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   But, but...

   

   Eric the Grey, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 5:34pm

   
   

   The Pirate Bay and peer to peer services are evil incarnate! I know, the *IAA's tole me so.
   
   It's kind of funny, really. I'll have to check these guys out tomorrow from home while I can grab the album and download it.
   
   
   EtG

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   nice while it lasted

   

   mike, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 5:41pm

   
   

   150 years ago copyright/patents was a concept, then it became a civil matter to infringe on this concept, now it's an extraditable criminal offence, i hope that one day it will no longer exist...
   
   record companies did not have a business model 150 years ago, with home studios, cd burners and file sharing, lets hope that music returns to being about the music and not how many units the big guys can ship...

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   It is on vuze as a BitTorrent

   

   DaveZ, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 5:51pm

   
   

   http://www.vuze.com/details/D6EYU667LQTTWFT7PR2BCFNJWF3THWG2.html

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   Finding value?

   

   Michael Long, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 6:52pm

   
   

   "finding value in using The Pirate Bay"
   
   Yeah, I guess they can find value in the fact that they can suck up someone else's bandwidth instead of paying for their own.

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   Re: nice while it lasted

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 7:53pm

   
   

   Following your trend, it'll either wind up with capital punishment or be dissolved. My guess is capital punishment. :P

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   Re: Finding value?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 8:31pm

   
   

   "Yeah, I guess they can find value in the fact that they can suck up someone else's bandwidth instead of paying for their own."
   
   ITYM having the fans contribute some (otherwise unused) bandwidth in order to help promote a band they love.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 8:38pm

   
   

   Should have put it on giganews, or posibly another one of the major NNTP dealers. Then you'd have the most stable platform to distribute your files from.

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   Re: Finding value?

   

   Mike (profile), Jul 23rd, 2007 @ 11:23pm

   
   

   Yeah, I guess they can find value in the fact that they can suck up someone else's bandwidth instead of paying for their own.
   
   You say that as if it's negative. What's wrong with making more efficient use of bandwidth?

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   Re: Finding value?

   

   Paul`, Jul 24th, 2007 @ 12:31am

   
   

   ... Only people who choose to use their bandwidth.

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    mike allen, Jul 24th, 2007 @ 12:39am

    
    

    The point this promotional album is FREE. so why not put it on pirate bay or limewire. The major companies should adapt the same attitude and Kill off the RIAA.

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    Re: Finding value?

    

    satan, Jul 24th, 2007 @ 1:27am

    
    

    It must suck that you have to pay for it, oh wait you don't, asswipe.

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    Re:

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jul 24th, 2007 @ 4:06am

    
    

    Yeah, but it seems the masses have no clue what NNTP is, so...

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    Masses don't understand what BitTorrent is

    

    Kostas J. (zatorg), Jul 24th, 2007 @ 5:56am

    
    

    I suppose that people consider BitTorrent to be similar to for instance Kazaa and other P2P programs where your bandwith is consumed without proper notice. Well, BitTorrent is a lot different from that: people upload parts of the data that you have already downloaded; when you download everything, you become a "seed", e.g. you have all the parts that may be needed. Every Torrent is an internal network which "hosts" peers interested in downloading the same material as you are.
    
    Oh, and by the way, I find MPAA and RIAA to be one of the most evil things on this piece of rock.

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    Re:

    

    SailorRipley, Jul 24th, 2007 @ 6:24am

    
    

    The major companies ARE the RIAA

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    Re: Re:

    

    Kostas J. (zatorg), Jul 24th, 2007 @ 7:08am

    
    

    Yeah I know. Although I adore some of the works that some of them have done I feel sick of all that crap (I couldn't believe DreamWorks were in when I found that out).
    I understand it's all about money... I do understand that there is probably no better solution (as Churchill has said, capitalism is the best of the worst).
    
    P2P is like anarchism... Something like Project Mayhem in Fight Club but less harming (although it's harming a lot financially.. Yet I like it).

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    Re: Finding value?

    

    Ven, Jul 24th, 2007 @ 8:27am

    
    

    So your complaining that instead of charging you for their music they are asking for a small 'in kind' payment by way of bandwidth?
    
    I might understand your point if this was one of those MPAA sponsored for pay P2P movie services, but this is no charge (tough not necessarily free) content.

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    Re: Finding value?

    

    Felix, Jul 29th, 2007 @ 8:32am

    
    

    They're GIVING AWAY the music for free. Perhaps they should pay you to listen to it as well?

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    Re: Re:

    

    Evil Incarnate, Jul 31st, 2007 @ 2:48pm

    
    

    ...and that's just the way we like it. You never hear the RIAA complaining about anything on a binary encoded newsgroup.

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