P2P pirates are lazy freeloaders
If you’ve been listening to the RIAA trumpets and drums via their lamestream media, I’m sure you must have heard a few, or all, of the ‘statements’ below.
- Pirates are lazy freeloaders and don’t do anything
- Pirates make legal alternatives impossible
- Pirates are stingy and take but never give
- Pirates are a drain on society and the economy
Etc etc.
Right?
Let’s start with “Pirates are stingy and take but never give.” I guess this is by far the MAFIAA’s most popular slogan, putting all pirates into a group of miserly people who only want things for free and who’d never contemplate putting their hands in their pockets.
But if that was the case, how do they account for the fact their studies show over and again that pirates buy up to 10 times more media than people who don’t pirate?
Or maybe those studies don’t matter because they weren’t sponsored by the likes of the IFPI, RIAA, MPAA or the BSA who regularly release made up numbers to show the ‘hit piracy has had on their industries’?
Numbers that regularly get torn apart by tech sites and facts put down to nothing better than “artful and imaginative guesswork”.
Nor does it account for such as the expert witnesses wife in the recent TPB trial getting flowers donated by pirates all over the world!
And let’s not forget the different funds (eg, expert witness fund) being run on donations that is used to defend the poor souls being dredged by the low-lifes at RIAA HQ.
Pirates make legal alternatives impossible.
Talking about pirates, did you know knew most artists get paid roughly $0.045 for each song sold on iTunes? And a lot of them don’t get paid anything? Instead they’re told to bne grateful they’re on iTunes at all.
Who’s really robbing the artists? The ‘pirates’ who don’t make anything on an artist’s back? Or @pple + labels who sell a song for $0.99 – $1.35 and give the artists $0.00 – $0.045 —- if the artists is lucky?
Note the decimal and zero before the 45, that’s not 45 cents.
Pirates are a drain on society and the economy.
Again, that’s far the truth as possible.
Pirates actually stimulate the economy. Who do you think purchases those high-end computer systems? The fastest internet packages from ISPs? The largest hard disks? The most blank media? The most upgrades? Etc etc
What pirates refuse to do is encourage the greed of the media industries.
People (me included) will fight tooth and nail against having a monthly $3-5 charge added to their internet connection(can you says CHORUSS?).
But I won’t hesitate to pay $7+ per month over my internet bill for a VPN connection
And finally, Pirates are lazy freeloaders and don’t do anything.
To tell you the truth, I really don’t know the answer to this one. While there’s a lot of talk about how things should change when it really comes to doing something, a lot of people balk out.
But now’s the time to actually do something. Don’t have money or an online account to donate to one of the more deserving funds? Then (if you’re in Sweden) the Pirate Party could really use your help in getting ballots out to the voting centers. It’s quite simple: visit their site (piratparty.se) and pick a location that suits you, then help out a bit.
It’ll take only a tiny fraction of your time for just over a week.
Now is the time to prove to yourself and others what we can really do.
We outnumber the degenerates at the MAFIAA thousands to one, but all the MAFIAA have is money and corruption
We have the brains and numbers. Now’s the time to use both.
Ryan S – eZee.se
May, 2009
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May 13th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Think it’s time to push the Phrase “Ethical Pirate” or “Ethical P2P”
Most “Pirates” are Ethical in what they do. If they download something and like it it’s a very good bet that they will put their hands in their pocket to buy a physical copy or, in some other way, support the creator of the item.
This Ethical P2P actually awards the innovative, the unusual, the rare and most importantly the good.
The Dross of Sugar pop music or bland manufactured “Band” tends to loose out. This is the meat and potatoes of the music industry, the “make it cheep, flog it at a profit” mentality is what is killing the music industry.
But when it comes to movies it’s a different beast! they go by the mantra “Sling in the Bucks for the bangs, Who cares about plot or script”. They have given up on doing anything new or original (how many “Remakes” or “Re-imaginings” or “Reboots” has the industry pumped out in the previous and next 12 months???).
If the P2P causes them to focus on scripts and plots rather than how many bangs for their $$$’s it will be a good thing for all!
People will actually go out to see these movies. They will stick their hand in the pockets pay their $20 for a ticket and share the experience of a great movie in a theater.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Amen, Sol. I’ve seen enough movies in the past where FX takes the place of real script. Bangs don’t make a movie better if they don’t further the plot line.
As far as music goes, it seems everyone and their brother is now into covers or trying to do a hit that already has fame so they don’t have to earn it. To me all that says is “I don’t really have talent” but “I can steal fame from someone else so pay me”. Neither of which qualifies as real music in the sense of originality. If I want to hear the real tune, I’ll go to the original. Why waste time with someone that has barely mastered and instrument if they have put that much effort into it?
Since when did copycat ever make good?
May 13th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Do you know how many artists, TV shows, and movies I discovered by pirating? And then subsequently went out and bought the CD or DVD? My purchased collection is huge, and larger than ever BECAUSE I PIRATE. If you draw a graph showing piracy and purchases, you’ll see a direct relationship. Before I pirated, I bought pretty much nothing.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:53 am
All these entertainment parasites disguss me so much that I don’t feel like listening or watching their crap.
Therefore this is true, I don’y buy their stuff and I don’t download it either any more.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:03 am
I think the “stingiest” vermin around are the ones who keep pimping the idea that copy”right” should be extended, and demonizing the public domain.
Copy”right” and it’s other misbegotten sister, Patent, are coercive, State-granted monopolies which are explicitly supposed to expire. Any increase in terms represents at least an implicit breach of contract with the rest of society at large.
Any such increase applied RETROACTIVELY should void ALL such monopolies in total.
Personally, I think people would more readily “play along” with such coercive privileges if the scumbags would at least ACKNOWLEDGE that they ARE coercive privileges. (Hint: Sonny Bono was either ignorant, or a douchebag, when he claimed that copyright should last “forever minus a day.”.)
My question is: why isn’t “Anonymous” declaring war on the RIAA/MPAA, and making their lives hell?
Nah. Instead, they do those stupid Habbo-raids, and penis-bomb people in SL.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:21 am
ethical pirate?
how many people here posting, ACTUALLY file share on a regular basis?
The only motivator is getting what you want, aka, the quality movies/music/software, the only ethics involved are that people that file share on a regular basis attempt to maintain an adequate ratio of up:down.
‘Get what you need, contribute how you are able’ is stw motto. If you want movies and have alot of fonts, then upload the fonts while downloading the movies.
heh, since when did a pirate need ethics..
stw