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By: Timm

Timm — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:40:12 +0000

Frankly speaking, I don’t see a crime in downloading a movie or some music… If there are lots of such things in the Internet, why cannot we make use of them? Here wins rapidshare and its search engines (e.g. http://rapidqueen.com and others)

By: D.I.Dead

D.I.Dead — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:52:09 +0000

Piracy has only become mainstream in America because in these times, 20 bucks is too much to pay for a single dvd. Personally I need to spend that extra 20 dollars on the rising cost of food.

Pirates are not their competitor. Nabisco is. General Mills is. Kraft is. Movies companies don’t understand that most American households are on a budget, hence the popularity of cd/dvd buy-back shops.

On a different note, a question:
Say for example, you were on trial for downloading an ‘illegally distributed’ movie to your pc. Couldn’t it be argued that it is not illegal since the copy in your possession [and the torrent you got it from] had no FBI or Copyright Warning?

By: Pi?tkowy pami?tniczek pirata

Pi?tkowy pami?tniczek pirata — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:21:48 +0000

[...] prawie po?owa internautów korzysta z P2P, ale tylko 5% uwa?a to za dzia?anie kryminalne. Inne dane z tego samego (pirackiego) ?ród?a mówi?, ?e 1/3 abonentów internetu [...]

By: Vendéan (dszg)

Vendéan (dszg) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:57:56 +0000

I really don’t like IFPI, but I think its obvious that they try to preserve their old models and slow down the innovation of p2p, when it causes their extint. Dictators want to hold their power, not to go to prison. :)

By: solinkable.com

solinkable.com — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:03:03 +0000

Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show…

While the entertainment industries push for harsher copyright laws, public opinion steers in the opposite direction. Two recent studies from Canada and Spain found that half of the Internet users use p2p networks to download music, software and films. …

By: Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show

Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:55:27 +0000

[...] addthis_pub = ‘Regeneration’; Posted by Regeneration on March 16th, 2009, 11:40 AM While the entertainment industries push for harsher copyright laws, public opinion steers in the opposite direction. Two recent studies from Canada and Spain found that half of the Internet users use p2p networks to download music, software and films. Less than 5% of the respondents believe that people who download copyrighted content are engaging in criminal behavior. In recent years many studies have shown that a large chunk of Internet users share copyrighted files on P2P networks, and this number is rapidly increasing every year. The results of a Canadian study published today show that 45% of all those surveyed use file-sharing networks to download movies and music. Also, this behavior is widely accepted since only 3% of the people who participated in the study said that file-sharers should be punished by law. These results are not unique to Canada either. A few weeks ago a Spanish survey found pretty much the same results (pdf). Of the thousands of Internet users questioned, more than half admitted using file-sharing software regularly. In fact, 28% said they use it every day. Only 1% of the respondents saw downloading copyrighted files as criminal behavior, while 43% said that the development of P2P networks should be promoted. Read the entire article at TorrentFreak. [...]

By: Otsenre

Otsenre — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:15:32 +0000

@Ernesto: You say “The results of a Canadian study published today show that 45% of all those surveyed use file-sharing networks to download movies and music”. The article you cite says “In the online survey of a representative national sample, nearly half of respondents (45 per cent) say those who use peer-to-peer file sharing services to download music and movies are ‘just regular Internet users doing what people should be able to do on the Internet’.” Those two statements aren’t even close to meaning the same thing. Ernesto, misleading your readers isn’t doing anyone any favours. I checked the linked article carefully because your assertion failed the common sense test but, as is so easily seen in the reader comments, a lot of your readers are just kids who don’t question anything they’d like to be true.

And for the children that will immediately suppose I’m on the side of the **AA, the truth is that I’m actually amongst the 45% referred to in the article. I leave it to your fevered imaginations as to which article I mean.

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Download videos, cut soundtracks etc — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:23:18 +0000

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