Comments on: Piracy and The Music Industry, The Voices Of Artists Matter

By: SoberAgain

SoberAgain — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:13:52 +0000

“Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD?”

Since when does downloading anything from the internet effect a retail stores shrink? I fail to see the comparison…. Oh, that’s right- downloading keeps the “privileged” from buying million dollar homes….

By: D00d

D00d — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:44:27 +0000

The RIAA is nothing but a protection racket populated by bullies who’ve figured out how to frighten people for profit, the same way Dubya & Co. used their neo-con blend of pseudo-Christian fundamentalism and oil-greed to trump up excuses for war in Iraq through fear-mongering, so they could rip off the taxpayers of over a million million dollars by funnelling it into their own companies’ coffers through preferential contract awarding! The RIAA despises the public and treats their own slaves — oops, I mean artists — with disdain, because they think they’re righteous, and therefore, indispensible. It’s not a question of whether file sharing is stealing: it’s the RIAA’s rank hatefulness and love of threatening ordinary, individual citizens with financial ruin and prison that is the crux of the matter! All the rest of it is a netful of red herring, designed to divert us from the real issue: are we going to allow that bunch of Fascist pigs with no legal authority of their own to intimidate us with their manipulations and terrorization? Because that is truly what it is: terrorization of the most evil kind, because it stems from self-righteous greed and megalomania! The Nazis’ real reason for hating Jews was because they were afraid the Jews would financially out-maneuver and out-earn the Gentile population of central Europe! So, wake up, folks — don’t let yourselves be distracted!

By: daliguitar

daliguitar — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:10:24 +0000

KSE – you are on my wavelength on this matter! For some time I have though the best solution to end all of this bickering is to set up a global licensing scheme which permits access to everything that can be digitised. However, I also felt that it would require an effective monitoring mechanism to ensure that the rewards are apportioned fairly to all those that contribute to this wonderful resource called the internet. My worry is that it might lead us down a 1984 style policing of all things internet.

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By: Fukdupmuthafukr

Fukdupmuthafukr — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:49:51 +0000

“Maybe if it’s from one friend to another and that’s it, but getting it online from a site is theft. A record in a store is a copy too. A copy from a master tape. Same thing. Still theft.”

So, essentially, what you’re saying here is that the copies made from the master tapes which are being sold in stores are the same thing as a digital copy of a track and that they’re both theft!? Well in the case of the CD in a store you’re not wrong. Those pesky record companies have always been robbing bastards.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:05:53 +0000

If I could make a copy (DOWNLOAD) of HARDWARE I would!

DON’T FEED THE TROLLS

By: pronobozo

pronobozo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:50:55 +0000

The answer to the debate is… Support creative commons artists, download their music, see if it’s good. If it’s good, send it to friends, blog about it etc…

for one, the more you are listening to creative commons music the less you are listening to music that fuels the riaa(and cria).

secondly, you can get it and it’s not theft or stealing or copyright infringement. You can get it guilt free! You can sleep at night..

win win for both sides of this debate.we have the solution.

now get my damn torrent on mininova.org, heck it’s even featured right now and it’s burning hot. Get it while it’s seeded well :)

crack a beer, relax, everyone :)

By: lulz

lulz — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:08:06 +0000

“it’s not theft, it’s copying”.

Maybe if it’s from one friend to another and that’s it, but getting it online from a site is theft. A record in a store is a copy too. A copy from a master tape. Same thing. Still theft.

Even the Supreme Court called it theft in the grokster case.

By: Insurmountable Agitprop

Insurmountable Agitprop — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:34:41 +0000

Has anyone else noticed how we never seem to see ReasonedNeoStylesMind since Andrew Crossley was anally invaded by DDoS? Circumstantial evidence perhaps that they were either employees or directors at ACS:Law?

By: in.cog.nito

in.cog.nito — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:24:09 +0000

Theft = stealing an object / idea

Downloading = Making a copy.

Same thing people did with copying VHS’s and copying Tape Cassettes.

Oh, and Gene, shut the fuck up. Your ‘music’ isn’t even topical any more.