But would the people have paid to go and see the movie if they hadn't been able to download a CAM or TS rip of it? I'm pretty damn sure, given the current financial climate that the answer to that is NO. All businesses have good times and bad times, the Movie Industry is increasing prices to try and balance the drop in ticket sales, how about rather than charging 100 people an extra 50 cents to get them into the theatre they drop the price by $2 and fill the theatre and make more money off food and drink? If you expect to pay $15 for a night at the cinema and that only covers your ticket your going to take your own snacks and drink, if you get to the cinema and find the ticket price has dropped to $8 suddenly you have $7 left in your wallet and a large counter of snacks and drinks to spend it on, the cinema's get fuller, the studios make more money and so does the cinema!
"Just because data is in the open doesn't mean you can just scrape it and make it your own."
err... but ....err CrimeReports.com are taking data that is out in the open and making it theirs, they may be getting the openly available data by cutting deals with police forces directly but the data is still out there. So which side are you on, because your arguement from this side of the screen doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Remember this site is about business models, good, bad, new and old... the fact that the recording industry probably see this as some new innovative business model is what interests the people that come here to read about, the "other" people just come here because they've run out of material to wank off to.
1. On the equipment I use to listen to music probably not.
2. Having "upgraded" from vinyl to tape to CD and then spending time downloading FLAC versions of my original purchases the answer is most definately No!
Yes, what they are saying is that they will increase the bitrate from 16 to 24 which will increase the quality of the audio. All our FLAC rips are 16-bit, I spent years downloading FLAC versions of all the albums I own, and as Hephaestus so aptly points out in the first comment I listen to them on all the devices he mentions, we haven't owned a proper stereo for over 5 years! So I for one won't be paying to upgrade, I already own them and most have been paid for twice seeing as I upgraded from tapes to CD already!
It's by Google, on Google, you do understand URLs don't you? They are to blame. It is a specific page whose only purpose is to search for torrents on torrent sites (like Torrent-Finder), you know torrents? for bittorrent, you know the sharing thing that over 80% is infringing? and here we have the largest search engine in the world facilitating that infringement, with its own purpose built torrent search engine and the links to have it on your own page! PLEASE... will someone not think of the children! It's known throughout the world that people sho share the latest Justin Beiber CD via bittorrent are also the same people who support terrorism through the paedophile subscriptions!! Why oh why won't someone get ICE to seize the Google domain!
A point I've tried to make, Google even have a page specifically for torrent searches, they even give you links to embed it into other sites... does any of the "but...but... bittorrent = bad" people respond? No, because they can't, by having that specific page using their own logic Google must be guilty of inducing copyright infringment along the same lines of torrent-finder!
You don't have to flood it mate, the nice people at Google have written the code to search sites for torrents, created a page for it and even give you the links to add it to your website... hows that for inducing infringment?
So if Google had a specific page geared up solely to search for torrents, even if those torrents are on other sites, then it would be as guilty as Torrent-Finder?
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err... but ....err CrimeReports.com are taking data that is out in the open and making it theirs, they may be getting the openly available data by cutting deals with police forces directly but the data is still out there. So which side are you on, because your arguement from this side of the screen doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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2. Having "upgraded" from vinyl to tape to CD and then spending time downloading FLAC versions of my original purchases the answer is most definately No!
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Something like this?
hxxp://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma
(change hxxp to http)
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http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma
Is it liable now?
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http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma
Is is liable now?
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