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| Thread ID: 122906 | 2012-01-19 20:48:00 | Megaupload gone | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
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| 1255130 | 2012-01-21 01:06:00 | IMO they haven't actually lost anything because the people who pirate their stuff wouldn't have brought it anyway. Why should I go out to the jb hifi or whatever and pay $30 for a new release DVD when I can get it for free in maybe less than an hour without moving Most burglars wouldn't have bought it either, that's why they steal it instead. Why should you pay when you can get it for free? There you go, says it all really. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1255131 | 2012-01-21 01:21:00 | I always thought being in the possession of stolen property was a crime Nope - knowledge or recklessness together with possession makes it a crime (Receiving). Mere possession alone does not. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 1255132 | 2012-01-21 01:35:00 | It seems to me that libraries all over the world do something similar to megaupload and many others. They buy books and then lend them - usually no charge apart from the joining fee - to many people. Is that not similar to piracy? I have often seen a book I would like to read and so have checked with the library to see if they have a copy. Most times they have. I borrow the book from the library and I do not pay the author and neither does the library. Sounds very much the same as online piracy to me. And as you know, libraries also lend CDs and DVDs, and they charge for those. So why aren't they taking libraries to court? |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1255133 | 2012-01-21 01:47:00 | Most burglars wouldn't have bought it either, that's why they steal it instead. Why should you pay when you can get it for free? There you go, says it all really. Thieves are always going to be thieves the people you can change however are the ones who cannot afford to buy the things they want. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1255134 | 2012-01-21 01:59:00 | Thieves are always going to be thieves the people you can change however are the ones who cannot afford to buy the things they want. Some people use that as an excuse. Just because a person doesn't have the money to buy something, doesn't give them the right to obtain by means considered to be illegal. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1255135 | 2012-01-21 02:31:00 | Ha, nice if you to hit that up after my last post. But yeah, I have to vehemently disagree with that. For trial purposes even 96kbps would suffice. I don't see people, with our data caps in particular, wasting half a gigabyte of traffic to "try" music, which you would then delete, go to the shop and buy? I don't give a damn piracy, download (and/or upload) all you like, I just don't like hearing (reading, rather) this kind of bullshit. Stop assuming everyone is a naive 8 year old girl. Also, I have also NEVER heard of someone NOT buying a good album because of bad production quality. a 96kbps mp3 is unlistenable, and there is no way i'd buy a good album if it sounded bad. And I don't have any data cap. i'm on ulimited with trustpower. We have absolutely no data cap whatsoever. |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1255136 | 2012-01-21 03:01:00 | Some people use that as an excuse. Just because a person doesn't have the money to buy something, doesn't give them the right to obtain by means considered to be illegal. +1 Thieves and paupers were never their customers anyway. Their main problem is that instead of evolving with the new technology to meet their customers (those with money to spend on music) new expectations, they went to war against those very customers! Napster showed that it was possible to deliver music over the net in a very convenient (and extremely cheap for the distributor) package. It also showed that this is the way people are going to get their music from now on. They loved the fact that they could pick and choose the tunes they want at the click of a button (and three days later by dial-up it would be here :) ). The record companies missed it. They have spent over a decade trying to stop their customers getting the product they want, and in the process have alienated most and destroyed their own business. The lack of a decent alternative (and a dissatisfaction with the treatment) is what has driven the explosion of piracy, not simply the fact that it is free. The NEW music industry is on the rise - artists selling direct to fans and via places like Addictech (www.addictech.com for example). They DON'T treat their customers like the enemy, to be sued and arrested when they find ways around the DRM to play on a different device, or avoid the overpriced crap bundle for a single wanted track, but instead offer a product and service that they want and provide a means to pay them for it. People have always shared music and the result is that it generally expands the market for a particular artist by exposing them to people that otherwise may not have bothered buying to listen in the first place, but will now buy the next one and tell someone else ... |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1255137 | 2012-01-21 03:05:00 | It seems to me that libraries all over the world do something similar to megaupload and many others. They buy books and then lend them - usually no charge apart from the joining fee - to many people. Is that not similar to piracy? Libraries buy the book in the first place. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1255138 | 2012-01-21 03:38:00 | Years ago, way way back in time, before Star Wars, and before the 8088 was invented. Yup, I remember those days - and being on board a yacht off the Socal coast, watching Starwars on Beta. Several months before it was released. My lips are sealed :xmouth: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1255139 | 2012-01-21 03:53:00 | The NEW music industry is on the rise - artists selling direct to fans and via places like Addictech (www.addictech.com for example). Had me a bit excited with a new music link but I can't even find a genre on there worth listening to let alone a song! |
Tukapa (62) | ||
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