I couldn't care less what your Congress "thinks, at the moment they have their heart set on pleasing their paymasters who bankrolled their last election.
Have you seen the approval rating of the US Congress?
Looks to me like the US nation is starting to wake up. Don't piss off the American internet user, the threat of taking away their Facebook or Youtube and they'll stab you in the back at the next election.
Lol, unless the evidence is accompanyed by a 6 figure cheque for "campaign contributions" I doubt he'll give a crap.... but if you really want to get the dirty, thieving, scumbag mindset of the typical pirate I'd recommend signing up at one of the private torrent sites... those people are truly disgusting! They'd sell their own grannie for a bootleg of Justin Biebers latest album.
Even if they do rip off musicians they don't keep the money to themselves, it doesn't get put in a warehouse never to be used again it is ploughed back into the economy via some other way.
Drug production apparantly in Afghanistan was at an all time low just before the Invasion.... now it's back to levels seen during the war with the Soviet Union.
Did I admit to ripping off all my music or did I just say it was readily available all over the networks that facilitate infringement?
I own all the music I have here, every "illegal" download has been done to replace an album or single I already own on tape, vinyl or CD.... Given that I've paid for it once I consider those nothing more than legitimate backups.
How many of those "illegal downloads" resulted in the person simply "trying before buying"? Cannot answer that one can you... just more "piracy costs sales" which has reports available to disprove it and also reports that show people who download the most also buy the most.
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Basing everythign on "how we used to do things" and "How industries used to work" doesn't wash... don't you realise that the digital era and the internet are a game changer?
Most serious Newsgroup/Usenet providers either dont keep logs or they are extremely limited in what information they hold, also they tend to be scrubbed hourly.
Sorry OOTB for proving you are wrong, I know that you'll probably just ignore this answer and all the others as we are wrong based upon your unique view of the real world.
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lmao... you just don't get it, you cannot stop "Piracy", like you cannot stop Drug Use, you cannot stop Terrorism, Under Age Pregnancy... should I go on?
What you need to do is spend all the energies you exhaust on pointless laws in innovating, embracing and providing a 21st Century service to your customers... we want to pay you, you just aren't listening to us. We couldn't shout what we want any louder, you just think we wan't free.
Oh yeah how are those wars going? What's it like being stuck in Afghanistan 10 years after first sending in the troops, hows the tens of thousands of troops doing that served multiple tours of Iraq... and what was that for again? Oh yes, to liberate the people from opressive regimes who didn't allow the right to free speech, the right to peaceful protest, dictators who censored / filtered the internet and much more... oh, what these dictators did seems to be what your Government is trying to do.
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And thanks... the next time I read a report by the RIAA/MPAA that asks the Music/Movie Industry if Piracy is causing them to lose millions of dollars a year I can now think back to your post and think... bullshit.
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Have you seen the approval rating of the US Congress?
Looks to me like the US nation is starting to wake up. Don't piss off the American internet user, the threat of taking away their Facebook or Youtube and they'll stab you in the back at the next election.
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I own all the music I have here, every "illegal" download has been done to replace an album or single I already own on tape, vinyl or CD.... Given that I've paid for it once I consider those nothing more than legitimate backups.
How many of those "illegal downloads" resulted in the person simply "trying before buying"? Cannot answer that one can you... just more "piracy costs sales" which has reports available to disprove it and also reports that show people who download the most also buy the most.
2011 not 1984, adapt or die!
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Adapt or die!
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mmm... Does piracy kill sales? Doesn't look like it!
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Sorry OOTB for proving you are wrong, I know that you'll probably just ignore this answer and all the others as we are wrong based upon your unique view of the real world.
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What you need to do is spend all the energies you exhaust on pointless laws in innovating, embracing and providing a 21st Century service to your customers... we want to pay you, you just aren't listening to us. We couldn't shout what we want any louder, you just think we wan't free.
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Your keywords idea sounds great in principal to you but it doesn't work in the real world.
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a: True
b: False
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Why don't you ask the entertainment industry to stop using the internet and we'll see what that does to their profits.
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