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- diggerman32, on 10/13/2008, -11/+1030***** The RIAA
- andrewcod, on 10/13/2008, -5/+816A ***** The RIAA in an XKCD? Oh yeah, this is going frontpage.
- cbabraham, on 10/13/2008, -5/+640A message so important XKCD basically skipped out on a comic to bring it to you.
Dugg - TubbyCat, on 10/13/2008, -4/+344This message needs to be heard. Spread the word.
- forthex, on 10/13/2008, -5/+324If xkcd and Munroe can alter 4chan (the introduction of the /r9k/ board where no string can be posted twice) AND youtube (the "audio preview" in comment posting which reads your comment back to you before it gets posted) he can change the rest of the internet.
I say, Go get em'. - dvsbastard, on 10/13/2008, -5/+240For the first time I am digging a comic for NOT being funny...
- siobhankeogh, on 10/13/2008, -8/+172Oh *****, Munroe is talking about an issue Diggers actually care about. This is probably the best XKCD in ages.
- ClockworksNine, on 10/13/2008, -0/+145***** anything DRM. Period.
I'm sick of this *****, all it does is stall progress, entertainment, work, and creativity. You listening, EA, Sony, Ubisoft, Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else? - AsianChopsticks, on 10/13/2008, -4/+136I'm sure even the XKCD haters will digg this for the cause.
- Shokker04, on 10/13/2008, -5/+123When I was a kid I used to record songs off the radio with a child's tape recorder. ARREST ME.
- stealthspc, on 10/13/2008, -3/+87This comment has been removed due to a copyright claim from the RIAA.
- JoeDiggsIt, on 10/13/2008, -2/+83I'm writing my junior year research paper on the ills of the RIAA. It is seriously mind blowing to know all the dirty doings they are involved in. Believe me from the research I've been doing, they won't be here in 5 years. (Ok, fine I'm sure you already knew that)
- tourettes1992, on 10/13/2008, -15/+96Or just buy the god damn cd....hard copies ftw
- FurtThePirate, on 10/13/2008, -4/+82I keep telling people this but they wont listen... ***** DRM.
- Disko, on 10/13/2008, -10/+82For the record: I only buy iTunes Plus songs from iTunes. They're DRM free for the same price.
It's the record labels who are forcing distributors (ie: Apple, etc) to use DRM. - Sornos, on 10/13/2008, -3/+74They have long rumored the coming of the One. Now we know it to be true. The Prophecy is coming to pass!
- To0pak, on 10/13/2008, -1/+68It's a lot better to pirate music and just go to concerts
you're free of the RIAA and you can still support the artists - p1eiades, on 10/13/2008, -1/+66Behold.... the Oracle!
- convergent, on 10/13/2008, -5/+64An XKCD will make front page no matter what it has on it.
- RafiParrr, on 10/13/2008, -3/+57Or you can buy the same music for less money at a higher bitrate on the Amazon mp3 store. Like, the stuff that's still under DRM on Apple's store.
- OrdinaryPanda, on 10/13/2008, -0/+51Why the ***** should I bother with all that ***** for something I paid for? A lot of times you can get higher fidelity from torrent than from the "retail" digital version. If they want big money they would sell flac region-free.
- ani625, on 10/13/2008, -2/+43Join the movement!
- sexybobo, on 10/13/2008, -0/+40who the ***** cares who submitted the story ?
- OrdinaryPanda, on 10/13/2008, -0/+40If all you care about is supporting the artist, download that flac 320kbps and buy merchandise from their website. They get nearly all the money directly on merchandise (unlike the albums) or go see them live to support them there.
- Sephr, on 10/13/2008, -5/+43You could always just buy DRM-free stuff instead of pirating or buying DRM-protected files.
- aethere, on 10/13/2008, -0/+37I actually don't find steam that restrictive. I enjoy being able to install and play all my games on as many of my pcs as I want.
- rotundo, on 10/13/2008, -1/+35"Get a ***** life" says the man reading digg and complaining that he doesn't like some of the stories. Oh the irony.
- gekkoeye, on 10/13/2008, -1/+34No I cannot. And neither can most of the world. Amazon MP3=US-only. So iTunes it is.
- JoeDiggsIt, on 10/13/2008, -0/+29Ya know I didn't notice or care until you brought it up. But know, I notice and don't care.
- mikeon, on 10/13/2008, -0/+27I'd look forward to reading your research paper on RIAA. When can we expect your paper posted to the web? Summer 2009?
- temugen, on 10/13/2008, -0/+26***** The MPAA
- rawheadrex, on 10/13/2008, -6/+33I agree with ***** the RIAA and ***** DRM.
