Comments on: RIAA’s Hostile Takeover of the Internet

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:14:55 +0000

They’ll never learn. Prior to the internet the record industry struggled to combat people duplicating tapes and CDs for friends or on larger scales in markets etc.

Attacking the internet and liberties therein won’t help their case, it’ll only sicken regular users who will then seek to find any way of getting back at them whether it be via peaceful boycotting or malicious hack attacks.

By: Manix

Manix — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:10:19 +0000

@245

if only we could find a way to unite… the way the politics game is now played it seems that only a small amount of the population actually has their voices heard politically, and that needs to change. people need to unite to bring forward a new political movement or these types of injustices will just continue forward.

By: zaphod4269

zaphod4269 — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:53:25 +0000

The greedy corporate a$$holes are hopelessly outnumbered. every time i use my torrent client there are over 1,000,000 people using the system.
1 million+ people is an unfuckwithable group!
As long as people stand up for their rights, and don’t pussy out when the revolution comes, everything will be fine.

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By: Bloodyscot

Bloodyscot — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:43:55 +0000

This is a war nobody wins, stopping piracy completely is not going to happen but they can make it so hard to do that is stops most people. The large companies and goverments are taking over the internet, its only a matter of time until they force the ISPs to block any questionable packets or encrypted files. Some of the new software to check packets for copyrighted material is very good and getting better. Encryption is great until they start blocking it if they don’t have a key to read it. With the new terrorist laws it could happen sooner than you think. Some goverments will use this to stop any information they don’t like, the Nazist and Communist were good at this with radio and newsprint. The small and new artists are getting hurt the most so far but soon everyone will be impacted. Piracy is wrong(it does some good much like radio) but these new laws are worse and how bad are the laws coming if they have to keep them secret until they become law.

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By: Stammerer

Stammerer — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:59:32 +0000

@240/241 – “The only time I can see when you can justify piracy is if you like the content itself, but if you don’t like the packaging it comes in, with all the DRM, shrink-wrap licensing, etc.”

There are exceptions, but usually I’m unable to decide if I like the content itself unless I can fully experience it. So I’m not interested in reading self-serving hype or reviews from people I don’t trust, nor do I want some poor quality little clip of it served up on a site full of ads or on a site requiring special software and a handover of personal data to even access like iTunes. I want to hear/see the thing and decide whether to keep it or delete it or pay for or rent a better/physical copy ASAP, or whatever. Until the industry provides an affordable, anonymous way for me to do that without incurring liability for “piracy”, I’ll continue to take advantage of black market sources online.

By: Mikaeal

Mikaeal — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:12:41 +0000

This is BS, I'm tired of RIAA pooping on everyone's parade. - web design studio

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:07:36 +0000

@ my previous post:

Sorry, that should read “…justify piracy is if you like…”. Should be “if”, not “is”.

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:05:22 +0000

I keep on hearing a message here: “We pirate it because it’s crap, it sucks, and it’s a rip-off.”

That’s total bullshit.

If you don’t like the content itself, just don’t have anything to do with it at all. The only time I can see when you can justify piracy is is you like the content itself, but if you don’t like the packaging it comes in, with all the DRM, shrink-wrap licensing, etc. it comes in.

By pirating in that case, you’re sending the message that you like the content, but not the stuff it comes with. You can even pay the company for it if you want!

So, instead, you should be saying, “I pirate stuff because I like it, but I don’t want to have to put up with DRM and shrink-wrap licenses.”