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  • On the post: Why Hollywood's Six Strike Plan Should Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations

    Fake Name ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 12:59am

    Re: Re: Re: results

    It will have zero effect on me. It might have effect on the every day people in the sort term. But they will simply be move to encrypted, VPN, private trackers, etc etc. The ISP won't be able to track what they do anymore ever again and this whole exercise and effort will be more or less a waste of time.

    The people who create the content are awesome. Love them. The companies who distribute the content want this crazy control over it that makes people like me turn to piracy.

    Yeah I am sure there is some sense of entitlement that is wrong on my part. I am not entitled to anything from these companies I know that. Movies make more money than ever every year. Artists do too I think, maybe I am wrong on that one. No idea about TV shows, seems the actors are doing very though.

    You can talk about what is wrong vs right, piracy vs copies, bla bla. End of the day you have to deal with the real world. Fact is I can get what I want from piracy all day long. They know this and you know this. Why would I deal with a highly inferior system from content providers when piracy is right there. Content providers could start to offer me an option, I have yet to see something as good as piracy...

    It isn't all about free stuff to most people, including myself. I can get the music via piracy, in the format I want, with no DRM weeks or months before you will sell me a format I do not want. Why in the hell would I not go the way of piracy. Same thing applies to movies word for word pretty much. TV shows not quite the same but similar.

  • On the post: Why Hollywood's Six Strike Plan Should Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations

    Fake Name ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 12:38am

    Re: Re: Re: results

    should read "fractured way content providers offer their products" not factored.

  • On the post: Why Hollywood's Six Strike Plan Should Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations

    Fake Name ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 12:34am

    Re: Re: results

    for the last ~15 years (with the exception of the most recent couple years) I made a good living and had plenty of money. I could afford to buy most anything I wanted. Money was typically not a concern of any sort. That had very little effect on my piracy. I did go to the movie theater more often but I still did not buy DVDs, CDs, digital downloads, etc. Why would I? I knew I would just have to bring the damn CD home, rip it to MP3 to use it. DRM on digital downloads preventing me from using it how I wanted for my own personal use. Same for the movies for the most part. TV shows? I had direct TV for a while with DVR, etc. The ONLY reason I got it was I was in the country and didnt have access to broadband. I was much happier with the scene releases of my tv shows than what I got from Direct TV. On Direct TV I had to have the DVR record the shows, it was limited on space and could only record 2 channels at once, usually not an issue but at prime time it could be. If I missed an episode I was just screwed no way to watch it again other than repeats. And I had commercials, no biggie really I can just skip them but why I am I even having to do that. With piracy I have the shows, any i want, no commercials, any time I want, on any device I want no problems. Piracy is simply a better way of doing things.

    I don't want to take money from artists. I wish there was a paypal link on the artists websites so I could 'pay' them. I have no interest in paying the *IAA though. They do nothing good for me. When I had money I went to their concerts when I could, bought a T Shirt, etc. The TV shows yeah that is a bit more complicated. Most of what I watch is aired on normal channels like they have been for the last 50+ years. I could setup a box to record all them, but why go through all that trouble when the scene groups do all that work for me. Movies are about like music to me. Honestly I don't watch many movies. I could wait for them to be in the $5 bin at the local stores years later if I wanted I guess and simply deny myself watching them until then, I just don't see the point in all that.

    Sure there is obviously some sense of entitlement as you noted. I know I am part of the problem. 95% of what I pirate is TV shows, 1% music, 3% movies. Maybe I don't care enough but I just can't bring myself to deal with the current factored way content providers offer their products. I am speaking really about TV shows. Hours, days, months, years later, all on separate sites, none I can download and use on devices without DRM, etc. The Vast majority of which I am legally allowed to capture over the air, record, rip out the commercials myself and encode myself, etc. Or they are not aired in my country at all. Yes there are a few I watch from HBO, Showtime, etc. I could live without those or pay for those if I had to.

  • On the post: Why Hollywood's Six Strike Plan Should Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations

    Fake Name ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 12:12am

    Re: Re: results

    rss downloads the shows while I am at work for the most part. But your point is valid. I need a better job and it is up to me to make that happen.

    For the most part (with the exception of the last couple years) i made quite a good living. I still was just the same way as far as piracy went. But your point didn't seem to be directed at my piracy :)

  • On the post: Why Hollywood's Six Strike Plan Should Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations

    Fake Name ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2012 @ 10:00pm

    results

    When the DCMA was passed I quit having direct links to files and things of that nature, mainly just linked to other sites. When they sued Napster it made headlines several times and tons of every day people wanted to know what it was and started using it. When it died, several more replaced it. When those died several more replaced those. When ISPs started slowing down bittorrent traffic utorrent and other clients put in encryption and within a few days most torrent traffic was encrypted by default. The only way to slow it down was to slow down all encrypted traffic. They sue people all the time.. Doesn't seem to have much of an effect.

