torrentfreak.com— Hollywood had hoped otherwise, but it has been a good year for The Pirate Bay, despite all the legal hassles.
Dec 25, 2007View in Crawl 4
They're NOT protecting the artists... that's the point. The RIAA is causing people to desire to use file sharing as a means to obtain content... more often.People who are poor and have no money will always "steal" content... whether it's by recording songs from the radio, borrowing a friend's CD, etc. The point is, file sharing provides a very simple means of obtaining media and is DRM free. The RIAA is trying to make it so that the risk of taking content illegally from peers is greater than the benefit of obtaining it in that fashion. This will never work. People are pissed off, because pretty much everyone on Digg is smarter than the folks in the RIAA, and realize that if there was a way to easily obtain DRM free music at a fair price, people would do that. Just look at iTunes Plus and Amazon. It works. The problem is not enough labels / artists are embracing this concept yet... and the RIAA just keeps on trying and trying and trying to punish people (for something most people consider reasonable), rather than working with the people and trying to innovate and come up with a better system.
Only 50¢ to make and burn a single CD? That's amazing! How much does it cost to find a good band, hire a top sound engineer and support staff, rent a studio for a month or so and then market the result?
"...we will be able to experience better quality products simply becuase the few people left will be making music and movies for the very love of doing so, not for monetary gain."You are confusing art with entertainment. I act because I love the craft. I entertain to pay my bills. As far as better quality entertainment surfacing when people are in it only for love and not monetary gain, you need only look to youtube to dispell that myth.
Because Demonoid/OiNK were hosted and operated in countries with strict copyright laws. Sweden does not have that, look at the amount of Swedish DC Hub servers there are out there.
I hate repeating things, but sometimes I have noticed that some people need to see things twice before understanding, so here it is again. For all you mention, its 25 cents to actually make the CD, plus about another 25 cents for the rest. So that comes to 50 cents for each CD. Of course, no one ever believes things until they actually experience it for themselves, so go ahead a put out a CD and then you may see that it still comes to about 50 cents per CD. I only know of this because I have gone through the process myself, but I don't necessarily expect everyone to do the same.
samssfDec 26, 2007
They're NOT protecting the artists... that's the point. The RIAA is causing people to desire to use file sharing as a means to obtain content... more often.People who are poor and have no money will always "steal" content... whether it's by recording songs from the radio, borrowing a friend's CD, etc. The point is, file sharing provides a very simple means of obtaining media and is DRM free. The RIAA is trying to make it so that the risk of taking content illegally from peers is greater than the benefit of obtaining it in that fashion. This will never work. People are pissed off, because pretty much everyone on Digg is smarter than the folks in the RIAA, and realize that if there was a way to easily obtain DRM free music at a fair price, people would do that. Just look at iTunes Plus and Amazon. It works. The problem is not enough labels / artists are embracing this concept yet... and the RIAA just keeps on trying and trying and trying to punish people (for something most people consider reasonable), rather than working with the people and trying to innovate and come up with a better system.
actorboyDec 26, 2007
Only 50¢ to make and burn a single CD? That's amazing! How much does it cost to find a good band, hire a top sound engineer and support staff, rent a studio for a month or so and then market the result?
actorboyDec 26, 2007
"...we will be able to experience better quality products simply becuase the few people left will be making music and movies for the very love of doing so, not for monetary gain."You are confusing art with entertainment. I act because I love the craft. I entertain to pay my bills. As far as better quality entertainment surfacing when people are in it only for love and not monetary gain, you need only look to youtube to dispell that myth.
tomphooleryDec 26, 2007
Because Demonoid/OiNK were hosted and operated in countries with strict copyright laws. Sweden does not have that, look at the amount of Swedish DC Hub servers there are out there.
marybabooDec 26, 2007
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shamanlifeDec 27, 2007
I hate repeating things, but sometimes I have noticed that some people need to see things twice before understanding, so here it is again. For all you mention, its 25 cents to actually make the CD, plus about another 25 cents for the rest. So that comes to 50 cents for each CD. Of course, no one ever believes things until they actually experience it for themselves, so go ahead a put out a CD and then you may see that it still comes to about 50 cents per CD. I only know of this because I have gone through the process myself, but I don't necessarily expect everyone to do the same.
xtoothdecayFeb 2, 2008
Help get the police report from the Swedish government about the pirate bay case!<a class="user" href="http://www.specialnothing.net/tpb_reportfund/index.php">http://www.specialnothing.net/tpb_reportfund/index ...</a>digg it! - <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/Help_get_ThePirateBay_org_s_Police_Report/">http://digg.com/software/Help_get_ThePirateBay_org ...</a>