OscailtPimping the Music Industry and an Interview With A Vampire."S'cuse me Bud, d'ya 'ave an inlay card for tha?"
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2006-01-28T00:41:13+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=73977http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifSome articles of interesthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1363022006-01-28T00:41:13+00:00Auntie IRMAGreat article James!
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Online file sharers 'buy more music'...Great article James!<br />
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Online file sharers 'buy more music' <br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1536886,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1536886,00.html</a><br />
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Downloading 'myths' challenged<br />
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Net music piracy 'does not harm record sales'<br />
<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4831">http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4831</a><br />
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Red Pepper's 'Guerrilla Guide' to filesharing<br />
<a href="http://www.redpepper.org.uk/gg/x-nov05-guerillaguides.htm">http://www.redpepper.org.uk/gg/x-nov05-guerillaguides.htm</a><br />
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An artice I wrote on Indymedia when IRMA announced the first 'sweep' last year<br />
<a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69364">http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69364</a>Digital rights ireland have loads on this.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1363102006-01-28T02:30:37+00:00another linksee: http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/01/25/isps-ordered-to-hand-over-user-deta...see: <a href="http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/01/25/isps-ordered-to-hand-over-user-details-to-record-labels/">http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/01/25/isps-ordered-to-hand-over-user-details-to-record-labels/</a>BitTorrent is my favourite sinhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1363652006-01-28T16:22:45+00:00ErqWnQrI can totally understand why the music industry and Hollywood is freaking out ab...I can totally understand why the music industry and Hollywood is freaking out about P2P.<br />
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The argument that the music industry was threatened by P2P always struck me as a joke. <br />
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Years ago when I had a credit card I would use Live365 to find new interesting bands, then I'd use Limewire to find some MP3s and if I liked the band I'd hunt down their website and buy a CD directly from the band or their distributor. Often, the threat I posed wasn't so much that downloaded the MP3s but that I cut out some of the middlemen when I did purchase the product. Also, what the music industry probably really hates is that I sampled the album before I bought it - something difficult and sometimes impossible to do in a physical store.<br />
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But the music industry has not adapted to the new online world since those years ago and they get little sympathy from me today. Why not offer something unique and special *with* the purchase of a CD? Password Access to a special webpage that offers me an incentive to buy more? Why not a little quicktime video of the band? a PDF format file of factoids and info about the band? Something that I know I'd get that is different from taking the chance on downloading a poor quality series of MP3s which may take days to download.<br />
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Not only say the music industry not done anything new innovative in their marketing, they have insulted and endangered their customers with CDs that hack their computers' security - as was the case with Sony recently. I doubt I will ever take the risk of buying a Sony CD again and I will be weary of buying ANY music CD in the store again. <br />
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We now know that it may be safer to download illegally than to buy a CD in the store.<br />
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Like I said I do understand why the music industry and Hollywood are freaking out. But do not ask me to be sympathetic.<br />
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I no longer use a credit card and where I live there are limited options for buying the music and DVDs I want. What am I to do? The music industry and Hollywood could have created a simple system *years ago* where I could go to the Bank, buy some sort of pre-paid online debit card system that allow me to buy things online and have them shipped to me. I know of no such system available where I am.<br />
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Today I can easily find what I want online for free via various P2P apps. Here's three examples of my own recent P2P behavior:<br />
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1) The cable channel I was watching the American TV show 'Lost' disappeared from the channel selection - it was just presented for a couple weeks as a teaser to get me to subscribe to a higher level from the Cable provider. <br />
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I really *really* REALLY like the show 'Lost!' I was desperate and pissed off that I couldn't see the rest of the series.... so I found it available via BitTorrent. In a couple days I had the whole first season dowloaded. After finishing off that season, I have downloaded whatever is available of the 2nd season.<br />
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Not only does Hollywood not get my 50 bucks for ordering the first season from Amazon, but the local cable provider doesn't get any money from either.<br />
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2) Again, using BitTorrent, I was able to download 26 albums of Johnny Cash. Wow. 26 albums! That took me about 3 days to download. Thats so much music I haven't even had the time to listen to it all yet.<br />
