Copyright piracy watch list

Piracy will drop when they start charging poor countries relative prices for their goods. Simple as that. A farmer must earn his keep by the sweat of his brow while these twits make money by somone else's sweat... or the push of a button.
 
I have a problem with the copyright statements they use.

No unauthorised lending?

That's like me buying a car but I am not allowed to let my mom use it.
And, they want to charge me R500 for 3 DVD's.
Pahlease.
Take out the lending, and then 5 of us can legally buy a box-set and share it.

I am tired of all this moaning just so that the select few can ride around in limo's all day.
 
Piracy sucks, I've produced 3 dvds and they've been pirated but more ppl viewed them so in a way its a good thing, I believe the business model has changed.
 
Groan - another were not making enough money scam. Bring your prices down - its highway robbery!

/me launches a downloaded mp3 :D
 
I must admit I DO feel a bit guilty when watching a downloaded / copied / shared movie, not that I see that many of them. The original artists/actors and everyone associated with the production of the movie lose out in the end, no matter how much/little. I DO prefer watching the movie at a good cinema.
 
Bottom line.... Find a way to secure there data/software = no piracy. Which i highly doubt will happen. Its like leaving a bank vault open, how many ppl in this country will steal everything (id dig a SSL Tunnel and take it all :-) would you?
 
It also has to do with humans needs and wants.

If we dont want to pay for entertainment, we could focus more on the important things like food and survival.

The industry needs to reinvent itself to face this challenge of what is important to a consumer?

If we are left with no entertainment then consumers will start to buy legal things to pass away the time and support the industry.

Taking into consideration the credit crunch and stock market prices falling ,we could sympathize with the layman who doesnt want to spend a lot of money on leisurely things.

Regarding P2P sites, the internet is built for information to be shared. If buy isolating information it would gather no meaning. People would not even be aware it exists.

In a way the internet has done the industry a favour of getting their products out there. They just need to work out how they would get paid.

P2P has beat corporations and they dont like to lose.
 
Bizkit87 said:
I've always wondered what would happen if they designed a device that can "copy" real life things, cars, food etc....

and you use this device to copy someone else's car, would it be considered stealing? just asking.....
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I actually saw a show on discovery with an idea similar to that. I think its called The Future world or something.

Basically it's a machine that will out of molecules or something create any design you feed it. You would of course have to buy the blueprint... or download it :D
 
vatso said:
I'll better not post here else 'Sir Valiant White Knight of Anti-piracy' (vodacom3g) will come those poor companies rescue for possibly loosing billions to common thieves again...
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Copying isn't stealing because if I take your idea , you still have your idea.
Patents expire after 20 years, if it belonged to you in the first place then why should a patent ever expire. A Pierneef that hangs on your wall doesn't "expire" after 20 years - it is yours forever.
* http://www.gridlockeconomy.com/
Patents are stifling innovation. Heller's main thesis is that too much ownership can work to 'gridlock' economic progress, investment and innovation. This is explored in how granting too large a bundle of rights for patents has hobbled many high-technology, biotechnology and pharmaceutical development efforts, threatening U.S. prosperity and consumer well-being.

Also, a fine chapter on how U.S. radio spectrum, subject for decades to FCC over-specification of permissible uses and politically-constrained allocation practices, is presently a mostly-wasted public resource. The chapter on Russia's efforts to adopt property rights in the retail and apartment markets alone is worth the price.


* http://www.patentassassins.com
* http://truereform.piausa.org/
* http://www.gridlockeconomy.com/buy.html ''The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (Hardcover)''
* http://www.publicknowledge.org ''Opposes copyright''
* [[RobertSteele]] ''Adds additional insights and points out some weaknesses in Lessig's book''
* http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000718
* http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail349.html
* http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5364/698
* http://opencopy.org/articles/disney-as-mass-deception/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_anticommons
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patents
* http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articlesmt/writing.shtml
* http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/copybot-roils-secondlife-economy
* http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/03/10/239249
* http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/549822/?sc=dwhn
 
mbp said:
Piracy will drop when they start charging poor countries relative prices for their goods. Simple as that. A farmer must earn his keep by the sweat of his brow while these twits make money by somone else's sweat... or the push of a button.
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The publishing industry is a good example. University textbooks are way cheaper in some developing countries, like India, than in SA or the US. This is because the publishers realise that they can still make money by dropping their prices of copyrighted books and making up for it through volume. The alternative is simple: varsity students will copy the textbooks they need if they can't afford it.
 
Anything that's pirated is ever worth the actual money ;) .... i thought they werent in it for the money ... oh well :D

Piracy brings brand loyalty for those higher ups that arent aware ...... you cant beat piracy .. change your business model to deal with it
 
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Bizkit87 said:
stealing a car from GM lot = their original stock -1 , copying = original stock = original stock.

I've always wondered what would happen if they designed a device that can "copy" real life things, cars, food etc....

and you use this device to copy someone else's car, would it be considered stealing? just asking.....
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There are already some devices that can be used to copy real life things. One such device is called a sewing machine. Hmm, I've never heard a congressman whinging about someone copying suits or dresses to use at home....

Nobody has proposed a tax on sewing machines because they can be used to copy designer dresses.... No hockey mum's have had swat teams bashing down their doors because the prom dresses they have been making might have been copies.

Come to think of it, I have a plunge router and a circular saw in the garage. I recently made a copy of my bookshelf for my son. Am I a criminal?
 
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