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Posted by FatKat on 08/10/06 19:42
Gadz wrote:
> Justin wrote:
> > Bob wrote on [Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:34:19 GMT]:
> > > On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:16:58 -0500, Justin <nospam@insightbb.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>> But do try again, this time with a rational comment - assuming you are
> > >>> capable of such things.
> > >
> > >>It's only rational if you think theft is legal.
> > >
> > > You are not rational, therefore you are not qualified to make such
> > > pronouncements.
> > > And one thing is for certain, I have no intentions of letting some
> > > leftist queer tell me how I must interpret the matter. Now go crawl
> > > back up your boyfriend's ass where you belong before you stink the
> > > place up.
> >
> > I stand by original statement. You're a deluded, self important ignorant
> > fucking idiot.
>
> I think the fact remains that the internet is not going away and that
> the makers of music and movies need to change their sales model to suit
> current technologies.
That's only half the problem - they'll never be able to crack the
piracy problem as long as there's a free alternative, and P2P is simply
too attractive to ignore no matter how well the "sales model" suits
current technology
> It's like when someone tapes a movie of TV onto
> a video tape. How many people are theives now? The TV channels still
> get paid advertising, they still buy the series from the producers, the
> world still turns.
The VCR argument, or for that matter, the recording-music-off-the-radio
argument - both of them miss the point when it comes to music
downloading. When you tape media off TV or the radio, it's typically
an end-user thing. Each individual recording remains exactly that -
the end-recording. The tape may get passed around, but how many people
will copy from it? Most internet downloading comes from individuals
using file-sharing systems. Each download becomes a potential and
likely source for somebody else's download. Instead of cluttering up
the TV cabinet, the recording is now actively passed around as currency
for future downloads by those users.
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