Ripped off yet again.

[SMOKEU]

Meh, hard drives in the post again then. Even easier these days, they're SSDs and don't fuck out when the monkeys at NZ Post get them.

If only SSDs weren't so overpriced...and unreliable since the change to 25nm nand.

[imdying]

Get a job then.

[SMOKEU]

Get a job then.

I'm not forking out around $300 just for an 80GB drive.

[imdying]

I'm not forking out around $300 just for an 80GB drive.

Why? I've paid over a grand for less than a GB before.

[Beren]

Pfft what you really want is to get a botnet uploading and downloading lots of nice big innocous files through P2P systems so that any genuinely illicit traffic gets lost in the static.

Or you could try I don't know Buying your music?? I havn't pirated anything in years... and actaully found myself buying CDs for things I did once pirate. Guess I'm getting old!

[imdying]

They don't trawl the static, they have monitoring software on the public tracker sites and monitor that instead. So basically they're nailing you on finding out how to download illegal stuff, not the actual act of doing it. Everyone could just download the trackers willy nilly without touching the peers themselves, that'd mess with them a little.

[Brian d marge]

if Ive got this right

Regardless of copyrighted data ( how could they tell??? they just monitor bandwidth??)

you just need to be ACCUSED of sharing 3 times and you are blacklisted NO more Internet for you matey

Secondly , They ( according to another ) did it to get free trade with America, and they USED the EarthQUAKE to hide behind

THAT IN ITSELF WAS DISGUSTING

no debate , they rushed it through in the morning,

Now onto file sharing. your using the wrong business model, The whole Internet thing is ALL about data sharing.

Open source works well

Young people are USING file sharing to create themselves , unfortunately Sony are losing money ...my heart bleeds
IMHO

Stephen

[The Stranger:Me]

File sharing is NOT theft because digital media is an infinite resource.

"We undertook research two-and-a-half-years ago with O'Reilly, and we've been studying Thomas Nelson as well, to measure the impact of piracy on paid content sales. We approached it as if it were cooperative marketing. We would look at the impact of what sales looked like before there was piracy, say for four to eight weeks, and then we'd look at the impact of piracy afterward. Essentially, if the net impact of piracy is negative, then you would see sales fall off more quickly after piracy; if it were positive, the opposite.

Data that we collected for the titles O'Reilly put out showed a net lift in sales for books that had been pirated. So, it actually spurred, not hurt, sales."

Oh, and I pirated that quote.

Was it easy to copy DOS or earlier versions of windoze or orifice?
How did this hurt Micro$oft?
As far as I can see M$ can attribute much of it's success to piracy.

[SPman]

Technically, if you watch youtube, you are breaking the law. As you actually download what you are watching and it is there in the temp. cache files, you've illegally downloaded content and come under the "3 strikes" law!
Off with your connection!


Fuckwitted ignorant politicians!

What's the best calibre for maximum pain and agony with longest dying time, Stephen?

[Brian d marge]

What's the best calibre for maximum pain and agony with longest dying time, Stephen?

The highest calibre you can use and inflict pain such that Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición would be proud, would of course be my wifes cooking

I would ram it down most if not all of those arseholes throats

Stephen

I think we just accuse all the politicians of copy right breach , that was a good Idea

Hackers are go .......

[onearmedbandit]

Was it easy to copy DOS or earlier versions of windoze or orifice?
How did this hurt Micro$oft?
As far as I can see M$ can attribute much of it's success to piracy.

I heard someone say once they spoke to a M$ employee (not sure who so don't ask) who claimed M$ would rather someone use an illegal copy of Windows then have them pay for another OS. Makes sense really.

[jazfender]

Buy external hard drive.

Take drive to friend(s) with media.

Copy media to drive.

[SMOKEU]

Buy external hard drive.

Take drive to friend(s) with media.

Copy media to drive.

It's a bit hard to do when your mates don't have all the torrents you want.

[Brian d marge]

write a letter using stone tablet , no more than 10 commandments
using yaks hooves, and Human blood , draw a picture of your hand

leave in cave for shepherds boy to find

Stephen

[Usarka]

The big issue isn't whether file sharing is legal or not, or whether copyright laws need overhauling.

It's that our government has passed yet another law that if accused you are guilty until proven innocent. And proving yourself innocent is a costly exercise.