I have never purchased music, what's the point? Practically no one I know does we all download and share it, I have even thought about setting up a jungle disk for mass collaboration.
DVDs are different I download them along with most of the people I know and we trade them at lans the same way we do with music. But myself and most of my mates also buy DVDs, If it had not been for lan trading there are many great shows I would not have purchased. For example a few years ago I obtained 8 series of Red Dwarf then only a month ago I purchased the entire series. Another example is The Big Bang Theory I obtained a pirate copy of series 1 earlier this year now I own the DVD and this is a show I would never have known existed had it not been for piracy.
According to the RIAA each song is worth $750, so with 16,987 songs that's $12,740,250 US Dollars that I would have spent if it had not been for thepiratebay.org
The RIAA claims that a university student would have spent more than 12million dollars had it not been for piracy?
I think this proves that the RIAA do not have even the most remote clue as to what they are talking about and we can all safely discard all past, present and future claims without the risk of discarding a single fact.
You'll find the office workers disappearing first.
They already are in my city, I deliver to office buildings and they are certainly quieter with companies now trying to reduce their costs. Allot of office staff will be replaced by software, in fact allot have already but until robots reach sufficient AL they cannot yet take over the building site.
Because blue collar work, "working with your hands", is shunned and looked down at. You're getting dirty. You're using your body and not your brain.
Really?
Tradesmen have to know what they are doing and allot of their tasks require a fair bit of thinking.
I've worked in Retail, Logistics, Manufacturing and IT.
My last job as a truck driver saw me transporting goods into the city. I remember buying lunch from some posh, expensive cafe full of people wearing suits, I noticed a few snobby looks from a table of office girls, apparently steel-cap boots with a coating of dry cement are not the latest fashion. It's funny how office workers sometimes look down on "blue-collar" workers when we are often earning more money and your jobs require better train of thought than many of the office jobs around the city.
I do find this arrogance very amusing, some of the jobs I've done I can kill people if I'm not thinking, yet some worker who sits at a desk doing a job which requires minimal intellectual output looks down on my work.
I accept not all "White-collar" workers are like this, since I used to be one. However the few that are seems to draw attention to themselves.
All up I think Manufacturing (Production-line) was the worst job, that was a brain-dead got nowhere job. I left on the second day. Retail is ok, but pretty boring at times. IT required more thinking than retail, got better pay but can be repetitive. Logistics (Driving Trucks) requires the highest amount of thinking, at least with the jobs I do. It is also the most physical work and the best paid.
People who look down on trades are just arrogant fools who don't know what they are talking about, some of the most successful people I know practice a trade.
I find education frustrating because each time I learn something new, there is another thing to learn after it. I'll probably die before I reach the end of my studies 50-60 years isn't long enough.
I disable dead blogs (I have a few) from accepting comments because I don't want scum to have free advertising, I wish more people would think to do the same..
As consumers we should NOT have to put up with copy protection crap.
Copy protection is old and would only have worked 15-20 years ago, these day only ONE person needs to bypass the copy protection and everybody can download it. I have never needed to break or circumvent copy protection because someone else does it for me, copy protection is an old model that only worked in the days before the internet back when every pirate had to circumvent the system before they could copy something, those days are gone.
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The other problem with the RIAA's lost sales claim is that people flock to free stuff.
There's a simple solution to that, but the RIAA doesn't see it.
I support the industry by supporting piracy :)
Plus a product is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
I have never purchased music, what's the point? Practically no one I know does we all download and share it, I have even thought about setting up a jungle disk for mass collaboration.
DVDs are different I download them along with most of the people I know and we trade them at lans the same way we do with music. But myself and most of my mates also buy DVDs, If it had not been for lan trading there are many great shows I would not have purchased. For example a few years ago I obtained 8 series of Red Dwarf then only a month ago I purchased the entire series. Another example is The Big Bang Theory I obtained a pirate copy of series 1 earlier this year now I own the DVD and this is a show I would never have known existed had it not been for piracy.
