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p2pnet view P2P:- There seem to be three distinct profiles of people involved in the issue of file sharing.
Copyright Maximalist -
This class starts at the top of the entertainment food chain with the nauseating, self-serving outright lies concerning copyright, and its actual constitutional intent. And like clockwork, the fear-mongering begins every time a new technology is discovered. The greedy, self-righteous fucks that have been raping an industry since its incepture, and profiting from other people’s hard work? They MUST be correct, right? This is why they use distractors and talking points to get what ends up ultimately being self-serving laws, edicts, judgements, and what have you.
Copyright’s a property right -
Bullshit. Firstly, copyright’s applied to intangible property of ideas, literaries and/or intellectual compositions, not actually owning the pieces of paper it’s written on. ‘Copyright’ is itself is a misnomer: it’s not a right at all.It’s a privilege — a government mandated/authorized monopoly to suspend YOUR rights to control the monetary attributes of the composition. Copyright actually has its roots in 18th century Europe with the Statute of Anne, 1709 — the Copyright Act of 1709, aka ‘An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchaserof such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned.’ It was specifically designed to control works of dissent and criticism by the government regulating the output of printers. So the government mandated official licensing for printers concerning a particular work, for particular time. The official license was required to sell or create books. No license, no business. Hence the term ‘the right to copy’ aka copyright. It was a beautiful way for the government to stifle dissent, criticism, and even the truth. While promoting the dissemination of religous works like the Bible and government propganda, they were effectively eradicating any potential diversion from the ‘government’ truth, and not reality.
Copyright must be extended -
This is so easy to see through, it’s not funny. If I’m a corporation that owns the rights to EVERYTHING, of course I want to extend it. Think of the logic. Regardless of what becomes popular, or goes out of style, all you get to pick from is the RIAA library, and the middleman gets paid regardless. The sham it’s designed to ‘ensure the artist’ estate is properly reimbursed for work done’ is absolute bullshit. Mitch Glazier, later to become an RIAA employee, inserted additional ‘language’ to the Amendment of the Copyright Act of 1976, which effectively transferred the rights of the artist to the RIAA as ‘works for hire’.
The RIAA was looking out for the artists. Riiiiight. Or when they sign a new artist, they must sign over all rights, or basically, GTFO. This amendment to copyright law was overturned because of subsequent public outrcry from artists about this action.
Continuously extending copyright will eventually allow the MPAA and the RIAA to own everything. Don’t you get it? Why do you think there are so many remake movies coming out now, A-Team, Karate Kid, Red Dawn, Robin Hood (a-fucking-gain)? It’s because they own the copyrights to print more free money by recirculating the dead. This also allows the MPAA to cut their creative artists and writers down to minimal. God forbid, they were caught actually PAYING an artist for his creativity. Have you seen some of the TV shows they put out lately? Who writes this shit? It’s THE primary reason I don’t own a dish, or box, or any other service full of mind blowing commercials, oh and brief periods of bullshit re-hashed storyline.
Copyright’s good for the economy -
Copyright was originally implemented with the stated purpose of the ‘encouragement of learning’ and it achieved this by allowing authors to secure ’sole right and liberty of prining, reprinting, publishing and vending’ copies of their ‘maps, charts and books’ for a term of 14 years, renewable ONCE for an additional 14 years IF the author was still alive. In 1909, the statute was extended to 28 years, renewable for ONE additional 28 year term, and it was mandatory the published work contain a copyright notice. This was also when the compulsory mechanical license became reality. (Congress envisioned it specifically for piano rolls).
This immediately led to the music industry demanding payment to license reproductions, live or not, of any established composition that would directly compete with the original. Then came the Sonny Bono Act of 1976 that extended copyright again to 70 years after the artist’s death, OR if a ‘work for hire’ then it would persist for 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever was shorter. Again, another impressive benefit for the artist. (Sarcasm). This also made the Copyright Act federal and basically made sure that no sound recording would enter the public domain until Feburary 15, 2067, even if it was in existence prior to 1923, and regardless if it originated in another country where it’s freely accessible in the public domain.
So this topic is misnamed as well, it should be ‘Copyright’s good for the entertainment industries.’
Facts -
Copyright maximalists always stand by this ‘helping the poor, poor artist’, when in fact they’re fucking the artist harder than the customer. Or their other ‘goto’ signature line, ‘we are combating child pornography’. Be realistic, half the members of entertainment industry are probably pedophiles themselves. Using fear mongering over an irrelevant issue is downright evil. There is no level they wouldn’t stoop to in order to ensure the nice clean flow of greenbacks into their greedy palms. Sue their customers, inhibit competition, deter advancement, punish technology, blame piracy. I mean, I need cue cards to keep up with the asshats sometimes.
