What's Your View On Torrents?
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- Buck's Student
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What's Your View On Torrents?
Does everyone here pretty much think torrents are wrong, or do you guys have no problem with them?
Re: What's Your View On Torrents?
I have no moral or ethical problem with them. I dl mostly music, so I usually simply wait for Google to lead me to what I want without the 'middleman' software.
As a side-bar, I found the two disc special edition of IE ( which I have owned since its release; I waited long enough for that.) for $3.99, pre-viewed, at Blockbuster, so I fail to see that dl'ing movies seriously affects anyone's profit margin. It seems simpler to me than a dl just to wait until the vendors must make more shelf space and so remainder their stock.
Once again, beware: the Windows Vista( 64 bit) as of next February will have the technical ability and legal authority to shut down( remotely) any system that dl's copyrighted material. crApple already has this ability, both iPhone and their laptops. This outrageous intrusion by Big Business and Big Brother seems far more worriesome to me than the problem it was intended to solve.
Let's face it: the 'music industry' is moribund and soon will be an art form, pure and simple. Good!
I think that relatively cheap digital video, as indicated already by IE, can move the 'film industry' the same way. We shall see.
As a side-bar, I found the two disc special edition of IE ( which I have owned since its release; I waited long enough for that.) for $3.99, pre-viewed, at Blockbuster, so I fail to see that dl'ing movies seriously affects anyone's profit margin. It seems simpler to me than a dl just to wait until the vendors must make more shelf space and so remainder their stock.
Once again, beware: the Windows Vista( 64 bit) as of next February will have the technical ability and legal authority to shut down( remotely) any system that dl's copyrighted material. crApple already has this ability, both iPhone and their laptops. This outrageous intrusion by Big Business and Big Brother seems far more worriesome to me than the problem it was intended to solve.
Let's face it: the 'music industry' is moribund and soon will be an art form, pure and simple. Good!
I think that relatively cheap digital video, as indicated already by IE, can move the 'film industry' the same way. We shall see.
- human germ
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Re: What's Your View On Torrents?
well, i confess to having pirated just oodles os music.
alas, i have never been able to figure out how to use those torrents.
alas, i have never been able to figure out how to use those torrents.
done bun; can't be undone
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Re: What's Your View On Torrents?
You're kidding me about the Vista thing, right?Carl wrote:I have no moral or ethical problem with them. I dl mostly music, so I usually simply wait for Google to lead me to what I want without the 'middleman' software.
As a side-bar, I found the two disc special edition of IE ( which I have owned since its release; I waited long enough for that.) for $3.99, pre-viewed, at Blockbuster, so I fail to see that dl'ing movies seriously affects anyone's profit margin. It seems simpler to me than a dl just to wait until the vendors must make more shelf space and so remainder their stock.
Once again, beware: the Windows Vista( 64 bit) as of next February will have the technical ability and legal authority to shut down( remotely) any system that dl's copyrighted material. crApple already has this ability, both iPhone and their laptops. This outrageous intrusion by Big Business and Big Brother seems far more worriesome to me than the problem it was intended to solve.
Let's face it: the 'music industry' is moribund and soon will be an art form, pure and simple. Good!
I think that relatively cheap digital video, as indicated already by IE, can move the 'film industry' the same way. We shall see.
Shit. I may need to check into that.
Re: What's Your View On Torrents?
Just the 64 bit version, to my understanding. That's why the poor schmuck we saw pilloried a couple of month's ago in the 'show trial' in Ma was said to be the last prosecution planned. Now, they will use tech means.
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Re: What's Your View On Torrents?
Hmm... It won't last. Record companies got in trouble for having software on albums that would feed information to them, just to track if music was being stolen.Carl wrote:Just the 64 bit version, to my understanding. That's why the poor schmuck we saw pilloried a couple of month's ago in the 'show trial' in Ma was said to be the last prosecution planned. Now, they will use tech means.
I have only read that they will only shut it down if you have an "illegal" downloaded version of Windows.
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Re: What's Your View On Torrents?
I rely on torrents a lot for my entertainment collection, mostly because the music I'm interested in is not available in the cd shops where I live. I've also been able to find some good rarities on the net, including some Lynch gems!