It's not a good week to be a BitTorrent tracker

When I see the likes of someone like Britney Spears, Bill Gates, and Will Smith making less than $100k per year like the average consumer that buys their goods, then I'll consider paying for their crap.

Considering most torrent showing up on Mininova are actually tracked on PirateBay, I would definitely not consider Mininova to be a rival. In fact, if PirateBay vanishes, then mininova will go down as well.

There is a reason some people pirate games, movies, among other things. And that's because they release to much crap for exorbitant prices. You can't rely on a demo, or a preview anymore, because they are carefully crafted to show off the finest parts of the game or object in question, and disguise all of the potential negative aspects it may contain. It's insane, computer games for example, they charge 50-60 dollars for a new game, and sometimes this turns out to be a complete buggy piece of crap, or something with the depth of a 1 inch puddle toting a crappy multiplayer

Not all who pirate go completely illegal either. I know several people who download games, for example, and if they like it after trying it for a bit more extended time then a demo, they'll go out and buy it.

time and time again it has been shown that the biggest downloaders are also the biggest consumers. If you could stop downloading today then company profits would not go down and sales would stay the same. People are already spending at 100% of their capacity. This is just the extreme greed of the corporate empires attempting to squeeze out an extra few percent profit to bolster their bonus culture and keep them all sipping Champaign in Monte Carlo while the prolee's eat up their crap. Why do gamers wait for games prices to drop after the initial release? Why is there a huge surge in the retro gaming scene? Is it because people are resisting over-priced tat and the current generation of marketeer driven games are a pile of old tosh? No sir, it's because we're all pirating all day long. The 2nd games market is the next on the chopping block, and then it's the retailers themselves until the media moguls have ALL the money in the world. Roll on global warming and ecological disaster: do the universe a favour and wipe out the scourge of humanity.

time and time again it has been shown that the biggest downloaders
are also the biggest consumers. If you could stop downloading today
then company profits would not go up and retail sales would stay the same.
People are already spending at 100% of their capacity. This is just
the extreme greed of the corporate empires attempting to squeeze out
an extra few percent profit to bolster their bonus culture and keep
them all sipping Champaign in Monte Carlo while the prolee's eat up
their crap. Why do gamers wait for games prices to drop after the
initial release? Why is there a huge surge in the retro gaming scene?
Is it because people are resisting over-priced tat and the current
generation of marketeer driven games are a pile of old tosh? No sir,
it's because we're all pirating all day long. The 2nd games market is
the next on the chopping block, and then it's the retailers themselves
until the media moguls have ALL the money in the world.

Kevin, if the government quits stealing, I will have enough money to pay for original software!!

I just don't understand what the fuss is:


What piracy? Movie biz sees record box office in 2008:
link: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/01/what-piracy-movie-biz-sees-record-box-office-in-2008.ars


US digital music sales to eclipse CDs by 2010:
link: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/08/global-digital-music-sales-to-overtake-physical-by-2016.ars

Funniest thing is; pirated movies don't give you all the copyright bollocks that take up to ~ 30 seconds of every DVD I buy.
I don't get it why the ones who actually pay for the DVD have to be harassed by it, but the ones who download directly cut to the stuff that matters.

I'd rather support the pirates who can bring me a clean copy without ads, "upcoming movies", copyright notices, etc than the media company shoving shit sh*t down my throat.

My $0.10

we dont have to worry about that in china

Tell me about it, just seems to go from bad to worse dont it?

RT
www.online-privacy.es.tc

Hey guys, If I copied all the articles from Download squad and posted it on a distrubuted server, so you could see the site ad-free would you use it? Would you say I wasn't stealing?

Some of the comments that I'm reading have such asinine botched up logic it makes my head spin. I'm not on a high horse to say that I havn't, but when you download something, use it, don't pay for it, you're bypassing a system that however indirectly is designed to support the creatives who produce the {insert media here}.

It's not a "eff the government, screw the system" because they always get me down, it's a "pull the product off the shelf, stuff it in your jacket, and walk out of the store" act. The fact that it's ones and zeros doesn't make it any less of a form of theft.

I'm all for privacy, freedom of information, and what not, but the fact that downloading copyrighted material is held in the same regard as taking a book of the shelf in borders and walking out, makes sense to me.

I have a problem with paying for music because I don't want to pay every time I want to hear a song. I don't want to give greedy record labels and CEOs my money when I can support the artist by going to concerts or telling other people about the artist. And you can't consider it stealing because it's not like everything I download I would have payed for at a store. That's ridiculous.

Thanks to torrent, my computer has tons of software and material on it. Because I regularly enjoy using torrented software, I have an htpc, 2 servers, 1 computer for adobe, 1 computer for cubase, 1 laptop for managing all the other computers, and a 6mb connection. If torrent shuts down I will stop using and upgrading my hardware and reduce my broadband package down to 512k.
The way I see it, the software industry is subsidising the hardware and telecommunications industry. Without torrent, telecom providers and pc manufacturers will die too. It's not just thieves that will suffer.
That is why torrent will never be allowed to die.

There is only one thing I want to point out about this.
How many times have got a program, or SW that did not do what you're expecting of it?Now imagine if ya had to buy all of them before you find the one you're really looking for?The only way to know if something is really going to work for ya is trying it out, and when I say trying it out I mean the full SW, not a version that will work in less than half it's capacity.Think About that when you see articles like this.Movies and music???Hummmmm, I guess by now, the industry should know better.They need to change the way they make money, once it got out in the internet is for everyone in the world, there is no way they can impose on people high prices for CDs and DVDs.Let's keep the P2P ALIVE guys.