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| Thread ID: 105488 | 2009-12-04 03:23:00 | Should we be worried? | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 836320 | 2009-12-05 04:34:00 | How many time have I heard that from some fascist group wanting to control things?? Hitler most likely used the same reasoning for the suppression of people in Germany.. Hitler blamed online piracy to kill people? Now that is a new one... |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 836321 | 2009-12-05 04:49:00 | He was a visionary. He figured these people had to die as their childrens childrens childen would live in an age where they could freely access media belonging to companies so rich it was impossible to count all their money. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 836322 | 2009-12-05 04:57:00 | What concerns me is probably of no interest to most people on this forum, but those of us across the world who are into old time music, old films etc are really concerned about how things have been going in the US, and how steps to prevent piracy etc impinge on our abilty to enjoy such media. Such media is yonks old, authors/composers/performers long dead, yet the US corporate ghouls have been doing their best to stop the free release of such old stuff, and try to exert their influence around the world, not just the US. Old films and clips get locked away, removed from YouTube etc, music sites have been pulled under influence from the US, even though local 50year copyright laws in the country of origin of the site have not been violated. First we had the Sonny Bono Act, the "Copyright Term Extension Act" which retrospectively pulled public domain music back into copyright, en.wikipedia.org then the RIAA/Sound Exchange trying to price streaming internet radio/music out of existence through trying to charge exhorbitent royalties: "Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry?" www.dailykos.com http://www.soundexchange.com/ There has been a whole lot of skullduggery going on over the last few years by greedy corporate money grabbers in the music and film industries. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 836323 | 2009-12-05 05:03:00 | What concerns me is I'm in complete agreement that its something to be worried about, Its corruption at its highest level, and in full view of everyone. Lets hope its the last grasp of a collapsing empire. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 836324 | 2009-12-05 05:08:00 | What concerns me is probably of no interest to most people on this forum, but those of us across the world who are into old time music, old films etc are really concerned about how things have been going in the US, and how steps to prevent piracy etc impinge on our abilty to enjoy such media. Such media is yonks old, authors/composers/performers long dead, yet the US corporate ghouls have been doing their best to stop the free release of such old stuff, and try to exert their influence around the world, not just the US. Old films and clips get locked away, removed from YouTube etc, music sites have been pulled under influence from the US, even though local 50year copyright laws in the country of origin of the site have not been violated. First we had the Sonny Bono Act, the "Copyright Term Extension Act" which retrospectively pulled public domain music back into copyright, en.wikipedia.org then the RIAA/Sound Exchange trying to price streaming internet radio/music out of existence through trying to charge exhorbitent royalties: "Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry?" www.dailykos.com http://www.soundexchange.com/ There has been a whole lot of skullduggery going on over the last few years by greedy corporate money grabbers in the music and film industries. That's exactly the point I was trying to make with my post earlier Terry! :thumbs: |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 836325 | 2009-12-06 10:00:00 | What about the Pom or Scottish guy who put his own song on Youtube and one of the labels put a take down notice on it. For one they had no right and to boot one of the labels had also been copying his music illegally. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 836326 | 2009-12-06 10:06:00 | How many time have I heard that from some fascist group wanting to control things?? Hitler most likely used the same reasoning for the suppression of people in Germany.. en.wikipedia.org |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 836327 | 2009-12-06 19:32:00 | The loss $ due to Piracy is calculated on the assumption anything pirated "would" have been purchased by the user if they couldn't pirate. This of course is very incorrect. The games and movie industry are making a ton more money than a decade ago and yet piracy has increased! Most people have a limited amount to spend on entertainment, most that pirate still spend there limited funds on going to the movies, buying DVD's and games they like the most. The large corporation driving these law changes are badly misguided. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 836328 | 2009-12-06 20:31:00 | The loss $ due to Piracy is calculated on the assumption anything pirated "would" have been purchased by the user if they couldn't pirate. This of course is very incorrect. The games and movie industry are making a ton more money than a decade ago and yet piracy has increased! Most people have a limited amount to spend on entertainment, most that pirate still spend there limited funds on going to the movies, buying DVD's and games they like the most. The large corporation driving these law changes are badly misguided. EXACTLY what I have been trying to say!!! If only I could have put it like that lol. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 836329 | 2009-12-06 20:37:00 | EXACTLY what I have been trying to say!!! If only I could have put it like that lol. x2 |
convair (13650) | ||
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