quatrix
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Re: Hollow Victory
said by Doctor Four  :The MPAA may have won the battle against TorrentSpy, but they are losing the war. There are dozens of other torrent sites to take their place, and indeed some new ones have started up in the past few weeks. The war against what? Crime and the protection of intellectual property rights? Why do you try to make it sound like you're the good guy? |
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INT0CABLE
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Hawkmtnman
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said by quatrix :said by Doctor Four : The war against what? Crime and the protection of intellectual property rights? Why do you try to make it sound like you're the good guy? ummm....cuz he is ... |
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way2evil
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You are right in saying copyright infringment commiters are not the good guys, but the mpaa is worse. They are trying to "own" the Internet and everything that goes on in its vast amounts of data. Whether or not you support illegal downloads you should support net nutrality to the fullest. How would you like to use an Internet where few corporations run it? Its like gas. A few big guys run the show, gouge the prices, and the end user suffers. |
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TK Junk Mail
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said by INT0CABLE :we are the good guys NO - you're not. |
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INT0CABLE
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james1
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Doctor Four
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said by INT0CABLE :we are the good guys You know, I said absolutely nothing about good vs. bad in
my post. But Quatrix (whom I have on ignore, BTW), is putting
words in my mouth, assuming I said that. Seems all he did was
post a knee-jerk reaction to my comments.
But the MPAA, IFPI, RIAA and all the rest are indeed losing
the war. Piracy/infringement/filesharing/bootlegging cannot
be stopped.
It is like the wars on drugs, poverty and terror. Yes there
may be a few high profile victories here and there, but it
will never be completely eradicated.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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EricS
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It's legal to download.
If you upload and share, you will get caught by the MPAA. |
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Skeedatl
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The Cloud | reply to INT0CABLE
Wrong. |
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Sean
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said by quatrix :said by Doctor Four :The MPAA may have won the battle against TorrentSpy, but they are losing the war. There are dozens of other torrent sites to take their place, and indeed some new ones have started up in the past few weeks. The war against what? Crime and the protection of intellectual property rights? Why do you try to make it sound like you're the good guy? The RIAA is stealing from the artists. Of all the money won from these "scare tactics" and "out of court settlements" (read: not a single court case has been won), the artists have seen NOTHING.
It's funny that the RIAA talks about the protection of the artists intellectual property, and yet, of a CD sale, something like 95% of the money goes to the label.
Big fucking scam. And you've fallen for it. |
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Rob
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| said by Sean :said by quatrix :said by Doctor Four :The MPAA may have won the battle against TorrentSpy, but they are losing the war. There are dozens of other torrent sites to take their place, and indeed some new ones have started up in the past few weeks. The war against what? Crime and the protection of intellectual property rights? Why do you try to make it sound like you're the good guy? The RIAA is stealing from the artists. Of all the money won from these "scare tactics" and "out of court settlements" (read: not a single court case has been won), the artists have seen NOTHING. It's funny that the RIAA talks about the protection of the artists intellectual property, and yet, of a CD sale, something like 95% of the money goes to the label. Big fucking scam. And you've fallen for it. lol. So because you feel it's wrong, then stealing MUST be right.
Great logic there. |
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Mchart
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| America was founded on people stealing goods from the British empire. America truly was founded on piracy. Debate all you want - But thats just the way it is. So for a person with an American flag as their avatar to support the RIAA goes against logic. The RIAA is literally stealing money from the people who diserve it because said people created said product. Yet since the RIAA controls all venue's said people get 'taxed'. Sound familiar? It should. |
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Doctor Four
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| It isn't just the RIAA. The members of the MPAA do this as well, and Disney (one of the Big Six movie studios) is perhaps the most egregious violator of others' intellectual property rights.
Case in point: The original creator of the Lion Sleeps Tonight, which in its native tongue was called Mbube (Lion), was a South African Zulu named Solomon Linda. Disney used that song in the Lion King without giving Linda's heirs any royalties for it. So they sued the studio for $1.5 million: »www.time.com/time/magazine/artic···,00.html
If that isn't copyright infringement by one of the **AA members, I don't know what is. Or how about Edgar Bronfman,
the CEO of Sony/BMG telling his own children it really isn't all that big a deal if they download songs from the Internet over filesharing networks.
