Piracy is an action sport. The ability to infringe copyright and steal valuable work induces a rush like no other. Whether you steal music, movies, books, applications, or whatever, it feels like breaking the law and it saves our wallets and purses from becoming empty. But not everyone is as fortunate as we are to know the ins and outs of the world of piracy. There’s so much to take in and only so much time for us to Google around for the answers to our questions. Luckily, you have a master pirate on deck to help you with understanding the basics that will get you downloading Spiderman 3 in no time.
For this Help Key, I’m going to break it down into a few separate sections. This will allow you to skip to the section relevant to you and will also allow us to discuss topics in an organized matter. Ok. Computer on? Let’s get started.
Understanding Piracy
Piracy is a vast underworld of skilled, ninja-like hackers who blow up mainframe computers for profit. Actually, this is a complete lie, but the underworld part has some truth to it. There are two types of people/groups releasing movies, music, and everything else to the general public. There is the individual pirate who is on their own and perhaps decided one day to sneak a camcorder into the 11:35am showing of Happy Feet. He will go home, rip the video from his camcorder, encode it in a proper format, usually in the XviD codec, and will upload it to either a server or his peers. Some would call “casual piracy.” Nothing too huge and the pirate keeps to himself mostly. Your casual pirate could also be a top-tier uploader as well, someone who sends file after file to sharing sites in order to improve their ratio so they can download other files.
Then there is The Scene. According to Wikipedia, The Scene is a term used to refer to a collection of communities of pirate networks that obtain and copy new movies, music, and games, often before their public release, and distribute them throughout the Internet (and previously through BBSes). A pretty solid description there and accurate as well. Scene groups work together over the Internet to put together “releases” which are then mass-distributed over networks such as IRC, Forums, Bit Torrent trackers, and so on.
So why do these people pirate? Who knows. It could be the thrill, it could be boredom or millions of other reasons. With the rise of DRM (Digital Rights Management) limiting the use of what we can do with something we already paid for, many people are turning to piracy as a way to free their data from the chains of DRM. After all, why the hell should I have to pay $15 for a Rage Against The Machine CD I lost back in 1997? I already bought it, I’m just re-downloading it because the CD can’t be found. Which brings us to our next topic…
Ways To Pirate Movies/Music/Software
If it’s a digital file, you can pirate it. But the sake of my fingers and your eyes, I’m going to stick to the top three pirated filetypes: music, movies, and software. This is a guide on how to pirate properly with specific applications. If you don’t know about some of these applications or methods used below, just search for them in Google and something informative is bound to come up.
As of right now, I’d say the best possible way to pirate something is through Bit Torrent. Using .torrent files and an application called a client, we can download files from other people using a tracker. A tracker coordinates the transferring of files among peers. All you need to know is that there are two kinds of trackers: public and private. Download from a public one such as Mininova, The Pirate Bay, or ISO Hunt, and you may find yourself getting sued by the MPAA or RIAA down the road. This may or may not happen and it’s all about being careful.
Public trackers are good for two things: learning how to use Bit Torrent properly and getting the occasional file we can’t find on a private tracker. The other day I wanted to watch a specific movie I couldn’t find on a private site. I went to Mininova, grabbed the torrent, and downloaded it. No big deal. I probably won’t get caught. I just know I should only use public trackers when all else fails. A lot of older movies are available on public trackers, so feel free to use them at your own risk.
On to private trackers. Private trackers are a part of invite-only or closed community Bit Torrent sites. I’m not going to name any specific sites here, but these sites require knowing someone who has an invite and asking them for one. Once you’re invited, you are expected to keep a certain ratio. This means for every gigabyte you download, you should upload as well. This keeps everyone on the site happy and allows for super-fast, safe downloads of content you’d otherwise spend hours downloading off a public tracker. So if you download an album off a music site that is 120MB, be sure to keep your torrent client open until you’ve uploaded 120MB or more.
