Oh dear, heaven forbid a few ultra rich individuals be deprived of a few cents per "stolen" song. The 4,000,000,000 people that go to bed hungry every night wouldn't need any of it anyhow. And as for the US becoming "fascist", give me a break. Go live in Cuba or Venezuela for the real deal. Although things can change, and they have, this is still a country with a constitution protecting more freedoms then most countries around the world.
Oh sure, that has nothing to do with this discussion, right? Time = money. Money makes the world tick. We are all wasting our personal time debating this, and the government we pay taxes to is wasting time and our hard earned money debating this. Now to protect ourselves from unrighteous evil discrimination of our privacy, we'll have to waste even more of our precious personal time. In the end, the cost to humanity is ridiculous. Screw the entertainment industry, who needs it anyway?
Music and entertainment has its place, but is it worth all of this? It most certainly isn't worth the loss of privacy we are all faced with. Anyhow, there are several ways around all of this mess. Problem is, most of us are just too damn lazy (and cheap) to do anything about it.
Lack of sleep is definitely taking its toll... my writing has been quite incoherent. To sum up: (1) stop sharing someone else's hard work for free?! How would you like it if people could share your paycheck on line? (not that I agree with how much is charged for their "art", but it IS illegal) (2) find a more economic way of legally acquiring the music you like (used cd shops, ppd, etc) (3) go live in a country where you can acquire/provide pirated material without consequence (4) get to bed, and stop wasting time on this issue!
So there you go. 4 steps to successfully avoiding incrimination. I'm going to apply step 4, ciao.
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Point is well taken. Often when writing quick comments, it is difficult to keep it coherent and well structured, and the end result is often not very good. You see, we are all in the same boat after all. No need to fire cannons at one another.
I insulted no one with my post, so your flame is unappreciated.
Vonage routing their calls through phone cards is a sham, since the call quality is horrid, and the calls I placed internationally only connected maybe 10% of the time. Compare that with my current VOIP provider: calls are direct to the country in question (local ringtone), are crystal clear, and of the 10 calls I have placed in the last week, every single one has connected beautifully. Oh, and did I mention 6 cents a minute cheaper than Vonage.
Comments like yours keep people on the fringes and afraid to speak their mind for fear someone will make them look like a tool. Lighten up, I'm just trying to help people not waste their money like I did. FYI, I still haven't been able to disconnect my service, because they won't answer their ^$%#ing service line. That alone should keep people away.
Disgusted by their horrible VOIP customer service (and poor international service), I've switched VOIP providers. To cancel my Vonage service, I called their toll free number: it was busy, all day. Vonage WIFI, big deal. Also, any company that routes international long distance through phone cards - yes , I said phone cards - doesn't deserve a cent of anyone's business. (For those Vonage users that don't believe me, try calling a country that has a different ring tone than the US. Where's the foreign ring tone???)
Sorry to use this post to rant, but I feel it is well deserved.
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Oh dear, heaven forbid a few ultra rich individuals be deprived of a few cents per "stolen" song. The 4,000,000,000 people that go to bed hungry every night wouldn't need any of it anyhow. And as for the US becoming "fascist", give me a break. Go live in Cuba or Venezuela for the real deal. Although things can change, and they have, this is still a country with a constitution protecting more freedoms then most countries around the world.
Oh sure, that has nothing to do with this discussion, right? Time = money. Money makes the world tick. We are all wasting our personal time debating this, and the government we pay taxes to is wasting time and our hard earned money debating this. Now to protect ourselves from unrighteous evil discrimination of our privacy, we'll have to waste even more of our precious personal time. In the end, the cost to humanity is ridiculous. Screw the entertainment industry, who needs it anyway?
Music and entertainment has its place, but is it worth all of this? It most certainly isn't worth the loss of privacy we are all faced with. Anyhow, there are several ways around all of this mess. Problem is, most of us are just too damn lazy (and cheap) to do anything about it.
Lack of sleep is definitely taking its toll... my writing has been quite incoherent. To sum up:
(1) stop sharing someone else's hard work for free?! How would you like it if people could share your paycheck on line? (not that I agree with how much is charged for their "art", but it IS illegal)
(2) find a more economic way of legally acquiring the music you like (used cd shops, ppd, etc)
(3) go live in a country where you can acquire/provide pirated material without consequence
(4) get to bed, and stop wasting time on this issue!
So there you go. 4 steps to successfully avoiding incrimination. I'm going to apply step 4, ciao.
From google help: "Don't fret if you don't see "IMAP Access" yet under the Settings menu. We're rolling it out to everyone over the next few days." RTFM
Point is well taken. Often when writing quick comments, it is difficult to keep it coherent and well structured, and the end result is often not very good. You see, we are all in the same boat after all. No need to fire cannons at one another.
I insulted no one with my post, so your flame is unappreciated.
Vonage routing their calls through phone cards is a sham, since the call quality is horrid, and the calls I placed internationally only connected maybe 10% of the time. Compare that with my current VOIP provider: calls are direct to the country in question (local ringtone), are crystal clear, and of the 10 calls I have placed in the last week, every single one has connected beautifully. Oh, and did I mention 6 cents a minute cheaper than Vonage.
Comments like yours keep people on the fringes and afraid to speak their mind for fear someone will make them look like a tool. Lighten up, I'm just trying to help people not waste their money like I did. FYI, I still haven't been able to disconnect my service, because they won't answer their ^$%#ing service line. That alone should keep people away.
Disgusted by their horrible VOIP customer service (and poor international service), I've switched VOIP providers. To cancel my Vonage service, I called their toll free number: it was busy, all day. Vonage WIFI, big deal. Also, any company that routes international long distance through phone cards - yes , I said phone cards - doesn't deserve a cent of anyone's business. (For those Vonage users that don't believe me, try calling a country that has a different ring tone than the US. Where's the foreign ring tone???) Sorry to use this post to rant, but I feel it is well deserved.