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- airwalkery2k, on 12/03/2008, -5/+918Finally I can just download that plasma television.
- HallenbeckJoe, on 12/03/2008, -14/+500This is stupid, because it will support the MPAA/RIAA claims that filesharers would BUY everything they download!
- oneredeye, on 12/03/2008, -25/+431There are no pirates on the amazon. It's a rain forest!
- Morghin, on 12/02/2008, -37/+367Haha. Fantastic. This'll rile them up like hell.
- guiltyblade, on 12/03/2008, -10/+301Great just make it more apparent you are stealing stuff.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -18/+236 Something something something ARRRRRRRRRR
- cptmichael101st, on 12/03/2008, -5/+200Nope. I was all, "Give me your ***** money, give me your ***** money" and it was like, "Your order is not complete until you click the Confirm button" so i did and it charged my credit card.
I think the joke was on me. - airwalkery2k, on 12/03/2008, -3/+192The checkout page didn't respond to your threats and pointed gun?
- slippin84, on 12/03/2008, -76/+250I know this will be buried....but this isn't "free" copies. It is stealing. There are no if's and's or but's about it.
I hear it already: "If they made better music we'd buy it!"...why make better music when it's just going to get pirated online anyway?
"If it wasn't so expensive we would buy it!"...god forbid they have to pay the talented developers that made the product and have to recoup those costs somehow
Screw you for taking the easy way out and not buying what you want...instead our "I want it now and I don't care what it takes" culture is making things like this plugin that makes it easier to steal popular. - cptmichael101st, on 12/03/2008, -1/+168I tried to rob amazon.com once.
it was a little more difficult than i thought. - grungemusic3001, on 12/03/2008, -1/+150They navigate their way down the Amazon River use greasemonkey scripts as guides.
- Matt2k, on 12/03/2008, -8/+153"This artistic project addresses the topic of current media distribution models vs. current culture and technical possibilities"
Do people who write things like this actually believe themselves.
Okay fine, how does this artistic project "address the topic of media distribution models" pitted against (?) current culture (and) technical possibilities. Not only does the sentence not make any sense, but deep in my heart I feel the authors had to know this line was filled to the brim with absolute *****. - quomen, on 12/03/2008, -2/+143Why is this fantastic? Amazon has been on the consumer's side in the DRM battle. They were the first to sell V0 mp3s without DRM. And now we want to take business from them? Amazon is one of the good guys, lets not try to ***** them over.. I consistantly purchase items from them because they offer some of the best prices on the internet and also some of the best customer service. It's number one for a reason.
- rhysboy84, on 12/03/2008, -24/+154I bet the Arrrrrrrr IAA aren't too happy about this
- fiverock2, on 12/03/2008, -1/+122I tried to rob that place too, but it's impossible. I threw a brick through the window and the place disappeared.
Next morning I realized my monitor was somehow busted, had to order a new one, from Amazon of course. - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -7/+125Title misled me. I got my hopes up thinking there was some kind of glitch that would allow me to buy real things on Amazon for free. I was checking things off my Christmas list. :(
- dafragsta, on 12/03/2008, -5/+91Yeah, this is lame. I'm not saying I don't have a bunch of pirated *****, but I don't take pride in the actual act of pirating so much that I'd be able to guilt-free click an embedded link on Amazon that went to Pirate Bay. I've bought 90% of the movies I own on DVD, at least half of my PC games, and I spent $1K of my own money on Kore2/Komplete5. I wouldn't ever judge someone for pirating alone, but if you actually use the product, you should buy it.
- JWCrease, on 12/03/2008, -3/+71I don't like this, they're getting too arrogant. This is when napster went down, too many stupid people used it too much.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -1/+68Maybe they want to check out Amazon for recommendations of what they should pirate today.
- angusm, on 12/03/2008, -6/+69In a related development, the Pirate Bay has changed its name to Go On We Dare You To Try To Shut Us Down.
This strikes me as just stupid. Anyone trying to make a clear link between downloading and outright theft could hardly ask for better than this. Ultimately, this kind of nose-thumbing nonsense just makes the RIAA/MPAA's case for them, and will lead to the erosion of our rights in areas that matter - not your imaginary "right" to download "The Dark Knight" or the new Britney Spears album without paying a dime to the folks who made it, but things like fair use or our right to buy computers that haven't been crippled in order to please the industry associations.
If this latest stupid little stunt from the Pirate Bay hastens the day when you can't buy a computer that isn't filled from the inside out with performance-killing DRM technology, I say screw them and the horse they rode in on. - greenchip, on 12/03/2008, -4/+64Will pirating be the end of intellectual content? If there is not a cost to distribution, the value must be in the content. But if there is no payment for that value, then there is little reason to generate the content. All we will have are free songs by karaoke quality singers and hobby video games written in Visual Basic. Why would someone want to spend 18 months of their life creating content (e.g. video game) when it generates no income to support their family.
- BuddyChrist, on 12/03/2008, -5/+59wouldn't the type of person who would install this addon be more likely to just visit the pirate bay and search for their media directly?
- talonstriker, on 12/03/2008, -2/+56unless it's the Amazon river.
- PeninsulaBoy217, on 12/03/2008, -1/+51YoU wOuLdN'T dOwNLoaD a CaR...
- aeramil, on 12/03/2008, -8/+54As one of the comments on the original story says, the title of the article is ridiculously misleading.. all the app does is give you a search for the product on a torrent site, has nothing to do with amazon's servers at all.
This isn't news.. it's a pretty stupid topic for a news article though. - Metasquares, on 12/03/2008, -10/+50It isn't stealing in the corporeal sense of the word. That doesn't mean it isn't wrong, but you're diluting the value of a group's intellectual labor rather than depriving them of a material good.
