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whose going to pay for it all?
bill gates and hollywood?

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]]> By: GaySexRodeoDiscoSuperClub http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-325590 GaySexRodeoDiscoSuperClub Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:30:06 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-325590 [quote comment="234560"]I'm a firm believer in creating some sort of punishment for illegally taking music or any other form of media for free, after all its a crime like any other. If you want it then just pay for it & if you don't then I'm sorry you must pay the price. However I'm still a convinced that decline in music sales etc etc is a result of the product itself. There simply isn't anything fresh or new out there that people will spend money on. I've always bought albums DVD's etc but in the last year or so I've maybe bought 2 CD's. Give us something thats worth spending money on then you may just see an increase in business.[/quote] There is so much music out there that is more than just worthwhile being released all of the time. the problem is that the traditional distribution channels (RIAA and MPAA controlled content: radio, television, your big box record store) have become worthless to the average listener. However, If you had been a part of a mp3 file sharing community, you would likely know of more amazing albums than you could even afford to buy. your not going to hear them through traditional distribution channels, but they are all around you. Many of us are not blessed with a good local record store that employs passionate people who you grow to trust. you really need to give something a good listen before you know if it is worth buying. these online communities help steer you in the right direction. It brings back what was taken away. [quote comment="234560"]I’m a firm believer in creating some sort of punishment for illegally taking music or any other form of media for free, after all its a crime like any other. If you want it then just pay for it & if you don’t then I’m sorry you must pay the price. However I’m still a convinced that decline in music sales etc etc is a result of the product itself. There simply isn’t anything fresh or new out there that people will spend money on. I’ve always bought albums DVD’s etc but in the last year or so I’ve maybe bought 2 CD’s. Give us something thats worth spending money on then you may just see an increase in business.[/quote]
There is so much music out there that is more than just worthwhile being released all of the time. the problem is that the traditional distribution channels (RIAA and MPAA controlled content: radio, television, your big box record store) have become worthless to the average listener. However, If you had been a part of a mp3 file sharing community, you would likely know of more amazing albums than you could even afford to buy. your not going to hear them through traditional distribution channels, but they are all around you.
Many of us are not blessed with a good local record store that employs passionate people who you grow to trust. you really need to give something a good listen before you know if it is worth buying. these online communities help steer you in the right direction. It brings back what was taken away.

]]> By: Copyright, what the heck’s copyright? « music pedagogy and the endless pursuit of its excellence… http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-320476 Copyright, what the heck’s copyright? « music pedagogy and the endless pursuit of its excellence… Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:26:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-320476 [...] witnessed this and thought nothing of it.  What you didn’t know is you were witnessing copyright infringement… well, at least part of the time.  For those of you who neglected to read this chapter in [...] [...] witnessed this and thought nothing of it.  What you didn’t know is you were witnessing copyright infringement… well, at least part of the time.  For those of you who neglected to read this chapter in [...]

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]]> By: Electric Mayhem http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-236585 Electric Mayhem Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:09:53 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-236585 James you retard, EVERYONE is paranoid of us. We have people with money who want more money running the country. Those are the only people bitch'n about all of this. The artists and "us" are not hurt in the overall grand scheme of things. It's hilarious because we are not the only country in the world governed by money. Yeah we are worse than the rest, but we are not alone. Just cause we kick the man when he is down a few more times than the rest of the world, doesn't mean we are any better, or worse. Stop buying cd's, think the artists will stop performing? ...Nope The people who make absurd amounts off of selling the recorded copies to us will. Screw them. They are Goliath, we are David... And we already know how that turned out. James you retard,

EVERYONE is paranoid of us. We have people with money who want more money running the country. Those are the only people bitch’n about all of this. The artists and “us” are not hurt in the overall grand scheme of things. It’s hilarious because we are not the only country in the world governed by money. Yeah we are worse than the rest, but we are not alone. Just cause we kick the man when he is down a few more times than the rest of the world, doesn’t mean we are any better, or worse. Stop buying cd’s, think the artists will stop performing? …Nope The people who make absurd amounts off of selling the recorded copies to us will. Screw them. They are Goliath, we are David…

And we already know how that turned out.

]]> By: James. http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-235479 James. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:05:57 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-235479 Who's paranoid of America? And why is that halarious? Who’s paranoid of America? And why is that halarious?

