all the companies out there this is a huge untapped resource, and its potetial is obvious! Look how they used napster as a scapegoat and created things like itunes for devices making you pay for songs and have made billions! Its all about money people isnt it clear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

108 Feb 28, 2006 at 20:48 by Rizzy

All this about “try b4 u buy” is a bunch of BS. I dont download stuff to try before i buy! i download music and movies and software becuase i dont want to give my money to these fat white middle aged a**hole business men corporate jerk offs for over priced crappy quality software , movies and music. its all a bunch of useless BS anyways so why should I pay for it if i dont have to? I have other things I would rather spend my money on. on the other hand i will buy a cd from a local band who is starving and touring just to put gas in there tanks to make it to the next gig! I know, i am in one of those bands. And “OH NO! my name is Roger Waters and i put out an album like 30 years ago and made millions off it and you are downloading it for free and I’m not getting paid royalties becuase this guy loves my music and is listening to it without paying for it!!” they are a bunch of BITCHES! FUck em!

109 Feb 28, 2006 at 23:00 by ts

people dont say “oh no the website i find torrents with is gone, now i’ll just have to quit downloading and buy the real thing” mpaa is retarded for even trying

110 Feb 28, 2006 at 23:54 by kromag

fucking gonna seed all i can now fuckem

111 Mar 01, 2006 at 01:49 by dutchman:P

its crazy that people in other parts of the world, also become the dupe of a shitty us organisation. in holland the most of this is legal.

112 Mar 01, 2006 at 03:02 by steve

if downloading via bittorrent is illegeal than what about sites such as altavista, dogpile, and singing fish that offer music searches?, shouldnt they be sued too?, good luck MPAA, you (equally) greedy bastards.

113 Mar 01, 2006 at 06:06 by Dickilo jones

Torrentspy isnt doing anything bad, and plus…movies make enough money, they make millions…movie theathers over charge, and buying and renting movies ads up after a while. Even with people downloading movies, the producers and actors are still millionaires living in huge houses with 20 cars.

114 Mar 01, 2006 at 07:55 by NegativeCool

Suing websites like these is like suing Google Earth for helping terrorists. It’s like suing your bank’s website because it shows the addresses of the bank branches to would-be bank robbers!

115 Mar 01, 2006 at 15:02 by bob marley

MPAA just give up the act we no u download from BT also and we love torrentspy and isohunt y wud u do sumthin so stupid and file against them???

116 Mar 01, 2006 at 17:07 by Naughty Nelson

screw the mpaa

117 Mar 01, 2006 at 17:26 by Jezabel

I find this extremely amusing.. to a point.

I’m a music fiend… I’m always on the hunt for something new. When Napster was alive and thriving, I got introduced to so much music that I would have never heard otherwise. And I don’t just mean new stuff, but old stuff as well (classic rock). Then KazAa.. did the same thing for me. I live in an area where all you need to do to hear the same song twice on the “best” radio station here is listen for less than an hour. It sucks. Sucks hard. And it’s all that top 40 shit.

Radio doesn’t surprise me anymore, and that’s what is sad. Anyone remember the days when DJs would bring in shit from home to introduce to people, or play B-sides of records because they liked what was on it, and as long as they didn’t cuss on air or threaten to kill the President, it was ok. Then, those fucks at ClearChannel decided to take over, and while the genres change from station to station, the format remains the same - you play what’s popular, and you play it A LOT.

Satellite isn’t all that much better, either. They play more music, and have more stations and genres, but it leaves little to truly discover. I just heard “She Wants Revenge” today and I’m definately buying their CD, as soon as I can find it (is it even out yet?!)

I truly don’t feel that people are stealing music… if they’re anything like me, they listen, then buy. Simple enough. The RIAA just needs to get their panties in a knot over everything. They should try going commando, maybe then they’re relax.

118 Mar 02, 2006 at 01:17 by nathan

FUCK THE MPAA!!! Man Pumping Ass Attackers FAGS!!! BURN BURN BURN

119 Mar 02, 2006 at 03:42 by Bob

i download mmorpg games mostly, like world of warcraft, but thats because of the private servers, they free, i dont want to go out and buy the game, and basically pay for game time i dont want, as id have to keep on paying month after month to keep the characters i made, when theres servers i can connect to for no cost. I download music on a try-before-you-buy basis too, il download afew songs, if i like them, il go out and by the full album/s, if i went out and bought the album and didnt like it, iv just wasted money on something im never going to use.

120 Mar 02, 2006 at 05:36 by MPAA

DOH! Im uhh… STOOPiD!!! I am liking very much to TRY bring to down torrent but I will go down in flames.

DOHH!
-MPAA

121 Mar 02, 2006 at 08:19 by Pissed Off American

why is it that everyone from outside the US seems to blame all of us in the US for these problems….

Listen…yes…our world is run on capitalism…yes…it’s a shitty system, but can you create a better one?

Next, No…I don’t like the MPAA or the RIAA…personally I think of them as the life support systems on a dying industry…

Now, something that was mentioned here before…no…downloading these things isn’t leagal…we are pirates and we are the majority…but the real question is “is it moral?”

Answer: FUCK YES…the socio-dynamics of the world in any age can be described as a class system…on top you’ve got the rich fuckers who hold almost all of the money and all of the power and on the bottom you’ve got everyone else….throughout history there has always been, and always will be those that steal from the rich to give to the poor…call us Pirates, call us modern day Robin Hoods, call us whatever you will…but something we must look at is this…there are something around 8 billion people on this planet….there are also something around 500,000 million of us downloading whatever we want…the question of the day is not how are they going to try and stop us, but how are we going to spread this “stealing” to the other 7.5 billion people around the world?

Pirates of the World Unite!!!

122 Mar 02, 2006 at 08:21 by Pissed Off American

oops
*minority^^^^^

123 Mar 02, 2006 at 14:23 by Xenocide

Fuck yeah ^^^

They’ll never shut down all the pirates. The more attention they bring to bear on us, the more people hear what we have to say, and they will join us. They’re recruiting for the next generation of pirates :) thanks MPAA….wait…no fuck mpaa.

124 Mar 02, 2006 at 15:21 by Whooooppssss

HAHAHA this is one one of the sentences in th press release regarding MPAA lawsuits:
“Approximately 75 Torrent and
eDonkey sites have been shut down in the last year as a result of these efforts”
My question is… how many other Sites must have opened meantime??

AND

“any product which can be reproduced endlessly by anyone at virtually no cost has, in any reasonable estimation, a market value of zero.” (sentence expressed http://torrentfreak.com/?p=133)

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