The advantage to these invite-only sites is just that. It’s invite-only. This means the MPAA or RIAA or FBI can’t automatically sign up, upload a torrent, and track you. This ensures everyone’s safety and also keeps the idiots away who come to leech off fair users like myself. You’ll notice that private sites also tend to have a greater library of content and of better quality. Looking for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie? It’ll hit the private trackers before the public ones, which again, is another advantage.
So now you’ve got the basics of Bit Torrent sites down. This method costs us no money, is the fastest free way to pirate, and can also save our asses from getting caught. But perhaps Bit Torrent is too hard for you to grasp or you can’t forward ports on your router properly due to limitations. Then what do you do? Use an alternative method of pirating. Duh.
Methods of Pirating
You can use multiple methods to get the same Rod Stewart albums you’ve been wanting for years. Here are some methods that will help you unleash your inner pirate:
Traditional P2P Applications (Kazaa, Limewire, etc.)
This is where your old pal Napster would fall in. Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, whatever your poison is, these are all peer-to-peer applications that allow the sharing of files from one user to another. I personally keep Limewire around for times I need one specific song or a rare file. You can get caught on these still, but the chance is minimal as long as you keep your pirating to the obscure and hard-to-find items. Even getting one or five Beatles songs won’t hurt you. The downside is that a lot of viruses hang out on P2P networks. If you use a Mac, no biggie. But Windows users are probably better off just skipping P2P altogether or using it very cautiously.
Bit Torrent
Again, as we discussed above, this is currently one of the most popular ways to share files. You help share the file as you’re downloading it and after it’s downloaded. Everyone else does the same. It works out like a big, happy, sharing family. I already went into detail about trackers above, so I’ll recommend some applications to use for Bit Torrenting since some are actually banned on private trackers.
If you use Mac OS X, I recommend Bit Rocket. It’s pretty much the only stable, fast client with an aqua GUI and it’s easy to use. Windows users should definitely use uTorrent, which is by far the most robust torrenting software available for the OS. If all else fails, you’re in a pinch, or use another operating system, there’s always Azureus. Azureus is a huge, highly configurable Bit Torrent client written in Java. It will always work and will always get the job done, but on Mac OS X especially, it’s one slow application. Use Azureus if other clients start messing up or if you’re clueless about Bit Torrent in general.
Usenet
Usenet is an old global Internet discussion system that can be used to share files. It’s the fastest way to get your download on, requires no uploading, and a lot of stuff appears here first. However, Usenet isn’t entirely free. Your ISP may give you Usenet access, but most people end up paying a monthly fee to a third party like GigaNews for unlimited access. You can use a Usenet client for your OS to connect to a server which you’ll then download files off of. It’s also not the easiest method to rush into and requires a bit of reading and learning before you use it.
File Transfers
Have an AIM account? Does your friend? Great. Start up your AIM client, IM your friend, initiate a file transfer and presto, you’re now a pirate. Yup. You can use your favorite IM program to send huge files between two people. Easy, free, and you won’t be caught. Recommended for the casual pirate who plans on sharing a file or set of files once or twice tops.
Streamload/MediaMax
MediaMax is an online storage locker where you upload files to the company’s servers. You pay a monthly fee for a set amount of data to be downloaded (10GB for example) and once you’ve pirated that amount, you’re done. You can upload all you please and the company has a blatant disregard for anything copyrighted. I gave out my account to some people on private Bit Torrent forums and I’ve seen some cool stuff uploaded. The new Bjork album, Batman Begins, and plenty of other treats. Check MediaMax.com out and see how you feel about it.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. You basically connect to a server, go into a chat room, and start browsing through people’s material. When you find something you like, you type in a command and start downloading it. You may get lucky and can start downloading right away. Half the time though, you’ll get caught in a queue, which essentially means you’ll have to wait for people in front of you to finish downloading before you can start. IRC isn’t as popular as other methods, but it’s generally safe and packed with good finds, especially movies and software.
One of the best IRC clients for Windows is mIRC, while OS X users tend to use Chax or Talk. Personally, I use Colloquy on OS X and find it to be the best client to date I’ve used. Linux users can use the 100,220,393,292 clients people have built for themselves.