]]> By: whatever... http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-235359 whatever... Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:38:13 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-235359 [quote comment="232381"]Do be so quick to trash on the US over this, almost every other major country is doing the same, most right under their citizens noses. Copyright reform = death of free media, and the end of open creativity. Once we allow these companies and groups to not only dictate how much it costs to view their crap, but to actually allow them to tell us how we can use it. Dvds with built in self updating advertisements, not fiction, you'll see them come to market soon. Legal downloads movies / tv / music that has, for lack of a better term, a self destruct timer. We're letting them control the hardware aswell, all those fancy gadgets you own, well, RENT is a better term. Mod your xbox, pswhatever and you can go to jail. Open up and tinker with your dvdplayer trying to fix it, copyright infringement. It's pure insanity when I legally buy a dvd and attempt to watch it on my legally purchased laptop, that does NOT have any emulation, burning, imaging, cracking, ripping software installed, nor has it ever, only to find out it won't play, starts and crashes, windows reports it as unreadablocks on the disc itself. What's wrong? Nothing, it's the copy protection that decides I can't watch my movie, I have to watch it on my standalone DVD player, as long as there's no VCR connected in anyway to my setup that is. Then I decide, well, I have the legal right to make personal use backups, so I will, since I'd rather not scratch the retail disc. So I try to copy it, heh, try is the key as it won't burn, or does but is unreadable. Again, what's wrong? Nothing, just the copy protection again, stopping me from exercising my legal right. But that's not all friends, that music cd or dvd movie might also have installed a nice friendly rootkit onto my machine, opening it up for all kinds of attacks and privacy violations. Now, if I trick you into installing software you didn't know was there, by hiding it from you, that opened your pc up for outside monitoring, and opened countless security holes in your system, that would be considered hacking and I can go to jail. But if a big company does the same thing, that's fine and dandy, because it's their legal right to stop YOU from exercising yours. It's plain insanity and must be stopped. All creativity is being sucked out of media. Every wonder why music today sucks, and most movies are the same rehashed crap you've already seen 10 times? Because the few in control are drunk driving and have 2 wheels in the ditch, the medium is dead they just don't know it yet. Their system of sucking creativity away in favour of profits has failed and produced recycled crap instead of art. The secret is out and the greedy bastards don't want to give up their lavish lifestyles because of some stupid moral ideal. But that's fine, we'll all be in jail for life for downloading movies while terrorists, corporate criminals, murderers and rapists walk the streets free and safe from ever having to encounter the deadly movie pirates.[/quote] THIS DESERVES TO BE SAID AGAIN.....AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN... and to everyone paranoid of america i just want to say 1 thing. you are hilarious.. [quote comment="232381"]Do be so quick to trash on the US over this, almost every other major country is doing the same, most right under their citizens noses.

Copyright reform = death of free media, and the end of open creativity. Once we allow these companies and groups to not only dictate how much it costs to view their crap, but to actually allow them to tell us how we can use it.

Dvds with built in self updating advertisements, not fiction, you’ll see them come to market soon.

Legal downloads movies / tv / music that has, for lack of a better term, a self destruct timer.

We’re letting them control the hardware aswell, all those fancy gadgets you own, well, RENT is a better term. Mod your xbox, pswhatever and you can go to jail.

Open up and tinker with your dvdplayer trying to fix it, copyright infringement.

It’s pure insanity when I legally buy a dvd and attempt to watch it on my legally purchased laptop, that does NOT have any emulation, burning, imaging, cracking, ripping software installed, nor has it ever, only to find out it won’t play, starts and crashes, windows reports it as unreadablocks on the disc itself.

What’s wrong? Nothing, it’s the copy protection that decides I can’t watch my movie, I have to watch it on my standalone DVD player, as long as there’s no VCR connected in anyway to my setup that is.

Then I decide, well, I have the legal right to make personal use backups, so I will, since I’d rather not scratch the retail disc. So I try to copy it, heh, try is the key as it won’t burn, or does but is unreadable.

Again, what’s wrong? Nothing, just the copy protection again, stopping me from exercising my legal right. But that’s not all friends, that music cd or dvd movie might also have installed a nice friendly rootkit onto my machine, opening it up for all kinds of attacks and privacy violations.

Now, if I trick you into installing software you didn’t know was there, by hiding it from you, that opened your pc up for outside monitoring, and opened countless security holes in your system, that would be considered hacking and I can go to jail.

But if a big company does the same thing, that’s fine and dandy, because it’s their legal right to stop YOU from exercising yours.

It’s plain insanity and must be stopped. All creativity is being sucked out of media. Every wonder why music today sucks, and most movies are the same rehashed crap you’ve already seen 10 times?

Because the few in control are drunk driving and have 2 wheels in the ditch, the medium is dead they just don’t know it yet. Their system of sucking creativity away in favour of profits has failed and produced recycled crap instead of art.

The secret is out and the greedy bastards don’t want to give up their lavish lifestyles because of some stupid moral ideal.

But that’s fine, we’ll all be in jail for life for downloading movies while terrorists, corporate criminals, murderers and rapists walk the streets free and safe from ever having to encounter the deadly movie pirates.[/quote]

THIS DESERVES TO BE SAID AGAIN…..AND AGAIN…AND AGAIN…

and to everyone paranoid of america i just want to say 1 thing. you are hilarious..

