oh well…

1 download a game or whatever… doesnt mean i would buy it, if i couldnt download it.. thats where ppl like u sarge, are dead wrong. would sales go down cuz ppl download to test first then buy if its good (yeah ALOT do that actually)? umm OFC.. and thats whats its all about. they dont want you to know its crap until u forked out alot of money on a crap product. most games,movies,music albums stinks. but these days we dont have to get ripped off to find out.. buhu..

to many working under these rich developers are ending up in the streets

death penalty for all file sharing except for porn porn is everywhere now but

music and software should definitely be a serious offense no prison time just death to many people on this planet anyway so the offenders need to be put in front of firing squads and shot at point blank range.

it is the only way it will stop

I mean if you have seen the real serious damage it has done across multiple industries not limited to family suicides homelessness and murder all due to loss of wealth jobs

the death penalty will stop anyone from doing it in the future

otherwise it will still continue on into the next decade until everyone is out of business.

and again like I have been saying before file sharing is on that same level you are slowly killing off or putting kids parents brothers sisters uncles grandparents aunts and cousins in the streets while you are safetly in your home laughing about it.

I was at a sports bar yesterday with some of my former employees it is a hangout for programmers tech guys and we were talking about the harsh economy so a guy had the nerve to come up to us and tried to sell us photoshop vista word and numerous other programs at a huge discount he had 20 dvd’s in his back pack his price was $200 for 20k in programs

I snapped and I smacked him in the head with beer glass then all hell broke lose he could fight but he was no match for 7 angry pissed off programmers and we all ganged up on him and beat him to a pulp

when the police showed up we explained what happened and he was arrested when they saw the dvd’s in his back pack he deserved it.

some of these down loaders are getting really brave now they are not happy that they got away with ripping programs and music they are out there trying to sell them in public at bars on the street corner craigslist anywhere they think they can make a sale

this could be the reason why file sharing is under fire more than ever.

People just adapt while copyright holders do not……

Sue KaZaA users they go to BitTorrent….

People then use VPN tunnels PRIVATE TRACKER SITES or simply use private DC++ hubs or shared FTP sites…….

Technology ALWAYS WINS in the end that’s why file-sharing lawsuits are doomed to fail.

BTW your example is just retarded I would have beat him up too for ripping people off they should just get it for free

“7 angry pissed off programmers?” …too funny.

“….some of these down loaders are getting really brave now they are not happy that they got away with ripping programs and music they are out there trying to sell them in public at bars on the street corner craigslist anywhere they think they can make a sale..” ……those are the same guys who’ve ALWAYS BEEN PIRATES they’re much different from FILE-SHARERS who are adamant that content be FREE.

I think this nonsense you speak is merely a symptom of the sluggish global economy. Nobody’s selling any pirated goods where I live here in San Diego Tijuana’s a different story though.

up here anything goes and the laws go back to the 1800’s not a place to have the police on their radar.

and yes there are sellers on every street corner out here at least that is what I was told from the locals.

“from perez hilton”

Jermain Dupri is getting some heat in his hometown of Atlanta!

His restaurant Cafe Dupri has gone bust and former employees are claiming that they either were not paid or that checks issued to them by Dupri’s business people bounced.

It’s also been claimed that the restaurant shut its doors and left its employees jobless without any notice!

If that’s true how cruel!

Dupri’s momma managed the cafe on his behalf and when contacted by reporters she lashed out and said a business is only as good as its employees. If the employees who were complaining worked harder the restaurant might have done better.

Doesn’t momma Dupri sound a little defensive?

Dupri is cash poor record sales are in the hundreds of thousands instead of the millions

many label moguls like Dupri are trying to get their reality shows bought so that they can ride out this storm

problem is that there are so few time slots and way to many label moguls that are going broke by the minute”

To run a small label ?

you are looking at 100k a month on the low end

I imagine Dupri is spending 1MM a month trying to keep his empire afloat

and if 2.5MM a month is not coming in he will be out of business by the years end

he used to make over 30MM a year.

“…at least that is what I was told from the locals. ”

“Hustler’s paradise?”

WTF? Maybe that’s why it took 7 of you and your friends to beat up one measly Vista slinging idiot you’re going off the hearsay of “locals?”

Sounds like bootleg copies of Vista is the LEAST of their problems in Atlanta…..wouldn’t you agree? I think authorities there have their hands full with REAL problems like drugs violence traffic etc. BTW who the hell would even want Vista let alone buy it?

The Internet means software piracy is GLOBAL the sooner you adapt to it the better. Unless you plan to inspect every single data packet transmitted between users it’s a losing battle.