Ummm, from where I sit, its looked like your governments wanted more control over everything for longer than I've been alive, ICANN is just one more thing...
JPJ: when you talk about legal and illegal you are completely missing the point. It's not stoppable. Already with a torrent tracker set up properly you can encrypt your traffic and run it through port 80 and no one can even tell if its legal or not. It's become clear that no laws and no network control can stop file sharing, so spending money trying is wrong no matter how 'right' it is.
You call Mikes scarcity talks 'bs' except its the core of capitalism. Adam Smith wrote about this in plain language, and you would well served to reread Of Wealth And Nations, because you clearly missed the point the first time around.
Its not a healthy situation, so maybe the record label shouldnt eat up so much of their revenue, or they need to budget properly (like every other person and business out there)
But, and this is important, there is no such thing as 'lost sales'. Ask a salesman, the only sale you 'lost' is the sale you failed to sell. They are not entitled to ANY sales, they have to 'sell' us on their music. And the bands that do do this (or pay someone to do it properly) are prospering as they should.
Basically its the record labels job to sell their music, but they arent doing it. Instead of doing a better job of this, they are blaming 'piracy' for it so as to not lose their clients (musicians). The real solution is to hire to some sales people and sell some freaking music, but its just too obvious for you and yours.
I actually do advocate piracy, but thats a side point and irrelevant.
The real point is that it doesnt matter what you, me, or the courts say. The people choose what we want to do, and how we want to do it, and its pretty clear that right or wrong, anonymity and access have given us the tools to really display human nature. And human nature wants to collect ALL the music, and ALL the tv shows, and ALL the software.
In the last 100 years industry has gone from trying to sell us what we 'need' to trying to sell us what we 'want'. With the internet, we are able to get the things we want much cheaper (or the competing product). And instead of trying to make us 'need' their products so that we pay for it, they advertise how much we should want them. When that doesnt work, they sue us because we arent giving them our money voluntarily.
This would be bad if it affected a large percentage of us, but really its just the dying grasp of an industry that has outlived its usefulness. They dont scare me, they never have.
I was part of the piracy movement using UseNET, IRC DDCs, and was a beta tester for the original napster. We are ALL still around, along with about 500 million new users in the last 10 years. The only significant blow the industry has ever done is killing mAvEn. And that was 1 group, that was quickly replaced.
So, morals aside, its 'WRONG' (incorrect, not morally) to try and stop this, because after 10 years of doing everything possible to prevent it, the 'piracy industry' has grown about 100000% since 1997 and isnt getting any smaller.
Mike has been trying to get this point across for years without saying the obvious. Piracy is the future, get with the program. Or dont, we couldnt care less because you dont scare us.
Well, because its a distributed P2P network, theres no reason why that network can be shut down, as other clients could access it, and unless you download a new client that prevents you from transferring those files around. unless theres some way that limewire can push down system changes without your say-so, which is kinda freaky if it can...
As a Canadian, we look at your country and stand amazed that things like this are allowed to happen and nothing is done, and nothing is really said about this in the mainstream media, and wonder why you dont just leave? If enough of you just flat out moved out, this stuff would start to change. Bring your businesses to Canada, or go to Mexico. We'd love to have anyone who values freedom and brings money with them (thats anyone willing to work by the way, if you understand economics). Dont just talk about how much you're country has deteriorated, show your leaders you care.
It wont take many business owners moving into another country out of protest before the government realizes that tax dollars are worth more than campaign contributions and returns to doing things for their people, instead of to their people.
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Just ICANN?
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You call Mikes scarcity talks 'bs' except its the core of capitalism. Adam Smith wrote about this in plain language, and you would well served to reread Of Wealth And Nations, because you clearly missed the point the first time around.
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@ Crazy 'ole JPJ
But, and this is important, there is no such thing as 'lost sales'. Ask a salesman, the only sale you 'lost' is the sale you failed to sell. They are not entitled to ANY sales, they have to 'sell' us on their music. And the bands that do do this (or pay someone to do it properly) are prospering as they should.
Basically its the record labels job to sell their music, but they arent doing it. Instead of doing a better job of this, they are blaming 'piracy' for it so as to not lose their clients (musicians). The real solution is to hire to some sales people and sell some freaking music, but its just too obvious for you and yours.
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Advocating Piracy
The real point is that it doesnt matter what you, me, or the courts say. The people choose what we want to do, and how we want to do it, and its pretty clear that right or wrong, anonymity and access have given us the tools to really display human nature. And human nature wants to collect ALL the music, and ALL the tv shows, and ALL the software.
In the last 100 years industry has gone from trying to sell us what we 'need' to trying to sell us what we 'want'. With the internet, we are able to get the things we want much cheaper (or the competing product). And instead of trying to make us 'need' their products so that we pay for it, they advertise how much we should want them. When that doesnt work, they sue us because we arent giving them our money voluntarily.
This would be bad if it affected a large percentage of us, but really its just the dying grasp of an industry that has outlived its usefulness. They dont scare me, they never have.
I was part of the piracy movement using UseNET, IRC DDCs, and was a beta tester for the original napster. We are ALL still around, along with about 500 million new users in the last 10 years. The only significant blow the industry has ever done is killing mAvEn. And that was 1 group, that was quickly replaced.
So, morals aside, its 'WRONG' (incorrect, not morally) to try and stop this, because after 10 years of doing everything possible to prevent it, the 'piracy industry' has grown about 100000% since 1997 and isnt getting any smaller.
Mike has been trying to get this point across for years without saying the obvious. Piracy is the future, get with the program. Or dont, we couldnt care less because you dont scare us.
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To the Americans out there
It wont take many business owners moving into another country out of protest before the government realizes that tax dollars are worth more than campaign contributions and returns to doing things for their people, instead of to their people.
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Re:
regardless of whether God exists or not, the Bible is still a work of fiction.
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thats why.
Thats where dictionary.msn.com goes to. probably searched dictionary.
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