Just bend over and admit tthe customer is now driving the hard one home. The reason for copyright is to encourage artistry and innovation, not line the pockets of evil, greedy corporations. File sharing wouldn’t be so popular today if it wasn’t for the demonization from the entertainment kartels whining about yet another new technology they must conform to, or die.
Sheeple -
People who mimic the words of the entertainment industry because they’re either too stupid to have an opinion, or too stupid to go realize the truth. These are the trolls, chicken littles and naysayers who have no real decision-making bones in their bodies. They just follow the other sheeple around, baaaaa’ing the same song. Sheeple are the type who’d trim the branch off of a tree they were sitting on, fall and break their necks. So what kind of intelligent comment about copyright could they possibly have?
Copyright Informed -
I was going to call the final group something else, but they all really apply to this class. This type understands what’s going on with copyright. Whether they share files or not, they all understand copyright in the digital age. From Harvard Law School to the EFF, a substantial number of incredibly intelligent people are discovering what copyright has mutated into, and more importantly, they’re attempting to reinforce the reality that copyright’s a suspension of your God given rights with monopolistic privilege. Believe it or not, I think a suitable copyright monopoly would effectively accomplish its intended goal, to promote artistic endeavors and innovation.
Not forever minus a day, however.
We have software developers in the underground, most of whom are of above average intelligence, computer literate, and educated. We enforce the copy privilege of ‘certain’ software packages that are for sale online. In many instances, the product is incredibly powerful, bug-free, astonishingly technical supported, and amazingly low priced. We’re talking 25/50USD. We enforce this privilege somewhat differently than, say the RIAA. We don’t fucking destroy entire lives for ‘pirating’ a copy.
I myself have written DMCA takedowns for some of my friends’ software being illicitly offered for free. Notice I said illicit and not illegal.
It would be futile to think we find them all, or that EVERYONE pays for the copies they get, and yet we try to offer a quality product, with support, for a low price. Some money is better than none.
Typically, the ‘Copyright Informed’ have chosen a side, either for or against, and have valid opinions to debate, which is how we determine where the balance comes in. I know where I stand — reasonable monopoly to promote innovation: good. Draconian lookin up my ass to make sure I get paid: bad.
Malicious, Industry Destroying, Criminal Pirate
That’s me 
When cable TV came out, they advertised there’d BE NO ADVERTISING! What bullshit. As I said earlier, I have no dish, cable box, subscription, DVR, PVR or other device for entertainment. I have the internet.
First I set up a computer as a network media server, (and P2P Gateway), purchased a big-ass 52″ LCD HDMI ‘monitor’ that I hooked up to the computer for a ‘display’, got an internet connection and a subscription to newsgroups, and a butt-load of harddrives. With over 15 years of archived digital media totaling 11Tb, I now have a media station that I can watch whatever show I want, when I want, whatever movie, PPV event, auto race, dance review or documentary I want. I listen to music for free using iTunes streaming, and watch movies or TV shows from digital archives. I just sat and watched the entire Battlestar Galactica series, with all the extended episodes, deleted scenes, commentary and all. It was great.
New TV shows are not as enjoyable anymore, but they’re usually available the night of, or the next day of, airing. Because of the ungodly amount of money the entertainment kartels demand from broadcasters to show their crap, TV affiliates started putting commercials IN the show, and watermark the airing using some free plugs to compensate for these extortion amounts.
You can’t even cut the commercials out anymore. Great PR! So I download from ‘various sources’ to the tune of around 600gb/mo and continue to buy harddrives. I can actually download 3 720p movies in the time it takes to watch one. So the past five years I’ve been building a library using IMDB Top 100 Movies by genre to ‘fill in the blanks’. I have the complete works of over 600 artists like The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Who, all the way up to Prodigy and NIN. When infinite abundance is reached, price is reduced to zero.
When the RIAA and MPAA offer everything they have for the same price of my annual harddrive, internet, computers, electricity, and newsgroups subscriptions cost overheads, I’ll bite. But I won’t pay any more than it already costs to get the same content.
I figure by the time the MAFIAA finally gets around to actually affecting file sharing, I should have a good 50Tb of backup media to last me the rest of my life.
