LiquidThunder said:
Even if canadians downloaded from Kazaa, I don't think that the publishers lawyers, would go and try to sue every single person who downloaded off it, and its just like roms on the internet, its illegal, but nobody seems to care to do anything.
They do not have the budget to do that unless they use the profits from suing to fund another person's justice but it would take a great deal of time unless they had at least 10,000 Lawyers... That would probably saturate the canadian justice system.
Haruka said:
I hate Privacy. I perfer buying the whole CD or buying it from a payed online service. It's a sin to steal things from other people. You know that. It's in the 10 comandments. :P
Don't you mean piracy?
Haruka said:
so, it will be a sin to hate digimon.. Oh my gosh!
I can still dislike it. ;)
LiquidThunder said:
Everybody steals in thier life without even noticing it, eg. Taking pictures off the internet, or even using pics in signatures.
How can you commit a crime without knowing it? You know you what are you doing when you are doing it.
22sa said:
Yeah and some people use it to determine if they actually want to buy the CD or not. A lot of CDs I bought kind of felt like rip-offs where only one or two songs are good and not the rest...
They aren't supposed to be using it in the first place.
DragonTrainer said:
Even if they get rid of kazaa, people will make new piracy sites.All I download from the net is roms.
You must mean P2P programs. Anyway, if the ISPs got together and blocked a couple of ports, P2P would cease to exist.
G-LANCE said:
if they're gonna ban kazaa they might as well make mp3's illegal!
(i have an mp3, a really cool one too)
MP3s are music files, they aren't illegal. However, what they are of can be illegal.
images said:
it isn't exactly illegal, since no one is selling the stuff on kazaa. it's called "sharing"
When you steal something, the owner of that is losing money. Stealing means losing money, not making it.
22sa said:
I think Nintendo has copyright for it's games for like 70 years or so... After the copyright to expires, it'll be legal to download ROMs I guess.
70 Years after the death of the author.
Haruka said:
pffft.. It's the RIAA fualt that the prices go up. Prices go up on CDs when people stop buying them.. Oh, yets go download them off for free. NOT! do you know downloading music illeagally is stealing?
There are places that open up. You can buy a single music file for a cheap price. Examples like Apple's iTunes, Real One, etc. The half of the profits go to the RIAA. :P isn't that nice?
Supply and Demand. When the demand is low prices go down, not up. For the music companies, raising them would be a nice thing and since they own the song, they can charge $500 for it if they want.
Dizzy said:
I agree ,
The Riaa Needs to back off , The more people downloads the artists song , the more popular.......
They don't want you to download it for the same reason you want to download it. They don't care about their popularity, they care about how much money they make being popular. Just like how you download it because you don't want to spend a few dollars on it. Or like how a person steals food because he doesn't have money to buy it.
frostweaver said:
well you see regarding roms...
i download roms that i cannot possibly buy anymore, like the old SNES ones (as if they're going to remake them). The only way to get the old SNES roms is to download. The remake versions on GBA are just not the same...
i do not download music off the net except for game music, and last time i checked i do not see a "Legend of Dragoon Music Collection" in stores... the only game that has made a CD is Final Fantasy (but actually it's the CD of a guy who composed like 90% of FF songs... like Liberai Fatali and etc)
You see Napster got shut down because of this copyright problems. Think Kazaa will share the same fate?
It is illegal regardless of the avaliability. If you lived in a country where you were too poor to get US Dollars, would counterfitting them be right?
DragonTrainer said:
I possibly think that kazaa will be shut down for good.I think that it is ok to download old roms, but not movies and music.
It has legal cover as it is a tool that can be used to steal music. Just like a hammer is a tool that can be used to bash a person's face in.
Kairi said:
The thing is though, KaZaA is not centralized. It's people spreading and sharing files. KaZaA has legitimate uses as well, whereas Napster was solely for taking music.
Eep...I meant to not post in this topic. x_x; Oh well.
You are right. However, what those uses are, is yet to be shown.
22sa said:
That's what I thought a while ago. Except, they still have copyright, and ROMs were always illegal to download.
Also Haruka, I had meant hate towards other humands (which excludes animals and such).
They are illegal to upload as well.
Haruka said:
Now, they have a more legal way of getting music.
Apple's iTunes.
Use MS's Premium services via Windows Media Player 9. I believe Napster is now a legitmate online music purchasing service that can be used via WM9.