If you want to be free, you are welcome to pack you bags and come to China!

>implying theft is freedom

>>1726801
you are becoming China, sir

>>1726802
Hey, big corps steal from you too, you know

>implying copying is theft

>>1726812
This

How about you stop being a poor faggot, get a job, and pay for shit?

Piracy is the biggest sense of entitlement of the digital age.

>derp, I think I should get everything for free, because freedom!

Oh, no, I can't be a middleman anymore, technology has made me obsolete.

>Implying thievery is covered by "freedom"
>Implying this isn't the same thing as making it illegal to walk into a store and leave with all the CDs you want without paying

Fucking Liberals

>>1726857
accept the CDs are still in the store

OLD NEWS

>In the final days of last month, US authorities targeted several sites they claimed were connected to the streaming of movies and TV shows

They just shut down streaming sites

Get run over by technology, adapt or lobby the government

>>1726789
>Good luck americans with the 73000 torrent sites tken down by your govt

>implying WordPress blogs are torrent sites

>>1726829
Why pay when they are making thousends of money off of you? They are the worst cancer in the world!

>>1726884
What about CDs and DVDs that are out of print?

Keep holding on to your outdated business models.

Artists make money off of touring. Lazy artists just want to put out CD's and expect to make money from that. The record industry is failing because music industry was selling a CD for $20 with only 1 or 2 good songs. Pretty much bullshit.

>>1726884

If everyone downloads the movies and music for free, then the groups that actually publish and produce it don't get shit. Enjoy fucking over the film and music industries because you're a greedy fuck who doesn't want to part with a few dollars.

>>1726912
I found an article a while ago, said artists only make $13 out of every $1,000

Come to China where the Piracy is nicer!
Nicer!
Come to China!

>>1726935
>implying anyone downloads recent movies
>implying movies today aren't breaking records

>>1726912

thats a fucking point!

It doesnt matter if my torrents get taken away, i can still buy dvds on the street for like 10 cents

>>1726949
>Implying that people aren't rendering movie stores useless and cutting off a significant percentage of the profit from post-release DVD sales

>>1726900
You sound like an anarchist.

>>1726967
Enjoy getting arrested by an undercover agent.

meh, always usenet and irc

>>1726940

or sell cds for 5 dollars fucker.

nice prise and forces you to make more music.
"i got a hit now ma rich masta!"

>>1726975
I live in China, muthafucka!

Cant touch this!

>>1726907
exactly

i have such an idea about what they should do about this sort of thing. p2p networks are a medium for transferring info and data. it's not the site but the torrenters. tho i have to admit that's how i got the lady gaga song I'm listening to right now. but if i like a song i'll erase it and buy via itunes.
what they need is a grace period with music. if you like the song support the artist. not only that but sample songs for free such as this: ^^ballyhoo.bandcamp.com^^
they give there music free in good formats including flac.that got me to buy their albums.
also if the lesser known bands were to use this to get their name out, take the best songs from several bands in 1 torrent.

>>1726935
implying piracy puts these fags in the poor house.

>>1726970
>implying digital distribution isn't causing the death of video stores

>>1727004
>implying anyone gives a shit

>>1727004
>implying that's a problem

>>1727004
>implying you aren't a faggot

>>1727004
>implying you think you are the shit because you can greentext

>implying we should protect industries from technological progress

Rationalization time!

piracy, in the form of the use of torrents to obtain COPIES of films, albums, tv shows etc, will never be stopped as long as smart people are using the internet

I recently downloaded Maps and Atlases's new CD because I love that band, I know that the average band only gets between 1 and 2 percent of the proceeds from album sales. I am gonna go see them in concert in august, so I feel righteous in that I am throwing some of my money to this band. I also know for a fact that the guys in M&A don't give a fuck about people downloading their shit, because they are just happy people like it, and they prolly download shit too.

PROTIP: Avatar made billions of dollars

James Cameron probably doesn't give a fuck if people download his movies. The distributor, however, probably will care.

In the end, this isn't about theft, because nothing is being taken out of the possession of anyone else. If i took a photo of a painting and kept it for myself, it could not be said that I stole the painting.