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STW
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June, 2010
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Copyright Maximalist -
This class starts at the top of the entertainment food chain with the nauseating, self-serving outright lies concerning copyright, and its actual Constitutional intent. And like clockwork, begin the fear-mongering speaking points every time a new technology is discovered. The greedy, self-righteous fucks that have been raping an industry since its incepture, and profiting from other people’s hard work? They MUST be correct, right? Hardly. This is why they use distractors, and talking points to get what ends up ultimately being self-serving laws, edicts, judgements and what have you. I am not entirely sure how many readers actually know or understand what copyright was intended for, and how grossly misappropriated it has become, because of itself.
Copyright is a property right -
Bullshit. Firstly, copyright is applied to intangible property of ideas, literaries and/or intellectual compositions, not actually owning the pieces of paper it was written on. Copyright by name itself is a misnomer because it is not a right at all, but a privilege. It is
a government mandated/authorized monopoly to suspend YOUR rights, for the privilege of monopolistic control over the monetary attributes of the composition. Copyright actually has its roots in 18th Century European History starting with the Statue of Anne, 1709. Wherein the Copyright Act of 1709, aka ‘An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchaserof such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned..’ was specifically designed to control works of dissent and criticism by the government regulating the output of printers. So the government mandated official licensing for printers concerning a particular work, for particular time. The official license was required to sell or create books at all. No license, no business. Hence the term ‘the right to copy’ aka copyright. It was a beautiful way for the government to stifle dissent, criticism, and even the truth. While promoting the dissemination of religous works like the Bible and government propganda, they were effectively eradicating any potential diversion from the ‘government’ truth, and not reality.
Copyright must be extended -
This is so easy to see thru, its not funny. If I was a corporation that owned the rights to EVERYTHING, of course I want to extend it, fuck ya, if I was a greedy fucking bitch like Mitch ‘GloryHole’ Bainwol. Think of the logic, regardless of what becomes popular, or goes out of style, all you get to pick from is the RIAA library, and the middleman gets paid regardless. The sham it is designed to ‘ensure the artist’ estate is properly reimbursed for work done’ is absolute bullshit. When a House staffer inserted some additional ‘language’ to the Amendment of the Copyright Act of 1976, which effectively transferred the rights of the artist to the RIAA as ‘works for hire’,
I am POSITIVE the RIAA was looking out for the artists. Riiiiight. Or when they sign a new artist, they must sign over all rights, or basically, GTFO. Of course the amendment to copyright law was overturned because of subsequent public outrcry from artists about this action.
Continuously extending copyright will eventually allow the MPAA and the RIAA to own everything, don’t you get it? Why do you think there
are so many remake movies coming out now, A-Team, Karate Kid, Red Dawn, Robin Hood (a-fucking-gain), its because they own the copyrights to print more free money with recirculating a dead idea. This also allows the MPAA to cut their creative artists and writers down to
minimal. God forbid, they were caught actually PAYING an artist for his creativity. Have you seen some of the TV shows they put out lately? Who writes this shit? It’s THE primary reason I don’t own a dish, or box, or any other service full of mind blowing commercials, oh and brief periods of bullshit re-hashed storyline.
Copyright is good for the economy -
Copyright was implemented in the US in 1790 with the stated purpose of ‘encouragement of learning’ and it achieved this by allowing authors
to secure ’sole right and liberty of prining, reprinting, publishing and vending’ copies of their ‘maps, charts and books’ for a term of 14 years, renewable ONCE for an additional 14 years IF the author was still alive. In 1909, the statute was extended to 28 years, renewable for ONE additional 28 year term, and it was mandatory the published work contain a copyright notice. This was also when the compulsory mechanical license became reality. (Congress envisioned it specifically for piano rolls). This immediately led to the music industry demanding payment to license reproductions, live or not, of any established composition that would directly compete with the original. Then came the Sonny Bono Act of 1976 that extended copyright again to 70 years after the artist’s death, OR if a ‘work for hire’ then it would persist for 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever was shorter. Again, another impressive benefit
for the artist. (That was sarcasm). This also made the Copyright Act a federal matter and basically made sure that no sound recording will
enter the public domain until Feburary 15, 2067, even if it was in existence prior to 1923, and regardless if it originated in another country where it already is in public domain. So this topic is misnamed as well, it should be ‘Coyright is good for the entertainment industries gross profits.’
