You have made a valid point; albeit what you said, was probably not what you meant.
We have "pissed off" the people who provided us the media. The reason for this being: we don't need them anymore - p2p does a much better job of providing just about any kind of movie/music to me than the RIAA/MPAA has ever done. I can d/l the even the most obscure ancient live bootleg in a few hours - good luck finding that in a store. So why should I continue to pay the providers when the p2p community can do their job much better? Remember that 90% of the money you pay for a cd flows into the provider's pocket; only a fraction of the remaining 10% will feed the creator (aka artist).
The real question is: how can we benefit from p2p without "pissing off" the creator. What is currently a "crisis" for the providers might end up as great opportunity for the creators. Imagine the artists getting twice the money per sold cd and the consumer paying only 20% of what an average cd costs nowadays.
http://www.pkgsrc.org/ is what you are looking for. Bootstrapping requires some manual work, but after that
most packages will build just fine. Here is a howto that should make setup easier.
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You have made a valid point; albeit what you said, was probably not what you meant.
We have "pissed off" the people who provided us the media. The reason for this being: we don't need them anymore - p2p does a much better job of providing just about any kind of movie/music to me than the RIAA/MPAA has ever done. I can d/l the even the most obscure ancient live bootleg in a few hours - good luck finding that in a store. So why should I continue to pay the providers when the p2p community can do their job much better? Remember that 90% of the money you pay for a cd flows into the provider's pocket; only a fraction of the remaining 10% will feed the creator (aka artist).
The real question is: how can we benefit from p2p without "pissing off" the creator. What is currently a "crisis" for the providers might end up as great opportunity for the creators. Imagine the artists getting twice the money per sold cd and the consumer paying only 20% of what an average cd costs nowadays.
http://www.pkgsrc.org/ is what you are looking for. Bootstrapping requires some manual work, but after that most packages will build just fine. Here is a howto that should make setup easier.