There are sites where you can find legit content, you don’t even have to look for it.

8€/month I get my bandwith maxed out 24/7, no logs from provider, free SSL Encryption. Never found an incomplete post.

It’s almost as pathetic as thepiratebay saying that the primary use of their servers/trackers isn’t for copyright infringement.

On another note:
Laws need to change so file sharing isn’t considered so insanely criminal.

File sharing should not equal copyright infringement.

As an aside: Nobody gives a toss about an artist or author’s respect. At the very least not after they would rather see their FANS IN JAIL FOR WANTING THE ART OF THE ARTIST than have as much exposure as possible.
And sorry, it’s not exactly a valid argument to state that piracy prohibits legit alternatives.
The idiotic bit is that he is effectively saying that because the piracy oriented community provides a better service, whereas the legal alternatives suck, it’d be nice if we just stopped using the more functional ones.

Sorry, but if you can’t manage to create a loving community that comes even close to that of sites that are illegal, then MAYBE you should rethink your PR, your business plan and your pricing model, not tell users to just “be good” and use crappier interfaces, crappier sites devoid of community, rating, promotion, cross-referencing etc pp.

The hard facts are that various private trackers have a gazillionfold better content organization with a FREE FROM PAYMENT background, than a professional, legal alternative has.
What I am saying is: it’s not just the pricing, it’s the plain fact that everything all around just sucks about “legal alternatives”.

Once that starts to sink in and something is done about that, THEN you can start addressing the fact that the quid-pro-quo era of paying per album and use is OVER, and that this is the new age of flatrate, on-demand omni-use of digital goods.

FFS, it’s not malicious intent but evolution, get with the friggin’ program already.

astraweb and altbinz for me

it’s so amusing to see what a big n00b you are

You are the only uninformed tard here, pal. I have all my D/L at maximum speed via BitTorrent because I know right trackers. :-) And free of charge of course.

Ahh, well. I suppose there’s no use to argue. It’s just another proof that Usenet dinosaurs have no clue whatsoever.

I’m really against people making money from piracy, but then again, if there would be enough money to be made those companies might actually be able to buy their own judges, politician and police, just like the MAFIAA does now.