Online File Sharing & Piracy

[MAG00]

A song on itunes costs anything up to US$1.29. Hardly an insane amount now is it???

$1.29 x 1449 = US$~1800, it all adds up My friend has over 30,000 songs: 30,000 x $1.29 = US$38,700.

You tell me how that isn't an insane amount.

If the artist decides to put their work into the public domain for free distribution then good luck to them. No problem with that at all - some of the worlds most popular software is free. It's very likely the browser you are using right now is one such product. It isn't piracy though.

I stated that they support piracy, not support distributing their products for free. There is a remarkably big difference between the two.

If you don't think the price is fair then don't buy it. Imagine going to a BMW dealership, telling them that you don't think the price of a M5 is fair but your taking it anyway. Lol - let me know how you go with that one

I don't buy it, that's the whole argument against piracy.. Lovely car, wouldn't have an issue with paying the price.

[Rufys]

$1.29 x 1449 = US$~1800, it all adds up My friend has over 30,000 songs: 30,000 x $1.29 = US$38,700.

You tell me how that isn't an insane amount.

It's a stupid amount of money to spend on music.

But your example is flawed. Your "friend" almost certainly wouldn't have anywhere near 30,000 songs if they had to be paid for. It's not lost revenue for the record companies if it's not money that wouldn't be spent even if copies weren't available for free online!

[87RB30VL]

Put it this way. I don't pay for the radio, does this mean we're all pirates when we listen to songs off the radio? I never paid for it, so listening to it for free is clearly stealing, right?

If this has been said before, sorry, I haven't looked back at the other pages in detail yet.

[MAG00]

It's a stupid amount of money to spend on music.

But your example is flawed. Your "friend" almost certainly wouldn't have anywhere near 30,000 songs if they had to be paid for. It's not lost revenue for the record companies if it's not money that wouldn't be spent even if copies weren't available for free online!

You're right, and I have already said this

They complain about losing all of this money, but in reality large majority of people wouldn't pay for it anyway, it's just potential profit figures that they flaunt.

[Tim Smtih]

Has anyone mentioned that some of these file sharing sites support free and legal files? I won't DL large game patches unless i do so through a bittorrent site. The amount of times i've had drop outs and lost a half Gig of DL when direct DL'ing is amazing.

[Rufys]

The amount of times i've had drop outs and lost a half Gig of DL when direct DL'ing is amazing.

So? Both Firefox and Chrome manage downloads and pick up from where they left off. There's also numerous download managers to choose from.

But I do think Torrents are the most convenient.

[87RB30VL]

I like using Torrents, for legal and not-so-legal downloads due to the fact that they have the potential for really high speeds, whereas if 500 of us downloaded the smae patch from, say, Dice's website, it would time out or drop out, whereas with Torrents as long as heaps of people seed them, heaps of people can download them with little issues and high speeds.

[minux]

Put it this way. I don't pay for the radio, does this mean we're all pirates when we listen to songs off the radio? I never paid for it, so listening to it for free is clearly stealing, right?

If this has been said before, sorry, I haven't looked back at the other pages in detail yet.

Radio stations pay for the rights to broadcast the music, this is paid for through advertising.

People have really come up with some silly posts in this thread.

[MikeCuzzy]

Radio stations pay for the rights to broadcast the music, this is paid for through advertising.

People have really come up with some silly posts in this thread.

Old school pirating, recording songs off the radio onto your cassette!

[Rufys]

People have really come up with some silly posts in this thread.

But that's nothing compared to the silliness the music, film and TV industries have come up with in relation to the topic of this thread.

[minux]

But that's nothing compared to the silliness the music, film and TV industries have come up with in relation to the topic of this thread.

So you are against people with businesses wanting to protect their industry?

[87RB30VL]

Radio stations pay for the rights to broadcast the music, this is paid for through advertising.

People have really come up with some silly posts in this thread.

So in that theory, since I've paid for all the blu rays and dvd's in my cabinet, I can burn all these movies and give you guys a copy of them all since I paid for the movie, which means the companies etc have got their share of the sale?

[Reaper]

So in that theory, since I've paid for all the blu rays and dvd's in my cabinet, I can burn all these movies and give you guys a copy of them all since I paid for the movie, which means the companies etc have got their share of the sale?

You can legally copy them from one form of media to another and store it for personal use by yourself. To sell or otherwise distribute them will get you in strife.

Reaper

[Nitronic_12]

So is it illegal if I download any music videos from youtube?

[m1lky]

In many cases the videos on YouTube are illegal and the copyright holder will have them taken down. Some artists allow YouTube to have there's and they say official video. It is illegal for you to them download it (not that they can trace it)

[TVR-190]

[Rufys]

[dumpedvs]

^ made me giggle