Internet Sharing

[Navaros]

Ironic, isn't it?

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/25/download.suits.ap/index.html

ROFL

please RIAA, sue me first! I'd *LOVE* to counter-sue you for thieving money from me every time I buy a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc. i hope *EVERYONE* you sue does exactly that!

too bad i'm just a "small-fry", i only have about 300 MP3s, although this article inspires me to increase that number by tenfold each month so maybe eventually the RIAA will target me and my lawyers can humiliate them publically ;D

to RIAA: thanks for the downloading inspiration!

[Caid Ivik]

Reality is, that recorder companies have in "pirates" their best customers. Paradox, isn't it? Especially in poorer countries, only richer people can buy original dics, and if they have many customers, they must buy most of the new albums. Not saying, that these people are making a good advertisment for musicians...

[Navaros]

i have come to realize that the entire recording industry is obsolete!

Record Labels are not needed. distributors are not needed. the RIAA is most definitely not needed.

every musician could distribute his own music over his own website and charge for it that way. 100% of the payment for the music would actually go to the musician where it belongs. all these corporate sleazebags, like the Recording Industry, would have to go find real jobs that actually serve a purpose to society.

the Recording Industry is not wanted and not needed. i am taking great joy in watching it squirm as it dies (as per the above linked article).

[Caid Ivik]

They are like candle makers attacking production of electricity...

[Ice_Cube]

every musician could distribute his own music over his own website and charge for it that way. 100% of the payment for the music would actually go to the musician where it belongs. all these corporate sleazebags, like the Recording Industry, would have to go find real jobs that actually serve a purpose to society.

That is a good point. (why do you make so much more sense on this board Nav?) anyway, a musician should do this, charge for registration for their site and then you could download music from them cheaply (no other people to pay other than the musician) and download it leagaly. This makes more sense but it would not stop the idea of internet piracy. you would always be able to get it for free somewhere else. Although on the news I heard they were going to crack down on MP3 distrebution....

[Dude_Doc]

Well, I really hope online sharing survives the blast after New Years Day (in Sweden).

I think it is foolish that such big companies, who have money enough to live their lives 100 times over, care for such small invisible situation as freedom. Just take a look out of your window: raping, homeless people, murder, robbing, viruses, terrorists, drugs, and pedophiles, not to mention every other misery out there. Why not help 1000 people to get somewhere to live instead of whitch-hunting every downloader? Since when did "I rock hard" by "The X rockers" become more important than one human life?

[Anakin]

sharing is good

information and art and knowledge should be free to everynoe