Matter of Torrents: Stealing or Sharing?

Russia's largest file-sharing web site has gone offline at the request of the police - for helping distribute pirated software. It's the first time a website's been closed in the country because of copyright abuse. Andrew Robinson, the head of the Pirate Party in the UK, and Robert Farish, who's the Regional Managing Director of the internet strategy firm the 'IDC Group' in Moscow - discuss the problems of file-sharing on RT.

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• copyright downloading
• download movies music
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• Россия
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[MDSingerling]

Sharing is caring.

I'm not gonna lose any sleep over some millionaire not making his next million.

[Patriot16100]

SHARING IS CARING

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[bestamerica]

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ussr russia use 2 american computers,,,

russia always copy / steal / some shares from america online,,,

russia is the higher rates of hackers / scammers

[kamau329]

Just the governments slowly taking over the internet and real life.

[a4d2d0]

Seeding right now for all the whiners out there.

[felion4]

These are the same people who get on cribs and say hey look what your money bought me. The way taxes are and other legal scams go about getting money from us karma must him them some how

[chaosflar3]

@KGBDemon No worries, I'm cool. Was just saying, if they think taking away free files/information will help, it will literally crash the market. At this point mostly no one can possibly even begin to afford paying full out price for everything they like. I bet when most people bought an MP3 player they downloaded the music they used for free, unless you got into the Itunes thing when that started up and paid per song . I'm not a pay and play fan, for me easier is better = No CC

[KGBDemon]

@chaosflar3 there are other ways to share files if torrents go down somthing will fill the gap immediatly lol i wouldnt worry about shit

[Tralivali89]

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[chaosflar3]

Nine Inch Nails did that. They put their music on the internet for free than charged a little more per ticket for their sold out shows. A very good idea in my opinion that way a band could take alot more of the profit and get rid of the corporate/overseeing costs.

[chaosflar3]

I agree :) Some people can't afford it. When inflation occurs no one will be able to afford it unless wages rise. They take away torrent sites and I imagine there will be alot of angry internet users.