Piracy?

[wolf39us]

I've recently gone fully legit as far as music goes. Gotta love Spotify at $10/month.

I don't really own the music, but holy crap does it make my life easier. No more tagging or searching for songs. No more varying qualities of songs or bad rips.

[houseofcantor]

I'm wondering the topic goes "piracy" and everybody else goes "music." I'm thinking a bunch of mofos have a guilty conscious.

Imma pirate. I've long considered the modern context, and it comes down, to me, that if one supports shit like DRM, the next thing you know, you're gonna be paying a stipend to speak English. Never mind the tithing required to write a novel.

"Intellectual property rights" is an out-of-control monster that has nothing to do with artists and everything to do with lawyers. And fuck them. The last thing I "pirated" was Thanks for Sharing, cause there's Gwynnies... And the amount of actual cash I have contributed to the advancement of Gwyneth Paltrow makes me feel... This is a non-issue.

I agree with the OP. I help myself to shared shit, but if it is good shit, I turn around and back it up with cash. Mofos whining about "piracy" ain't really talking to me.

[Tonus]

I'm wondering the topic goes "piracy" and everybody else goes "music."

That is probably because music has been so easy (and safe) to pirate, at least once the "RIAA lawyer" boogeyman went away. I downloaded several dozen songs when mp3s first became available, but once I could buy individual songs for, well... a song.... I did that instead.

Movies are less likely to be pirated, IMO, because you either need to download a very large file or make do with poor quality video. I can remember the days of $80 movies on VHS (or the equivalent of around $170 today!!!) and have no problems buying a $15-30 blu-ray movie now, or a $5 HD "rental" through Vudu or watching a fair-quality version on Netflix for pennies.

Now software... *finds his attention suddenly drawn elsewhere*

[Darth]

Does Pandora account piracy? I eventually end up buying the songs, and it's how I find most of my music or my friends introduce me to it.

Nah pandora is a real radio station, which is why I couldn't get it in australia till recently, without some mucking about.
Oh sure, my postcode is totally 90210, lololololzzzz.

[wolf39us]

Does Pandora account piracy? I eventually end up buying the songs, and it's how I find most of my music or my friends introduce me to it.

Nah pandora is a real radio station, which is why I couldn't get it in australia till recently, without some mucking about.
Oh sure, my postcode is totally 90210, lololololzzzz.

Cause someone in Beverly Hills prefers to stream music over Pandora

[Belac Enrobso]

I make my coders walk the plank whenever they either a.) refuse to hack into quality sites and download free music for me, or b.) are unable to hack into high quality sites and download free porn... I mean free music for me. My ship usually gets descent wifi out at sea and I don't have to pay roaming charges, my coders, what's left of them, found a way around that.

[Aractus]

Ah, I remember the HD-DVD vs Sony bit. I was actually rooting for HD-DVD the whole time because of the reasons you stated. Such a sad time :-(

Don't feel too bad, D-VHS was completely state of the art technically speaking in 2001, and was only slightly outperformed by HD-DVD and Bluray in 2007. But they should have always known that by 2001 tape-based formats are for archival and recording, but not for general purpose viewing. You have to physically rewind/fast forward a physical tape - impractical if you want to "skip back" or "skip ahead" as the case may be in our modern times.

HVD was red/green-laser technology (cheap compared to blue laser), they had already demonstrated 100GB discs at the time that Bluray and HD-DVD were being developed, with room for expansion without the need for improved hardware (you just needed improved discs). In 2007 they produced a 200GB disc. Since that time, they produced a 1TB disc, and then a 6TB 12cm disc (the capacity of 120x dual-layer Bluray discs), still using just red and green lasers and not a blue laser. It's supposedly still in development so you never know it may one day eventually replace Bluray, however that would assume that there's a need for more than 50GB to store consumer-grade movies, and that's still a long long way off. 10GB is perfectly adequate for storing full 1080P or 2k material 2hours in length. 40GB is more than adequate for 4k material at least 2hours in length (there's 4x the resolution, but not 4x the detail).

[là bạn điên]

Does Pandora account piracy? I eventually end up buying the songs, and it's how I find most of my music or my friends introduce me to it.

Nah pandora is a real radio station, which is why I couldn't get it in australia till recently, without some mucking about.
Oh sure, my postcode is totally 90210, lololololzzzz.

I LOOOOVE this one. Its so damned true! What is your zip code? uh uh 90210?

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Nah pandora is a real radio station, which is why I couldn't get it in australia till recently, without some mucking about.
Oh sure, my postcode is totally 90210, lololololzzzz.

Cause someone in Beverly Hills prefers to stream music over Pandora

No. its the fact that its the only zipcode we know.

[Sejanus]

http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf
I feel this is relevant somehow.