Burning CDs and DVDs
Get some software, ask your friends what they want, and make copies. You can make some lunch money doing this or you can be a good pirate or just do it for the sake of freeing media. DVD-Rs are a steal nowadays. This is an easy, safe method that’s perfect for friends wanting to share movies and CDs.
Releasing Materials
So you’ve downloaded a few copies of newly released movies and the excitement is kicking in. You love this. You want to help out and contribute. How can you? Easy. Go through your CD and DVD collection and see what isn’t publicly or privately available and start ripping. A good collection of tools for a pirate to have can include CD or DVD ripping software, video and audio encoding software, compression software, video and audio converters, file converters, and lots more. Just do a Google search for “CD ripper windows” or “audio encoder OS X” to get the appz you need. If they cost money, just pirate them.
Once you’ve got the end result, let’s say a ripped DVD movie, you’ll need to make two kinds of files to be a legit/respectable pirate of the Internet. Include a .NFO file with information about the file you’re offering. It may also have some ASCII artwork. Here’s an example of what you might find inside a .NFO file:
Movie length: 1:45:03
Sound codec: AC3
Video codec: XviD 1.02
Encoded by: handlegoeshere
See all that useful info? Be sure to include it in your release! For more on NFO files, check this link out.
We’re not done though! I said two files should be included along with your release. The second is a .SFV file. Not everyone will use this, but it’s good to have. SFV stands for Simple File Verification. As the name implies, it verifies that the files downloaded are not corrupted or the wrong ones. If the hash check doesn’t work out, you may have a corrupted file, a malicious file added in to your download, or some kind of tracker or watermark an organization has added in. This step is up to you, but generally it’s a good idea. You can learn more about Simple File Verification here.
When all your files are finished, throw them in a properly labeled folder, include any artwork related to your release, and upload it to the internet. If you’re using Bit Torrent, creatie a torrent using a tracker (a freely available public one or a private one) and start seeding the files. If you’re on P2P, just throw it in a .zip file and put it in your “Shared” directory. Using MediaMax? Just upload the folder. Voila. You’ve now released something into the wild and if caught and prosecuted, you’ll be paying all kinds of fines.
Oh yeah. It probably goes without saying, but don’t use your real name when uploading files. Pick a handle that’s not related to you in any way at all. For example, “DallasGuy1982″ is not a good handle. I know you’re from Dallas and were probably born in 1982. This narrows down the FBI’s search when they trace your IP address for uploading files to The Pirate Bay. Pick something funny, strange, or obscure. “ReeferMan” or “Gh0st R1d3R” are good choices, albeit cheesy.
Not Getting Caught
As you probably guessed, piracy is illegal. Getting caught can land you some serious fines or even jail-time depending on the offense. Those of you in college should probably stay the hell away from piracy. I personally know about three people who have been caught downloading via Bit Torrent or P2P. The only safe way to pirate is to not do it at all. There will always be a chance that you can get caught, whether it’s the MPAA poisoning a torrent, the FBI giving a plea bargain to your best friend who got caught 2 weeks ago, or one of thousands of other ways.
So how do you protect yourself? Download from private servers and torrent sites. Using public trackers and P2P is like announcing to the world “Hey! Look at me! I’m pirating!” Stay away from anything public related and download in moderation. Scooping up 2TB of files in a week will make you stick out like a sore thumb.
Going to college this fall? Great. Leave the pirating for CD-Rs and AIM. Your college may have a lot of bandwidth to spare, but that bandwidth is being monitored and trust me: the RIAA or MPAA will eventually catch you throughout the next four years of your life. Just read the news and you’ll see how many kids are getting screwed over for $3000 to $6000 for downloading some songs.
Also, don’t brag. You know how the bank robbers always end up getting caught in every movie, right? They start bragging to everyone about what they did and how much they made out with. Telling a friend or two about how you snuck a camera into March of the Penguins and leaked it is generally OK, but don’t start posting shit on forums. Now you’re just asking for it. This is why using a handle is an added layer of protection. Even if they trace a release back to “HornyDude”, they still might not be able to find out who he is. Plus, “HornyDude” will look great on the Federal subpoena.
