Illegal Downloads aka the Hong Kong of the Internet

Um...

My whole debate on this is....

You can now get High Speed Internet where you can connect to the internet (thus download) at speeds so insane (i personally have a 2.2g speed) so i can download at on average, 100kbps.

What other purpose would ISP's give out so much speed, if it wasnt to download/upload....would you really need it that fast to send a document from the UK to the US for example...? Highly unlikey is the most respected answer!

If it was really that easy for the RIAA to obtain info on who downloads from where, who and waht, we would be fucked over a barrel by now...i have been downloading music and other variable formats for best part of 8 years...

Now i am either downloading stuff that the RIAA are not concerned about, which i highly doubt....Or it is because the RIAA are nothing but oversensuos idiots that go out of their merry way of life to try and gain money the easy way, as Darklink pointed out....

Scare tactics have never stopped me from doing what i do....And i have to point out at this point that i do buy Music and DVD's still that would keep the business ticking over, so for me...am i guilty for downloading the stuff i do....Like F*** am i....

As i have said, i have done it now for 8 years or so, and im sure i will be doing it for the next 8 or more....

Lets face the bare facts here....

You can purchase CD Burners, DVD Burners....CD's to burn data and such on...DVD's to burn data and such on Stupid sized HD's (i think 10gig HD would suffice the norm)...And that also spreads to equipment you can get for home use as well as PC use.....So come people (and the RIAA) if it was "Illegal" to download music and burn music and other data to CD...I think you should be starting with those outlets that sell the above stuff that clearly encourages people like us to do it....Cos for me anyway....If i didnt have a DVD Burner, DVD's to burn on... I guess i wouldnt be able to burn music ...And if i didnt have an exceptional sized HD (more than 1 actually) i guess i wouldnt be able to store msuci and other medias as i do....

So who really is to blame overall? us for downloading the media....or the stores for making it more accetable bu supplying equipment that enables to store more and download more..Faster and to burn stuff for our own pleasure & Others??????

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Snowknight

That's guilt by association, which doesn't really work here.
Blaming this on retail chains that sell equipment which facilitates illegal downloading is much like placing the blame for the 9/11 attacks on Boeing. Just because something can be used for an illegal purpose doesn't make the thing itself illegal. Blaming companies who sell computer equipment is simply asinine.

Um, you misrad me i think...im not blaming no fucker!

Double Post:

Originally Posted by Free.User

Incase you hadn't noticed, speedy networks, large harddrives, and CD/DVD burners can be used for a lot more than illegaly spreading music. Just becuase you don't use them for anything else doesn't mean that others don't. Let's say I'm a game developer, and I just created a bunch of raw .wav files for my upcoming game, and I need to send them to another department across the country. I could either send them across the internet, or mail them on a DVD. Both of these options are high-speed/high capacity methods, but are perfectly legal. I'm not pirating or illegaly destributing anything, I'm simply transporting my own personal material. (MagicumMusica, you may also want to double-check your network speed measurements [g, m, etc])


Oh. Does that mean if I careen down the road at 150km/h, I'm not doing anything wrong? I mean, the construction crew made the road so long and strait, so it must be their fault that I'm speeding. Right guys?

Im sorry, clearly downloading at high speeds is risking peoples lifes...i was nto aware of this, thankyou for this piece of useless info

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