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"A mother has received a demand for £4,000 in compensation by solicitors acting for the music industry after her daughter, Emily, was caught illegally downloading songs by her favourite artists.
Mrs Price, a self-confessed computer illiterate, said: "I don't know where I'm going to get the money from. I'll have to go to prison because I haven't got that kind of money."
As well as using the PC to help with her homework, 14-year-old Emily had been using file-sharing to download 1,400 songs for free."
From the Guardian. [URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1511068,00.html[/URL]
How stupid is this? I know it's making an example but even so.
On a more personal note, Tphi wonders whether turning off LimeWire now might not be a bad idea.
Mrs Price, a self-confessed computer illiterate, said: "I don't know where I'm going to get the money from. I'll have to go to prison because I haven't got that kind of money."
As well as using the PC to help with her homework, 14-year-old Emily had been using file-sharing to download 1,400 songs for free."
From the Guardian. [URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1511068,00.html[/URL]
How stupid is this? I know it's making an example but even so.
On a more personal note, Tphi wonders whether turning off LimeWire now might not be a bad idea.
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Chippxero wrote:
> I say good, she must have know her daughter was downloading music.
I wouldn't say so.
> I say good, she must have know her daughter was downloading music.
I wouldn't say so.
Damarus wrote:
> DVD's - I'd never pay £20 for a DVD to watch it a couple of
> times.
To be fair, few DVDs are £20 unless its a boxset. But yeh I agree that sometimes you want a particular track on the album and don't want to buy the whole goddamned thing.
> DVD's - I'd never pay £20 for a DVD to watch it a couple of
> times.
To be fair, few DVDs are £20 unless its a boxset. But yeh I agree that sometimes you want a particular track on the album and don't want to buy the whole goddamned thing.
I'd never buy most of the stuff I download anyway unless having tried the download to find out that it is worth purchase.
Examples:
Albums - You hear one good song from the album. Why would I want to spend £15 on an album where I have no idea if the song I like is the only song I like.
Movies - If it's a good film I will usually go and see it at the cinema with mates. If no one wants to go to watch a certain film I'm not going to go on my own anyway.
DVD's - I'd never pay £20 for a DVD to watch it a couple of times.
Games - I buy the ones I like and download the ones worth a try. If it's good I'll buy it.
Examples:
Albums - You hear one good song from the album. Why would I want to spend £15 on an album where I have no idea if the song I like is the only song I like.
Movies - If it's a good film I will usually go and see it at the cinema with mates. If no one wants to go to watch a certain film I'm not going to go on my own anyway.
DVD's - I'd never pay £20 for a DVD to watch it a couple of times.
Games - I buy the ones I like and download the ones worth a try. If it's good I'll buy it.
Bit Torrent is a protocol which is designed to allow file-sharing.
One file can be made into a "torrent" and distributed to other people.
So like say if person 1 puts an album up for release and shares the torrent file with persons 2 and 3, they will be downloading off person 1 whilst offering others to join the 'swarm' and download off each other.
You can get various Bit-Torrent clients that use the BT design, such as Azureus.
The protocol was designed to take strains off a 'Central Server' and allow sharing of huge files. Obviously the 'warez' and underground groups adapted to this and used it for illegal releases of films, albums, games and software.
The trick is, to find sites that share these .torrent files for you to use (not that I condone it). They're like 1kb in size.
All you do is open a torrent and start downloading/uploading.
One file can be made into a "torrent" and distributed to other people.
So like say if person 1 puts an album up for release and shares the torrent file with persons 2 and 3, they will be downloading off person 1 whilst offering others to join the 'swarm' and download off each other.
You can get various Bit-Torrent clients that use the BT design, such as Azureus.
The protocol was designed to take strains off a 'Central Server' and allow sharing of huge files. Obviously the 'warez' and underground groups adapted to this and used it for illegal releases of films, albums, games and software.
The trick is, to find sites that share these .torrent files for you to use (not that I condone it). They're like 1kb in size.
All you do is open a torrent and start downloading/uploading.
What is Bit Torrent, and why can you only get albums off it?
Not that I condone the stealing of music, but I don't see why people don't just use Bit Torrent. Granted, it's not as easy, and you get albums as opposed to songs. And you can't guarantee a good download speed, but it's a better idea.
Still, piracy is, and always has been a problem. Maybe if they didn't charge so much for a CD, they wouldn't have this problem. All CD's should sell at £9.99 MAX. I don't buy anything new from a music shop unless it's in the sale. I buy all my music from 'moc.YALP'... Cheaper than most places for music.
Still, piracy is, and always has been a problem. Maybe if they didn't charge so much for a CD, they wouldn't have this problem. All CD's should sell at £9.99 MAX. I don't buy anything new from a music shop unless it's in the sale. I buy all my music from 'moc.YALP'... Cheaper than most places for music.
phi11ip wrote:
> Legendary Link wrote:
> i would imagine that the main offence was uploading the songs, i
> mean
> if she had 1400 songs for people to download....... thats a lot of
> songs, i suggest not having ne thing to upload.
>
> That's the only reason she got caught. Downloading isn't seen as the
> problem, it's uploading them.
Yeah, thats right - I remember reading the article a few months back - she was convicted of uploading all the music
> Legendary Link wrote:
> i would imagine that the main offence was uploading the songs, i
> mean
> if she had 1400 songs for people to download....... thats a lot of
> songs, i suggest not having ne thing to upload.
>
> That's the only reason she got caught. Downloading isn't seen as the
> problem, it's uploading them.
Yeah, thats right - I remember reading the article a few months back - she was convicted of uploading all the music
Legendary Link wrote:
> i would imagine that the main offence was uploading the songs, i mean
> if she had 1400 songs for people to download....... thats a lot of
> songs, i suggest not having ne thing to upload.
That's the only reason she got caught. Downloading isn't seen as the problem, it's uploading them.
> i would imagine that the main offence was uploading the songs, i mean
> if she had 1400 songs for people to download....... thats a lot of
> songs, i suggest not having ne thing to upload.
That's the only reason she got caught. Downloading isn't seen as the problem, it's uploading them.
Think we've had the file sharing debate before.
I download loads, but I still go to at least a gig a month. Support the artist that way.
I download loads, but I still go to at least a gig a month. Support the artist that way.
Memorandum!ette wrote:
> Alfonse;
> you have to be the most illiterate, ignorant, idiotic,
> imbecilic wankshaft I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with on
> here
Takes one to know one!1111!¬!!
> Alfonse;
> you have to be the most illiterate, ignorant, idiotic,
> imbecilic wankshaft I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with on
> here
Takes one to know one!1111!¬!!
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