As they do annually, the RIAA has released their latest list of "notorious" piracy sites. The list is sent to the Office of the United States Trade Representative and includes large piracy sites and also "accomplice" sites that help users access unauthorized content more easily. "We want to take a moment to reflect on the fact that thanks in large part to the efforts of the U.S. government ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by ethicalfan:NONSENSE............your view is NONSENSE!
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
Originally posted by ethicalfan:Google can be your friend. Nice that you pulled the data you pulled out of your azz because if you did a little more digging, you would see the U.S. motion picture industry pulled in 65billion in 07. However, over seas, it was less, but box office revenue was UP, WAY UP all over except the use who had a modest gain of 7% while others had as much as 55%. The money has to be going somewhere and it's not the artists, it's the backers of those artists, so, which artistic talent are you rooting for? Same with the auto industry. Cars are not built on american soil but they try to guilt us to "buy american". It's not the line worker, parts supplier or die maker who's getting the money in the U.S., it's the guys who live in 10k square foot homes in Bloomingfield hills MI, Grosse Point MI or Auburn Hills who's making the money. So, Nice try but a 5th grader can figure out in about 5 minutes that the day the industry got 90% of monies from the works of the performers was the day people decided they were not going to support the industry.
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
Originally posted by ethicalfan:This guy is all over the place. He posted the same stuff on Techdirt and Torrentfreak, but he contradicts himself and never responds to anyone that calls him out on his BS. Sounds like a bot.
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
Originally posted by coachop:I'm guessing yes......'cause anyone with that level of ethics is rarely found on a site like AD.
Ethicalfan: Do you work for "them" spouting all their propoganda.
Originally posted by ethicalfan:But you are a fan if you love their coffee so much that you try to COPY their recipe in case they decide to close shop where you live or sell out to a company that doesn't make the coffee the same way.
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
Originally posted by ethicalfan:You must be a MPAA/RIAA lackie!
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
Originally posted by ethicalfan:paying a***oles like Tom Cruise 15 million dollars to make a movie can also help contribute to destroying movie business workers careers. Also I don't see how musicians can be feeling the effects of piracy on their lives. You only have to watch MTV cribs to see that most of them have money to burn
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by ethicalfan:NONSENSE............your view is NONSENSE!
"Fans" don't use Pirate Bay, Isohunt or KAT. Fans are people who appreciate and respect artistic work. You are not a fan of your local coffee shop if you walk out with the coffee and don't pay. Piracy is a significant contributor to the worldwide recession. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that musicians wages are down 45% since p2p technology arrived. US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007. Those are real jobs lost that are not coming back until the public realizes that these are your friends and neighbors whose careers are being destroyed by lack of copyright enforcement. Who is destroying these industries? ISPs who ignore the law 17 USC 512 (i) and do not terminate repeat infringers. US Telecom makes >$400B a year, creative industries less than <$80B a year. Verizon $120B a year, Viacom (CBS, MTV & Paramount Pictures) $14B a year, Warner Music Group $2.4B a year.
You're duped into their "glass half empty" mentality where they seemingly have proven a negative to you. Ummm..........sorry...........can't prove negatives. They are merely speculating about their unrealistic and seriously biased approach to an arbitrary number of how much they think they lose to piracy to shun people like gullible you into not pirating anything. I pirate, sure but possess a shitstorm of blu-rays and dvds. As for music, nah, I don't buy anything because the artist MAKES MONEY FROM TOURING for the most part. No CD purchased or not will every weigh my decision to go see them live. I will simply go see them if I like them..........PERIOD.
You best check that tone before ranting about something you may know a little about whilst you close your mind to the other scenarios and realities.
Quote:I love how all these stats compare when the economy was rocking to a point when it was sucking. You mean to say that, when the economy is good and people are flush with cash, they spend more? That's amazing!
US Home video sales (DVD, BluRay, PayTV, VOD, Streaming) are down 25% to $18.5B in 2011 from $25B in 2006.
The first BitTorrent search engines debuted in 2004. Recorded music is down worldwide from $27B in 1999 (Napster) to $15B in 2011. Video Game (console & PC) revenue is down 13% from 2007.
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