Facts -
Copyright maximalists always stand by this ‘helping the poor, poor artist’, when in fact they are fucking the artist harder than the customer. Or their other ‘goto’ signature line, ‘we are combating child pornography’. Be realistic, half the entertainment industry are probably pedophiles themselves. But to curry favor using fear mongering over an irrelevant issue is nothing but downright evil. There is no level they would stoop to in order to ensure the nice clean flow of greenbacks into their greedy palms. Sue their customers, inhibit competition, deter advancement, punish technology, blame piracy, I mean, I need cue cards to keep up with the asshats sometimes.
Just bend over and admit that the customer is now driving the hard one home. The reason for copyright is to encourage artistry and
innovation, not line the pockets of evil, greedy corporations. File sharing would not be so popular today if it wasn’t for the demonization from the entertainment kartels whining about yet another new technology they must conform to, or die.
Sheeple -
People that mimic the words of the entertainment industry because they are either too stupid to have an opinion, or too stupid to go realize the truth. These are the trolls, chicken little’s and naysayers that have no real decision making bone in their body. They just follow the other sheeple around, baaaaa’ing the same song. I don’t understand why this sort of copyright analyst are so intense when it comes to discussions about copyright. Sheeple are the type that would trim the branch off of a tree that they were sitting on, fall and break their neck, so what kind of intelligent comment about copyright could they possibly have? So, if your bored with this article, go license a book instead. I won’t spend alot of resources on this type, because they probably wouldn’t get it anyway.
Copyright Informed -
I was going to call the final group something else, but they all really apply to this class. This type understands what is going on with copyright. Whether they share files or not, they all understand all the dramatic bad sides of copyright in the digital age. From Harvard Law School to the EFF, a substantial number of incredibly intelligent people are discovering what copyright has mutated into, and more importantly, they are attempting to reinforce the reality that copyright is a suspension of your god given rights with monopolistic privilege. Believe it or not, I think a suitable copyright monopoly would effectively accomplish its’ intended goal, to promote artistic endeavors and innovation. Not forever minus a day, however. We have software developers in the underground, actually, most of the underground is very above average intelligence, computer literate, and educated. We enforce the copy privilege of ‘certain’ software packages that are available on the internet for sale. In many instances, the product is incredibly powerful, bug-free, astonishing technical support, and amazingly low priced, we are talking 25/50USD. We enforce this privilege somewhat differently than, say the RIAA, whereas we don’t fucking destroy his entire life for ‘pirating’ a copy. I myself, have written DMCA takedowns for some of my friends software being illicitly offered for free. Notice I said illicit and not illegal. It would be futile to think we find them all, or that EVERYONE pays fothe copies they get, and yet we try to offer a quality product, with support, for a low price anyway. Some money is better than none. Typically, the ‘Copyright Informed’ has chosen a side, either for or against, and have valid opinions to debate, and this is how we determine where the balance comes in. I know where I stand, reasonable monopoly to promote innovation: good, draconian lookin up my ass to make sure i paid: bad.
Malicious, Industry Destroying, Criminal Pirate
That’s me
When cable TV came out, they advertised that there would BE NO DVERTISING! What bullshit.. As I said earlier, I have no dish, cable
box, subscription, DVR, PVR or other device for entertainment. I have the internet, what do I need them for? First I setup a computer as a network media server, (and P2P Gateway), purchased a big-ass 52″ LCD HDMI ‘monitor’ that I hooked up to the computer for a ‘display’, got an internet connection and a subscription to newsgroups, and a butt-load of harddrives. With over 15 years of archived digital media totaling 11Tb, I now have a media station that I can watch whatever show I want, when I want, whatever movie, PPV event, auto race, dance review or documentary I want. I listen to music for free using iTunes streaming, and watch movies or TV shows from digital archives. I just sat and watched the entire Battlestar Galactica series, with all the extended episodes, deleted scenes, commentary and all, it was great.
New TV shows are not as enjoyable anymore, but they are usually available the night of, or the next day of airing. Because of the ungodly amount of money the entertainment kartels demand from broadcasters to show their crap, TV affiliates started putting commercials IN the show, and watermark the airing using some free plugs to compensate for these extortion amounts. You can’t even cut the commercials out anymore, great PR! So I download from ‘various sources’ to the tune of around 600gb/mo and continue to buy harddrives. I can actually download 3 720p movies in the time it takes to watch one. So the past 5 years I have been building a library using IMDB Top 100 Movies by genre to ‘fill in the blanks’. I have the complete works of over 600 artists like The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Who, all the way up to Prodigy and NIN. When infinite abundance is reached, price is reduced to zero.