Well we’re done. Hopefully by now you’ve learned some essential tips to keep you out of trouble and to help you pirate more efficiently. Just remember that it’s not what you pirate, it’s how you do it.
Disclaimer: This guide is for informational purposes only and should not be used to actually pirate. Any reference to myself or anyone else is purely fictional. I don’t pirate, I bought all 100GB of music on my iTunes library legally, yo.
Cars are different than music in that they can’t be duplicated at no material cost. Also, which **AA do you work for? You’ve been at this thread for hours, I hope you are getting time and a half.
so, its not the law that counts but your personal view on the cost situation?
which – if you are familiar with economies of scale- would mean that you just choose to pay less money for every car thats sold cause costs decrease the more cars are sold?
reg your question: i dont work for any **IA i am a musician myself.
“Piracy is an action sport. The ability to infringe copyright and steal valuable work induces a rush like no other. Whether you steal music, movies, books, applications, or whatever, it feels like breaking the law and it saves our wallets and purses from becoming empty.”
Yea? Isn’t it more like a friend making a copy of the VHS tape for you?
A bit sensationalist, I’d say.
@Josh:
Yep. I expect to pay less for every car that’s sold. And, you know, that works – I am capable of buying a car, a computer, living in a comfortable, clean and big flat and traveling to distant countries for fun, and I am not a member of the high aristocracy.
And yes, there were quite a few jobs that were rendered obsolete or near-obsolete by technology. Too bad about those people and their families, but really – if you think that we should care, go to a blacksmith and buy several horseshoes and the cooper and buy a barrell. You do drive a car (and rob blacksmiths) and hold liquids in glass (!) bottles, do you?
The legality of filesharing is unrelated to the current topic. I am familiar with the theory of economies of scale. If cars could be duplicated at no material cost, they would be free (like media). At this point, I lose track of your metaphor, so I’ll talk about what we’re actually talking about instead.
If a total lack of scarcity devalues your work of art, and you can’t make as much money off of it as you could before the invention of the internet/cassette tape, you can do two things: 1) Make your art for less (or no) money or 2) Stop making your art.
What you can’t do is change the fact that your art can, and will, be reproduced freely by anyone with the means to do so once you distribute it to the public.
Link us to your band’s site? Free promotion for you!
How about this josh:
Go out and f’ing perform and charge people to hear you, make your money some how, be creative and embrace the new era of modern technology!
Hearing you useless “musicians” whine how the world is evil towards you is getting old, it reminds me of how English workers left unemployed by the industrial revolution attacked the machines that had now rendered their work obsolete.
Selling music the old fashioned way is simply not a possiblity any more, adapt or die.
Oh, and one more stab at Joshie:
If cars could be made in a 3-d printer at the push of a button, should we illigalize this too because of the poor car producers?
this discussion is senseless. while your only point that you stress is that stealing becomes a lot easier through new technology, you seem be totally ignorant of the fact that it is illegal.
if you feel that laws only apply where they seem to be comfortable to you i dont think there’s any point of continuing this.
this discussion is senseless. while your only point that you stress is that stealing is illigal, you seem be totally ignorant of the fact that stealing does not equal copying.
if you feel that logic only apply where they seem to be comfortable to you i dont think there’s any point of continuing this.
How do I know which torrent trackers are private?
Outdated, unenforceable laws do not govern my behavior. Still waiting for a link to your band’s site.
Nice example of pirating there in that dog picture…
…since it’s stolen from Worth1000.com.
I’d also like to add, if you want to minimize your chances of getting caught downloading music, develop a taste for the underground. If you’re downloading Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack on a torrent with 100+ seeders, chances are one of the RIAA’s goons are in there taking note of your IP address. On the other hand, if you’re downloading Black Flag’s “My War”, there’s zero fucking chance in hell that you’re gonna get popped. Regular use of the RIAA Radar will help too: http://www.riaaradar.com. Same goes with films. You’re a lot more likely to get busted downloading “Spiderman 3″ than “Tombs of the Blind Dead”.