    I think this, well not law, but collusion between these businesses will simply push people and programs more to encryption, ToR, private trackers, VPN, etc. Then their whole way of monitoring what you are doing is not effective again.

    I explained it the other day. At the moment they can see I this person goes to torrentsite.com and downloads Copyrighted.File.x264.bla.mkv.torrent, then they contact a tracker. I told the person, just start using HTTPS for both the site and tracker, problem solved. They will tell others the same thing, problem solved.

    Why do I have to go to a private tracker to download 'Whatever Show' ~30 minutes after it airs instead of going to NBC.com to watch it or download it. Honestly at this point I am happy with getting the shows from the warez scene and no matter content providers do short of having one universal service that would in effect replace my TV trackers with something better, I will continue to pirate.

    Honestly, I am a broke MF. I make no money, I do not have money to spend on anything I can get for free. I do not have any sort of TV service. I have bought less than 3 movies in the last 5+ years. I have went to the movies theater a few times, maybe 10-20 times in the last 5 years mainly on dates or others were going. I do not set out to do it myself. I have bought less than 5 music CDs or digital downloads in it seems like 8+ years.

    So. whatever I will keep pirating forever. It is better than what they offer or will ever offer obviously. No DRM, I can play it on whatever I want, bla bla bla.

    I know I rant a bit but. I think the whole thing they are doing its pointless as far as it effects me. I think it is pretty pointless against normal people even..

  • On the post: Does Anyone Who Develops New Products In Hollywood Ask 'Would I Ever Actually Use This?'

    Fake Name ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 02:44pm

    Big box

    So many big box and retail stores are just trying to grasp at everything they can to slow Down them loosing their business to the Internet. My mall has 0 music stores now. One movie store. At some point it will close. Walmart still sells censored music... Yet I see unrated movies and rv shows all the time there. Most the music sold at my walmart is: christian, country and Spanish. The rock, r&b, rap etc section is just as big as the others combined though. Those people are more likely to be effected by the censored music and know how to get the music online. I work here I see it first hand every day. Why go to a store to buy any media, half the time they won't have what you want, they can't order it, etc. You could have just went to a website and downloaded it.

  • On the post: Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

    Fake Name ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2012 @ 10:47am

    NIN Fan

    "Next time you hear a song you like, I encourage you to purchase it instead of stealing it."

    should read "Next time you hear a song you like, I encourage you to try and see that band in concert (which is what happens already) where they actually get most the money or buy that track online where the artist is entitled to a license royalty vs a sale, meaning they get 50% of that money instead of 10%. Well that is unless the record label is ripping the artist off still trying to give them 10%. (see Eminem vs Universal)"

    I have no interest in supporting the labels, just the artists. I wish there was an option for that. A paypal donate button on the artist site would be nice.. not that I am a fan of paypal either but...

    I started pirating music before iTunes and things of that nature existed due to the an album being released online over a month before I could buy it. I went to the store to buy it (after reading it was out on the net) to find out, not out in stores. This was my favorite band that I had purchased every album and single they had released and a few imports, around 18 CDs of that band alone. The band itself most likely played a role in it being released early (they are known for doing that). Also had to rebuy a couple CDs that had been damaged over time. I was using early MP3 players at the time of which the RIAA or whoever suing Diamond for making the Diamond Rio MP3 player. Most the ones I used were imported from Hong Kong because of that lawsuit. Seemed insane to wait a month buy a CD and since that day I have never went out and bought a single CD.

    Any legal option that is offered to me seems to be after I can already get it online, some DRM crap or something else less convenient or worse quality than piracy. Actually I did download 2 CDs directly from a few artists sites, they were free from the artists themselves and one during the aftermath of a natural disaster, mainly due to me being stuck in a place where I did not have access to my normal means of listing to music and internet, that CD is now long lost or damaged, but the MP3/FLAC files I got before I bought the CD from the private torrent tracker work fine.

    It seems the record industry has lost me.. maybe forever?

  • On the post: Ubisoft Cuts Off Legit Players With DRM Server Migration; Pirates Play On

    Fake Name ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 06:35pm

    in other words

    In other words just don't google things like this and your games will continue to work as Ubisoft wants.

    The.Settlers.7-Razor1911
    Might.and.Magic.Heroes.VI-SKIDROW
    Might.and.Magic.Heroes.VI.Update.v1.2.1-RELOADED

  • On the post: If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents With Ads, Would People Download Them?

    Fake Name ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2011 @ 11:09pm

    Maybe

    If they released a standard format where I was not forced to use some player of theirs & I was able to get the show from them before or at the same time I could from piracy, yes. Otherwise why would I? Better quality from piracy. At this point the only thing that would get me to bother downloading from them is having it before I could pirate it. I might even use a restrictive player for that. Currently shows come out about 30 min to 1 hour after they air, I might rather wait than watch 1/3 commercials.