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tell me the artists are suffering when they have only 2 mercedes and 10 plasma TV's......right.
And yet, it is their absolute right, in a capitalist society, to earn as much as they can.
Who would you want to tell you when you've earned enough?
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Originally posted by Grymes:
A quick question becaise I seem to be out of the loop. Is this only going to after people that use Kazaa and have a "Shared Folder" where their music downloads to and is shared online? There are serveral other file sharing programs out there. For instance, eMule which I live by. Will the FIAA catch onto these programs also or have they already?
emule is a little bit different. as u connect to many different servers, usualy in different countries to receive the files u want. it will be a little hard from the riaa to get permission to go into those servers to get the ip lists of people downloading what ever.
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First of all Artist do not make much off of album sales. They make there money off of concerts and the like. So when people download a song and like, they might go to the concert, so it can be useful to the artist. The problem is the cost of CD's hasn't come down. And the answer is not Apple's music downloading idea. I am not gonna pay 99 cents per song. If I did that I'd have to pay nearly $3,000. I think the real problem here is the inflexibility if the music industry. They want it there way or no way. All the people who run the industry just want the money. They don't see that music is more then just a way of making money.
Exellent point. I'm not going to sit here and try to justify downloading music from kazaa because it's illegal and I know it,but the music industry is partially responsible for this craze. They have been infelxible in the past and continue to be that way now. They learned nothing from the whole Napster fiasco. Instead of rolling with the technology and using it to THEIR advantage they tried to shun it and shut it down which only created a bigger issue out of it with the new generation of p2p programs. What they need to do is similar to the apple thing but cheaper. I mean 99 cents a song costs more than buy an entire cd out of the store sometimes. IMO back during the Napster deal they should have setup a subscription site where you pay per month (price could be set depending on usage) but make it cheaper than buying a cd. CD Burners and broadband are in many many homes now so think about the overhead the record companies could cut by doing this...less cd's to produce+same steady sales=more money for the companies.
I also blame a part of this on artists. I started using napster back in the day because I got tired of spending 18 bucks on a cd that had 2 good songs on it. With pnp I can download more songs and see if the cd is even worth buying to me and especially with newer groups (if the whole album is good) I will support them by buying the cd. Bottom line: if the artists stopped putting out so many crap cds with garbage for filler and put out 100% quality EVERYTIME I think it would cut the downloading and burning down SOME.
Until they music industry decides to embrace technology instead of trying to beat it down they will constanly be trying to stop these sort of things because as soon as Kazaa goes down there will be a ton of new era pnp programs to replace it.
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Originally posted by freakshow:
Bottom line: if the artists stopped putting out so many crap cds with garbage for filler and put out 100% quality EVERYTIME I think it would cut the downloading and burning down SOME.
Exactly. Most of the stuff people are putting now is crap. You get maybe 2-3 good songs on a $20 cd. And most of the good songs, you've heard on the radio 10 times a day.
Also if everyone stuck to downloading porn like I do then the music industry wouldn't have a problem. Of course most people aren't pervs like me. 
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How much porn do you have to have on your comp to officially make you a pervert? I mean is there a set amount like say 6gigs? Not that I would EVER have that much porn on MY computer but...well I dunno its been a long day and I'm bored and the mind strays to stupid things like this.
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Well I have over 15,000 files so far.
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Originally posted by maxx_power76:
Well I have over 15,000 files so far.
But do you have it neatly placed into catogories and correctly labeled and sorted by type of file ?
All text stories in one place all pictures in another place all movie files in another place all audio files in a different place  (
For those wondering no I do not have a collection like this.
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So when you download your 6th gig of porn do lights and sirens go off and confetti fall from the ceiling or does your sock out of pure frustration just finally get up and walk away and go on strike? 
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i have over 500 gigs of anime on cd and hard drive right now. i'd like to see what kind of bill i'd get. I also have about 20 gigs of MP3s.
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