>>1727022

Yeah, but you aren't given the right to make the copies that you want.

You're violating the copyright monopoly that's been guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

Just because you can do something easily, doesn't mean it's right.

I can sneak into a concert. Sure, the concert would play anyway whether or not I was there, but the concert throwers have a right to control who views their show.

>>1727022
profits, profits are being taken away.

so you can bet your left testicle that the ruling elite are going to do something about it.

WHAT ABOUT MEDIAFIRE, PLEASE TELL ME MEDIAFIRE IS OK!

>>1727036
POTENTIAL profits

>Killing entire industries over greed is a good thing

Holy shit, Liberals, are you even trying to hide it anymore?

yeah, because freedom means the we should be able to steal whatever we want, also why do they stop us from killing people if there is freedom

>OP confirmed for idiot

Person doesn't want to spend money on a CD

WITHOUT PIRACY
Person does not buy CD
He gets no music
No CD is sold
No profits are made

WITH PIRACY
Person makes copy of CD
He gets music
No CD is sold
No profits are made

Let's say a company sells you a car, but forbids you to drive on any road that they didn't approve off (they approve of barley any road).
Now say every single car manufacture follows this practice, suing people for millions of dollars if they are caught on the wrong roads.
Think of this again. You bought a car, with your money, which you earned with hard work, and even though you legally own that car, the company who made it can still dictate what you can do with said car.
This is the essence of copyright.

>>1727036
No. No profits are being taken away in the process of my downloading a movie.

I could just as easily NOT gone to see the movie, and the money issue would have been the same.

>>1726789 they can have my porn when the pry it out of my wet gooey fingers

>>1727072
At least with the piracy, someone buys the product

ITT people suck corporate cock, and thoroughly enjoy it

>>1727049
Everything belongs to them in principium.

Thats the way rich muthafuggers think

piracy is my own, albeit small and cowardly, dissent against the rich elite

People should have rights to their intellectual property because they dont deserve it as much as I do

Intellectual property is a very front loaded production. Once it's made, it's freely and easily distributed. If no money is being exchanged on the distribution, I morally have no problem with it.

>Piracy is the biggest sense of entitlement of the digital age.

I love how people now use "entitlement" as if it was some sort of slur. We are fucking entitled to it. We pay anywhere from 40 to 150+ dollars a month for an internet service that was almost entirely funded by subsidies from the government. That come directly from our taxes. We pay for online content at least 2 times over even if we are "stealing it".

It costs isps less than a fraction of a cent per gigabyte transferred (doesn't matter if it's email or vidya, data is data) and these companies feel "entitled" to charge us over 1,000% markups.

Fuck those guys. Seriously.

>>1727059

>Implying greed didn't kill US manufacturing.

Make shit in China cheap, sell to Americans who lost their jobs.

>>1727121
So do any Americans out there still think capitalism is great and want to suck corporate cock?

>>1727022
i agree with what you said. if a band gave away it's music , and 95% of the profit that's left (after crew and stage people) they would make a decent amount . get rid of the record companies, use free-lance production guys no contracts and just pay for the song being recorded and edited, the last 5 % would be to keep the train rolling.
but that is implying that there are morally superior people who would pass-up on the extra profit left over.
(which happens to also be the fail in communistic democracy)

>Make shit in China cheap, sell to Americans who lost their jobs.

Idiot, have you noticed America has URGED China to appreciate yuan strength? Americans won't even be able to afford Chinese good after it appreciates even more... DUMBASS LOL

>>1727059
>implying that that greed wasn't corporate greed, blame piracy for $25 CDs, when less than 2% goes to the artist
Are you even trying, conservatives?

>>1727131
Yeah, I have a job and that shit is now super cheap. win-win for me.

>>1727154
I, for one, am anxiously anticipating seeing the States get taken down a few more pegs. I'm an American BTW

Can you fags complaining that it is theft honestly say that you never copied music from a friend via cassette tapes back in the day or that you never taped something off of TV with a blank VHS?

Same shit.

>>1727154 America has URGED China

>Implying Americans had anything to do with this and not some corporate fucks ready to make a few $Bil on the transaction.