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- jgubbe, on 04/14/2009, -4/+24***** the RIAA, MPAA, ***** em all! Leave them good ol' Pirate types and Bays alone!
- Waxbar1, on 04/14/2009, -1/+15When will the corporations learn that P2P has gone past the point of stopping. They should learn from people such as Matt Stone and Trey Parker and get their media on their own sites and gain advertising revenue. When you can't beat 'em join 'em.
- chaoswings, on 04/14/2009, -2/+10Only in a P2P related case can you award damages 30 times what they should be. On a grander scale judges in general have no clue when it comes to technology. It's getting to the point where you have to hire specialized stand ins. Too bad this is not being put into practice.
I often wonder why laws were made so complex that the common man cannot decipher them. Laws cannot be followed if they cannot be understood. People tell me that's what lawyers are for, but then dosen't that defeat the purpose of having laws in the first place? - polypropglop, on 04/14/2009, -0/+7=========
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MrBabyMan = fat scruffy cum guzzling *****. kthxbai
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MrBM has a stalker? O.o - uskomaton, on 04/14/2009, -3/+10The damage downloading one song does is $0.69-1.29.
The damage done sharing that songs can't be proven and should thus be $0.
Even if people download the shared song the actual damage might as well be $0, because it is very unlikely they would pay anything for the song anyway, thus artist would make $0 anyway.
Actually sharing the song might make people buy more stuff from the artists, so in reality the sharer should be paid, why is this never discussed by the RIAA?
Oh yeah and ***** RIAA! - WarriorBlake, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3BTW, The Pirate Bay Verdict on Friday 17th.
- brucealmighty, on 04/14/2009, -1/+4What we're seeing is that most people are willing to pay what they consider a fair price for copyrighted material. The artists have to eat too. But they refuse to be bullied into grossly overpaying for what they want, especially when they are forced to buy a lot of stuff they don't want in order to get the few things they do want. That model is unsustainable, as the current vernacular likes to say.
- greevar, on 04/15/2009, -1/+3I just took a good look at the Copyright law and the DMCA. If I'm not mistaken, copy protection measures can be circumvented under the rules of fair use. Although, fair use cannot be used as a defense when said protection is circumvented. Does that make any sense to anyone?
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html - buddamus, on 04/14/2009, -1/+3$750 for a Britney Spears song thats barely worth 99 cents as it is
- digglover6, on 04/14/2009, -2/+3Movies are like marriage.In marriage U don't rush into it unless u r sure it's actually worth it.So are movies: we see the pirated copy first,then we decide if it's worth it or not to go c it at the theatre. ***** MPAA they don't even know how to rate their movies.
- JakeW, on 04/14/2009, -0/+1Yarr!!
- KibibyteBrain, on 04/15/2009, -1/+11. If I had to guess, TBP kills iTunes in transferred files by several orders of magnitude. And also, I'd hardly call a move from greedy record stores which actually promote local music culture to a degree to online stores which are even more greedy and worse of all negotiate contracts directly with the record(distribution) companies as a "plus".
2. Destroying sales-based business models is not a bad thing if they are obsolete. The main thesis of the Pirate Bay is that a site where one could procure freely any piece of intellectual content at will is a good benefit to society that should be looked at and examined at the very least. So far all anyone has done has demonized it in a regressive onslaught. Of course, TPB model as it stands doesn't work as it doesn't compensate artists and production staffs fairly or even to the degree necessary for them to produce, but one could argue that the status quo doesn't either. The thesis is one calling for reform and showing how much better things can be, and in an active fashion as that is the only way things will ever get done in this regressive realm.
Right now we have artificial laws that promote a business model that no longer works, that people clearly don't like, and that according to this experiment doesn't benefit society as much as new models could. Its time to try new ideas. - Sogui, on 04/14/2009, -4/+3I hope I can write up compelling papers like this once I become a lawyer.
But realistically I'm probably just going to work at a big law firm and swim in a pool of cash all day while wearing nothing but a top hat. - shark72, on 04/14/2009, -2/+1P2P piracy is huge, but it hasn't killed the notion of selling stuff. The iTunes store is the #1 music retailer, bigger than Wal-Mart or Target. While it might be the case that you and all your friends get stuff for free with BitTorrent, there are still a hell of a lot of people who buy music and movies.
That being said -- the paper is right; the statutory damage limit is out of control. It needs to be brought down to earth. - amabaie, on 04/14/2009, -4/+1Spiral Frog tried an advertising-based model for downloading music. It worked for a while, but the updates were a pain (I would have preferred paying) and none it's bitten the dust (not sure why).
- zomgz, on 04/13/2009, -25/+2MrBabyMan = fat scruffy cum guzzling *****.
kthxbai
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