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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Scott on August 13, 2003, 01:42 PM
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Just saw a commercial last night during the news from the Movie industry to try and stop bootlegging and piracy. I am guilty I guess of buying some less than legal copies of DVD's but I really have never gotten into the whole Napster, Kazaa thing at all
Where do you stand on the issue?
I guess the only thing I could see getting into it would be to get some rare cuts or b-sides of some of my favorite bands but that is about it...
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I'll also admit I readily trade CD's with people...burning copies is probably a big no no and just as bad as on-line file swapping I guess
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I support the online pirate industry.
If music and movies are free to tape off of TV why can I download it?
I see nothing wrong with it. PLUS, I pay more than enough for their concerts that I attend, and if I really like a CD, I buy it and keep the bootleg or give it away.
Kevin
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I have burned many a CD for my personal enjoyment. I do not see anything really wrong with the whole issue as long as you are not selling them.
I blame this whole issue on Metallica or should I say Lars. He is the one who started this whole thing with that Napster complaint he had. Greedy B!
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I do it too... I built a collection of about 30,000 MP3s by downloading and trading MP3 CDrs. Thanks to a hard drive failure I'm down to about 10,000 but still it's a lot of tunes to enjoy!
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Since I lost a majority of my CD collection a couple of years ago, I download mp3's to replace those lost CD's. Most of the stuff is from years ago and is really hard to find at retail these days. I don't find anything wrong with it, because I don't do it to sell the music. I really believe they will never stop piracy until they close down kaaza and related sites permanently. Personally, I think this entire matter is going to end up in the Supreme Court one day...
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Most of the CDs that I burn are of older artists anyway, and more often than not it's live versions of songs.
Example - I see nothing wrong with burning a Jimi Hendrix CD, hell, he's dead, what's he care.
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I used to download MP3's all the time on sites like Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella, etc. I stopped doing it about a year ago because one of the programs had a newer virus, and my virus program didn't have the latest definition file on it. My computer crashed and I lost all of my data on it. So, the only time I use one of those programs (Kazaa these days) is to download software, but that is even rare that I do that. I just don't trust exe and zip files anymore.
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My CD purchases have gone up probably 300% since the advent of downloading music. Especially in the beginning.
I hear it on the radio, I download more songs by that artist. THEN I buy the CD if I like it.
Previously, I'd buy CD singles in that case, or sometimes over look the artist altogether if I didn't hear more than a single on the radio.
I'm one of those guys who actually likes to own a REAL CD of the music I like, not some home-burned job that I won't have in 10 years. Yes that's right folks, those things DO have a shelf life.
Granted....your hard drive will keep them forever, but what if it crashes? I lost probably 70 gigs of great music to my last crash. Since then, I've used a dupe drive, and every time I buy the CD, I delete the MP3's.
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Just saw a commercial last night during the news from the Movie industry to try and stop bootlegging and piracy.
I saw that too, and I got upset when I saw Sean Astin. I just wanted to say, I own a screener of TTT, but I didn't make it! I promise!
Anywho, I don't own any CD's. What I did was burn all my store bought CD's onto CD-R's and made them MP-3's. I just don't buy music anymore, because I like so little music today.
I did just burn a copy of Superjoint Ritual - Use Once and Destroy. I promise that if Phil Anselmo finds out, calls me to tell me he's going to kick my ass, I'll go buy a copy from the store.