that's because the swedish people make fuck all movies games software and TV, and want to leech off the guys in hollywood who make most of the stuff they want. Its the political reasoning of a six year old, at best. "gimme free stuff!!!!11111ONEONEONONE!"
don't make me laugh. If I set up business as the #1 place to go get heroin, and just tell people where to go when they knock on my door, how well do you think such a bullshit defence will stand up in court?
People come up with some amazing bullshit to justify getting free movies don't they?
Casting your vote purely based on who supports you getting free movies is an embarrassment. If that's how you value your vote, you shouldn't be allowed within fifty miles of a polling booth.
of course advertising affects action. If an advert for pepsi does not make you buy pepsi when you wouldn't have anyway, explain what the ROI for pepsi ads looks like.
people get physically addicted to hard drugs. it changes chemicals in your brain. Are you so addicted to britney spears and adobe photoshop that you need to torrent them?
Or are you suggesting that the reason people with $300 iphones pirate $1.99 iphone games is due to addiction?
TPB doesnt help promote free in that sense. What it does is give you content that supposedly stallman has some ethical objection to, for free.
Its a very thinly veiled justification for getting free stuff. TPB is NOT a political website. It's a large advertising cash generator based on redistributing everyone else's hard work. Nothing more or less.
If you hate 'the mafiaa' boycott their movies. that is your right. It is *not* your right to take them for free anyway whilst waving some crap about freedom.
So if my games are distributed free by these guys in return for considerable ad revenue for them, what the fuck did I personally do to deserve that?
Or are you using half a dozen music companies as scapegoats to allow you rip off every musician, movie producer,actor,director,games programmer and software developer on earth? Nice logic.
personally I make voting decisions based on taxes, competence to run our public services, and whether or not I trust the PM with the nuclear arsenal.
I think its sad that top of some peoples list for voting priorities is whether or not they will always be able to torrent stuff, which is 99% of peoples objections to internet filtering.
Get some fucking perspective. Filtering a type of media that didn't even exist 30 years ago is hardly a step back to the middle ages. There are legitimate concerns over web censorship. Rolling out the OMFG!!!1111 wagon every time anything happens just make anyone concerned about the topic look like a interweb dramaqueen.
the real killer is that my government taxes me for just OWNING a car. As a result, I feel almost obligated to get my moneys worth and sue the fucking thing all the time. Any system that puts fixed costs of ownership on polluting vehicles is mental. it should be all about the marginal costs, that way people would think before using them. Where I live in the UK, not owning a car is a nightmare, so once you've swallowed the up front cost, you use it all the time.
i think the gist is that being electric, the vehicles are therefore power-source agnostic, in terms of it being easy to get the power from renewable sources. You can just change the input and the output is fixed. With gasoline powered cars, thats not the case.
Thats definitely not crazy. With the rest of Europe begging Russia for gas supplies, and the oil price is all over the place, it sounds like Germany have taken big steps towards both energy independence and building a decent export business. I see wind and solar as a no brainer. I'd have solar on my roof tomorrow if I didn't plan on moving house this year.
Why do they need to be out of eye sight? Hundreds of thousands of people live within eyesight of butt-ugly coal fired power stations. Plus, noisy???? I've stood right next to a huge fuck-off wind turbine in cornwall and heard nothing. My hearing is pretty good too. How far away can you hear a wind turbine?
that doesnt mean they make more money. The point at which revenue is maximised varies for every product. At that price, there are ALWAYS people who get a great deal and think the price is too low, and people who think the opposite. If albums were $0.01, there would be people saying they cost too much.
Companies constantly test price experiments. I'd wager the current cost of a CD is the exact price which maximises revenue. Thats the objective,not maximising sales numbers.
Although you make some great points, I'm not sure why people get so annoyed that the RIAA "treat their customers like criminals"
Every retail store I've ever shopped in does exactly the same thing.
When I find something I want, even if I have the exact change, I have to queue up for someone to remove the security tag from it. All the time, they watch me on CCTV and security guards man the exits to prevent me doing a runner.
This happens worldwide, all the time. Stores treat their customers like criminals because a non-zero percentage of them *are*. The only difference is that retail have managed to do this without affecting the end product once you have bought it. But in principle, people selling stuff will always assume that a buyer *might* be a thief.
