Comments on: Sony caves in to mp3 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2523 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:56:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2523/comment-page-1#comment-5756 Reader's Write Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:37:50 +0000 #comment-5756 Ahh Betamax - it seems so long ago (and obviously most people have forgotten it) that we won our rights to legally record movies and TV shows with our vcr's (aka time shifting) so we could watch them later since not many of us are privileged with being rich or home jobs sitting in front of the TV all day lol. We could give that tape to a friend for free, or let them come over to our place and watch it - all legally... Then enters US Patriot Act/DMCA and now we're supposed to forget about the standing laws they overwrote in the interest of 'fighting terrorism' and 'protecting Intellectual Property Rights' though throwing the rest of us (the people who work and pay for people to have fun recording music and movies - we're the real people producing product for our country.. food, shelter - real jobs and get paid jack crap for it too) into the classification of pirates and thieves for exercising fair-use by 'not charging for use of legitimate copies that were made and shared - in the same fashion that someone could record a movie in vhs and share it LEGALLY with thousands of people and as long as NO money is charged it didn't violate fair-use. The people they need to worry about are the people 'selling' their movies and songs in black markets - not little Jimmy who's 8 and likes Britney Spears and uses p2p to get them cause its 'cool' until mommy and daddy go to freaking court and get fined thousands of dollars.... MP3's and the crap quality mpg/avi movies are no better than 'advertising' - like listening to music on the radio.... When a good movie comes out and ppl download them - If they 'love' the movie (star wars saga for example) they will go to the theater because the QUALITY is so MUCH better that they HAVE to see it after getting the taster of avi/mpg - same with MP3's except in that case the artists best bet is to have more concerts..... Though I'll admit, for 22 cents a piece even I'd consider buying music - though I'm boycotting music and movie purchases from anyone supported through the RIAA so I'd have to check the short list of 'which' musicians are not RIAA backed before buying :p The people have spoken - We've made 'some' impact and the media industry 'will' eventually bow to our demands because 'we' are their sugar daddies(and mommies) - without us the poor Musicians and Actors would have to give up some of their 'well earned (lmao)' bling bling and not buy their 25th house in Beverly Hills (oh the travesty).... We're tired of going to work 2,080+ hours a year and making barely enough to survive - most of us will never own a home or ever retire in our lifetimes, so pardon us if we really don't care if the rich get richer. _-Jile-_ Ahh Betamax – it seems so long ago (and obviously most people have forgotten it) that we won our rights to legally record movies and TV shows with our vcr’s (aka time shifting) so we could watch them later since not many of us are privileged with being rich or home jobs sitting in front of the TV all day lol. We could give that tape to a friend for free, or let them come over to our place and watch it – all legally… Then enters US Patriot Act/DMCA and now we’re supposed to forget about the standing laws they overwrote in the interest of ‘fighting terrorism’ and ‘protecting Intellectual Property Rights’ though throwing the rest of us (the people who work and pay for people to have fun recording music and movies – we’re the real people producing product for our country.. food, shelter – real jobs and get paid jack crap for it too) into the classification of pirates and thieves for exercising fair-use by ‘not charging for use of legitimate copies that were made and shared – in the same fashion that someone could record a movie in vhs and share it LEGALLY with thousands of people and as long as NO money is charged it didn’t violate fair-use. The people they need to worry about are the people ’selling’ their movies and songs in black markets – not little Jimmy who’s 8 and likes Britney Spears and uses p2p to get them cause its ‘cool’ until mommy and daddy go to freaking court and get fined thousands of dollars….

MP3’s and the crap quality mpg/avi movies are no better than ‘advertising’ – like listening to music on the radio…. When a good movie comes out and ppl download them – If they ‘love’ the movie (star wars saga for example) they will go to the theater because the QUALITY is so MUCH better that they HAVE to see it after getting the taster of avi/mpg – same with MP3’s except in that case the artists best bet is to have more concerts….. Though I’ll admit, for 22 cents a piece even I’d consider buying music – though I’m boycotting music and movie purchases from anyone supported through the RIAA so I’d have to check the short list of ‘which’ musicians are not RIAA backed before buying :p

The people have spoken – We’ve made ’some’ impact and the media industry ‘will’ eventually bow to our demands because ‘we’ are their sugar daddies(and mommies) – without us the poor Musicians and Actors would have to give up some of their ‘well earned (lmao)’ bling bling and not buy their 25th house in Beverly Hills (oh the travesty)…. We’re tired of going to work 2,080+ hours a year and making barely enough to survive – most of us will never own a home or ever retire in our lifetimes, so pardon us if we really don’t care if the rich get richer.

_-Jile-_

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2523/comment-page-1#comment-5745 Reader's Write Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:11:40 +0000 #comment-5745 As with the VCR, which was belatedly attacked by the Media companies, the millions of MP3 players flooding the market makes the RIAA's and Judiciary Committee's pathetic attempts to put the genie back in the bottle useless. I hope Hatch and Leahy have some advisors (I know those two dinosaurs don't have a sweet clue what is happening all around them) to inform them that their silly little laws will soon be unenforceable and also that calling most of their electorate theives is not a good way to get yourself re-elected. As with the VCR, which was belatedly attacked by the Media companies, the millions of MP3 players flooding the market makes the RIAA’s and Judiciary Committee’s pathetic attempts to put the genie back in the bottle useless. I hope Hatch and Leahy have some advisors (I know those two dinosaurs don’t have a sweet clue what is happening all around them) to inform them that their silly little laws will soon be unenforceable and also that calling most of their electorate theives is not a good way to get yourself re-elected.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2523/comment-page-1#comment-5744 Reader's Write Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:38:16 +0000 #comment-5744 Maybe next all these companies will start to support .ogg files? Maybe that's a little much to ask...it is open source... If you haven't tried it though, I highly recommend trying it! I can't go back to listening to my 128 kbps mp3s... Maybe next all these companies will start to support .ogg files?

Maybe that’s a little much to ask…it is open source…

If you haven’t tried it though, I highly recommend trying it! I can’t go back to listening to my 128 kbps mp3s…

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