RIAA - MPAA Terrorism

Pascal, while I agree that the DMCA is incredibly prohibitive and constrictive, that really wasn't the point of my post.

My point is that I'm getting tired of people complaining about the prices of luxury goods - as opposed to necessities. The ownership of these items is a privilege, not a right. One doesn't need these items to survive, yet people act like having a new CD or DVD or videogame or software is a right which shall not be abridged, and that they are justified in stealing them.

They are not.

Even Forbes has bought into that mentality: "The record industry essentially stoked the fires of the pirate music market by setting prices prohibitively high. Necessity is, after all, the mother of invention." (From that link previous post.)
 
The thing is Tyrion, that artists are getting fucked out of profits from their own work. I know a few bands that have recieve record contracts from these high and mighty record companies only to be screwed unbelievably, left with no money dispite some decent record sales and also left with no desire to ever play music again. I made it very clear that I will buy CDs if A)they are straight from the band or B) The album is that freaking good.

Even a lot of popular artists are catching onto this download wave. Smashing Pumpkins released their last album on the internet for free, VAST sold their entire album before it was released on their site for 2.99.

I don't play pirated Video games....But companies like EA make me sick. You get all this talent making all these incredible games and then you hear shit like them not paying employees overtime. The entertainment industry is seriously messed up right now and it's kinda sick.
 
Sorry Tyrion my post really wasn’t directed at you, but was showing chpal some of the common copyright violations that go on. I agree stealing is stealing and shouldn’t be mixed into the real problems with are copyright and patient system in a way to justify stealing.
 
here's a funny little meme I've seen floating around, just because it's psudeo relevant:
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If you're already stealing it, how does not buying it effect anyone's bottom line!? LAME :roll:

But frankly, the Record companies are hit the hardest when someone downloads a Brittany Spears single instead of buying the entire CD of shite.

At the very least one can hope that the P2P community will force some "artists" to improve the quality of their work.

Then again I'm a jaded indie snob.
 
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