The Pirate Bay clambers back online after cop raid sunk site for 7 weeks Torrent search engine The Pirate Bay is back online weeks after a police raid on a Swedish data centre sunk the copyright-infringing clearinghouse site. Administrators behind the infamous site had promised to bring TPB back to life today, however it crept back online on Saturday, as first reported by file-sharing blog …
Yes, and especially since in Norway the amount of under 30's pirating music has dropped from 70% in 2009 to 4% now.
I mean it has to be true, nobody lies in surveys do they?
Every generation has the music it loves and grows up with, mines was the Doors, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Black Sabbath, Leonard Cohen etc etc etc the list goes on and on....
Unfortunately today's generation got Fubarded by the record industry... Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber.... Do people really want to pirate that...
http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?syears=2014#list
Not all music is Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber, and you will find most of the albums listed on ProgArchives are available on TPB (or VK.com... or... the list goes on).
Sounds like the only person getting Fubarded here is you.
Who pirates music anymore? The music producer caved, and we can find anything we want for dirt cheap and DRM free all over the internet from legit sources?
Pirating is for TV, textbooks and sometimes movies. You know, those mediums where the copyright holders have refused to provide what's requested in a form that isn't a massive burden to their legitimate users and where the copyright holders insist on not only charging exorbitant amounts, but want you to keep rebuying over and over and over?
Give the people what they want in a format they want to consume, at a price they can afford and holy fucking shit it turns out that you can compete successfully against "free".
"stole my classic gpz900 last year goes to prison"
You do know we're not talking about the same thing don't you? Unless you were suckered into it by the "anti-piracy" (you wouldn't steal a car...etc) message on DVDs, of which ironically, very ironically, the background music was also "stolen" - er excuse me, "borrowed".
...of course I didn't need to check the link. This is starting to devolve into that anecdote where a bunch of people sit around and one goes "you know that joke about..." - massive laughter, then another goes "and that other one about..." - people are already rolling on the floor, etc...
Things are priced appropriately is the day pirating dies. Keep charging me ridiculous rates for a new film or game and I'll keep pirating.
One firm on Steam, name eludes me, ran one of their new release games at sale prices and said they made more money in a week at sale rates than the projections for a lifetime spent at full rate.
People don't really want to steal but in this day and age development companies and film studios need to give us a reason not to.
> Things are priced appropriately is the day pirating dies.
For me, the price isn't that much of a problem - it's convenience. I don't mind paying for content (as my library shows), but when I pay for something, I want to read/watch/listen to it on my own terms, not on somebody else's (and unless I'm paying a really tiny amount of money, I expect to keep the content forever, not until somebody decides that it's not economical to keep the servers running).
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/music_industry
and
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Things like iTunes and Netflix show that people will pay if you let them. Restricting who and when you sell to is the biggest cause of 'piracy'*.
*Pbltpblt, it's called file sharing, you numptys, and it's as old as computing, and it is not going away as long as it's the only way for people to get what they want or need.
I must spend more time viewing Oatmeal's witty scrawls, for the few I've seen are great, I've spent a good time viewing XKCD's and I like plenty of those.
Oh and that 2nd link reminds me, I must check out this "Game of Thrones" thing everyone on the internet seems to praise...or take the piss out of.
The past tense of sink is sank. The ship sinks; the ship sank; the ship has sunk. (This irregularity is quite uncommon; wink, for example, behaves perfectly normally, though it could be quite funny to persuade someone otherwise.)
OK, pedantry, but no more boring than the tired old rehash of the copyright debate going on above.
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