When it comes to copyright infringement, there is clearly a double standard which makes the **AAs look like hypocrites.
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mgbaker
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I have no love for the MPAA or the RIAA, especially the RIAA. They have dug their own graves by not embracing technology and the internet, and then finding effective and
cheap alternatives to the dinosaur days they cling to. Oh, much of the music the industry highlights and advertises, just really sucks.
Anyway, you compared the fight to war on drugs, terror, and poverty. Just because we can't totally eradicate those things, doesn't mean we should stop trying. Should we just stop fighting all crime because there will always be crime? Should we stop fighting diseases just because there will always be diseases? I think not. |
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KrK
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said by quatrix :The war against what? Truth, Justice, and the American Way... |
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CoxCable4
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internet > yuo |
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Corydon
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said by Doctor Four :It is like the wars on drugs, poverty and terror. Yes there may be a few high profile victories here and there, but it will never be completely eradicated. This is true in the sense that trying to prevent people from copying stuff that other people created is a battle that will always be with us.
It is also true in the sense that the current weapons used to fight that battle are horribly stupid, counterproductive, and have effects on those of us who are caught in the crossfire that range from annoying to scary to downright deadly.
I'm a big fan of the GPL and its variants. I think people who volunteer their time and energy on projects that benefit us all deserve our undying gratitude.
I don't believe that because some people choose to donate their time, talent, expertise and hard work to the betterment of the community that everyone else should be forced to as well.
Creators of works of art (movies, music, literature, etc.) should have the freedom to choose whether to give away copies of their creation or sell them or keep them all for themselves. It's their work. It should be under their control.
That's not to say that the entire system of copyright isn't horribly flawed—it is. That's not to say that the **AAs haven't been incredibly stupid about how they have proceeded—they have been.
But I also think that devaluing the talent and hard work that goes into the creative process by freely copying the fruits of their labors without permission and without recompense is incredibly selfish and amoral. I've never seen any defender of copyright infringement make any kind of argument that would make me think otherwise.
On the other hand, some kind of moral argument can be made for legalizing drugs. I can also accept that some people, by dint of hard work, brains, and even a little luck will always end up better off than others. I can even accept that there may be some twisted, perverted kind of justice and morality at the core of some terrorists (Hell, the IRA used to get lots of funding from Americans back in the day). |
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War on drugs ? How about legalize it and let darwin's theory sort the trash from the rest. Imagine the taxes we could collect on this , not to mention the purity and addictiveness could probably be engineered out of the drug. But alas most addiction is because people have addictive personalities.
War on poverty ? Really we started one on that ? I wouldn't know that by looking at what the government does. But the taxes from said legalized drugs could help us build more subsidized housing to help fund the war on poverty.
War on terror ? Don't make me laugh here , you were sold a line of BS from the gubberment to help erode your freedoms. And they did it very well. Look at how intertwined the corporations that are making money off this "war" are with the government. They are a cancer growing on the backbone of America.
How about we take our troops from other countries and let them blow each other up instead of blowing up our troops ? They should not be fighting a war for corporations , they should be fighting for their freedom in their native country.
The "war" on piracy is next. Because we have to preserve our way of life right ? Let us all bow to the **AA heads and start raiding more countries to protect our way of life ! We must ! If the **AA had their way we would be invading any country that doesn't bend over to their way of doing business.
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said by Mchart :America was founded on people stealing goods from the British empire. America truly was founded on piracy. Debate all you want - But thats just the way it is. So for a person with an American flag as their avatar to support the RIAA goes against logic. The RIAA is literally stealing money from the people who diserve it because said people created said product. Yet since the RIAA controls all venue's said people get 'taxed'. Sound familiar? It should. Whoa. There's a big difference between our founding fathers fighting against Britain for their independence, and the RIAA. The mere fact that you even attempt to compare them just shows that you have no case and no basis and are just grasping for straws.
I never said that I agree with the RIAA. But this logic that the RIAA = evil, therefore stealing = right just baffles me. |
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