The #1 big stumbling block and roadblock in a site that sells content is the financial transaction itself. You can streamline the fuck out of our order process and sales pages, but thanks to scumbag fraudsters there is always going to be a lot of https secure certificate verifying password visa-check bullshit required to take someones money.
The fact that joe bloggs has to go grab his credit card from the enxt room and get out of the sofa is the major reason that pirating content is more convenient than buying it for some people. I sell online, and the one thing you can't easily make transparent is the actual money changing hands bit.
Having said that, thats not quite true though, because I can get music, movies and software quicker, safer and easier from amazon than I could by using a torrent site. This is why I keep pestering payment providers to integrate amazons system with theirs...
that's not the only people who lose out. Small businesses will lose out. I sell on-line. Not a huge amount, but enough to pay my bills. If a tax is introduced to compensate content creators for lost income, do you think the UK government will cut me a proportionate slice of it? I doubt it. What will happen is that the tax will be paid to businesses over some lower limit (maybe a few million income a year) and everyone else will be ignored, or red-taped into oblivion.
So such a system will just entrench big business, and kill off the little guy.
A tax is not the answer. Doing away with DRM and frivolous lawsuits on end users, whilst cracking down on the big, high profile warez site hosters and uploaders is the best solution that doesn't involve destroying an entire industry or trashing everyone's civil rights.
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that's because the swedish people make fuck all movies games software and TV, and want to leech off the guys in hollywood who make most of the stuff they want.
Its the political reasoning of a six year old, at best.
"gimme free stuff!!!!11111ONEONEONONE!"
look at the top 100 files on TPB right now.
Show me the free speech stuff, if you can find it under all the photo editing apps and hollywood movies.
don't make me laugh. If I set up business as the #1 place to go get heroin, and just tell people where to go when they knock on my door, how well do you think such a bullshit defence will stand up in court?
People come up with some amazing bullshit to justify getting free movies don't they?
Casting your vote purely based on who supports you getting free movies is an embarrassment. If that's how you value your vote, you shouldn't be allowed within fifty miles of a polling booth.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
How is letting me download a ripped coldplay album or a copy of adobe photoshop a fight for freedom?
I don't recall much mention of spiderman 3 isos during braveheart, but maybe I missed an important part of mel gibsons speech?
At least have the guts to admit you like TPB because they let you get stuff without paying for it, subsidised by the honest people who do.
wow.
so if crime B is worse than crime A, we ignore crime A?
Most people would consider murder worse than rape. Let announce a moratorium on rape prosecutions till we get the whole murder thing fixed shall we?
What drivel.
of course advertising affects action. If an advert for pepsi does not make you buy pepsi when you wouldn't have anyway, explain what the ROI for pepsi ads looks like.
people get physically addicted to hard drugs. it changes chemicals in your brain. Are you so addicted to britney spears and adobe photoshop that you need to torrent them?
Or are you suggesting that the reason people with $300 iphones pirate $1.99 iphone games is due to addiction?
Nothing to do with being a cheapass, I'm sure.
TPB doesnt help promote free in that sense. What it does is give you content that supposedly stallman has some ethical objection to, for free.
Its a very thinly veiled justification for getting free stuff.
TPB is NOT a political website. It's a large advertising cash generator based on redistributing everyone else's hard work. Nothing more or less.
If you hate 'the mafiaa' boycott their movies. that is your right. It is *not* your right to take them for free anyway whilst waving some crap about freedom.
wow.
So if my games are distributed free by these guys in return for considerable ad revenue for them, what the fuck did I personally do to deserve that?
Or are you using half a dozen music companies as scapegoats to allow you rip off every musician, movie producer,actor,director,games programmer and software developer on earth?
Nice logic.
I'm sure you are right and that what we read and look at has no effect on our behaviour.
In other news, its been found that after all these years and trillions spent, advertising doesn't work!
personally I make voting decisions based on taxes, competence to run our public services, and whether or not I trust the PM with the nuclear arsenal.
I think its sad that top of some peoples list for voting priorities is whether or not they will always be able to torrent stuff, which is 99% of peoples objections to internet filtering.
"Welcome back to the Middle Ages."
Get some fucking perspective. Filtering a type of media that didn't even exist 30 years ago is hardly a step back to the middle ages.
