Comments on: No ’3 Strikes’ Disconnection for UK Pirates

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:31:19 +0000

I do own a multitude of products and treat myself to a multitude of services I don't really need but I am grateful for what I have, unlike moaning Actors/Movie people, which was my point…

By: fr33tard

fr33tard — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:22:11 +0000

if you're a communist, yeah, there's a huge difference.

chances are you yourself own a multitude of products and treat yourself to a multitude of services you don't really need and the money you used to procure them could just as easily have gone to someone without food, a home, clean water, or medical care.

double edged swords are sharp aren't they?

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:25:51 +0000

There is a difference between money they need and money they want.

By: freetard

freetard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:55:46 +0000

"Artists & Film makers have no excuse for not getting money, they can do live gigs/cinema."
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theater box office accounts for less than 18% of the film industry revenue. so your plan is for them to just willingly give away the vast majority of their business?

By: Oliver Tester

Oliver Tester — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:55:18 +0000

Record Industry = Not needed and dying.

Artists & Film makers have no excuse for not getting money, they can do live gigs/cinema.

Stop trying to get an easy buck.

By: Fr33tard

Fr33tard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:42:52 +0000

"It certainly does offer something better. It offers free distribution and audience."
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which amounts to exactly "jack" and "shit" if it doesn't keep a roof over my head and food on my table.

"The Pirate Bay does not earn profits for themselves."
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you don't have any proof of this. the reason you have no proof of this is because the pirate bay refuse to make their finances transparent. and the only reason anyone has for not making their finances transparent is because they have something to hide.

…none of which matters since the reality, whichever end of the spectrum it may reside, will soon be revealed during the trial.

"A right is a right only when it does not interfere with other rights, "
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therein lies the dilemma. your supposed "right" to distribute my hard work on a massive, unlimited scale with complete strangers and without the smallest trifle of compensation for your greedy consumption most definitely infringes upon my rights as a creator. bit of an impasse there.

By: freetard

freetard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:22:02 +0000

you want me to prove if copyright has ever benefited a content creator?

lolololololol

By: rhf

rhf — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:01:05 +0000

Well, all I can say is that I'm glad that this hasn't been followed up, although, the British Government does like to lie on a regular basis. For example, if you've been watching the UK news recently about the new airport terminal expansion at Heathrow, the controversy of them not sure whether to do the runway or not. It's all a visage, a deception, a friend of mine is currently getting his final security checks done to go and work on this new runway/terminal project. I'll reiterate this, The British government lies on a regular basis, so don't be so sure the storm is over yet.

This to be created subsidiary of OfCom is a joke, it'll be a new amalgamation of the IFPI/MPAA/RIAA/FAST, where the good ol' government will squeeze more money out of us to fund feck knows what.

By: Roze

Roze — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:20:23 +0000

A right is a right only when it does not interfere with other rights, which is why there is no right to take away other people's rights. Thus, there is no "creator rights to take away the citizen's rights to share their own property." The only "right" that file-sharing usurps is the "right" to take away the citizen's rights to share their own property, which, of course, is not a right at all.

By: Roze

Roze — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:18:05 +0000

It certainly does offer something better. It offers free distribution and audience. Those two are most important. The Pirate Bay certainly has done much good – unlike the industry, which steals from the artists all the time, The Pirate Bay does not earn profits for themselves.