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RainWind
join:2000-10-20
Van Wert, OH
| Here's a solution... People caught pirating must agree to sign up for a minimum of 1 year to either netflix (for movie pirates) or rhapsody/yahoo/whatever (for music pirates). We can call it piracy rehabilitation or something.
If you can't afford $15/month for a subscription service then you need to spend less time using your broadband (which costs more than $15/month) to pirate and more time mowing lawns and shoveling snow. Even at the age of 12 I could make $15 a month by doing things for people.
We may hate the RIAA, but because of all the various contracts and what not they are legally entitled to receive payment for their artist's works. IMO more groups need to take the path of NIN, and soon to be Metallica as well. The RIAA is evil, but they've also helped a number of artists who would never have had a chance get on their feet.
If the RIAA wants to do something about piracy then they need to offer a service that for $20/month you get unlimited access to every song you could ever want. Same for the MPAA. $40/mo and you can pirate all you want.
I have no problem with the RIAA and MPAA wanting their cut of the money, because they are entitled to it, but there needs to be some changes in their business model. They need to play fair and be reasonable or people will continue to rip them off. | |
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danham
@comcast.net
| The 3000-pound gorilla in the room Libel.
The main reason ISPs have been happy to remain "common carriers" is because that removes their obligation to monitor content for things like libel, defamation and yes, copyright infringement.
See Cubby vs. Compuserve, the first-ever online libel case (with which I was indirectly involved as a sysop of the old Journalism Forum).
Once the carriers let this gorilla into the room they may live to regret it, revenue notwithstanding. A couple of really high-dollar libel awards should cure the problem in short order.
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gsm8
join:2004-09-29
Renton, WA | anime will all the talk of p2p and piracy it seems that us anime users are forgotten or do we not count because most of it is unlicensed and or it is considered a grey market area | |
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Exothermicus
join:2007-05-24
Denton, TX
| ISP better start hosting copies of legit files then! I rely on protocols such as BitTorrent to download and evaluate the latest Linux Distro's. If My ISP starts to institute these brain dead anti-piracy filters that can't tell the difference between a Linux Distro and some Britney spears porn, then I will be demanding my ISP get into the business of providing an up to date high bandwidth mirror for all of the legal downloads I currently get off of various protocols.
As others have said policing copyright violations is not the job of the ISP, but the job of the copyright holder. After all everything (even my legal) downloads are copyrighted. The difference is some copyright holders want their content shared and others would rather keep it to themselves.
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CultofSkaro
join:2008-05-06
Wallingford, CT
| fake petition not to burst the savetheinternet's bubble but a computer generated petition without a valid signature is worthless and does constitute a legitimate protest. This is why evry email boycott/petition is not real. If you want to pettion congress you have to go door to door and get actual signatures.
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Learning to fly is not so hard. The hard part is learning to hurl yourself towards the ground at break neck speeds and missing. | |
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Froggy
@teksavvy.com
| The Battle Has Just Begun That line about Canada is hilarious! Canadians are speed throttled and traffic shaped as well they have some of the lowest monthly caps in the world yes world not civilized world. A big download for a Canadian is a movie trailer. If they dared try to download p2p which would take months just to download one movie they'd have to pay hundreds of dollars in overuse fees. It has been said that the internet in Africa is much better than the internet in Canada. | |
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chronoss2008
Premium
join:2008-03-29
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| and when no one uses the net so we pull a john connor
we beocme true pirates and get external drives and run aorund cities and places trading with buds.
we use hacked lines to move things around and make the problem someone elses. When no one is allowed internet ( the end goal ) then i wonder who will want to commercially use it and it goes back to its old self perhaps a cycle of a hundred years.
hrm
open source movies
open source music
open source software
open source gov't
what a novel idea
open source novels
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prestonlewis
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-13
Sacramento, CA
 ·VoiceStick
| Whats the point then? If you can't download large files due to filters, etc., then what on Earth is the point of DOCSIS 3 and the higher speeds Comcast and other providers are promising? Without newsgroups (and, uh, uTorrent) I really have no need for any speeds greater than 768 or 1536 downloads.
So I guess the ISPs are free to filter the content consumers get but I really think it will be to their detriment since people will not want to pay high prices for bandwidth they won't be able to use. | |
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