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- RyanJones, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10Shows how much effect the anti-piracy guys are having doesn't it?
- sethm13, on 05/26/2008, -1/+5Someone needs to mass-email this to the RIAA
- inactive, on 05/27/2008, -0/+4How can they lose my $10 dollars when I never would have given it to them in the first place? I'd rather give $2 dollars directly to the people who made the game or movie and know its getting to them rather than give 1 red cent to any giant corporation.
- tim710, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3The RIAA is probably telling themselves linux just got alot more popular.
- lundeja, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3"***** THE RIAA"
- BigManOnCampus, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2Interestingly I don't think the RIAA got to sample it's initial legal advice on this issue before "purchasing" it.
- Kisama, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2Go go gadget torrents!
- inactive, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2whoa you buy stuff that you download? what a waste of money ^_^
- TheImaginator, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2Suing a bunch of entrepreneurs when the entrepreneurs are hosting your content on their servers, at their cost - for loss of potential profit and not actual monetary loss - is extremely bad manners and very opportunistic and cynical.
It's akin to the bad manners and bigotry the government engage in when they allow drinking, tobacco smoking, and the purchasing and use of presription drugs which can have worse health effects and withrawal symptoms - and are more addictive - but demonise marijuanna and either fabricate 'facts' or misreport scientific studies on the herb.
What is the world coming to? - cIprO, on 05/27/2008, -2/+4You know its pretty simple .. I feel like I have a right to "sample" a product before i buy it. When I go to a car dealer I have the right to test drive the car before I buy. So why can't I read a couple chapters of a book or listen to the whole album before I buy? If i really like a product a CD, book, game etc.. guess what? I'm going to buy it not because I feel guilty for downloading it but because I really think it was an awesome product and I think that who ever created it should be rewarded with my cash. Sadly the RIAA and MPAA will never understand this simple equation.
- SurlyDuff, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2I'm glad I could help out in the anti-anti-piracy battle:P
- TheImaginator, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1I agree with SuperWinner.
The corporations claim they lose money, but they cannot be losing the money because it is not real money - it is only potential profit.
Potential profit is not actual money at all, it is no more real or actual than the chickens you count before the eggs have hatched.
Besides which, as I have said on the comments thread for the Youtube/Viacom article http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTube_Viacom_dumping_p ... - it is quite clear that there is only so much money that they can make from their own product before they relegate it to archives, and then what are they losing?
Somebody else is even paying for hosting the content on servers, corporations are not paying for hosting the content on servers - some other company is.
Then the corporations sue them and individual users for loss of potential profits - which the courts treat as actual profit loss. - LongShlong, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Yes, very.
- snatchmstr, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Not really. They are the ones making this ***** up in the first place. I hope you were being sarcastic.
- kaelyiesta, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1You do not have a right to sample without the consent of the one offering the product in question, legally or morally. You do however have the right to choose to not purchase things from companies that don't offer you the ability to sample their products.
This is the distinction I make when reading all these articles. It makes complete sense for companies to try out new marketing models so that consumers aren't ***** over by a bad product. It's also completely reasonable for consumers to not want to buy a product, unsure whether or not its actually good. In essence, a consumer is buying entertainment, and if the content fails to provide that, then the customer feels cheated. However, none of this in any way gives you or I the right to take that content by force. As long as they aren't falsely advertising, they can sell whatever they want for whatever price they want, and you have no right to decide your own price. It's not yours. If you don't like not having a guarantee of satisfaction, then don't buy. There is no moral justification for taking something (as long as you don't need it to survive) just because you don't agree with how someone is trying to sell it. - kingjafee, on 05/27/2008, -6/+2MININOVA USERS AIN'T NOTHING TO ***** WITH!!!!!
Take that RIAA!!!!!
Until you start caring about quality and artistic creativity over mass production of rock, rap, and pop acts that are weak rip offs of the originals maybe we will stop.
Or maybe when you learn to use the internet for what it is.
The world's best marketing tool.
ZAMUNDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - inactive, on 05/27/2008, -8/+2bunch of thieves
- deadlift, on 05/26/2008, -8/+1With a conservative estimate that each download was worth $10 in lost revenue (on average), that's a loss of $50 billion to content producers. From one site. Are you happy?
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