See the point is that an artist puts lot of effort when he creates music. You are enjoying his music but giving him nothing in return. So that is morally and legally wrong! If you think that the CD, mp3 whatever is too expensive then don't buy it. You don't have automatic right to something just because you want it. If an artist wants to give his stuff for free then that is his choice but majority want their $. I think Ferraris are expensive but that does not mean I can go and steal them. As a designer I feel strongly about respecting other peoples copyright.
I have no love for fat cats but the bottom line is that the less money there is for companies the less $$$s will trickle down to the artist level.
Same goes for software. Why should people who legally buy their software take the burden for paying for future versions? If you don't agree with the price structure of a software then don't buy it! No one is forcing or putting a gun to anyones head.
Have you any idea as to how many creative folks rely on movie industry to earn their daily bread? When studios loose money who gets fired first? Definitely not the fat cats.
For those of you who have "mates" that engage in piracy you might like to remind them that this coming Tuesday (September 19th) is International Talk Like a Pirate day [wikipedia.org].
For those wishing to brush up on some of the technicalities of pirate speech I would heartily recommend this amusing video on the subject [requires sound, hosted by revver].
Well after BBC Prime & Cablecom fiasco, my mate seems to have come up with a temporary solution. He went and replaced his cheaparse DVD player with a cheaparse DivX equiped DVD player for 80 chuffs. Saves my mate a lot of grief converting .avi files to DVD format. He even managed to get his Top Gear fix, watching series 8 from 2006, certainly an advance on any BBC Prime scheduling.
Does anyone know a good download site or file share program for Mac computers? I currently use limewire but i find it completely useless and incredibly slow despite having a fast internet connection. Maybe i'm just not understanding it correctly or maybe it is truly useless.
my mate uses Acquisition http://www.acquisitionx.com/ much better than limewire, he used to also use a program called mlMac which was good for downloading zipped files (i.e full albums zipped instead of single MP3's) but it used to forever mess his connection up so hasn't used it for a while
and no back up is what i was trying to do at the time on MY computer but with a new version of itunes and the old library gone ( after some problems with my XP account )
from what i have read from all these threads its pretty obvious that downloading from p2p sites is legal but SHARING isnt.. this implies with movies and music, but does it apply the same way with downloading games and softwares?
Nothing illegal about downloading games and software, the only problem is that you can't legally use them since you didn't pay for the registration codes which allows them to run (using a crack to run them doesn't make it legal).
Sharing and P2P are the same thing, people use the world sharing because it implies it is legal and above board.
Downloading games, software, music and movies is 100% legal whether direct from a website, via P2P whatever.
Download copyrighted materials, without payment (or without complying with the conditions of the copyright) may be illegal in the countries in which the copyright is valid.
US copyright, or any law, is typically only valid in the US although US companies and legal firms don't seem to realise this.
"We mentioned in a previous article how P2P tracking companies are seen by some to be breaching privacy laws. It seems Logistep has come to the attention of the data protection commissioner in Switzerland ( EDÖB -Eidgenössische Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragte). He believes there is a problem with Logistep handling personal data, when it’s far from clear that the person being spied on has even committed an offense."
what do people think the current state of play is in switzerland? i think it was the 16th that a new law passed. my mate said he used bittorrent for the first time since then last night - with peerguardian. it didn't seem to do much blocking... he was worried that the officious swiss cable companies might later monitor and report to the authorities themselves.