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MegaUpLoad was more of a Storage facility too.
If they want to Stop the sharing of Copy-write music & Video, they need to Block/Close P2P groups like emule, Torrent, Limeware, etc. I used Mega as an off site storage/back up for CD's I only have poor copies of. Now, I Definitely need at least one external Hard-Drive!! Plus, I would love to see their reaction when I go to them to Buy/Order CD's & DVD's Not sold in the US that I can not longer Get On-line!!
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Personally, I think the taking down of MegaUpload is a good thing. That is an opinion based on my visceral hatred of internet pirates, rather than any deeply thought out analysis of the subject. IMO, the vast majority of files stored/shared on these sites are pirate/illegal content and well they know it. Again, this is opinion not based on any hard facts.
My only gripe about this is that it took whining from big guns like the movie industry to get it done when many, many of us "little people" have been screaming about it for years. Much the same attitude applies to hackers. Joe public and small time website owners can be hacked all day long and the culprits are never brought to book, UNTIL a Government agency or financial institution is hit and then the scumbags are traced, caught, extradited (if necessary), charged and slammed in the pokey in the blink of an eye. If it takes the sacrificing of MegaUpload to make the rest of the numerous similar services tow the line, then I'm all for it. |
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I agree with the gripes about piracy, but this was totally the wrong way of handling it. A great deal of legitimate people were hurt by this, and will be continued to be hurt by this. I've heard many stories of people losing backups of important files (some even work related) because they were hosted. Plus a number of people shared their work solely through these websites.
One thing to keep in mind though: When someone pirates a movie/song/piece of software/whatever (really, the term pirate is a misnomer since nothing is 'stolen'), the content owner doesn't really lose out. If someone walked up to my car and made an exact duplicate then drove off, I wouldn't care. In general most of the ones pirating are either doing it because they're poor and can't afford the original work (no lost sale), because they want to try before they buy (Who wants to shell out $60 for a game only to find out it's a buggy piece of rushed crap that doesn't work?), or in the case of video games, because their copy was damaged or they were locked out by overprotective DRM software. I know this because pirating is -veerrry- common, especially around college kids. The people that care about the product and enjoy it will pay for it as long as it's affordable; a lot of people I know will download music and if they don't like it delete it, but if they like it, go out and legibly buy it. In fact there's many free projects (including open source and public domain) that are very popular yet run solely by donation. Perhaps if companies (particularly music, movie, software, and game companies) charged more reasonable prices for their works, piracy would be much less common. With digital distribution, they don't need to charge $60 for a digital download of a game when they aren't paying as much for marketing, packaging, distribution, etc. Yet they still choose to charge the same price for a digital download as they do for a store-bought copy. They need to learn to adjust to new changes in technology instead of clinging to outdated business models that are designed to suck as much money from consumers as they think they can get away with. |
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"If someone walked up to my car and made an exact duplicate then drove off, I wouldn't care.".......but Ford or Chevy might have a problem with that!
"Perhaps if companies (particularly music, movie, software, and game companies) charged more reasonable prices for their works, piracy would be much less common.".......its called supply and demand, part of the capitalist system that so many young folk hate cause they dont understand, or are just used to getting everything for free? If the price is to high there will be less sales and the price will go down or the company out of business! |
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They are not being charged so much for hosting copyrighted material - the vetting of which would be impossible - but for allegedly offering incentives for the uploading of popular copyrighted material which then earning them more advertising revenue, i assume, through a "$ for clicks" system...
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What about all the stolen game content this site links to and distributes?
I recently reverse engineered some game formats that were produced for Games Workshop, after reading their policy for their content, it explicitly states that none of their content is to be used for paper modeling purposes. Yet I see Games workshop content posted time and again on this site. I also see more and more game content be churned out as 'paper models' without ANY thought as to it's legality. I do know of some games that were released as, or later as, open content, but the vast majority isn't, most of the time the ACTUAL 3D game content is being released without permission. Sometimes no attempt is even made to turn it into 'fan-art', the model is just released unfolded, apparently this is acceptable. I don't see that anyone has the right to complain about internet piracy, or pirated paper models, when this site is promoting the piracy of 3D game content. It does hurt this community by allowing such content to go unchecked, i've seen many modelers give up, unable to compete with the deluge of pirated models, less and less people want to produce their own original content, let alone share it. Well that's just my opinion, i'm off to reverse engineer the microsoft train sim format. ARRRRRR JIM LAD. |
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Pretty much, the best way to solve any problem is to first identify the source, and fix it. As someone on another forum pointed out about piracy:
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The third group above is actually the most common being largely the modern generation that is used to being spoonfed and which has yet to make a valid connection between labour and reward; it also includes all those who use faux morality to justify piracy e.g. 'Bill Gates is so rich it is OK to pirate MS products'.
The simple fact is that the internet has just made it so much easier to distribute pirated material without much fear of detection or retribution - if we only had the physical transfer of pirated material to deal with the problem would not be nearly so great...
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