Posted by FunkyDevil on 11/02/05 22:35

bklyntv@yahoo.com wrote:
> Or just paying people for the work they perform?
>
> I wasn't really arguing for or against downloading TV or Video via
> iTunes, just pointing out that comparied with finding a bittorrent file
> and waiting overnight for it to download (and sometimes having it hang
> indefinately or somesuch problem (I once downloaded a movie to find it
> in Spanish!) or fighting with VCRs or DVRs, well, $2 isn't much money
> at all to have the convenience of downloading it easy.

You people remind me of those cheap TV commercials where they are
selling some product and they show somebody having trouble just turning
on a light switch , but once you buy the product everything is easy.

I find it difficult to believe that buying DRM infected files or CDs
makes any persons life better , there are numerous complaints around
the internet about DRM and copy protection from people who pay for the
product.

And unless I hear otherwise , I am going to guess anything coming out
of itunes has some form of "DRM copy virus" attached to it.

The latest news is that Sony puts a "rootkit" on your windows operating
system that destroys your security.

//

Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html


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PAY UP BITCH :

Paying for their product does not make you a good person , it just
makes them rich and more aggressive towards the consumer.

They don't respect you for buying their product , they put DRM viruses
in there for a reason , and it's not out of respect for you.

They don't appreciate your support , they instead demand more ,

for instance Napster wants you to rent by the month , in their
commercial they even blatantly say you "own nothing" but you pay for
everything.

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The RIAA and MPAA and their member companies are criminal
organizations. And itunes supports these companies.

To see the criminal activities of both of these organizations you
merely have to search through google.com.

For the RIAA you just have to search for ( RIAA PAYOLA ) or ( RIAA
PRICE FIXING )

For the MPAA ,their crimes are documented as far back as 1948 , here
are the links to their past crimes.


U.S. V. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. , 334 U.S. 131 (1948)

LINKS:
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=US&vol=334&invol=131


http://www.sag.org/history/chronos_pages/paramount.html

Supreme Court case commonly referred to as the "Paramount Decision"
or "Paramount Decree" was the culmination of over 20 years'
pursuit by the U.S. government to end various monopolistic practices in
the motion picture industry.


Well 1948 was a long time ago , but it just goes to show , the MPAA has
always been a criminal organization just like the RIAA.

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Hopefully the future will provide for more newbie friendly file sharing
and anonymous easy to use programs , it should probably also have some
type of anti-fake system.

Those things exist now but not at the level they should , I'm holding
out on the concept that the internet will grow in the information
exchange area ,

and criminals like the RIAA and MPAA and their member companies will
eventually be only a memory.

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