When the RIAA and MPAA offer everything they have for the same price of my annual harddrive, internet, computers, electricity, and newsgroups subscriptions cost overheads, I’ll bite, but I won’t pay any more than it already costs to get the same content.
I figure by the time the MAFIAA finally gets around to actually affecting file sharing, I should have a good 50Tb of backup media to l;ast me the rest of my life.
[Share the Wealth]
June 30th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
I am a digital media pack-rat too, except not to such an extreme. I am cheap and don’t have a lot of money to burn on entertainment, so I still use my 25″ CRT TV for watching stuff I’ve downloaded, plugged into an ATI AIW Radeon 9700 video card via s-video, on a dedicated old 1.5GHz Athlon. This works well. I have four 200 GB hard drives inside the machine, which is a bit tight on disk space, BUT I have everything backed up on several hundred DVD-Rs which I’ve accumulated over the past ten years.
Some day I’ll pick up a couple 2-TB drives so I can stop messing with DVDs. The only problem is my old mobo doesn’t have SATA, so I’d have to upgrade that too or get an external case. I’d also like to get a 24″ LCD since they are in the $300 range now. My CRT TV can only handle 640×480, although this is good enough for watching stuff like 80s TV series.
BTW, some of my favorite TV shows I’ve discovered by downloading: Get Smart, Mr Ed, SCTV, I Dream Of Genie, The Munsters, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Survivor Man, Russia’s War: Blood Upon The Snow, Carl Sagen’s Cosmos, Economics USA, and bunch of others I can’t recall off the top of my head. It’s also nice to have the regular staples around too, such as The Simpsons S2 to S9, Futurama, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Beavis and Butthead, etc etc.
June 30th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I really enjoyed this, thank you.
I have 2 external hard drives, each 2 terabytes in size, but each hard drive is set to Raid 1 resulting both to only have the capacity of 1 terabyte. I do this to keep the data backed up within itself. One hard drive has over 500 GB of lossless music plus TV shows, the other hard drive contains hundreds of movies, 720p, 1080p, AVI, etc. It’s always my pleasure to share the contents. Many people ask me for something, all I do is pop in a blank disc and click burn. I literally tell them not to waste their money giving it to the RIAA or MPAA.
Thank Neptune that external hard drives keep getting cheaper and the storage keeps getting bigger.
June 30th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
^^
Well I have a 234 KB drive with three songs on it. And I paid Steve Robs a dollar each for them.
heh
So there.
Cheers!
June 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I raid my 11Tb for exactly the same reason, so I don’t lose data. I keep all the old harddrives that died as conversation pieces.., shit, more like big legos I got so many
try 4 bay Firewire 400 cases, they are about 100USD, and hold 4 ATA, ATAPI, or SATA drives, you can even get upgrade chipsets for the firewire converters to accept eSATA. One case holds 4×2Tb eSATA, mirrored, for 4Tb actual space, with full backups., I have 3 of these ‘cases’.
in the digital realm, you can build insurance into your system, so you dont have to buy Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’, for the umpteenth time.
June 30th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
“When the RIAA and MPAA offer everything they have for the same price of my annual harddrive, internet, computers, electricity, and newsgroups subscriptions cost overheads, I’ll bite. But I won’t pay any more than it already costs to get the same content.”
I’ll never give those shitheads another dime, no matter how they price “product”. To me it’s not merely pricing, but the fact that they not only went on a lawsuit campaign but now lobby for three strikes laws, even to the point of trying to get them passed on an international basis via ACTA. Those fucks need to die, and sooner rather than later. Not a dime for them – ever.
June 30th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
@surfer
So you’ve got 22TBs of hard drives running at any given time……..how do you pay the bloody power bill for this?
I’m at a point where we turn our 2 primary computers off at night to reduce power use, 22TB just in hard drives you gotta be using alot of juice!
and btw….STW
July 1st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
@Monkey D. Luffy, I said I would bite, not in any way meant that I would pay, but I would look.
@NO1UNO, media is expensive (storage media…), and the light bill isn’t so bad.. about every year or two, I add one of these cases because the others end up full.
stw
July 13th, 2010 at 5:45 am
If you think it’s so fucking easy to write a hit song jerk-off, do it and release it. But of course it isn’t. It takes talent. YOU have no talent. All you are is a DEAD BEAT – I want everything for free, the world owes me slug with a key board and access to the net. If I knew where you lived, I would roll by, steal all of your shit, and jam a tree branch up to stupid lazy ass!