Comments on: I am an Illegal Music Downloader

By: Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:12:38 +0000

Sorry to bust your fat bubbles.

The problem with jailing people who share music, is that you are lying about it being stolen when it is plainly shared. That makes you a liar, then it makes you a criminal for jailing innocent people who share “intellectual property”…

Can you put steel chains on thoughts? No! Can you really truly be the sole owner of a thought? NO!

And if you guys have your way, soon, every word that comes out of someone’s mouth will have to be paid for.

I have news for you. I do obey the law as long as the law is right. But when you try to do ILLEGAL things like call sharing PIRACY & get so brazen about your ILLEGAL manifestos, then I do violate the law & double dare anyone to do anything about it.

The worst thing that can happen is I can die, & I will NEVER NEVER NEVER in a trillion years let my rights be violated. I know what sharing is, & I know what stealing is.

It REALLY angers me that you LIE, & call good evil, & evil good.

May you all rot in the billows of Satan’s eternal hell!

By: Didi Jones

Didi Jones — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:13:51 +0000

I am all for paying for TV shows but what is important for me is to be able to watch a show at any time. I don’t want to wait until they come on DVD. I think if providers like iTunes start carrying more programs less people would download illegally.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:41:05 +0000

There are lots of gray areas, and I understand your frustration. But the bottom line is the copyright, and a law is a law. Like my friend likes to say,
“Sin is sin.”

By: bbdevil

bbdevil — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:46:49 +0000

How much more pathetic the RIAA can get?
Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxYGZ7Z6joQ

By: Danette Miller

Danette Miller — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:02:34 +0000

Slowly but surely, media giants are learning how to make money on the net while getting their shills in washington to pass more and more strict anit-piracy laws. The coming end of net neutrality is going to mean greater and easier access to high quaility music and video on the net — at an increadably high price. I wouldn’t be surprised if in just a few years the average broadband user who subsribes to ‘legal’ music and video sites will find them selves paying a couple hundred dollars a month for broadband and media access. And we’ll pay it, because there won’t be any other option.

By: bbdevil

bbdevil — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:09:13 +0000

“I am using all of this in several reports and complaint being made to the Library Of Congress division of Copyrights…”

What? You are using what? To do what? You are using blog replies to make a report to the Library of Congress? Very professional!!
I thought I was talking with an adult. Sorry.
And analyze what you read before calling me nothing. I’ve done nothing but telling you the truth, and because you don’t like it, you say I don’t have values and ethics?. Tell me Gary, what did I say that is not true? Where did I say that I support file sharing? YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU READ!! I don’t support file-sharing, because I rarely listen music. I have less than 20 CD’s total in my car because that’s the only place where I listen music. And most of the time is radio.
I said (and this time read it slowly and try to understand) that when millions of people do something wrong is impossible to stop’em so the bands need to find alternative ways to get paid for their work.
It’s more or less what happens in nature, YOU have to adapt to the environment, the environment it’s not going to adapt to you.
And I said that the records companies, if they don’t adapt too, they are going to be obsolete in this new environment. And that’s what they are defending. They don’t like that. They are trying to hold on to a system which is obsolete due to the technology everybody owns today.
Tell me, you don’t like to hear or read that file-sharing is never going to stop, Do you? Answer me this honestly: Do you think it’s going to stop? Please be honest.

And about that you wrote there, you are just showing everybody what I said before: It took them 6 months to catch 23 guys? Wow!, I guess this is the end of piracy Uh!?

You are one of those close minded people that when they hear somebody is thinking differently or in an open way just to see if they can help solve something, that instantly transforms him in your enemy.

By: Gary Boggess

Gary Boggess — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:09:37 +0000

Your values and ethics speak for themselves. I need not critique you… because you’ve done a GREAT job defining who you are… and what you support and why. Thankyou. I am using all of this in several reports and complaint being made to the Library Of Congress division of Copyrights.

BTW…
The march is on… and it will ripple across the world and into your backyard soon enough:

IRISH COURT ORDERS ISPS TO IDENTIFY P2P USERS

The Irish Recorded Music Association on Thursday won a landmark ruling in the High Court in Dublin forcing six Internet service providers (ISPs) to reveal the names and addresses of individuals engaged in alleged illegal file-sharing.