]]> By: TypingLOL_CausesCancer http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-235135 TypingLOL_CausesCancer Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:09:07 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-235135 I think we should remove these monkeys-in-suits that pretend to parade around legitimizing their goals on the grounds of "intellectual property" for the sake of "innovation and creativity." There is not a single creative bone in Glickman body, his only god is money. Call me an anarchist but this is unbelievable that is allowed to go on, it kills me that I live in this society sometimes. Code writers of the world have to focuses less on virus/trojan writing and more on beating the system, a system that works against us all, the US government isn't alone in this. I think we should remove these monkeys-in-suits that pretend to parade around legitimizing their goals on the grounds of “intellectual property” for the sake of “innovation and creativity.” There is not a single creative bone in Glickman body, his only god is money. Call me an anarchist but this is unbelievable that is allowed to go on, it kills me that I live in this society sometimes.

Code writers of the world have to focuses less on virus/trojan writing and more on beating the system, a system that works against us all, the US government isn’t alone in this.

]]> By: Keven http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234875 Keven Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:34:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234875 On top of all this.. Check out what your government is doing to all you Americans. http://fearthegovernment.com/keystroke_logger.html Anyone know more on this? On top of all this.. Check out what your government is doing to all you Americans.

http://fearthegovernment.com/keystroke_logger.html

Anyone know more on this?

]]> By: sher5wood http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234686 sher5wood Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:10:56 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234686 This has become a serious problem I think we should cut thier hands off if thier smart enough to use thier toes cut them off to! This has become a serious problem I think we should cut thier hands off if thier smart enough to use thier toes cut them off to!

]]> By: Jesus|Freak http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234573 Jesus|Freak Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:46:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234573 I use Linux and this DRM trash is not Linux friendly. I now use open source software. (The only commercial software I use is Unreal Tournament 2004 for Linux, which Atari does not support, but it comes with the Windows version.) Other than that, I don't use commercial software. I just cancelled my Napster account. (Napster conforms with the RIAA these days and has DRM download themselves.) I don't use any products that encourage DRM or any of the piracy-spying baloney, like an ipod or Vista. I don't use an iMac or anything from Apple either, since it is a cheap rip off of Linux and UNIX systems. (Mac OS X is UNIX based, I think BSD and has some components of open source. I don't know if Mac provides the source code of the open source apps to their users. The GUI is closed source, though.) I refuse to get a blu-ray or a HD DVD player either. (Though I have a HD DVD drive on my laptop for data storage. [It has 8 GB of storage on a HD DVD.]) I personally don't break the law, but I am against these copyright laws and I do protest them and boycott the products and media that comes from these crooks that want to infringe on the rights of the average computer user. >Jesus|Freak I use Linux and this DRM trash is not Linux friendly. I now use open source software. (The only commercial software I use is Unreal Tournament 2004 for Linux, which Atari does not support, but it comes with the Windows version.) Other than that, I don’t use commercial software. I just cancelled my Napster account. (Napster conforms with the RIAA these days and has DRM download themselves.) I don’t use any products that encourage DRM or any of the piracy-spying baloney, like an ipod or Vista. I don’t use an iMac or anything from Apple either, since it is a cheap rip off of Linux and UNIX systems. (Mac OS X is UNIX based, I think BSD and has some components of open source. I don’t know if Mac provides the source code of the open source apps to their users. The GUI is closed source, though.) I refuse to get a blu-ray or a HD DVD player either. (Though I have a HD DVD drive on my laptop for data storage. [It has 8 GB of storage on a HD DVD.]) I personally don’t break the law, but I am against these copyright laws and I do protest them and boycott the products and media that comes from these crooks that want to infringe on the rights of the average computer user.

>Jesus|Freak

]]> By: Mal http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234560 Mal Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:28:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/us-anti-piracy-bill-071206/#comment-234560 I'm a firm believer in creating some sort of punishment for illegally taking music or any other form of media for free, after all its a crime like any other. If you want it then just pay for it & if you don't then I'm sorry you must pay the price. However I'm still a convinced that decline in music sales etc etc is a result of the product itself. There simply isn't anything fresh or new out there that people will spend money on. I've always bought albums DVD's etc but in the last year or so I've maybe bought 2 CD's. Give us something thats worth spending money on then you may just see an increase in business. I’m a firm believer in creating some sort of punishment for illegally taking music or any other form of media for free, after all its a crime like any other. If you want it then just pay for it & if you don’t then I’m sorry you must pay the price. However I’m still a convinced that decline in music sales etc etc is a result of the product itself. There simply isn’t anything fresh or new out there that people will spend money on. I’ve always bought albums DVD’s etc but in the last year or so I’ve maybe bought 2 CD’s. Give us something thats worth spending money on then you may just see an increase in business.

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