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• On the post: PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:43pm

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  We have a habit of getting our own way in the end... it's a fairly small country with very few places to hide.
  
  Also, we tend not to take too much notice of our Government.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:38pm

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  You ever heard of Amazon? On-line only retailers?, direct purchaing from Bands/artists? Cheap sales at large supermarkets?
  
  You know places that have taken over from record shops?...
  Sorry but you seem to have jumped from 1995 to today and missed about 15 odd years of economic history.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:36pm

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  What pirate sites?
  
  You just makin' shit up now right?

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:33pm

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  Is he trampling on a trademark?

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:30pm

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  oooh we a have a live one here.
  
  I think what killed the record stores was ....ooh... ahh yes the arrival of the digital era SMASHING THEIR DOORS IN!

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:27pm

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  To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and in-novation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes.
  
  Or to do none of the above, but just to allow the old guard a few more years to collect their rents.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:22pm

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  So here it is, yesterday I found an NZB for a lossless copy of an album from 1976, I already own it on vinyl and tape but never got round to getting it on CD... Should I:
  
  A: Pay ?16.99 to buy it AGAIN!
  B: Grab the NZB and download it for free.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:17pm

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  oooh.... look he's taken freetard and spiced it up by adding an o at the end.... w00t w00t!!
  
  Here, have a ?50 http://www.numan-family.co.uk/50note.jpg

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:14pm

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  I'm British... So I'll grab my chair, eat some popcorn and watch America gradually become China and laugh when after coming for everyone else they finally come for you.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 02:04pm

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  But if you take all his money he won't have any left.... if I take a copy of your latest album, which has just gone to No.1 in 9 countries and netted about ?1 million you and the company still have the ?1 million but I now have a copy of the album.
  
  Thanks.

• On the post: High Prices, Lack Of Availability Driving Lots Of Infringement

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 11:34am

  Re: Documentaries

  *cough* MVGroup.org *cough*
  
  *bittorrent client required*

• On the post: Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM: UltraViolet, Getting Slammed In Reviews

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 11:29am

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  Ever downloaded a movie via filesharing or from usenet or a digital locker website? Nope thought not... all the rips are just the movie and most of the DVDR's and Blu-Ray completes are missing the anti-piracy and trailers.
  
  The only person watching them are the people buying the bloody films!
  
  LMAO!!!

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 11:21am

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  I just buy the DVD or Blu-ray and then before I've even watched it rip the movie off, re-encode it to either XfiD AVI or MKV and store it electronically... N
  
  No adverts or piracy warnings for me!
  
  But probably breaking the law in the UK.

• On the post: UK Court Upholds Its First Web Censorship Order: BT Has 14 Days To Block Access To Newzbin2 & Gets To Pay For The Privelege

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 10:40am

  Re: "Industrial online piracy is illegal and can be stopped."

  But it isn't a "very significant day for the UK's creative industries".
  
  I am a BT Broadband customer who within a few days will find that a particular NZB indexing site will be unavailable to me unless I use some sort of bypass... I won't because that site is one of hundreds of sites all doing the same thing, indexing NZB files that I can just as easily locate by reading the headers of each post on Usenet.
  
  Feel free to think that this is some turning point in the "war on filesharing" but it's a hollow pointless victory as it won't make a jot of difference.
  
  If they really want to make a difference, provide a service that offers me something that I'm prepared to pay for. Right now I pay over ?30 a month for my unlimted bandwidth and Usenet access... I'm willingt to pay, they just don't have anything of value to offer me.

• On the post: UK Court Upholds Its First Web Censorship Order: BT Has 14 Days To Block Access To Newzbin2 & Gets To Pay For The Privelege

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 08:44am

  Re: Re: BT should shut down

  I'm with BT Broadband.... will I be able to sue the MPA for loss of internet?

• On the post: UK Court Upholds Its First Web Censorship Order: BT Has 14 Days To Block Access To Newzbin2 & Gets To Pay For The Privelege

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 07:22am

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  Strange I thought that meant if a URL/IP address redirected to Newsbin2 then they must be added.... to me the words that lead to Newzbin seem quite specific.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 07:18am

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  Yeah.. good luck with that one! If they wish to try and take on the Usenet industry then let them try.

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 05:37am

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  This is the Hydra game of the last decade, block or shutdown one site and another 3 pop up. Who gives a crap, I can find NZB files for files I want to download via my download client, who even needs indexing sites anymore anyway?

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  Planespotter ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 04:59am

  Pointless... they are blocking access to one nzb site, there are hundreds more. They aren't blocking access to any newsgroup/usenet providers.
  
  Even if they managed to block all the nzb sites you can just fall back on browsing the groups through the download client anyway.
  
  Pointless.

• On the post: China: Great Firewall Isn't Censorship, It's Safeguarding The Public

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2011 @ 10:33am

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  And we all know what the Founding Fathers thought of that don't we.

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