The ruling is the culmination of a six-month operation undertaken by the industry body to stem the tide of Internet piracy in Ireland. IRMA says that it has targeted 23 individuals involved in the alleged illegal distribution of copyrighted music files. It maintains that five individuals are alone responsible for 108,000 shared illegal files, with one individual responsible for 37,500 files. The judge ordered the six ISPs — Digiweb, BT, Smart Telecom, Irish Broadband, NTL, Eircom and Imagine — to provide IRMA with the names and addresses of all twenty-three people involved.

To date the body has prosecuted some 66 individuals, 61 of which have paid financial penalties.

Dick Doyle, director general of IRMA, said the individuals involved are stealing from the artists and affecting the livelihood of many people in the music industry. He added that the association would do everything in its power to ensure they are brought to justice.

Thursday’s ruling comes a week after trade body the British Phonographic Industry, with the help of IRMA, successfully prosecuted operators of Internet retailer CD Wow for illegally importing CDs and music DVDs from outside the EEA and selling them to U.K. and Ireland residents.

—Nick Kelly, Dublin

By: bbdevil

bbdevil — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:16:22 +0000

Hey Gary:
You are right on one thing: Under the copyright laws, that is theft.
But you know what Gary? This will never end. And that is a fact too!! You may shut down one file-sharing service, and in the meantime 5 or more new ones are created.
The RIAA may sue 10.000 people today, but there’s millions who will never get sued and they will not stop just because they fear the same will happen to them. Actually they DON’T. If 500 people get in a store to steal the same greeting card, go ahead and try to stop’em.
It’s still theft, but what you gonna do about it Gary? Are you gonna catch three and make’em pay for the other 497?
Eventually, the RIAA will stop making an ass of themselves and realize that they spend more money than they recover suing soccer moms and students. And if it’s not about the money, then what is it all about Gary?
For people on your side, this is a virus out of control, which you know you can’t stop from replicating. For the people on the other side, this is a revolution and everybody knows who already won it.
Oh, and another thing: you say there’s almost no profit for the record company and the artist, but, hey! I don’t see the record company’s workers on strike because they didn’t get paid last month! I don’t see that trash Britney Spears or Clay Aiken trying to make ends meet. Or what about those sure expensive lawyers they use to sue homemakers. Is your ex-CEO friend poor? Did he work ad honorem?
So the bands need to think ways to get known and get paid for their work in this new environment. There’s thousand of ways.
Getting rid of the record company is the first step, and that’s what all this is about. They know they are no longer necessary and that the end is near for them.

By: Gary Boggess

Gary Boggess — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:46:45 +0000

AS far as Greeting Cards… at least 75% of the cards I see on the shelves are stupid, badly conceived and poorly written. So… does that mean I can justify stealing a handful of them for every good card I buy? Just wondering.

By: Gary Boggess

Gary Boggess — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:39:51 +0000

A copyright is a copyright. When you end up with a un authorized COPY of music that you did not buy, you are in violation of established copyright laws. That is a fact.
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I gave you information DIRECT from the CEO of a major label. He was at one time VP or in a equal high management position of Warner Music, BMG and MCA.and has over 38 years employment as a record industy executive. And he is a friend.
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Musicians, songwriters & publishers become members of BMI or ASCAP in order to collect performance royaties generated when their music plays on radio, cable, TV, or other venues. This has nothing to do with RIAA, which is more like the AAA for motorists. There are no RIAA artists. However, there are just PEOPLE: who are artists, songwriters, studio musicians, cover and grpahic artists, publishers, producers, and numerous other people who are involved in producing a music CD product. Many of these talented people are ofen compensated by having negotiated for points or % of the actual CD sales. When you donwload P2P, from Ares or Limewire, these people are thus victims of your theft.
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You and people like you choose to believe unfactual information. It’s a free country… enjoy your self imposed dillusions. In response, I reiterate my previous posts here… as factual, accurate and truthful report of what it takes to produce, publish, promote, manufacture and release a NEW artist. Take it or leave it.
Thanks -Gary