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Whatever. Zero fucks given. I have no physical media and never will again. Not playing these games any more. I'll continue to steal stuff. If it is good, I'll b
by batou 11y ago
Whatever. Zero fucks given. I have no physical media and never will again. Not playing these games any more. I'll continue to steal stuff. If it is good, I'll buy the mp3 or go to a gig.
What about those newly defined criminals Amazon with AutoRip?
- babygoat 11y agoAmazon has a competent legal department.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoApparently so does The Pirate Bay.
- babygoat 11y agoWhat are you suggesting?
- toomuchtodo 11y agoThat, as usual, a court ruling on copyright doesn't change anything for either commercial entities (Amazon) or violators of copyright (TPB).
- richmarr 11y agoSeems likely Amazon (and Apple, etc) are the targets of this. If they remove that feature and it causes 5% fewer CD tracks being ripped to mp3, then a few more music execs will get to look smug while clicking their associates through a ghoulish powerpoint next year.
- evo_9 11y agoExactly man. I do the same thing. If you really want to help music artists in particular, attend their shows, they make most of their money off gate. Also, buy a copy or two of their albums, and whatever else they have. All that money goes right to the band. I always buy a CD and vinyl (if they have it) and then give away the CD if I already have more than one copy.
- anigbrowl 11y agoI'll continue to steal stuff. Then I sincerely hope someone else takes the same attitude towards your economic activity by helping themselves to it without compensating you, so that you gain some first-hand experience of what that feels like.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIf you are in IT as a normal 9 to 5er then it is already happening as the larger corporations work to suppress wages, a downward pressure that is felt throughout the market. To say nothing of how much of one's economic productivity is stolen by being charged for services that others use via taxation (even when you don't count welfare; I'm talking things where big companies get corporate welfare and tax breaks with the burden falling on the average taxpayer).
- anigbrowl 11y agoI can't help noticing that most of the arguments against paying for creative works seem to be rooted in grumpy Marxism.
- batou 11y agoI'll give you another one. Most creative work is crap and distinctly not tied to the return of investment. If I buy a book for £6 I get a few days if not a couple of weeks of enjoyment out of it. This is good. Well done authors. If I buy a £1 music track I get perhaps 20 minutes a week out of it for a few weeks before I burn it out.
- anigbrowl 11y agoI can't help you with your aesthetic dissatisfaction. Perhaps you should only spend money on music to attend concerts, or save up your cash to buy a musical instrument instead of listening to recordings that provide only transient enjoyment. I presume if you are stealing something (to use your phrase above) it is because you want it at the time you help yourself to it. If you suspect that you will quickly get sick of music, why not just spend the money on books instead? I mean, if I found that every time I bought fish and chips I felt sick afterwards I wouldn't start stealing it without paying, I would just stop eating it. If you steal music in digital form without paying for it, of course it is not lost as with a physical object, but you have lowered the equilibrium price of the good by unilaterally increasing the overall supply.