thender2
Glamour Profession
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| The raid was great free publicity.
If you didn't know about them beforehand, you sure know about them now.
The MPAA and RIAA spent good amounts of money trying to kill something that came back even stronger afterwards. I hate bittorrent for piratebayish purposes, but I still love how they got to give a big "screw you" to the music industry. 
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The Problem With Music.
Our Rationale
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rob_in_chatt
Premium
join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN | i still love the result when you tracert www.thepiratebay.org
check it out if you dont know what i am talking about.
bite my shiny metal ass LMAO classic!! |
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thender2
Glamour Profession
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY | # traceroute thepiratebay.org
traceroute to hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org
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st7860
join:2004-05-13
San Francisco, CA | the piratebay is a good site. why waste money buying movies when you get get them for free. lol. |
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thender2
Glamour Profession
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| said by st7860  :the piratebay is a good site. why waste money buying movies when you get get them for free. lol. Because you don't get the extras. Because 350 MB/40 minute xvids look like crap. Have you ever watched one of those, on an HDTV compared to the original transport stream? Or at least to a DVD? At least the DVD is watchable.
If the MPAA sold TV shows and movies in HD without some expensive locked down format, I'd probably have blown about 1K by now buying HD stuff.
There's also supporting the people who made the show. I bought a season of 24(and, ironically, had to redownload it after I lost the DVDs when I moved) because I liked everything about it.
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The Problem With Music.
Our Rationale
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03 | 350mb? I DL 750-1500 mb movie files, in 480p resolution. Looks JUST like a DVD. I often find 4+GB DVD rips, also.
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"I invented it, Bill made it famous." --David Bradley, the inventor of Ctrl+Alt+Del. |
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thender2
Glamour Profession
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
1 edit | said by PolarBear :350mb? I DL 750-1500 mb movie files, in 480p resolution. Looks JUST like a DVD. I often find 4+GB DVD rips, also. I said TV. What movie is 40 minutes? 
DVDshrink DVD rips look like ass, too, most stuff isn't shrink with a good encoder, like CCE or quenc.
You can't compare HDTV stuff to what's on BT/usenet unless.. it's HDTV stuff. Or a DSD disc to the shitty 16 bit/44.1K audio out today.
I think they'd be surprised how much people are willing to buy(yes, including me  ) if the quality were improved. It wouldn't take much, either. The studios are ready, the customers are ready, but as usual they are behind the technology.
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The Problem With Music.
Our Rationale
Time to rewrite the DMCA. |
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