War on Piracy

[Sprafa]

Net Song-Swappers Face New Anti-Piracy Push

LONDON (Reuters) - A new round of lawsuits aimed at prolific Internet song-swappers could be announced as early as Thursday as music officials meet in London to discuss the next step in their global war on Internet piracy.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and British Phonographic Industry scheduled a news conference in the city for Thursday to announce "further measures in the fight against Internet piracy." IFPI and BPI officials declined on Wednesday to say whether that meant new legal action.

To date, more than 3,000 people have been sued in the United States, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Canada and there has been speculation that more Internet file-sharers will be sued.

Music industry officials in Britain and France, the world's third and fourth largest music markets, have said they will join the legal fight if music fans continue to download free songs from Internet file-sharing networks and share them with others.

Music sales have been showing some sign of recovery, but the piracy-battered industry is still keen to use legal threats to limit usage of popular file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and eDonkey to stifle a rampant online trade in free music.

BPI officials had said they would not sue in Britain until paid download services such as Apple Computer's iTunes and Napster had established themselves and campaigns to make consumers aware of the law had been run.

"Lawsuits would not surprise me at all. The BPI has been saying for a long time they would do this. They just haven't said when. I would suspect the BPI would feel that by now anyone sharing songs online should know better," said Struan Robertson, a Glasgow-based technology lawyer for law firm Masons.

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[clarky003]

Bah, they will never stop Bit Torrentz, never!

Ive heard it all before, but nothing will stop the want for cheap or free stuff. You know secretly there just pissed cause the crap they often churn out doesnt make as much profit as they think it should.

tough bean's really.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

*clarky is hauled off by the riaa's goon squad*

 

[Ghost Freeman]

I have a right to privacy. They want to violate it, I have a ball bat and enough thermite to make that HD dissapear.

And then I will create a blog and post my stories to the populace. Yes, it would be good.

 

[Fat Tony!]

Ah well id still steal music all the same , perhaps I would install a few of those lame hacker tools that jam your ip or something, I dunno really it might not happen this decade

 

[f|uke]

Support your favorite artists by going to their live preformances.

While I do have mixed feelings on the subject of piracy, I am very pleased with my 60gig mp3 collection. :| I feel compelled to have an archive,. a history, if you will,. of all the songs and artists that have impacted me. Music and my memory of it is very important to me. Any song I hear becomes a part of me, and I dont believe that really belongs to the artist or the record companies.

 

[moppe]

Sweden is biggest in Europe to download copyrighted material, 80% of the total data is pirated material.

It's legal to.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Yeah, because our government is too lazy. Woot

 

[Fat Tony!]

This sweden place sounds good, shame it is full of vegetables

 

[ATI4EVER!]

remember how the FBI can surf these sites and make the admins give them your guyses IP addresses and with that, they can find out ur address, and then they encorsorate you. ?

 

[Maxi]

Music and my memory of it is very important to me. Any song I hear becomes a part of me, and I dont believe that really belongs to the artist or the record companies.

It's the same way for me. And why I download is because alot of records have copy protection on them, which means I can't rip them. And there isn't a SINGEL service that sells simple .mp3's in Finland. Currently it's ALOT easier to just download .mp3's illegaly. Once it's cheat and offers restriction free .mp3's i'll start buying.

 

[Ikerous]

Piracy helps the economy.

 

[ATI4EVER!]

erm...and how is that?

 

[clarky003]

to be fair our economy sucks, these people earn loadsa dosh for nothing more than providing us music (its nice but... an essential element of living? :rolling: ), and that money goes into their fat wallet, and goes towards their fat car, house , and belly..

and there are people starving in the world ;(,

so I dont even care if their cat's getting screwed over by piracey.

 

[Kyorisu]

*Cough* Shareaza *Cough*

Gotta love that open source.

 

[Yakuza]

to be fair our economy sucks, these people earn loadsa dosh for nothing more than providing us music (its nice but... an essential element of living? :rolling: ), and that money goes into their fat wallet, and goes towards their fat car, house , and belly..

and there are people starving in the world ;(,

so I dont even care if their cat's getting screwed over by piracey.

So envy is your problem. :thumbs:

 

[f|uke]

to be fair our economy sucks, these people earn loadsa dosh for nothing more than providing us music (its nice but... an essential element of living? :rolling: ), and that money goes into their fat wallet, and goes towards their fat car, house , and belly..

I think you'd be suprised at how little most musical artists make.. even ones with hit singles or popular albums. Record companies take fat cuts while billing the artist for the finantial burden of production. Many of these guys are just scraping by..


So support your favorite artists by going to see them at live shows. Not only is it the right thing to do, but can be one hell of a good time.

 

[FragBait0]

To date, more than 3,000 people have been sued in the United States, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Canada and there has been speculation that more Internet file-sharers will be sued.

Now, see this is FUD.
How many people download music and are naughty about it?
Let's just say *only* 300 milion..
Thats makes the odds of being one of the people caught 100000:1
EDIT: 100000 not being caught to the 1 that does..for clarity.

