@2

Your an idiot. Many independent artists release thier work free of charge on bittorrent through sites like Demonoid, and thier work by the way is far above par considering the crap the music industry is putting out. If you can justify paying $20 for say the new James Blunt album, that only has 11 songs on it, by all means go buy it.

@15

Your also an idiot, uTorrent is already free and open-source, and as far as i know always has been.

@ anyone else who thinks the RIAA and CRIA and whoever else has a purpose

Screw you, you bunch of ignorant wankers. The reason that crappy movies, tv shows, music, and even games are being produced IS YOU. Because you PAY for the shitty production, YOU encourage production companys to keep putting out boring repetitive bullshit. So if you wanna blame anyone for the still declining quality or games/music/movies BLAME YOURSELF, because your not giving these companys/artists to make anything better then whats passable or ‘decent’.

When it’s worth buying, i’ll buy it. Otherwise i’ll keep using torrents.

but because of greed, they refused to put them for sale online for too long. No wonder technology was faster than their greed.

if they think, people are still willing to pay $20 for a piece of plastic which they never use… well, no wonder people steal. it is easier to do than to buy a DVD you can’t rip yourself thanks to DRM.

As long they still want to force people to buy the plastic, there will be piracy.

The word ‘piracy’ suggests something morally wrong (along the lines of murder, rape and pillage).

The truth is that filesharing is ‘helping thy neighbour’; it is helping others as a community collectively.

If people really want to defeat the corporations which are causing our community so much trouble then listen to Free Art, Free Music and use Free Software.

It’s that simple.

I was on a bittorrent site one day and I saw a comment from the director of a film asking people if they download and like the film to go to their website and give some money. It was a good sci-fi flick and I enjoyed it so I went to the website and gave some money.

I think people don’t mind paying for going concerns and stuff they like. People tend to dislike paying for back catalogues and overly hyped products (that they MUST have but know they will never really use)

It will only get more difficult to make children born in the 21st century believe they have to pay for music that was recorded in 1970. It just will not make sense.

The flip side of the coin is that people are willing to pay for their morning coffee but when it comes a musician trying to make a living they are not. Difficult, exciting times ahead.

Many artists do love creating things or works, but many, if not all, would like to do that for a living, much like anyone else who wants to do what they love for a living. The difference between, say, a doctor or engineer and an artist, is that someone is paying the doctor a salary for his services. The only way artists get a salary is for people to buy copies of their works or someone to commission a work,.. that’s it.

Artists aren’t all in it to make things solely for selfish pricks like #33 to consume. Like anything else, if you want an artist’s work, you’re going to have to pay for it. Hopefully, we can find a way to pay the artists directly and reduce the number of executives taking a cut.

#33 likes downloading TV shows for free, that’s great, until the TV network isn’t making enough money to continue development of that show and it gets the ax.

A possible avenue could be a ‘standards-based’ set top box (made by multiple manufacturers but all adhering to an exact , minimal hardware spec, and an open source OS that has a benevolent dictator guiding development (to reduce forks and centralize support)) with ‘slots’ or ‘channels’ that individual TV networks could distribute their shows to, and you subscribe to each individual channel for a low monthly (or yearly) fee (like $5-10/month). This would kill off channels providing mostly crap and encourage better quality shows if the network wants to stay in business.

You can’t bang on about how the media outlets should die without suggesting a real, achievable solution. Doing so and refusing to buy any media will only, inevitably, kill off the media you love to fill hard drives with, they you’re left with nothing to watch or listen to because no one is making a dime.

Next time you want to scream that piracy is king and everything should be free, tell that to the vendor you buy computer stuff from, I’m sure they’ll agree and hand over a new, high end computer you can take home and fill with… why aren’t there any new movies coming out this season?

Jess
http://www.anolite.echoz.com