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Video and Software Downloads Overtaking Music
Trigun writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that movie and software downloads have outpaced music downloads. Music accounted for 48.6 percent of files shared online, compared with 62.5 percent in 2002, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The article says that 1 in 4 internet users have downloaded at least one movie, and attributes the proliferation to access to broadband. Maybe we've just downloaded all the good music already?"
Keep coming out with music so shitty noone wants to download it! And its working already!
On a serious note- do they separate legal from illegal downloads? Lots of movies/software is legal to download.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Pr0n baby pr0n. It's much better than pr0ngroove mp3's.
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I'm sure Porn accounts for atleast half of the video downloads on the Internet. Or maybe 75%? Who knows.
I do know that it accounts for about 90% of my video downloads.
my MOTHER got me started on downloading movies, she said "o is that new denzel washington movie, ya the the man on fire one out yet?" and i said no. so then she said "well i one of my friends said there kids are downloading movies, you have whatchamacallit broadband couldnt you do that" she pestered me untill i burned her a vcd. good job mom. set an example, on how to GET ME IN JAIL!
And and and ... you can make popcorn while burning the cdrw!
Real butter, too.
What I don't understand about all of this is how all these piracy apologists here justify downloading by claiming "it's ok because it is open source". It is immoral to copy someone else's work and this tecnical programmer's babble of "proprietary vs free" software is just bunk. When you download Linux you hurt the economy by taking money from Microsoft. When you download the Gimp you hurt Adobe. I'm sick of all these people who think that just because they can write programs they have the right to drive these US Industry Leaders out of business. As I learned in copyright school, downloading is just wrong.
This post written under Gentoo-linux with an SCO IP license.
Indeed, that's the point: it's an experience rather than just an evening at home in front of a (comparatively) tiny screen and stereo. One of the last times I went to the cinema - there are only two screens here with a very limited choice so we don't go very often - it was a great laugh, not because of the film (which was very good, but not a comedy) but because of a certain incident...
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We'd gone to see "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"; the cinema was packed and the five of us got settled, munchies and drinks at the ready. The only problem was, there were the usual couple of kids who'd not been able to get into anything else, so were sat right on the front row and were doing their best to be annoying.
Throughout the film they got more and more irritating. One of them, in particular, had managed to find a seat that was squeaky, so was taking great enjoyment in pissing off the entire cinema by rocking loudly backwards and forwards. It got to the point where one of our group, Toots, said quietly, "Right, I've had enough of that little bastard, I'm going to shut him up." He'd finished his small stashed bottle of whiskey and was getting ready to lob it at the kid's head, when Smeg, another of the lads, put his arm out and said, "it's OK, I'll deal with this."
In a fluke of timing, the film was just coming up to the love scene between Xiou Long and Xiao Hu. Sure enough, through the silence of the cinema came the squeaking of the chair: eewwwwkk, eeek, eeekkk, eeek. Smeg chose his moment well, and spoke out in a loud, clear voice, so the entire audience could hear.
"Excuse me. Are you masturbating down there?"
The entire place erupted with laughter. Needless to say, we didn't hear one peep from those kids through the rest of the film