However, even if you will end up being a criminal either way, there is one big difference between the two paths; the longer path to becoming a criminal, albeit in a very small way it is laughable, actually contributes to the artist that made the music. The shorter path does not. That is why I will actually buy music from iTMS when it's an artist that I truly love and want to support.
With that said, like Disko above me, I will ONLY buy said music if it's PLUS; not so much for the DRM-free nature of it, but for its quality. I will not pay money to DL 128kbps tracks when I know that I can get FLAC or 320kbps @ What. - rossiohead, on 10/13/2008, -1/+27I know, they're hogging all the fame and fortune that comes from getting an article to the Digg frontpage...
- WoollyMittens, on 10/13/2008, -0/+25They don't care if it stalls anything. In fact, stifling innovation and re-re-selling us our purchases works out as the most profitable for them.
- FurtThePirate, on 10/13/2008, -0/+24I think he is just talking about the digital medium for the sake of argument.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/13/2008, -0/+24"So, because we want to "stick it to the man", we're now encouraging stealing? Copyright violations? BREAKING THE LAW?"
Yes. Bad laws are meant to be broken.
It has naught to do with entitlement. - Lokomis, on 10/13/2008, -0/+24People who string together adjectives the likes of "stupid gay ass" should be forcibly sent back to school to improve upon their remedial education.
- VictoriaMaria, on 10/13/2008, -16/+38Artists used to be for the art, with things like this limiting what you own... it's letting companies take your music and wrap it up so tight that no one's going to bother listening to it. It's hurting fans, it kills the music, it makes the whole process a pain.
Let's start a pirate revolution. Artists out there- pirate your work. Give it away for nothing. If this is your source of income- give your fans a chance to pay if they wish, but don't make them. If they're proper fans they won't let you starve.
Let your music, let your writing, let your art speak for itself. Companies are taking what should have a voice of it's own and strangling it, putting it in shackles and locking it away.
Set the art free.
And this isn't just empty talk from me. In the steps of Coelho, I'll be putting my books online. Free if you so please.
Who's with me?
http://digg.com/arts_culture/I_m_A_Writer_Turned_P ... - LoveAndSeagulls, on 10/13/2008, -0/+22it was not ha-ha funny. but it was still funny.
it's also an important message. - unitedatheism, on 10/13/2008, -0/+21When you buy 10 dollars of music from itunes, all from the same artist, you're not paying even a single dollar to the artist itself.
So download the music on bittorrent, send to all your friends and if one of them buys a 15 USD t-shirt on the artist's website he already paid for your download and all your friends! (and the price of a blank t-shirt, silking and so on)
So support the artist, don't buy music from people who wants them to be enslaved forever! - LucasVB, on 10/13/2008, -2/+22I say ditch iTunes altogether. Don't support the store if it sells music with DRM. Switch to Amazon and support the proper business model.
- Fordi, on 10/13/2008, -1/+20"If you don't like it, don't buy it."
Fine, if there's DRM on it, I won't.
(and this is where the piracy comes in)
I'll pirate it instead.
You don't like it? Well, sorry. There's several million people who feel a similar way. No amount of legal gerrymandering will change their minds. You might be able to convince me, but I'm easy. Can you convince them?
As more people are burned with DRM, sales of DRM infected material will diminish. Sell it unrestricted, and if I like it, I'll happily buy a copy from you. To this end, I have; I've paid for every Jack Conte and Jonathan Coulton (to name a couple) song put out to date. In the case of Coulton, I paid him my guess as to the value of the downloads *after* pirating them (and overshot by about thirty bucks, so he tells me).
But I won't pay one red cent for a song that is infested with digital restrictions management. - mithrasinvictus, on 10/13/2008, -1/+20You can now. But if it weren't for piracy we'd still be stuck with having to buy crappy album CD's (most of which were released in order to fulfill contractual obligations and therefore suck)
- Chubbly, on 10/13/2008, -0/+18Why the ***** does every comic you read have to be funny?
- xDynaBlade, on 10/13/2008, -0/+18I digg it because I found XKCD before I found Digg. Also, I like it.
- 0260, on 10/13/2008, -0/+17Just buy the vinyl
- tomi, on 10/13/2008, -0/+17That's the same thing odie said without having to waste a CD
- wutimatang, on 10/13/2008, -1/+17Yeah!!!!! Rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble...!!!!!
- bwdd, on 10/13/2008, -1/+17Yeah, steam's different.
My computer got ***** over, but I went to a different computer and logged in.
Simple as that. - cfuse, on 10/13/2008, -0/+16People don't get punished for being vile in politics, they get elected. Being scum is actually an advantage in politics - they are a political lobby group.
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