[mythtv-users] Torrentocracy

[Ed Benckert]

> I make my living off of intellectual property.  People who think it's 
> hunky dory fine to download movies, music and tv shows off the net piss 
> me off.  The knowledge that in a few years anything worth recording will 
> not be recordable in the US because of those same people causing the 
> broadcast bit to be turned on for everything pisses me off even more.  
> So if I come off as nasty GOOD!   I mean to be.  If you're one of the 
> group that are walking all over copyright law you ARE and idiot because 
> you're screwing things up for everyone else because you're to stupid to 
> think beyond "I can get stuff for free" and consider the bigger picture.

This is getting way off topic, but I had to chime in here.

Regarding pirating and P2P and all that, I stand by my assessment that P2P, 
piracy, illegal sharing, etc is not hurting the recording industry, the 
movie industry, etc nearly as much as they scream it does. Why? Because 
99.999% (only a guess, but I'd bet it's near accurate) of the people 
downloading and using these mp3's, movies, tv shows etc, if they could not 
download them for free, WOULD NOT BUY THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I've downloaded MP3's, I've downloaded movies, I've downloaded software in 
the past. Not a single one of the things I've downloaded would I have bought 
if I could not have downloaded it. And I dont think I'm in the minority 
here. Sure, some people do use it as a way around buying the product, but 
I'd imagine the vast vast majority do NOT use it as a way to avoid buying 
it. They wouldnt buy it one way or the other, but hey, if it's free, why not.

I'd never pay for a vacation to Nebraska. No offense to Nebraskans(?) but 
theres nothing there I'd pay money for to go see, if I have $2000 to go on 
vacation, I'm going to a tropical island. If someone GAVE me a trip to 
Nebraska for free, hell yes I'd go. But if I was not given the trip, I 
wouldnt pay to go there.

Same with that copy of the Gladiator Soundtrack I downloaded. Cool music. 
But if it were not online to download, no way in hell would I pay good money 
for it.

The stuff I like and want, I've bought, especially the smaller artists 
trying to make it big, I buy their stuff, I want to support them. That new 
country song I like I heard on the radio? I'm not paying $16 for the whole 
frigging CD, so I'll download the song. If it werent there to download, I 
still wouldnt buy the CD.

I dont see how someone's losing money.

(Of course this doesnt get into the big operations pirating and selling 
pirated stuff... THERE the music, movie, etc industries DO lose money... 
someone is willing to pay for a product, and the money didnt go where it 
should have...)