Piracy Funds Terrorism?

The current copyright regulations are outdated and fail to address the realities of digital information and the internet, the law, the media corporations (the Music industry, the major film studios and their lobby groups) are tyranical in their pursuit of profit margins. The cost can has been the domination of cultural production, which has now, more than ever before, become the property of the masses...The reluctance these corporations' display in changing with technology points to a Systematic Failure in their thinking. TIME FOR A NEW BUSINESS MODEL?

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• copyright
• copright law
• the pirate bay
• news
• ISPs
• ' corporate greed
• profit
• major film studios
• media corporations
• System Failure
• propoganda
• prosecution
• p2p
• bit torrent
• the internet
• the web
• the future
• music
• film
• piracy
• copyright infringement
• intellectual property
• anti-piracy
• piracy funds terrorism
• human rights
• sharing
• communication
• technological change

[imanerd36]

Play the artist directly, and not the huge corporate fat cats that did none of the work.

[17aKaT]

This is your brain, This is your brain on piracy. Piracy can lead to MRSA, AIDS, death or even Re-vitiligo.

[OSDolphin]

@17aKaT The only thing piracy gave anybody is either anger due to slow torrents or infantaigo.

[songwaters]

@Straightfromcompton1 totally agree thse arguments these leeches give makes my blood boil!!

[travelsonic]

"Like everything in life the artists have a choice as to whether to signup to a record label."

Not really, given the amount of control over the markets. Fortunately, alternative means are opening up, and that tight stronghold they have is weakening allowing this "choice" to become more real.

[travelsonic]

I am wary of ANYBOD? who posts the 99.99% statistic, because it is a bullshit unit of data that one *usually* uses when he or she has no factual info to back a claim.

[Straightfromcompton1]

Like everything in life the artists have a choice as to whether to signup to a record label. Just as people have a choice not to buy it. Sure make a stand and don't buy the stuff if you feel that strongly about it, but that doesn't give you the right to pirate it. If you really wanted to make a point to the artists, just don't listen to the stuff. Truth is the artists don't want to give away their cash to record companies, but its how they get exposure so are happy to do so.

[imanerd36]

I do tend to buy food a farmer's markets actually. However, the record companies then need to stop acting like the artist are losing all the money. Some artist are being to catch on to selling themselves, however, many are still under contract from the big record companies. Right now, IMAO, the RIAA is a monopoly that is trying to making sure that all major artist are under a record company they control. If any other industry did this, there would be outrage.

[Straightfromcompton1]

Duh, that's how the world works. Why don't we pay the people who make clothes directly and not the retail stores, or the people that pick fruit and not the supermarket. Or the people that drill for oil instead of Exxon. That would work wouldn't it. Yeah right. Learn to pay the market rate for what you want, nobody forces you to buy it. Why not listen to bands who give stuff away for free, or download games that are actually free, because 99.99% of them are absolute crap that's why.