Haven’t all the people sued by **AA been caught for sharing, rather than downloading?
the first rule of usenet is you don’t talk about usenet!!!
shhhhhhh!
Josh, with all due respect, you sound like a bit of an idiot. If your music skills are as crappy as your understanding of copyright and the (much longer) history of creative evolution, well, quite frankly, the world will be just fine without your “contributions”. Seriously, dude, it’s not about you: you can create music or not, but the world owes you nothing for it. And your woe-is-me attitude probably won’t pay the bills either. Have you considered a career in pirating?
you know last story that made digg was about private servers and then they were infultrated by the man. how many more of you waterhead retards are going to keep writing storys from the underground to keep exposing how $h!t works before you realize we can’t do anything anymore?
If I were to pirate music, I would go to the public library, which has a large, eclectic CD collection, and rip whatever I like. Here in Hawaii you can even access the entire state collection online, and have items sent to your local branch.
I thought I will learn some shit. This is weak! This is just a guide how to download for dummies.
Josh, i have no reason what-so-ever to believe that you are indeed a musician. There are statistics to prove that record companies are more detrimental to muscians than not, and theyre the ones who suffer from piracy, not artists.
Were i (or you) a musician which situation would you prefer? a) your recording contract or whatever manages to get 5,000 copies of your album sold, no one else listens to you because hypothetically they dont pirate your work. OR b) you sell maybe 1,000 albums but youre music has been copied and distributed ‘illegally’ to 100,000 people, most of whom will mention you to friends, buy your merch, go to your shows, and considered buying your next album legally
looking forward for you to link to your bands site, tell us your bands name, or maybe even tell us what instrument you play.
Piracy illegal? It could land you in prison??? WTF dude, you are sending out crazy messages. Domestic piracy is a civil offense, not a criminal offense, you don’t go to jail for that, you just get sued.
Nobody ever got sued for downloading only, not anywhere.
Get your facts straight or don’t bother publishing in future
wtf. seriously. your message for beginner pirates is like, “do not use public trackers unless you want to get caught”???
anyway, nice article. i don’t worry as much as you do, though.
“to boldly share where no man has shared before”
…and that’s _not_ gay.
The advice here is as amateurish as the audience its aimed at. Hiding your ip during transfers is the safest way to provide best safety, and installing tor and using the supplied socks proxy is a short example of how this is achieved (most tor servers are outside the US for obvious legal reasons).
However, I suggest purchasing a socks proxy from some of the proxy services offered on the web, or even better, buy a VPN to an anonymizer service.
Or just pay $100 a month for foreign colo space and set up your own and sell portions to your friends.
Home piracy is usually only a problem for you Americans, and as usual you have written an article as though the entire internet exists in America.
We (the rest of the world) see your copyfight with our jaws on the floor how far from “common sense” it has become. A quick perusal of the responses here show how polarized even this debate is , with many people I suspect speaking out according to their mood at the time they read this.
The American penchant for throwing your own citizens into court or jail is not shared by the rest of the first world, at least not to the extent it happens there.
I realize you cant exactly easily do a “Scene” guide, and wikipedia did an ok article.
Syngress published this book on “The Scene”.
http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=3230
which is as close to accurate as have ever been written.
This post really didn’t address the main issues of getting sued. Someone who knows please address!
1. public vs private- Safety- please explain why private are safer? Like it really is that hard to get invited to these sights. Also, how exactly do they get your name from a tracker? Do they have to be the ones who uploaded the file? If I know a file is from eztv could it still be tracked? I don’t like the fact of registering with a private tracker that tracks how much I have downloaded. Can they get this info.?
2. public vs private- quality and quickness of files- I think the article is wrong, from my experience public trackers like eztv, piratebay, mininova, btjunkie, newtorrents are much faster at getting the new/best stuff then any private tracker, and I’ve tried a bunch.
