P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-23
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is still #1. It is the best movie this year. #8 in theaters. Guess them movie tickets are too expensive to see a movie 2, 3,4, more times. Popcorn and soda are going up too. It appears that a lot of people doing what I do, pay once, pirate a CAM for repeat viewings.
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Apple is tapeworm-firing employees who have had anything to do with the Leopard beta leak (even if they were only leechers being honest)? BitTorrent sites deleting leopard Torrents? You can’t systematically delete files off of Emule, so go download Leopard there. Apple doesn’t reward honesty either, which is not surprising considering their sweatshops (abiet high-end), DRM crap, and generally highly proprietary nature. Emule has superior longevity over BitTorrent also, so I’m pretty sure the Tiger developer leak is still alive and well there despite falling off of most Torrent sites.
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Looks like BearShare turned into a label-front for Imesh. I don’t know what the copying terms are in the DRM, but it is defintly subscription driven and the DRM looks proprietary (won’t work on other devices). It looks like that Emule took up most of WinMX and BearShare’s users long ago. Emule got probably half of LimeWire’s userbase, with the rest going to FrostWire.. WarezP2P appears to have taken some of the Emule UserBase, and the Pirate Bay took away a large amount of Emule Users after their successful defiance of MPAA-proxied swedish law enforcement too. LimeWire took a lot of Emule users when the German raids happened. The Emule user count average increased by half a million in the past two weeks.
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Too many private copies??? Well too bad. They are actually lower than they were in the 80s and early 90s in my opinion. I never owned a legit tape when I was a kid. Many of my tapes were often 2nd or 3rd hand copies or taped off of the radio.
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Customers crying out??? Screw them, they’ll keep paying. Label bosses crying out?? Who cares, he’s competition. $750 per song? No, 99c for your download as per the site, but I would probably add 99c for each fully copy you sent to someone else, if they don’t get sued also. This whole lawsuit thing is all outsourced anyway, as is the evidence collection.
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I would side more with the Pirate Bay than the RIAA. Plus I like the Pirate Bay’s boldness, though it is the RIAA and MPAA that are winning in congress.
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Looks like the continuing chronicals of the RIAA’s screw artists and consumers business model. I wonder if the RIAA, with all their sueing and all, will sue P2PNet for libel at all, exploiting Canada’s law structure?
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A college kid with rich parents (not only payng the bursar’s bill but also pay for everything else and give spending allowances) spending his money on parties and has no job downloading free stuff off of the internet is more of a true thief. A person working a full time job and spending most of the post-bills money on a decent (middle of the line or a used 2 year old high-end) computer and good broadband and buying legit copies the strict favorites is good enough for me to be OK with all the downloading. I think it would be a great way to get a homeless person or welfare recipiet to get a job (or an illegal job for a disability recipient as many can work part time in a limited low-stress and/or low-exertion, though often low-paying, sub-set of jobs, even the schizos).
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‘The pyramid of Internet piracy’ isn’t that good. CAMs go to bootleggers more. The release groups prefer DVD screeners though they are hard to come by now. Release groups hate the P2P networks, though many of their couriers leak. Some of the CAMers will release directly to P2P networks. Emule and Gnutella (BearShare, LimeWire) don’t need any of the facilitator sites though most curry-leaks go to BitTorrent first and then transfer to Emule via the multi-network clients like Shareaza and MLDonkey. Emule may be slower to get content but I’m not very up to date on the outside world anyway and if I happen to be up to date, then I’m patient becuase I like Emule’s robustness and file-longevity.