Sounds quite effective dosen't it?

 

[Alig]

remember how the FBI can surf these sites and make the admins give them your guyses IP addresses and with that, they can find out ur address, and then they encorsorate you. ?

With alot of proof. Ever heard of Human Rights? :| Maybe you don't have them to some extent in the usa.

I think you'd be suprised at how little most musical artists make.. even ones with hit singles or popular albums. Record companies take fat cuts while billing the artist for the finantial burden of production. Many of these guys are just scraping by..


So support your favorite artists by going to see them at live shows. Not only is it the right thing to do, but can be one hell of a good time.

Lmao. Scraping by... getting on the richest people board.

These singers (ok - maybe not the shit ones or the heavy metal dead end of the market) have so much money. Ever watch MTV? They have some program on it (forget its name) and go around these celebrity singer's house's and they are far from just scraping by in the world.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

trying to stop piracy is like trying to keep fat bitches from cupcakes, it aint happnin

 

[Parrot of doom]

trying to stop piracy is like trying to keep fat bitches from cupcakes, it aint happnin

****ing lol.

 

[Fat Tony!]

Actually tbh if I could use Itunes I would buy stuff of there but first I would like to download stuff for free to see if I like the band first If I liked it I would pay for it afterwards, that seems to make more sense. How about using streaming music so you can preview and if you like you can pay to download. I havent used any of these paying services before since I wouldnt be able to pay for anything without a debit/credit card

 

[Kyorisu]

I think you'd be suprised at how little most musical artists make.. even ones with hit singles or popular albums. Record companies take fat cuts while billing the artist for the finantial burden of production. Many of these guys are just scraping by..


So support your favorite artists by going to see them at live shows. Not only is it the right thing to do, but can be one hell of a good time.

This is why these artists that don't make much should sell there music on their own personal website.

 

[f|uke]

These singers (ok - maybe not the shit ones or the heavy metal dead end of the market) have so much money. Ever watch MTV? They have some program on it (forget its name) and go around these celebrity singer's house's and they are far from just scraping by in the world.

MTV Cribs. I'm not talking all artists. f' metallica, etc. But from what I hear, Blink 182 making a very modest living, and they've had a whole series of hits.

 

[ATI4EVER!]

With alot of proof. Ever heard of Human Rights? :| Maybe you don't have them to some extent in the usa.




in that case, i copy dvds

Spoiler

rented

meh, pol;ice don't care, in new york they sell them and police are jujst standing there like, "we love donuts!!"

 

[Alig]

With alot of proof. Ever heard of Human Rights? :| Maybe you don't have them to some extent in the usa.




in that case, i copy dvds

Spoiler

rented

meh, pol;ice don't care, in new york they sell them and police are jujst standing there like, "we love donuts!!"

Lol donuts! so it's not just in films then....

If an FBI agent or whatever was reading here and you said that they got no proof and certaintly can't demand shit from mods and a mod would never give out someone's IP (or should'nt) unless they feel confident about it.

Plus yeah i don't think they really give a shit to follow things like this up. If they catch you red-handed they would arrest you but if they followed every little thing up they'd be working like a dog 24/7.

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

remember how the FBI can surf these sites and make the admins give them your guyses IP addresses and with that, they can find out ur address, and then they encorsorate you. ?

They can try but unless the server is situated in the US can they really demand anything?

The way I feel about Piracy is this:
I would have no quams about pirating from say EA and Co.However I would never pirate a game of Origional Content or a novel premise.Example being Evil Genius and Dawn of War.(And of course HL2).iD on the other hand felt that a world wide release was too much for them to handle and given that Valve seem to be able to.It aint too much to ask.
Concerning Music Piracy:
I rarely listen to music unless im forum jumping and then I use a Webcast(PlanetSide Radio is good)

 

[RRunner]

well theres a torrent up at the moment, with cs:source and it DOES works on non hacked servers. (dont pm 4 loc of the torrent, it will not be given). ATM there are 2000 seeders 15.ooo leechers, the torrent is 4 hours old. Now think what this will be in 2 days. HL" will be hacked 2, without any doubt in my mind, so r we seeing the end of games here? who wants to build a new engine and game if they arent going to get their money back, and profits for the shareholders?

The same site had 103.000 downloads of doom3 (this is 1 singel torrent site).

Im all for free source and bla bla bla. but give it some thought.

 

[poseyjmac]

Any song I hear becomes a part of me, and I dont believe that really belongs to the artist or the record companies.

well any cars i see become a part of me, and ill jack them and take them if i want to because i don't feel they belong to anyone.
:angel:

 

[ATI4EVER!]

umm....pie baby!

 

[FragBait0]

well any cars i see become a part of me, and ill jack them and take them if i want to because i don't feel they belong to anyone.
:angel:

Owned!

 

[Lil' Timmy]

ok let's be honest! i've killed before, ok, you happy now?

wait, what are we talking about?