Ahahaha & ROFL @ 100GB of purchased 128kbps 17un35 tracks.
First of all, I’m not writing to support piracy. I like buying music from artists I support, and I use the word “support” because I view the money I spend on music as my vote for the artist. I should mention that the majority of what I listen to is not on major labels, so many of the musicians I like can’t afford to spend any less time at their day job to write or record music unless I send dollars their way. However the copyright law here in the U.S. is getting out of hand. See this article from 5/15/07 if you want to know how much worse it’s gonna get if people don’t speak out!!
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html
It appears that suing kids for illegal downloading isn’t deterring people from doing it so they want to be able to put them in jail for up to a decade. Give me a break!! There has to be another way to write the laws so that there is a balance between industry needs AND consumer interests.
Music existed long before the music industry and it will exist long after the industry’s demise. It’s sad that it appears to be an industry that is really just about maximizing the profitability of their PRODUCT rather than supporting the artistic expression of our society. Maybe some day, with the help of on-line communities we’ll get back to a point where the musicians themselves are the primary profiteers of their music rather than some grossly bloated industry that likes to think music wouldn’t exist with out them.
As Doug says, this article is too narrow minded and USA-centric.
In Spain, we call pirates to the people that board other’s boats, kill and rape them (normally dressing with funny hats like your dog).
And we consider them criminals.
A guy who downloads a copyrighted movie not only is not a pirate but he can even do it *legally* as long as he does not seek commercial profit from that copy. He can even legally give away copies to his friends and they can do the same too *legally*.
And Spain is not the only country in the world where copyright laws are *still* a bit more reasonable than in the USA.
I had high hopes for this article before I started reading as I found your other forums asking for guides. And result?
Well you have the package whole, facts and fiction all together nicely. Tho about the fiction, the parts where you ask why people pirate what ever they do, you didn’t had to suggest fictive answers, as you would have a chance to answer much much better.
As that’s pretty big question if you stop to think for a while, and different people have different reasons. Perhaps the ‘leakers’ and the people at top of the sharing chain might do it for fame or exitement or other feeling based reasons, I believe the reason for most of the ‘enduser pirates’ it’s just a need to have something right now, not later, something which current market system cant offer well enough for everybody.
I dont know where did you presented and for how large audience but it sure would have more impact into audience and perhaps later, on larger scale.
and now I’m out of time. gotta catch a train ^^1
The author of this article is clearly so ignorant that he doesn’t even understand the definition of piracy.
Try again when you find a clue.
Note Vince V. used to work for Hackaday. I met him at the Hackaday meetups in Philly. He presented his “work” on the CVS camcorder hack, which consisted of him soldering a USB cable to the camera and telling us “Well, it lights up.”. This was right after the CVS digital camera hack broke. Needless to say, those meetings lasted approximately 3 weeks until disbanding.
Nice to see not much has changed.
also i suggest Torrentools, is a browser toolbar for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer; allows to search several specialized torrent search sites for needed files. Extra features: torrent newsfeed, links to 30 torrent’s sites, links to 12 torrent’s group of discussion, links to 12 torrent’s forum.
http://torrentools.communitytoolbars.com/
The problem isn’t with piracy, it’s with shitty music. You can try to justify the fact that you haven’t become a big rock star by blaming P2P all day long but, the truth is, plenty of new music is discovered all the time and new artists are topping the charts every day. It doesn’t really matter how the music gets to people, it’s that the music DOES get to people.
Plenty of people still buy their music, either because they’re scared to do otherwise or because they’re a loyal fan or whatever, but they -will- buy it if it’s any good. I can think of a few bands off the top of my head that took a risk, put in the initial cost, and offered their music for free and have become incredibly successful by working with this system. Why? Because they make GOOD music.
Hi.
I have an idea how to fight against p2p piracy, and I don’t know who should I share it with? – maybe you could forward it to someone able to do it….