- IamSunstorm, on 12/03/2008, -6/+45***** you people for making pirating so easy and accessible to the masses. You're ruining it for everyone.
- Iwantawii, on 12/03/2008, -0/+36Comment is underrated.
- boomqweeshaa, on 12/03/2008, -1/+36Amazon sells DRM free music. Don't screw this up! We should be supporting legal DRM free music downloads.
- kiiwii, on 12/03/2008, -5/+40Awesome, I can finally get that JL 421 Badonkadonk I've been saving for...
http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruis ... - nesagwa, on 12/03/2008, -5/+38Downloading a copy of a movie and taking barges and cruise ships hostage, killing people and demanding a ransom for their safe return.
Yeah, I can see how the two are similar. - cvesper, on 12/03/2008, -1/+34Yeah! I was just about to print out a new phone!
- jfvegeta, on 12/03/2008, -5/+38Man, I thought I was going to be able to shop a 50" LCDTV for free on Amazon. But alas, this only applies to digital stuff. Title needs to be more specific, but dugg for use of word pirate.
- sloncek, on 12/03/2008, -6/+38Can u also link to the open source version of the Iron Man DVD?
- slippin84, on 12/03/2008, -6/+35No denial of property? This is one of the most moronic things I've ever heard...case in point...
I work in IT. I provide a service....I do jobs on the side, and it always irritates me when people don't want to pay what I think my skills are worth. Just because it may not look like I am physically working hard to fix a problem the same way a mechanic would fix your car, it's the exact same thing. You are not paying me for the amount of physical work I do, but the skills I possess...the same goes for musicians and developers. They have a skill you do not. You are denying them money by using their services for free. If you think you should get it for free, learn how to play the guitar, mix it using machines you bought, and then distribute it as YOU see fit. - insomniac8400, on 12/03/2008, -4/+33They must be damn confident of their immunity from laws.
- ParanoydAndroid, on 12/03/2008, -29/+571.) It's not stealing. If it was stealing than downloaders would be charged with theft. Theft has to involve the taking of the item and the depriving its owner of that item. Hence the charges for copyright infringement. Also, numerous studies indicate that pirates (mostly 18 - 24) would not otherwise buy the items they download. So since even the theoretical "theft" depends on there otherwise being a purchase this argument fails.
2.) The actual artists make the vast majority of their money from concerts and tours. In 2004 out of the average sale amount of $13 for a CD, ~$.03 went to the artist.
3.) All it would take to help curb pirating and turn a greater profit would be flexibility in the industry. New models that came out (iTunes store, Hulu.com) have proven successful. I often choose to watch shows on Hulu instead of downloading and worrying about quality, etc ... The adverts help provide a revenue stream that would otherwise not even exist. Think about that for a second, it's not like without hulu and without pirating that same revenue would be made in some other way (like that audience watching the shows on TV at broadcast time) - people who use Hulu often do so because they would otherwise not have been able to watch the show. By providing this service hulu didn't redirect revenue - it _created_ it by knowing and catering to an audience that only had "time shifting" options when it came to watching the show.
The creation of these new revenue models would increase profit for the parent companies, curb pirating, and probably encourage further growth in media distribution technologies (while also providing incentive to improve our national network infrastructure). It's a potential win-win situation that the RIAA and MPAA seem to either refuse to consider, or are unconscionably slow in adopting.
also, Netflix streaming = awesome. - IHaveIssues, on 12/03/2008, -1/+27eBook/PDF is not the same as having a paperback in my opinion. I'm not into the whole Kindle thing, I prefer bending some pages.
- yaosio, on 12/03/2008, -2/+28Me and my cohorts pirated lots of independent band music, they were so angry they stopped making music and got other jobs so they could feed themselves. Some of the jackholes even had children! How selfish can you get?
- peestandingup, on 12/03/2008, -6/+31Nice, but Im not sure I'd trust the plugin to get me the best torrent. We all know it takes a lot of digging around, reading comments, etc to know a good torrent from a bad one.
Well, those of us who are damn dirty pirates know. Yar Har! - theberlindoctor, on 12/03/2008, -2/+26welcome to the "art" world..
- fenderrocker, on 12/03/2008, -17/+40The first rule of fight club...
buried - dargon, on 12/03/2008, -1/+23As a side note, this stunt isn't by TPB, it's some other "enterprising" group, they even say (or so I understand as I'm not going to install the plug-in myself) in their TOS that they are in no way affiliated with TPB. The plug-in could just as easily point at mininova or any of 100 other torrent sites.
- strictnein, on 12/03/2008, -3/+25I don't understand this argument at all. If it's "*****", why bother pirating it?
- wifirewire2, on 12/03/2008, -4/+25i accidentally amazon
- conchur, on 12/03/2008, -1/+22um... pirates will flourish anywhere boats do.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a ... - darkism, on 12/03/2008, -4/+23Yea, because human life and a giant corporation's money are equally important.
- OaklandNative, on 12/03/2008, -0/+18Also, Amazon offers digital distribution of non-DRM music. So isn't Amazon already "address[ing] the topic of current media distribution models vs. current culture and technical possibilities."?
- badenoughdude, on 12/03/2008, -8/+26It's a firefox plugin. You have to seek it out and install it before it does anything, so anyone who uses this was probably aware of TPB and pirating stuff already. If there was an internet worm installing this on unsuspecting unsecured PCs, then it would be fair to say that this was trying to "take business away from" Amazon. This does nothing but change the way Amazon appears to people who have installed it on their own browsers, just like adblock+ or noscript would.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -1/+18Adapt
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