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revivl.com — While there are a few ways being proposed on how to stop file sharing, Radiohead thinks bandwidth restriction is the answer. Umm, no!

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  • lnxfi, on 11/04/2009, -10/+154Dear Radiohead,

    My junk, your face.

    Sincerely,

    Me
  • Bburkert517, on 11/04/2009, -8/+95One of the few things radiohead has said/done that I really dislike...
  • ldkronos, on 11/04/2009, -6/+76Sorry, Radiohead. I can't buy your MP3s from the Amazon store because my bandwidth is being throttled
  • ZigZagZilla, on 11/04/2009, -7/+72Nickleback sucks.
  • shutaro, on 11/04/2009, -5/+52***** THE RIAA!
  • detcade, on 11/04/2009, -0/+44It's Yorke, and Yorke didn't even talk about throttling, it was Ed
  • Dinsdale77, on 11/04/2009, -18/+60Karma Police, arrest Thom York.
  • bringitontimx, on 11/04/2009, -3/+36I think that this suggestion is of bad taste and poor judgment.
  • ToddIU03, on 11/04/2009, -12/+44Shut up and play Creep.
  • qxrt, on 11/04/2009, -7/+37Isn't Radiohead the group that released an album for free and asked for people to pay as much as they wanted? Looks like that experiment didn't turn out well...
  • detcade, on 11/04/2009, -2/+32Since when does Ed speak for Radiohead...
  • bysin, on 11/04/2009, -5/+34Thats not really Radiohead, thats just Ed. Don't worry about him, hes a moron. Thom wouldn't say such nonsense.
  • mr_ziy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+26In the butt
  • Altair27, on 11/04/2009, -0/+25It was Ed O'brien. It's not like the band got together to let everyone know what they thought should be done.

    And also he said...... ***** it, people will only read the title anyway.
  • Frixionburne, on 11/04/2009, -11/+35Hey, its like metallica vs. napster all over again.

    Only now its Radiohead vs. Internet.
  • bringitontimx, on 11/04/2009, -1/+21yeah.
  • KarmaPoIice, on 11/04/2009, -0/+20I'm on it.
  • kittenman, on 11/04/2009, -1/+19hey, Ed said that, not Radiohead or Thom Yorke.
  • plainOldFool, on 11/04/2009, -1/+17sereous lee

    -edit-

    Who the ***** is burying syntaxgs?!?
  • KayinAngel, on 11/04/2009, -0/+15i can tell by the comments that most of you didn't actually watch the video, you just read the sensationalist headline.
  • ldkronos, on 11/04/2009, -1/+15The funny thing was he defeated his own argument before he even made it. He talked all about how when you crack down on this stuff you just drive people underground, and then he talked about a service you can go through to make it so you can't be tracked. Then he says we should start throttling after 3 warning letters. Uhhh...can you not connect that back to the beginning of your own argument?
  • bwdd, on 11/04/2009, -0/+12his throttling is making me feel ill
  • julianmaestas, on 11/04/2009, -23/+35i think it's important to realize that he's talking about throttling the user's bandwidth ONLY AFTER they've received 3 warning letters. he's not advocating anything too totalitarian or Big Brother-esque, so don't get your panties in a bunch, diggers.
  • Tichondrius74, on 11/04/2009, -1/+12Which it has. I you bury someone there will be an option to block them under the their username.
  • lamiaconfitor, on 11/04/2009, -2/+13Inside joke. See diggs.
  • Antz0rz, on 11/04/2009, -0/+11Although apparently unrelated, this cannot be more true. One internets for you sir
  • hydrarulz, on 11/04/2009, -0/+11you should be the speaker for radiohead from now on
  • HeizeusX, on 11/04/2009, -0/+10This is what you get when you mess with people who like to steal music
  • Roflcats, on 11/04/2009, -1/+11What what?
  • betoyjesus, on 11/04/2009, -2/+11The issue is deeper than that. Bandwidth throttling deals with net neutrality & gives ISP's the power to police the net like the gestapo. Who's to say they stop @ just limiting pirates? Who's next, the guy searching google for using a service not affiliated with them?

    Radiohead has it coming for supporting such a terrible idea.
  • killdashnine, on 11/04/2009, -0/+9Meh. I say raise the caps to infinity and see what happens.
  • bratterscain, on 11/04/2009, -4/+12I think they're burying because he's a ***** attention whore. From what I figured out so far, none of his syntax is from accident, misplaced key, or even just dyslexia, it's all across the board. Just another one of digg's local attention whores, besides myself.
  • KokomoNYC, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8*Shrug* I didn't bury you, but I could see how monitoring people in order to find who to send the warning letters could be sort of Orwellian. I mean, after all, everyone in 1984 was warned that Big Brother was watching them.
  • Tddupre, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8Get your youtube ***** comments out of digg
  • eifersucht12a, on 11/04/2009, -3/+11Uh.. Radiohead? Being progressive? You're doing it wrong.

    That was the whole point of In Rainbows, right? Guess they just had a bet going that people would be stupid enough to buy MP3's even if they're truly and explicitly free.
  • eyepatch100, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8Not bad.
  • noahgelman, on 11/04/2009, -2/+9I love syntaxgs. It's fun trying to figure out what the ***** he's trying to type.
  • ToddIU03, on 11/04/2009, -1/+8Or you know you could just not be a moron.
  • derektherock42, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7And we have crashed his server
  • HeizeusX, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7For a minute there, I lost myself
  • orbz, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7Radiohead use Logic and Reason? I thought they played actual instruments.
  • mrpunman, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7STOP TYPING WITH YOUR FACE!
  • mr_ziy, on 11/04/2009, -3/+9Maybe they're going with the new uTorrent 2.0 philosophy...

    http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-2-0-to-elimininat ...
  • Altair27, on 11/04/2009, -9/+15but seriously.... did anyone watch the ***** video?

    He suggested NOT DISCONNECTING pirates and instead limiting their bandwidth (after 3 warnings), basically because one way there's a slim chance that they would actually continue using the internet without downloading music illegally, and the other way they'll just switch ISPs.

    but don't mind me or the video. Just keep insulting everyone who suggests solutions to internet piracy other "give everything away free." Eventually that will work, I'm sure.
  • jcarmack, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6This is what you get when you mess with the internet.
  • danthemanhan, on 11/04/2009, -3/+9i dislike everything you do. you suck.
  • azpat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6I was using napster on a 28.8K Modem.
  • petethepanda, on 11/04/2009, -5/+11Give people a way to legally get their music for free: YAY RADIOHEAD!

    Suggest that piracy is a problem: BOO RADIOHEAD!

    lol
  • eyeWired, on 11/04/2009, -8/+14Way to become the new Metallica
  • topgigmedia, on 11/04/2009, -1/+7How about if we all throttle the sale of your next album?
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