Comments on: HBO Making RIAA “Self-Destruction” Film

By: Mountain_rage

Mountain_rage — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:57:59 +0000

Strange, the most expletive argument comes from the supposed mature, well rounded, informed individual. Would you care to elaborate on how filesharing has harmed the industry when independent studies are showing the contrary. People have a budgeted entertainment budget, that money is still the same, and some studies show it growing. CD sales are down, but the overall music industry was found to be growing in revenue, the money has simply shifted to concert revenue. The movie industry has posted record sales for the last decade. What is this loss you speak of, and who are these broke losers. Off the top of my head I know of two studies that showed the heaviest file sharers were the biggest content purchasers, this was done for the Canadian government. Those filesharers must be cheap to be the biggest purchasing demographic. Grow up, educate yourself, and learn the reality of the industry. If you want to talk smack, back it up with logic, and not some preschool cry fest.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:25:35 +0000

You are the most retarded random commenter that has appeared in ages here.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:21:24 +0000

Time and time again, you are using both irrelevant as well as false arguments right after stating the obvious, malgre.

By: Mountain_rage

Mountain_rage — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:04:31 +0000

Nice, but you didn't refute my point that free software is not an ideology, its a reality. You just completely side stepped what I was arguing. You have also yet to point out how me pirating software I wouldn't have purchased at the asking price is harming the industries. Did they loose money from my actions? How is this taking away their livelihood?

By: Wilson

Wilson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:39:45 +0000

SoulXTC,

Come on guys. Nothing is free. Call filesharing what it is…stealing. Don't try to dress up a duck in a brown paper bag and call it Coco Chanel.

Precisely, it's amazing how these thieving broke a#$, geek idiots, don't seem to realize that they are hurting the very companies that are producing the very material they feel worthy of stealing in the first dam place; music, video's whatever. BROKE LOSERS. So stop making making excuses and pretend there is nothing wrong with the "hey dude, whats the problem?" dum sh$t. Its the pretty simple, Unplug you thieving f#$ks, go get a job, maybe a girlfriend, and learn to pay for the material you spend your days stealing, instead of getting laid or actually learing how to run a company. Period. And f$%k your capitalistic, anti-establishment stand, no one cares. Your a thief and a loser pure and simple and should be dealt with severely when caught. But since your broke, and there is no money to be had from catching your sorry asses in your parents basement, a stiff jail sentence and your butt being stretched wider than a DVD by your cell mates should do the trick.

By: malcolm hume

malcolm hume — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:15:23 +0000

Red hat is not free software, but parts of it are open source. Red hat has nothing to do with free software or copyleft.

Profiting by giving away some things for free might work for some people. It is their option to explore. It is not youre right to make that decision for them.

Copyright laws and patent laws have created a creative class on whose back you profit. You should realize that they own the fruits of their labor. If you don't want to pay, don;t take the product they are selling. Only rich booshies, crooked capitalists, and spoiled children have the attitiude of entitlement where they think they did something to deserve what they have and rationalize what they steal from others.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:33:28 +0000

“[...] ideologically motivated free software activists … ”

Which ideology that? I suppose you don’t even know.

“… people that use DRM as an excuse to do what they were going to do anyway, which is download the product wihtout paying for it”

You obviously don’t know DRM and are just making up garbage.

“Both Apple and Amazon are without DRM on their songs, and the tide hasn’t shifted any.”

Using DRM would be detrimental to a business, but this does not go the other way around.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:30:59 +0000

This was to you malgre.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:29:55 +0000

“[...] ideologically motivated free software activists … ”

Which ideology that? I suppose you don’t even know.

“… people that use DRM as an excuse to do what they were going to do anyway, which is download the product wihtout paying for it”

You obviously don’t know DRM and are just making up garbage.

“Both Apple and Amazon are without DRM on their songs, and the tide hasn’t shifted any.”

Using DRM would be detrimental to a business, but this does not go the other way around.

By: Mountain_rage

Mountain_rage — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:22:12 +0000

What is so ideological about free software, it is a legitimate business that generates significant income. Red Hat sold 174 million $ over the last quarter, yet it is free software. Firefox also generates millions of dollars in search contract revenue with google, and that is only one of what I'm sure are many revenue streams. Even Microsoft uses "free" software in their operating system. From what I gather you are just an ultra capitalist that believes everything should come at a price, and that free products are the scourge of the universe. But the reality is that it isn't, and many people can generate profits while giving products away for free, and even prefer to do so. I'd go even so far as to say that the profits generated from these models reflects more the general work / compensation curve that would be expected from society. Copyright and patent laws have simply created a culture where people expect huge profits for minimal work, and feel entitled to those profits. Well I'm against runaway profits generated on the backs of society being protected by politicians being paid off to pass laws that enable it. Not only because it leads to large wage gaps between the classes, but it also destabilizes economies, and comes at a price to society.