Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown

[DJPlace]

nm

 

[IchigoK2031]

I buy stuff, when I feel its to support an artist or company I like. Like if I want a specific artist to keep making music, I buy the album. Otherwise, I just get the rest for free. Basically, if I feel something deserves my money(I don't even have a job, so I don't have a lot) I'll buy it, otherwise...no...

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Violating someone's privacy is obviously something the government has never heard of. I mean, seriously? They look at the things you type in the search bar?

Also, "Piracy hurts, it hurts our economy" is bullshit. Of course, a small percentage of sales is affected, but they should think "If you can't beat them, join them" just for once. If they slightly increase the price of empty discs (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/etc), the money loss of people pirating on a daily basis is easily solved. Heck, they could even earn more money by doing that.
They did this in sweden several years ago... and It sucks a lot!

Why punish those who do a lot of backups or work with CD/DVD? Just because you can store pirated things on an empty media, it doesn't mean everyone's doing it! Gah drives me MAD!

Exactly, why should the people who don't pirate suffer for the actions of who do.

Why must the world operate in such a manner, it shouldn't have to, yet it does.

I think I know the reason, the world has been doing it for so long, that it's been rooted into our bloodlines and our societies in general.

Hence I used the word 'slightly', to indicate it would only be an increase of a couple cents, it's not like that's a huge difference in price and most people wouldn't even notice.

QUOTE(DJPlace @ Jun 24 2010, 02:12 AM)

i'm going shove a dick up my ass.

Have fun!

 

[Rydian]

This is a public service announcement.

Whining online doesn't change government.
Getting out there and doing shit changes government.
Write to your local representative, run for office, or move countries.

 

[Aeladya]

I know for a fact that I pirate because I can't afford the games (I got many bills to pay, thank you).

And I also know I don't use torrents (I'm still not gonna be safe to lol)

Anyways I hope any of this crap won't really happen until 2020 when they have anti-piracy tracking technology

I don't use torrents either...too much of a hassle. My grandpa got his internet shut off cause my uncle was trying to download Dr. Who and it turned out to be a porno...happened to me once (the porn thing, not the internet shutting off) with a torrenty like thing...darn Case Closed and Final Fantasy 7 movie (I already owned the Japanese version, I just wanted to hear the supposed bad American voice acting. Stopped using torrent like stuff. I pirate because I'm poor (job market here sucks, especially when you can't drive, have to find a job nearby or have to walk 5 miles to the nearest bus stop) and half of the time I usually own the game and I'm just trying to make cheats for it.

 

[ball2012003]

You ever heard of a company who died through Piracy? Don't think so

not a company but the psp died through piracy

 

[purplesludge]

You ever heard of a company who died through Piracy? Don't think so

not a company but the psp died through piracy

Psp does fine when there are major releases.

 

[ore0]

yo dawg, so i herd you liek torrents, so i put a torrent search in your torrent so we can search your torrent searches while you search for torrents

 

[HiroshiYamauchi]

I don't know when they are going to realise that mostly people do piracy because they can, not because they need. If the laws become too severe, people will stop pirating, but won't buy genuine content, so it won't make any difference for the industry.

 

[Nimbus]

I don't know when they are going to realise that mostly people do piracy because they can, not because they need. If the laws become too severe, people will stop pirating, but won't buy genuine content, so it won't make any difference for the industry.

Actually in the case you mentioned, it would actually hurt the economy more than piracy supposedly can. Since nobody is buying legitimate content, the industries suffer, but then also suffer further because nobody will want to buy a console either with DRM locks on it.

Btw, If I may say this..

Spoiler

Fuck DRM!

 

[ore0]

Btw, If I may say this..

Spoiler

Fuck DRM!

You can't fucking curse you jackass!!!

Im kidding

 

[TrapperKeeperX]

i hope the bush family get's wiped off from the earth for all i give a fuck about.

I want to give you a muffin basket for that comment I fucking love it!

He's the reason why were pretty much fucked!

 

[Tekkin88]

So they're saying that if I google 'torrent', I'm gonna get fined?

