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| Thread ID: 124304 | 2012-04-17 21:48:00 | The first Thrid Strike | Paul.Cov (425) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1270648 | 2012-04-18 06:10:00 | Three strike and you're out Crush his car! Lock up him up for life! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1270649 | 2012-04-18 06:12:00 | get someone fined because their teenager downloaded a $2 song that noone was ever going to buy. Don't forget you can't really buy a $2.00 song, just a 192 bit rate MP3. Why don't they sell FLAC"s ? Now we have all this new bandwidth and fibre ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1270650 | 2012-04-18 06:48:00 | Why don't they sell FLAC"s ? Now we have all this new bandwidth and fibre ? Because that would be useful. Also, it would make sense. Since when did the stupid record companies ever do anything that made sense? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1270651 | 2012-04-18 22:07:00 | I think they don't sell lossless because it would completely kill what's left of the CD market, at the moment if you want CD quality you still have to buy a CD (unless you are a pirate). On top of that bandwidth and speed is still an issue for some and a lot of people seem perfectly happy with compressed formats. The music industry seems very slow to react to change and are clinging on to the selling of CDs. Allow someone to download a lossless copy of your music and burn it to disk and you've lost all control of it. What they need to figure out is a way to give at least most music lovers what they want and still make money off it. When I first started working I would buy a new record (yes vinyl) almost every pay week, now I'm down to less than 1 CD a year and am very picky. The potential loss from myself if I pirated instead would obviously cripple the music industry. I think they need to ackowledge what we all know, that distributing digitally does not cost anything like the same as distributing physically on disk, and price music accordingly. The artists should get more, the music industry should take a fair cut, and we should get our albums at $5-10 each. They need to make money on high volume not high margins. Another Idea is to have the ISP's pay a percentage of their profits to content providers who are after all responsible one way or another for the data usage that ISPs are making money from. Maybe the music and movie industries should have moved into the ISP game themselves :) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1270652 | 2012-04-18 22:20:00 | I heard 1080 killed thrids so I threw my television at some - it squashed them, must be because it was 1080p | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1270653 | 2012-04-18 22:29:00 | I heard 1080 killed thrids so I threw my television at some - it squashed them, must be because it was 1080p :D :D :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1270654 | 2012-04-18 22:36:00 | This morning the dude on Firstline admitted they add some small code to the songs and this traces the ip that songs are download via, obviously feeding this info back to HQ. This sounds kind of similar to something else i have heard of... is .... it cant be. spyware?? This is going to backfire in their faces :groan: |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1270655 | 2012-04-18 23:00:00 | That's not possible unless the software the songs is played in supports that kind of thing. No, to be honest, it's just done via bittorrent. The RIAA connect to the same swarm as you and I do, then just jot down the IP Addresses of the other peers. It's not rocket science. For example: imageshack.us (Taken from Google Images - forum.utorrent.com ) In this you can see somebody from callplus.net.nz (Possibly also Slingshot). They just note down the IP Address, current time, and send off the details to abuse@isp.co.nz, or something to that effect. There's no black magic here at all... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1270656 | 2012-04-18 23:32:00 | Allow someone to download a lossless copy of your music and burn it to disk and you've lost all control of it. Which is exactly the same thing as when you buy a CD, except you didn't have to bother burning it. Since there is no difference, so there's no reason for them to prefer CDs over lossless downloads. It's also why I prefer CDs over DRM'd and lossy online crap, because you buy it, you have a physical and tangible copy, and then you can rip it and play it on whatever you like. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1270657 | 2012-04-18 23:35:00 | Jeez you got watch those popups from imageshack.... nearly got busted when i closed my browser and there was some female playing with her legs..... | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
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