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- kopiwrite, on 06/05/2009, -0/+31I wonder how much the judge will cost the IFPI in this case?
- JMilton, on 06/06/2009, -0/+24The more they sue, the more I pirate.
- inactive, on 06/06/2009, -0/+23They better close down the phone companies because they are used to scam people, oh wait, only people and not corporations, so its ok.
- NikoKun, on 06/05/2009, -0/+23Wow wtf... Bit Torrent can be used for other things besides piracy. Lots of legitimate software companies use bittorent as a way to distribute files.
- SolNiger, on 06/06/2009, -0/+18***** THE RIAA.
- Tenareth, on 06/06/2009, -0/+16So we need to take down Blizzard and several other game companies that use Bit Torrent for patches?
- ArthasMenethil, on 06/06/2009, -0/+11***** THE MPAA.
- Lagstorm, on 06/06/2009, -3/+13If you want to seriously hurt this industry just don't buy anything. That'll kill them even faster than they're dying right now.
- Xanthan, on 06/06/2009, -0/+9Oh no, now we need to shutdown the postal service because they aid in the transport of contraband.
- ArthasMenethil, on 06/06/2009, -0/+8I swear to god I ***** hate these people (the IFPI, RIAA, MPAA, etc.) I swear they're so far up each others asses they can't realize how much money they could make if they just adjusted their ***** business model....
Pirate for life... - AMD64MM, on 06/06/2009, -0/+7To those burying, remember, it's always relevant.
- Xanthan, on 06/06/2009, -0/+7New technology that can be use to rip off the music and movie industry always scares the big guys. I seem to recall the movie industry doing everything in its power to stop VCR's from reaching the public. Ofcourse in hindsight they realized rentals were making some $$$.
- Travelsonic, on 06/06/2009, -1/+8"And so that's what, 1% of the traffic?"
Pulling figures out of your ass doesn't cut it, and certainly doesn't make the justification for this scare tactic - removing ALL bit torrent stuff or else without distinguishing between legal and illegal content - this failure to leave legal sites alone is sickening. - Gixxer18, on 06/06/2009, -0/+5Yup. you are.
- giyad, on 06/06/2009, -0/+5or how much money they could save instead of paying lawyers and wasting time...
- pigfister, on 06/06/2009, -0/+4lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate harware DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the ***** capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
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If payola wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtm ...
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326 ... - pigfister, on 06/06/2009, -0/+4they are all the same companies behind the trade bodies!
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006) - Krakerjax, on 06/06/2009, -1/+5Actually kid, a fair chunk of torrent material is legal.
It might have been the man in TPB trial, but he said something like 95% of torrent files are legal, and they stand up for near 45% of their traffic from sheer volume.
Not too sure on the details here though, Its a bit hazy. But to help visualize it a little, you have to realize, all 10 million WoW players need to update everytime Blizzard releases a patch. Some of these patches have been known to be rather large. - stealthspc, on 06/06/2009, -0/+4Your kind is not welcome here.
- JMilton, on 06/06/2009, -0/+3We know. Shut up.
- Subduction, on 06/06/2009, -1/+3Of course failing to distinguish between legal content and illegal content is wrong. I never asserted otherwise.
But who's pulling what out of their ass exactly? Go to Mininova, or isohunt, or torrentz, or Demonoid, or any of your favorites, and you tell me what the ratio of legal to illegal content is.
Just because my educated guess hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal doesn't mean that you and I both know that the point I'm making is correct. - Suricou, on 06/06/2009, -1/+2Or in this case, the IFPI.
Your quick guide to copyright organisations:
RIAA: Music, American
IFPI: Music, International
MPAA: Movies, American
BPI: Music, UK
BSA: Software, international.
FAST: Software, international. - inactive, on 06/06/2009, -0/+1Did you go on Holiday?
- Subduction, on 06/06/2009, -5/+4And so that's what, 1% of the traffic?
I don't want to see it taken down any more than anyone else, but taking this "wink wink" approach over the real nature of BT won't help the cause in the slightest. - Subduction, on 06/06/2009, -2/+1Look, I us BT as much if not more than the next guy, but that argument isn't going to take us very far.
If *most* of the traffic in the postal service was, in fact, contraband, then you better believe they would shut it down. And please, don't kid a fellow pirate here -- we all know that the majority of BT traffic is copyrighted material.
Sure, I just used it to download an Ubuntu iso, but that was drowned out by the copies of a decent-quality Star Trek TS and Family Guy Season 7 flying by all around it.
You're *much* better off trying to take some fair use angle than trying to perpetuate this dumb myth that BT isn't overwhelmingly being used for pirated materials. - Subduction, on 06/06/2009, -3/+2Really "kid?" 95 percent of torrent files are legal?
So Blizzard updates offset 24-hours a day, every day, of Axxo? And blaxxo and flaxxo and raxxo and all his cousins? And every Telesync labelled "+7 vid, +8 sound?" And GTA and Sims and "Left.4.Dead.Full.Rip?" and "Bleach" and "Windows XP Install Unattended.iso" and "Adobe Creative Suite CS4" and "Microsoft Office 2003 Professional.iso?"
Really? Are you really going to stick with that 95 percent number?
We are fighting for a freedom here. Making statements that even the most half-witted observer of the BT phenomenon knows are false is not helping anyone. - TheCheat1989, on 06/05/2009, -23/+1I'M a HUGE DOUCHE
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