Main Entry: 1tor·rent
Pronunciation: \?t?r-?nt, ?tär-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin torrent-, torrens, from torrent-, torrens, adjective, burning, seething, rushing, from present participle of torr?re to parch, burn — more at thirst
Date: 1582
1 : a tumultuous outpouring : rush
2 : a violent stream of a liquid (as water or lava)
3 : a channel of a mountain stream

 

[TrapperKeeperX]

like me im on disability I only get so much per month and have to wait 2-3 months to get a new game which stinks i mean ps3 games or 360 are 60 USD a pop the economy is crap and finding an entree lv job is hard i've been looking for 3 years now so i admit turning to it (sad but true) to try out games im intrested in

How much do you get for Disability? I have to ask that if you can't answer that I can understand. If you do want to answer you can PM me.

 

[Hakoda]

This is fucking ridiculous. You're going to use our tax dollars to fix piracy WHEN IT ONLY AFFECTS LIKE 2% OF SALES. OMGGG This is just pissing me off. USE THE MONEY WISELY. Use it for a more worthy cause, piracy doesn't do shit. Hopefully this will be like Bush's plans and won't mean a thing because a majority of us buy the games we pirate. They tried to this with "The Hurt Locker" but it was privately suing those who downloaded it via P2P connections. Problem with that was IP Addresses =/= people.

I vote we all go Usenet. (Don't have it now, will eventually though)

 

[stomp_442]

I have one thing to say, people, Nov.4 is coming around real soon. It's time to get rid of all of the democrats that hold seats in the senate and in the house. I have no doubt that a lot of democrats will lose their seats anyways, but none the less, we can make sure of it if all of you get out and vote.

 

[MEGAMANTROTSKY]

Understandably, many are angry over this issue. This so-called crackdown is an open assault on democratic rights. However, I think some are giving Obama too much credit. To believe, as some inevitably do, that he or his policies are merely incompetent is unsupported. A big business politician of his level (which can perhaps be found in the local sewer) is only showing his allegiance and complicity with the bourgeois industrial powers. Thus, the Orwellian character of this measure is deliberate. The US state has so far been unsuccessful with controlling the internet, and are now deploying a type of digital police now that DRM's impotence has been exposed.

I'm not convinced that this will end here. The hacking/homebrew community will surely be targeted using methods borrowed from the PATRIOT Act. Obama has now declared war against US citizens.

 

[basf11214]

I remember photocopying the textbooks in my university's library because I was too poor to buy them. Stopping me from photocopying the books wasn't going to make me want to buy them. I'd probably just check them out repeatedly from the library.

The same can be said of online piracy. If I was a pirate and I was going to buy the damn thing, I would have done so eventually/already. Stopping me from pirating isn't going to make me want to buy it. I'd probably just do something else with the time I have (like studying or working) or borrow whatever-it-is from my friends. So I'm really dubious of the claim that there is even 2% of sales being affected here.

Whatever the truth may be, I am sure that this new anti-piracy crackdown will neither erase piracy nor boost sales in any significant amount. If these companies are in trouble, it's because they have a shitty business model, not because pirates are choking their revenue streams.

 

[fst312]

http://americas-soapbox.msn.com/?from=en-u...f7-c425d6783c57

if you go to that link i just posted it looks like Obama wants to shut down the internet.

 

[Prophet]

I like free shit just as much as the next guy and I really can't imagine that there are people who pirate more than I do, but with that being said... What exactly is everyone getting so worked up about? I mean we do understand that morally there is no justification for the theft of luxury items (Games, Movies, Songs etc) and piracy is theft, right? The argument that that government is encroaching on our freedom to do what we will with the products we own, is asinine. Upon purchasing a protected media you agree to the terms, namely you will not duplicate the media. Those terms are clear. If you don't like the terms you don't have to enter into the agreement; simply don't buy it. If we were talking about essential shit then we could have a intelligent conversation about this, but the fact remains you don't need to hear that new album or play that new game. There is nothing noble about piracy, no matter how much you romanticize in your own head. We are thieves, lets at least be honest with ourselves about that.

I will say this though; piracy is ubiquitous. Save for God himself parting the clouds and placing a plague upon all who pirate, piracy will never end. So you all can revel in that I suppose, just stop deluding yourselves with the justifications of children.