Idea is pretty simple, it is about the movies piracy:
To distribute in p2p networks, the copy of new movies but a little bit changed i.e.:
- movies without ending (no last scene)
- movies without some parts inside (the culmination part)
- movies with different order of scenes (beginning, finall scene, the the rest)
The idea is, to punish those who download the illegal movies, with taking from them the pleasure of wathing the movie – what is the pleasure if you know the end by the beginning, or if you watch the film but it is somehow incomplete – some parts are missing?
I think it could work – it is very difficult to judge if the film in an oryginal version or is it changed, if the changed films would be distributed from strong connection server it could spread all over the p2p very quickly.
What do you think?
Regards
Imko
I think that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. And if I get caught, I’m pleading insanity.
Oh and Josh – welcome to the 21st Century.
# twr
May 15th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Don’t forget the modern “sneaker net” !
These days, with 300 GB portable drives getting cheaper and cheaper, more and more goodies are shared among my friends by simply plugging and unplugging various USB devices.
+1
like your articles very informative gets the mind to think
agtwssbst
you’re so right about the rush! i get so excited watching utorrent and the download rate changing. afterwards i have to smoke.
imko,
it’s already being done. you download a movie only to find audio going out of sync in the middle of the movie or at the end, and they even cleverly move out of sync around so that it’s late at one point then going forward at another so you can’t just use software to shift audio to correct timing.
This is specially true for warez forums (article forgot about those) but i’ve seen it on torrents as well.
1. “Piracy” is an RIAA loaded catch-all term that needs to be dropped. Please folks, Call it copyright infringement or something else more accurate and descriptive.
2. You shouldn’t participate in the downloading (and ESPECIALLY the uploading) of RIAA/MPAA material. By doing so, you only help promote the works of the very enemy we are trying to kill. BOYCOTT that garbage and seek out independently produced tunes and vids that WANT to be shared!
3. Unfortunately, p2p, bit-torrent trackers and etc. tend to only feature/cater to the RIAA/MPAA & big media crap. Go to sites like DMusic and Revver for your music and video needs! (Of course, this plea/advice renders this entire article moot.)
–Shmoo of Electric Gypsy
Well i hope you are all working for free.. If you think it’s cool to deprive other people from their source of income, you should also share all your money and posession with everybody else.. Otherwise you’re just a bunch of sissies “wannabe rebels”.
Hey guys ! i just found a way to break in your bank accounts and transfer all of it into mine. I hope you won’t mind. Welcome to the 21st century. :-)
By the way , could you all publish your credit cards number here so we could all benefit from it ? Share the wealth guys ! thanks.
Piracy is cool.
O%2C+super+project.e
Copying data doesn’t equate to depriving someone of it, therefore no theft takes place. The same can’t be said about transferring money between bank accounts as suggested.
As an independent musician, I have found the pirate’s way to be very helpful in promotion and in getting people in other states out to my shows. If they don’t get to hear it they don’t go to see it, plain and simple, and since commercial radio rarely plays anything that’s NOT a major label, this has been a godsend for people like me.
Big artists are the only ones harmed; that’s a corporate fact. The gov’t should not be involved in protecting someone’s wallet. Whatever happened to capitalism? Isn’t it up to me to decide what to do with what I own? Do the major labels really need to tax college kids because they only want a few of the songs their crap-factories produce, instead of paying for whole albums of garbage?
Independent musicians thrive in open warfare with overfed, spoiled major label “stars”. That’s why they need uncle sam to hold their hands for them.
In the UK the copyright laws are gash too. But they’re much more sensible – they seem more interested in catching people wandering around the street selling the shit, rather than online though.
Half the time pirated cinema films are shit quality cams anyway, and i’m talking about the private tracker’s copies. And youtube videos are insanely shit quality, as with most streaming sites so don’t even bother.
i second your_ip_here
leave it to people that accully have spent the time and energy to learn somthing. we dont need more bittorrent and kazaa programs. i hate seein fucking everyone getting shit, go buy it u fuck, get off the network..
Aren’t you afraid of beein caught?