Ouch: The lastest on Bittorrents
- Thread starter Maury Beniowski
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My 2¢
Why do pirate software.....because it's just to g*d damn easy.
Honestly IMO it's kinda a catch 22. You need a computer for the software, you need software for the computer. DUH!!!
What I'm gettin at is if I had to pay for every piece of software I have (and I have lots) .....well I just couldn't. $500 for Win XP, $900 for MS Office, $1000 for Photoshop, $600 for Acrobat, etc........
$15+ bux for every music CD, $20+ for every movie, etc.........
Yah right go fukk yer selves, this shit doesn't need to be that expensive.
IMO they (the big companies) still made money off me since I had to go buy all the hi end gear to play all this software on.
Why do pirate software.....because it's just to g*d damn easy.
Honestly IMO it's kinda a catch 22. You need a computer for the software, you need software for the computer. DUH!!!
What I'm gettin at is if I had to pay for every piece of software I have (and I have lots) .....well I just couldn't. $500 for Win XP, $900 for MS Office, $1000 for Photoshop, $600 for Acrobat, etc........
$15+ bux for every music CD, $20+ for every movie, etc.........
Yah right go fukk yer selves, this shit doesn't need to be that expensive.
IMO they (the big companies) still made money off me since I had to go buy all the hi end gear to play all this software on.
i think paying 15 dollars for a cd with only 2 hit songs in it is ridiculous. If i buy a cd, i expect all the songs in there to be on the top 10 chart
In the future, I see all content being readily available to the public in a legitimate manner.
For example, perhaps consumers pay for access to the internet based on usage. A portion of the funds goes to the ISP and the rest is distributed to the artists, movie studies, etc proportional to how often their content is downloaded.
For example, perhaps consumers pay for access to the internet based on usage. A portion of the funds goes to the ISP and the rest is distributed to the artists, movie studies, etc proportional to how often their content is downloaded.
If you check the original Bittorrent client site itself, you'll see that it can go trackerless now. No web-sites needed soon.Maury Beniowski said:
Information wants to be free, and that includes movies, music, etc. Think about it: when you were a kid maybe you dreamed of a Star-Trekky world in which all the information there was was at anybody's fingertips. Now that world is taking shape, and a bunch of suits and lawyers want to make sure that every damned thing has its fee. It can be a golden age or a era ruled by bean-counters. I know which world I want, for my own selfish purposes, and it's coincidentally the utopian world that would make most of the world's population happy.
Those who are unhappy about it can do things like...make movies that are worth seeing in a theatre, play music live, release CDs that are reasonably priced and worth owning, and so on. The world is changing, so adapt.
With the best _artists_, and I use that term loosely, since there are few these days, the whole album should be congruent, a complete work, with each song somehow related to the others and with a common theme, and when listened to as a whole, should convey the complete experience the artist is intending. The songs should also be ordered in a way such that 1 leads to the next. The very best albums, you can listen from start to finish and it's a great experience every time.runningman said:
True, but there is that notion of the "creative commons" that applies to many intellectual works. Where would the world be if 100 years ago patents prevented Einsteins work on brownian motion or relativity from being shared openly amonst peers?Bumfie said:Well, I work part time as a musician, and frankly I don't see why people think they have a right to swipe copyrighted material.
I recognize that content creators should be compensated for their work, but at the same time the notion of "intellectual property" is really flawed, and the current climate particularly down south that we should just legislate the Internet to death is frightening.
RobBC
