Ha!! there is a way around that bullshit. All you have to do is add '&fmt=18' or '&fmt=22' at the end of any YouTube Url to get stereo quality.
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Yes, I agree. Not a very good analogy. If I download a copy of something I've already paid for, is that stealing? If I download a tv show I missed recording, is that stealing? Same with Youtube...it's apparently ok to listen to music on YT and make your own playlists, so if I do this on my phone, how is it different from having downloaded it? I'm still listening without paying.
The solution is to charge a yearly subscription fee that gives you access to a wide library of content, like Apple and Netflix are doing. Why should I have to pay Rogers or Bell for content I don't want and never watch? They want to shove that shit down your throat and make you pay $100.00 a month or more + $$ for movies etc. A sustainable solution has to offer more and better content for less money, otherwise people will continue to go the illegal route...and frankly, more power to 'em until the studios etc come to their senses.
regardless if you paid for it or not. you cant steal something that is being offered to you.
The argument I've read is stealing is when you take an original physical product. Pirating is more like copying of the original.
I keep 6-12 sharing sites in the pipeline so when one goes down there is another to replace it.i don't see this trend going away anytime soon.
from what i am seeing around the places i go to all the sites that hate each other and some of the neutrals are all getting their shit together. 4chan and 9gag working together, reddit getting in on it and imgur is plotting. they are all backing anonymous. seems like the internet has declared war.
And today Filesonic went tits up as well. Now you can only upload and download materials from your own account only. You can't share stuff with others anymore.
Oron is putting all accounts on hold while they purge their system
One of the best porn downloading forums:
http://planetsuzy.org/t540854-the-party-is-over--.html
One of the best porn downloading forums:
http://planetsuzy.org/t540854-the-party-is-over--.html
Next time you are in the US, give Netflix a try there. You will be shocked how much better it is. They have a heck of a lot more content, and a lot more recent content. The problem in Canada is that they haven't got licenses for enough of the content. Either they just haven't tried hard enough here, or alternately I've heard that Bell/Rogers specifically negotiated content licenses that shut netflix out of many titles. Either way, the Canadian netflix is a poor substitute for the US one.
To me it's unreasonable to expect the latest hollywood blockbuster for $8/month. I see netflix as a replacement for cable TV. Think about it this way, I pay $40/month or so for my physical connection, and then subscribe to a bunch of packages, like netflix, for $8/month, and a few other things. All in the total price for my connection and my subscriptions is similar to the price for cable TV, just better. You don't expect to find the latest hollywood blockbuster playing on City TV the day after it hits the theater. You expect it to hit City a year or so later. I see netflix as a "make your own TV station playlist" kind of deal, with that level of content--and that's a great thing.
I would be quite happy with a model where I could pay a reasonable "pay per view" rental rate to watch a new release movie and get everything that's a year or two older via an all-in cheap monthly subscription like Netflix.
As a general rule people don't steal what they can buy at what they think of as the appropriate price. The trouble with the SOPA/PIPA model is that it leaves setting that price and even whether the thing can be bought at all (as fuji alludes to above) entirely up to one side of the commercial deal. With the full penalty of criminal law behind their demands. That would be quite appropriate if the 'piracy' actually robbed them of the goods in question, like stealing a car off the dealer's lot, so they no longer had them as business assets, but it does not. All it 'robs' them of is the entirely notional profit they might have made if they had managed to persuade that person to pay their non-negociable price. It's as if Avis wanted the cops to prevent your friend from lending you his car so you had to rent theirs.
It amounts to enlisting the police as sales-staff in an extortionate version of the marketplace. Lost in all of the yapping is the fact that this stuff is not baubles or toys, or cars. It's communication of ideas, as essential to human existence as food, and it's as much in everyone's interest to ensure that it flows throughout the community as it is to ensure no one hoards the food we depend on or has to starve without it. Also lost is the truth of just who created the stuff: it isn't the artists lobbying the pols, it's the businesses that feed on the artists (and for which the artists had no alternative until the internet made self-publishing a real possibility) Ever since the first copyright protected the first printers and publishers artists have had to fight for their share. And we haven't even touched on the knowledge-costs to humanity of letting stuff stay out of print forever, or of keeping it out of certain markets because no-one's yet bid for a continent or country-wide license.
Here's a small thought: Let's call this a Copyright Law: Let the 'owners' of works decide what their fair per-copy take is, then as long as you send that few cents off via PayPal, you can download it or copy it wherever you find it. If you want their fancy packaging in their store with the muzak and coffee bar, by all means you can pay for that. One other thing: no right to that payment is enforceable without a share of it going to the author.
And why should any of those rights outlive the original author? Thanks to Mickey Mouse, those 'rights' now outlive their grandkids. Not that they didn't long ago fall into the hands of a corporation. Corporations are immortal y'know, no grandkids necessary.
Disclosure: I spent close to thirty years collectively creating movies and TV shows, works that SOPA and PIPA would protect. In spite of trailers with SFX techs begging you not to take the bread from his children's mouths by copying movies, I can assure you that only by continuous union pressure have writers and directors at least—but not production designers like me, nor any SFX techs—finally managed to extract a grudging share of the proceeds of their creativity over the strong resistance of those these laws would protect.
And it's those same powerful folks who have ensured you don't have Hulu and NetFlix access on this side of the lake. And who are trying to garner public support with words like 'piracy'. Let's start looking at them as the pirates, sitting on their hoard of treasure, and concentrate on keeping that good stuff circulating.
It amounts to enlisting the police as sales-staff in an extortionate version of the marketplace. Lost in all of the yapping is the fact that this stuff is not baubles or toys, or cars. It's communication of ideas, as essential to human existence as food, and it's as much in everyone's interest to ensure that it flows throughout the community as it is to ensure no one hoards the food we depend on or has to starve without it. Also lost is the truth of just who created the stuff: it isn't the artists lobbying the pols, it's the businesses that feed on the artists (and for which the artists had no alternative until the internet made self-publishing a real possibility) Ever since the first copyright protected the first printers and publishers artists have had to fight for their share. And we haven't even touched on the knowledge-costs to humanity of letting stuff stay out of print forever, or of keeping it out of certain markets because no-one's yet bid for a continent or country-wide license.
Here's a small thought: Let's call this a Copyright Law: Let the 'owners' of works decide what their fair per-copy take is, then as long as you send that few cents off via PayPal, you can download it or copy it wherever you find it. If you want their fancy packaging in their store with the muzak and coffee bar, by all means you can pay for that. One other thing: no right to that payment is enforceable without a share of it going to the author.
And why should any of those rights outlive the original author? Thanks to Mickey Mouse, those 'rights' now outlive their grandkids. Not that they didn't long ago fall into the hands of a corporation. Corporations are immortal y'know, no grandkids necessary.
Disclosure: I spent close to thirty years collectively creating movies and TV shows, works that SOPA and PIPA would protect. In spite of trailers with SFX techs begging you not to take the bread from his children's mouths by copying movies, I can assure you that only by continuous union pressure have writers and directors at least—but not production designers like me, nor any SFX techs—finally managed to extract a grudging share of the proceeds of their creativity over the strong resistance of those these laws would protect.
And it's those same powerful folks who have ensured you don't have Hulu and NetFlix access on this side of the lake. And who are trying to garner public support with words like 'piracy'. Let's start looking at them as the pirates, sitting on their hoard of treasure, and concentrate on keeping that good stuff circulating.
translation- i don't get anything out of copyright laws so i should be able to steal