Piracy boosts sales.
Don't forget rootkits.
According to the RIAA each song is worth $750, so with 16,987 songs that's $12,740,250 US Dollars that I would have spent if it had not been for thepiratebay.org
The RIAA claims that a university student would have spent more than 12million dollars had it not been for piracy?
I think this proves that the RIAA do not have even the most remote clue as to what they are talking about and we can all safely discard all past, present and future claims without the risk of discarding a single fact.
Why is this modded down?
Oh.... I see... Apple fanbois!!!!
Seriously where the fuck do these iPhone pricks come from?
and what sort of sad person wants to email themselves?
As if it isn't bad enough with idiots wandering from side to side as they walk down the street. Now they have to frail their arms about too.
You'll find the office workers disappearing first.
They already are in my city, I deliver to office buildings and they are certainly quieter with companies now trying to reduce their costs. Allot of office staff will be replaced by software, in fact allot have already but until robots reach sufficient AL they cannot yet take over the building site.
Because blue collar work, "working with your hands", is shunned and looked down at. You're getting dirty. You're using your body and not your brain.
Really?
Tradesmen have to know what they are doing and allot of their tasks require a fair bit of thinking.
I've worked in Retail, Logistics, Manufacturing and IT.
My last job as a truck driver saw me transporting goods into the city. I remember buying lunch from some posh, expensive cafe full of people wearing suits, I noticed a few snobby looks from a table of office girls, apparently steel-cap boots with a coating of dry cement are not the latest fashion. It's funny how office workers sometimes look down on "blue-collar" workers when we are often earning more money and your jobs require better train of thought than many of the office jobs around the city.
I do find this arrogance very amusing, some of the jobs I've done I can kill people if I'm not thinking, yet some worker who sits at a desk doing a job which requires minimal intellectual output looks down on my work.
I accept not all "White-collar" workers are like this, since I used to be one. However the few that are seems to draw attention to themselves.
All up I think Manufacturing (Production-line) was the worst job, that was a brain-dead got nowhere job. I left on the second day. Retail is ok, but pretty boring at times. IT required more thinking than retail, got better pay but can be repetitive. Logistics (Driving Trucks) requires the highest amount of thinking, at least with the jobs I do. It is also the most physical work and the best paid.
People who look down on trades are just arrogant fools who don't know what they are talking about, some of the most successful people I know practice a trade.
I find education frustrating because each time I learn something new, there is another thing to learn after it. I'll probably die before I reach the end of my studies 50-60 years isn't long enough.
I disable dead blogs (I have a few) from accepting comments because I don't want scum to have free advertising, I wish more people would think to do the same..
Twitter was designed so that these morons have a place to post their inane bullshit.
The idea is that we would give them an outlets for the shit in their heads so they wouldn't dump it on us.
At least the phone has a nice little "fuck off" button.
Why post your opinions on a website noone sees when you can SMS that opinion to everyone stupid enough to give you their number.
I download the vast majority of my content, so I'm most of the way there.
I buy lots of DVDs that I have previously downloaded, not only to build up my DVD collection but also to pay for the movie's and shows that I like.
I replace CDs all the time, thank god blank's are so cheap.
The companies should be required (by law) to keep their servers running indefinitely.
That is after all the product they sell, if I buy a movie I expect it to play 20years later. Can't work the business model, don't do it.
As consumers we should NOT have to put up with copy protection crap.
Copy protection is old and would only have worked 15-20 years ago, these day only ONE person needs to bypass the copy protection and everybody can download it. I have never needed to break or circumvent copy protection because someone else does it for me, copy protection is an old model that only worked in the days before the internet back when every pirate had to circumvent the system before they could copy something, those days are gone.
Exactly, why should we do the "right" thing when we are just going to get screwed for it?
I really must remember to click "Post Anonymously"
More like a dildo to gods ass
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