March 30, 200421 yr PsychoBud']OK..let me start off by saying I think P2P should be legal...but I understand if it needs to be regulated and charged for, and some of the proceeds sent to the companies who produce the "items" traded via P2P. BUT... Free file sharing isn't just part of your "right to do what you want"...as a matter of fact, there is no such right...and your personal freedoms to "fo as you want" END the instant the infringe upon anyone else's rights, legally...and they always have. By copyrighting something, you have staked, and proven claim to, intellectual property...you have a RIGHT to the proceeds from it after that...and a right to control distribution, etc, etc. I mean...how would any of you feel if YOU invested thousands of hours into desiging a game, borrowed a couple million dollars to mass produce it, market it, and so on, HAD to pay that money back, no matter what happened to you, short of bankruptcy, which would mean giving up your house, your car(s), your credit cards, and any other assets you had, and not having a snowball's chance in Phoenix in July of replacing them with something similar for at LEAST 7 years...and then the instant you released it for sale, the first guy who bought your $50 game made an image of it, and posted it on a P2P server...and within a week, anyone who wanted it could have it for the buck a blank CD cost them, instead of paying you your $50? OR, if you spent a year working full time to write a book, living off your savings, just to have some jackass copy it into an unauthorised e-book immediately, so you didn't make enough to even cover the publisher's $3000 advance to you? Nice, eh? A year of working full time to make $3,000 total? OR, if you were a musician, who due to lack of record sales, couldn't take time off from touring to write, compose, and practice/publish any new songs, if you wanted to make enough money to get to the point you could produce your own records and promote your own concerts, so you didn't have to pay 95% of the income from your art to leeching managers, promoiters and producers? How long would your carreer last if you only got to put out ONE popular album, and had to make enough off of touring that ONE album (just touring, not off the album itself) to provide enough money to YOU that you could afford for the whole band to take off six months or a year to compose new material, then have enough left over to get the wheels rolling on the NEXT album, just so you could tour off THAT one long enough to do it again? (the days of the multimillion dollar rock star would be over, for damned certain) I'm not saying that the largest portion of money paid for a CD, game, or book doesn't go to parasitic leeches who don't DO anything worth the percentage of the proceeds they get, comparitavely...nor am I saying that the producers, publishers, agents, and such should get paid as outrageously as they do...they shouldn't...someone managing one big name band should make about as much yearly from doing so as someone managing a largish sales area for a product vendor...a producer who has one BIG name to his credit should only make about as much as a local goods producer, and so on, and so forth, if you're going to keep things balanced....but what I AM saying is that P2P DOES hurt the "artist", at the same time that it deprives the parasites who SHOULD be deprived of their leeched income. Personally, I'd be willing to see it set up so that P2P was legal as a sunbscription service, where you had to pay either a monthly fee to belong to the "club", or where you were charged by the amount of data you downloaded...so long as the way it was set up, a portion of the funds involved were sent directly to the COPYRIGHT HOLDER of the material on the "hub" (not to the record label, or anyone else, but in checks that would compare to the amount the artist would have made themselves if that number of singles had been sold) Do not ph33r technology. Your thinking defensively. Think offensively. What if you made a product that could'nt be copied and put on the internet and made availible for mass distrobustion ? Such as REAL TIME VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU PAID FOR AS YOU PLAYED AS PART OF YOUR BROADBAND CONNECTION COST . Wait and see how Steam Developes ............ Or Live Concerts where they check your person at the door and allow no media copying the experience you get is live and not recordable. People are pissed becuase they wont be getting free shit anymore , but you know people will still get new shit it just wont be the underclass. I know guys who dont download shit but get everything for free anyways. Sent to their homes for free! Make a law against that.
March 30, 200421 yr blocky']our government is trying as hard as they can to up the THC content in the government produced marijuana your government is trying as hard as it can to take away all of your personal freedoms and privacy laws we're not fucking following suit, we're going in the right direction enjoy your dictatorship addiction heil bush heil bush? I am suprised no one agrees with me on this once considering everyone loves hitler.
March 30, 200421 yr HEIL BUSH! :smile: Maybe it's because bush is a complete dumbass and hitler wasn't? :happysad:
March 31, 200421 yr HEIL BUSH! :smile: Maybe it's because bush is a complete dumbass and hitler wasn't? :happysad: Hitler was a warm cuddly fuzzy wuzzy bear.
March 31, 200421 yr ']I only buy CDs of artists I enjoy. I became a fan of thier music from p2p. Some of the songs I have are older music that would be a bitch to try and find. Fuck that! See, that's kind of how I am. I have a fairly high end stereo system with a Super Audio CD Player. So I buy SACD's but I also download MP3's too of artists I don't enjoy enough to buy their CD but still want to listen to.
March 31, 200421 yr EHEH, just get two of those powerful fucking magnets they sell for doing something with aquariums. i dont know what they're for but they're for fish tanks because my dad had one when i was little and i asked him and he said it was for the fish tnak. they're long and have handles and are really powerful . if i laid one of them on top of a table and put the other on the bottom of the table under it the bottom one would not drop. when someone raids your house just take it and rub it against the side of your comp . everything will be erased.