There are legitimate concerns over web censorship. Rolling out the OMFG!!!1111 wagon every time anything happens just make anyone concerned about the topic look like a interweb dramaqueen.
the real killer is that my government taxes me for just OWNING a car. As a result, I feel almost obligated to get my moneys worth and sue the fucking thing all the time.
Any system that puts fixed costs of ownership on polluting vehicles is mental. it should be all about the marginal costs, that way people would think before using them. Where I live in the UK, not owning a car is a nightmare, so once you've swallowed the up front cost, you use it all the time.
i think the gist is that being electric, the vehicles are therefore power-source agnostic, in terms of it being easy to get the power from renewable sources. You can just change the input and the output is fixed. With gasoline powered cars, thats not the case.
can we all cross our arms and turn around now?
I, for one, found this funny, and worthy of mod points. Sadly mine are not available.
Thats definitely not crazy. With the rest of Europe begging Russia for gas supplies, and the oil price is all over the place, it sounds like Germany have taken big steps towards both energy independence and building a decent export business.
I see wind and solar as a no brainer. I'd have solar on my roof tomorrow if I didn't plan on moving house this year.
Why do they need to be out of eye sight? Hundreds of thousands of people live within eyesight of butt-ugly coal fired power stations.
Plus, noisy????
I've stood right next to a huge fuck-off wind turbine in cornwall and heard nothing. My hearing is pretty good too. How far away can you hear a wind turbine?
that doesnt mean they make more money. The point at which revenue is maximised varies for every product. At that price, there are ALWAYS people who get a great deal and think the price is too low, and people who think the opposite.
If albums were $0.01, there would be people saying they cost too much.
Companies constantly test price experiments. I'd wager the current cost of a CD is the exact price which maximises revenue. Thats the objective,not maximising sales numbers.
Although you make some great points, I'm not sure why people get so annoyed that the RIAA "treat their customers like criminals"
Every retail store I've ever shopped in does exactly the same thing.
When I find something I want, even if I have the exact change, I have to queue up for someone to remove the security tag from it. All the time, they watch me on CCTV and security guards man the exits to prevent me doing a runner.
This happens worldwide, all the time. Stores treat their customers like criminals because a non-zero percentage of them *are*.
The only difference is that retail have managed to do this without affecting the end product once you have bought it. But in principle, people selling stuff will always assume that a buyer *might* be a thief.
The #1 big stumbling block and roadblock in a site that sells content is the financial transaction itself. You can streamline the fuck out of our order process and sales pages, but thanks to scumbag fraudsters there is always going to be a lot of https secure certificate verifying password visa-check bullshit required to take someones money.
The fact that joe bloggs has to go grab his credit card from the enxt room and get out of the sofa is the major reason that pirating content is more convenient than buying it for some people.
I sell online, and the one thing you can't easily make transparent is the actual money changing hands bit.
Having said that, thats not quite true though, because I can get music, movies and software quicker, safer and easier from amazon than I could by using a torrent site.
This is why I keep pestering payment providers to integrate amazons system with theirs...
what?
you are saying any crime that doesn't involve aggression is not a real crime?
excuse me while I empty your bank balance then...
Oh your sig... Government in the UK stopped builders putting asebstos in schools. Surely that was a good thing? (also lead in paint).
that's not the only people who lose out. Small businesses will lose out.
I sell on-line. Not a huge amount, but enough to pay my bills. If a tax is introduced to compensate content creators for lost income, do you think the UK government will cut me a proportionate slice of it? I doubt it. What will happen is that the tax will be paid to businesses over some lower limit (maybe a few million income a year) and everyone else will be ignored, or red-taped into oblivion.
So such a system will just entrench big business, and kill off the little guy.
A tax is not the answer. Doing away with DRM and frivolous lawsuits on end users, whilst cracking down on the big, high profile warez site hosters and uploaders is the best solution that doesn't involve destroying an entire industry or trashing everyone's civil rights.
one man indie game devs have rent to pay too. I am one. Thats the whole point.
And you buy games if they are good. Cool. great. So are you suggesting that before piracy you deliberately bought bad games?
Its easy to suggest a game isnt good enough to buy once you've grabbed it free and played it all weekend.