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3) Since I discovered BitTorrent and now have broadband I am downloading a lot of documentaries that I have seen years back and always wanted a copy of. <br />
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This is where my guilt starts to set in. <br />
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I know that documentary makers don't make shit for what they produce. Perhaps even more exploited by the TV networks than musicians by the record companies. <br />
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But these are excellent documentaries and important for people to watch, so I am downloading them, burning them and giving them to friends and comrades. I justify this to myself by saying its 'Samizdat' for these dark times. <br />
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So yes, the powers that be have every reason to be scared shitless of this new world - and until they make it real easy for me to buy stuff online AND give me an additional good reason (extra interesting stuff) to buy it physically - they are doomed in the long run.Use PeerGuardian + BitTorrenthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1364322006-01-28T23:32:11+00:00MichaelDon't forget to use software like PeerGuardian (search the web for it) before en...Don't forget to use software like PeerGuardian (search the web for it) before engaging in any P2P activities. It keeps a list of IP addresses of governments and corporations who search P2P networks for copyright misuse (filesharing). When a request comes to your computer from one of those IP addresses, your computer plays dead "nobody hear except us chickens", instead of "sure, I have a copy of that DivX movie, you can download a piece of it from me..."Head of British Video Assoc: Piracy doesn't hurt DVD saleshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1376662006-02-09T15:49:33+00:00ErqWnQrLavinia Carey, British Video Association:
'UK research shows that, on average, ...Lavinia Carey, British Video Association:<br />
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'UK research shows that, on average, downloaders are film fans who view the same number of legitimate films (cinema, rented and bought DVDs) as the average active DVD consumer (24).<br />
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On top of that, they also consume illegitimately acquired movies. So even though they buy fewer legitimate DVDs, showing the anti-piracy trailer on a DVD is a good way to reach them with the message that file-sharing is a crime.'<br />
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4691228.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4691228.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4691228.stm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/09/head_of_british_vid_.html" title="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/09/head_of_british_vid_.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/09/head_of_british_vi....html</a>Bit mehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1458352006-04-13T16:43:29+00:00p0larityA great article, and exciting to see such in-touch Irish journalism. I agree wit...A great article, and exciting to see such in-touch Irish journalism. I agree with the author, but I must disagree with the sentiment just at the end. It is not a battle record companies are winning. It just isnt. It is undoubtably in the favour of such organisations to say that they are hitting the file sharing networks hard, but this is just sabre-rattling, corporate propoganda. The point is, it will require a complete online police state to get file sharing under control, or even damage it. I find myself marvelling at the sheer innovation that the social "open-source" revolution is bringing. The music loving sharers are always one step ahead. Take for example the fact that legislation against BitTorrent is only coming in NOW, and it is almost time for the next generation of software to come into effect, wielding as many anti detection weapons as possible. I can see this going on and on, and if the record companies refuse to adjust to a new market structure, they will find that their current attitude will bury them.Hitting a Brick Wallhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1458362006-04-13T16:47:06+00:00p0larityand one other thing....
Why, on earth, when all the recording costs and product...and one other thing....<br />
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Why, on earth, when all the recording costs and production overheads have been long covered, does "The Wall" by Pink Floyd cost me 39.99?! <br />
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Ya know what? Screw em, I'll just download it. sketchyhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1486332006-05-09T21:12:11+00:00neddyedalicious at hotmail dot comi was mad for the downloading until a couple of months ago when a mate of mine g...i was mad for the downloading until a couple of months ago when a mate of mine got a phone call off the lawyers of a bunch of record companies telling him that he was being sued for €1.6 million (a grand a track). the chances of it happening to me are fairly slim but it was enough to make me stop. now i just rob albums off mates and rip em onto my computer. essentially the same thing but a bit more hassle (my mate ended up settling for a lot less but it was still a couple of grand)mp3s are craphttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1486362006-05-09T21:19:08+00:00neddyforgot to say...
the quality of mp3s that you download is shite so if you rip t...forgot to say...<br />
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the quality of mp3s that you download is shite so if you rip them yourself you (can) end up with a far better quality compression. because you all know there's nothing worse then downloading your favourite song and everything's masked to fuck so all you can hear is the guitars and it sounds like it's being played underwater...Copying From CD's To Digital Library Illegal.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73977#comment1608392006-07-26T15:19:19+00:00p0larityThe computer doctor on Newstalk 106 rang IRMA today and they now claim transferr...The computer doctor on Newstalk 106 rang IRMA today and they now claim transferring music from a physical CD onto a digital library is illegal under Irish copyright law. Amazing.