MPAA and BREIN shut down 51 more torrent sites

Okay fixed...I got all worked up into a froth, I have been getting better at that however.

every once in a while I guess I feel a bit sadistic. And I was recruited into this one.

I just thought of a new superhero!

To continue on from yRaz of sorts.
People in the old days would make tapes of music for one another, good ol cassettes eh. Exactly the same ol copyright law, just not on a grand scale as the internet. Its been about forever, now that its everywhere its apparently a problem.

And I dont like stealing, sure, the worlds full of tools who swipe cars, handbags, your tv when ya out, or asleep, its a crap world we live in. But... I do not believe the BS that comes out of these a-holes. They are not losing $100mil in revenue on gaming. You cant take the amount of downloads, multiply the going rate for said item, and come up with the figure you are missing.
That is unrealistic, and only for the douches that are brainwashed into believing all that they read or are told.

I like my Steam, i buy in sale, I guess I am getting old. I wont pay stupid prices like the young spoilt brats of the next generation, £40 for a game, £20 for a film, £15 for an album, are you kiddin me. I will never pay for those prices and no one should. NO ONE. And they won't. If and when they take down these sites, thats fine, I will love to see that day, when they realise, no huge revenue increase ? how come ? well ya govt is full of money grabbing weapon selling a-holes, and they hired *****s to look after the moneys, and its all gone, you owe to china who want nothing more than to see you eat yourselves, which will be when you start rioting and looting yourselves, when you find out you have no way to pay for ya medical bills and hiked taxes, coz you have no jobs, theres too many people on the planet with the increased population, of which most of it is china, waiting to pick the last few off.... the end of capatilism, the fall of man, the end of the world... end of communications....

Well, Guest, nobody could argue with most of that. In truth, there is plenty of BS on both sides of the fence.

The exaggerated claims of loss by the entertainment industry= BS

The "nothing's been stolen", well, that's BS too.

I always thought that boycott was the route to lower prices. If something doesn't sell, then somebody will lower the price until it does.

But when you feel you're entitled to it, on the day it's released, for free, that's straight up sociopathy.

Since you full well know, that you'll never effect any change in attitude, why don't we call it, "masochistic".

"Recruited", or "subverted"? Oh well, you say to-may-to, I say "to-mah-to".

It's probably not the same one I'm thinking of. Er, that would be, "Internet Blocking Rootkit Man"....

patent laws are abused to the point where they have lost their original purpose, to protect the creator. Patents are mainly used for large corporations to sue each other now.

point is that no money was lost, they just didn't make any. Music, like any other art, should be free for everyone to appreciate. You can look at a painting online or barrow a book from a library, Both of those have the same effect that piracy does. I'm sure publishers would love for everyone to buy a book, but you don't see them making laws about it. The recording industry is nothing more than a middle man demanding ridiculous amounts of money. The artists work for their money by performing on stage, for the fans. The record companies pimp off the artists. THEY are the thieves.

Dumb example, our rights are being taken away everyday.

It's called a boycott. I have a zune pass and a netflix account so I get this stuff close to free anyway.

Valuable enough to steal? It's so not worth my time that I wouldn't walk out the door to rent the damn thing. I wouldn't even walk next door and ask my neighbors for district 9 none the less pay for it at the lowest of prices. 3 clicks away? Maybe I'll watch it then. See, I'm not going to go out of my way to watch something if I'm only going to turn it off.

Okay, so what? If they are losing $100 million....Its theft
If they are losing $1.98.. its theft.

Are suggesting that at some arbitrary point determined by you that it becomes okay?

as for the rest of that incoherent rant,
that's the furthest i have seen someone take subterfuge on the subject. Perhaps you might try laying off the Nyquil

Then why download it if you're only going to turn it off?

Wait a Minute! I know the answer to that. So you can come annoy us with some boorish, infantile post about how slick you are by doing so...!

No need to respond, I've answered my own question.

Curiosity

I guess you're right, I over did it. I've been in an argumentative mood lately.

That one speaks for itself. ^

i see, now the patent laws are worthless.

See, Microsoft did not really come into my house and beat up my wife and kids...

Great! do that, just don't steal .(directed at those who are obviously)

man you really hated district 9 huh?

Again! You, I, everyone stealing, and defending theft, are afforded every opportunity to not buy it if you thinks its not worth it

.....TomSea must be unconscious or something

Let's attribute it to, "cabin fever", shall we?

I have to say though, "Distric 9" was the perfect example of a movie that the MPAA should have paid people to watch, not the other way around.

Yeah, where is old Tom when you need him the most, my fingers are getting tired.

(Update): As of 22 minutes ago, tom was over in the Sandy Bridge CPU thread. I too find it incomprehensible that he doesn't want a part of this gem.

I think most of it should be free anyway. Yes, I hated district 9. It is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of something I don't want to pay for.

about the type-o. That post was very hard to edit because of the way it was formatted.

I have mixed feelings on movies. Music, however, should be free.

Well no, they even paid the bands that played at Woodstock.

Besides, music is free. It's just the free music doesn't heed you're beckon call. So, the hard copy shouldn't be free, you should be happy with hearing what you want to hear, but when they want you to hear it.

You got that right. Man, that was a bad film...90 odd minutes of my life i'll never get back.

Ahem! back to the topic....Errr yeah, i agree

I swear to god I will never understand the mindset that rationalizes that "music should be free"
why? seriously help me understand this.
It is a product like anything else. It has commercial value,entertainment value, etc. its what some people do for a living. How on Gods green earth do you make it work in your mind that that this particular product should be free?
let me ask you something. I don't know if you are old enough to be working for a living or not, however, what if a group arbitrarily decided what you do for a living, what you produce by your labor and creativity should be free?...confiscated at anothers whim? such as you think theirs should be?

I actually thought that paid digital downloads had taken away the biggest ,(legitimate), complaint that music buyers had. That would be, "there's only one track on the whole album worth listening to". Problem solved, you pay your 99 cents for that track, and voila, problem solved!

Yeah, so did I...they all said that, then showed their true colors when that wasn't good enough.

It actually chastens the artists whose single tracks are being downloaded also, since they're not getting royalties of the entire album, just one song. Maybe they'll try harder the next time. Buy some better amps, snort some better coke, something.

That's actually what I intended. I better lay down.