22nd October 2009
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#1 | | Gear Guru
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Thread Starter  | essential piracy links (IP & Copyrights too)
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13th February 2010
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#2 | | Gear Guru
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Thread Starter | Copyright Alliance
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14th February 2010
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#3 | | Lives for gear
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Redvelvetstudios, Thank you for all your posts regarding this topic. Tons of great reading!  | 
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29th September 2010
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#4 | | Gear Guru
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Thread Starter | stats, reports and more stats...
http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/02/news/companies/napster_music_industry/
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The disease of free
The battle for paying digital customers may have been lost before it had truly begun. In 1999, Napster, a free online file-sharing service, made its debut. Not only did Napster help change the way most people got music, it also lowered the price point from $14 for a CD to free.
"It's pretty easy to give away something for free," said Russell Frackman, the lead attorney for the music industry in its 1999 case against Napster. "It's not that the music industry thought the technology was bad, it just objected to the use to which it was being put."
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RESOURCES - IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2009 Quote: |
Despite these developments, the music sector is still overshadowed by the huge amount of unlicensed music distributed online. Collating separate studies in 16 countries over a three-year period, IFPI estimates over 40 billion files were illegally file-shared in 2008, giving a piracy rate of around 95 per cent. | Only 0.3% of BitTorrent files legal Report Corrected, Piracy up 20% I'm not saying if piracy we're magically removed we'd see a 20x's increase in sales (assuming a 95% piracy rate), but I do think we'll start to see an increase of 2-3x's from where we are now with reasonable management of piracy. Average Teen’s iPod Has $800 Of Pirated Music » Podcasting News Quote:
Originally Posted by oudplayer  As far as legal vs illegal files on ipods...
I teach a large survey class every semester at a major public university. We've had about 1000 students go through this class, mostly freshmen, so I'm talking about a generation that was born after 1990. I conduct surveys about music consumption, and have found the following:
• 95+% of students listen to mp3s on mobile devices. Some have collections of dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of mp3s, mostly consisting of rock, hip hop, and country music, with regional indie music making up a significant 4th category
• only approximately 10% of students have ever purchased music through any online service such as iTunes
• only about 30% of students have actually ever physically touched any form of physical music media such as a CD or LP, and fewer still actually own any
These numbers are consistent from semester to semester - the only one that is declining is the percentage who have touched any form of physical music media.
So where is all of this music coming from? It's not from iTunes. It's not from CD rips. It's from rapidshare and torrents. 1000 college students born after 1990 is not enough to generalize on a national basis (but it does provide more statistics than most of the posters here), but I've seen plenty of other well-documented peer-reviewed studies that indicate similar percentages - that at best 10% of music stored on iPods owned by 18-24 olds is legitimately purchased. | That too is first hand, personal experience. Scary Stat: Album Sales Down 54.6 Percent Since 2000... — Digital Music News
and... Piracy accounts for 95.6% of all music downloaded in Spain
and... File sharing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote:
In 2004, an estimated 70 million people participated in online file sharing.[89] According to a CBS News poll, nearly 70 percent of 18 to 29 year olds thought file sharing was acceptable in some circumstances and 58 percent of all Americans who followed the file sharing issue considered it acceptable in at least some circumstances.[90]
In January 2006, 32 million Americans over the age of 12 had downloaded at least one feature length movie from the Internet, 80 percent of whom had done so exclusively over P2P. Of the population sampled, 40 percent felt that downloading copyrighted movies off the Internet constituted a very serious offense, however 78 percent believed taking a DVD from a store without paying for it constituted a very serious offense.[91]
In February 2008, the LA Times Blog published results of a US campus attitude survey which showed that 64 percent of respondents downloaded music regularly through file-sharing networks and other unauthorized sources. The respondents were also asked to rate on a 1 to 7 scale "how nervous they were about being punished for illegal downloading" (with 1 being "not concerned" and 7 being "extremely concerned"). Two-thirds answered 1 (43 percent) or 2 (24 percent) but only 4 percent answered 5 or 6, and none answered 7, "extremely concerned".[92][93]
In July 2008, 20 percent of Europeans used file sharing networks to obtain music, while 10 percent used paid-for digital music services such as iTunes.[94] |
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29th September 2010
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#5 | | Lives for gear
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Haven't you already posted each of those links at least a dozen times?
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30th September 2010
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#6 | | Gear Guru
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Originally Posted by lagavulin16 Haven't you already posted each of those links at least a dozen times? | same question gets the same answer, funny how that is...
no matter how many times they're posted people keep asking for them... just like you did in that other thread earlier today... give the people what they're asking for!
it'll just be easier to link to this post, than to keep reposting it in every thread that asks for it...
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30th September 2010
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#7 | | Gear addict
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I'm thrilled he posted it. I just saw these links for the first time, and have emailed my respective Congressmen.
The reaction to this bill by those that take music without permission is nauseating. We have a word for these disingenuous cretins: Freetards.
THEY'RE the greedy pigs.
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30th September 2010
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#8 | | Gear Guru
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Originally Posted by psalad I really wish you would see how repeating yourself like this is not helping you make your point. It actually makes it look like people with your perspective are not reasonable.. and people who don't share your views need to be shouted down with multitudes of posts that say the same thing over and over.
Please, do yourself and your cause a favor and be reasonable with the amount of times you cut and paste the same thing over and over.
Frankly, I wish the moderators of this site would jump in and request the same thing, but I'm sure they have better things to do.
Please, just consider it. | as many times as people ask for this information, or suggest that it does not exist is as many times as it will get posted... kinda like the infinite pro-piracy talking points like...
- it's not stealing
- digital bits are worthless
- how do you know that piracy is hurting paid sales
etc, etc, etc, etc...
I'm only responding to the same questions that are asked over, and over, and over, over... it's funny how the when the same question is asked, it has the same answer...
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30th September 2010
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#9 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by music monk as many times as people ask for this information, or suggest that it does not exist is as many times as it will get posted... kinda like the infinite pro-piracy talking points like...
- it's not stealing
- digital bits are worthless
- how do you know that piracy is hurting paid sales
etc, etc, etc, etc...
I'm only responding to the same questions that are asked over, and over, and over, over... it's funny how the when the same question is asked, it has the same answer... | So why do you keep changing your name on the forum?
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30th September 2010
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#10 | | Gear Guru
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Originally Posted by lagavulin16 So why do you keep changing your name on the forum? | Question was already asked and answered. He does it because he likes doing it.
Whatever.
It's a mildly annoying quirk - like people who crack their bubble gum.
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30th September 2010
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#11 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by psalad Actually, I have no bones about that... when someone asks the question, it seems GREAT that you post it. Makes perfect sense! I don't think it answers the question, but that's no problem, it's your argument and it's fair, even if it might not be that strong of an argument.
The problem I have is, here, there was no question asked... so... your point doesn't really make sense in that context.
Also, whenever I've tried to engage you about a different but related topic as i did in the Is the decline of the music industry a symptom of social change thread, you still post the same cut and paste when it is not relevant.
Again, take it for what it's worth... I don't want to see you fail, I want to see you succeed in solving the problem... but I don't find it helps your argument, and I don't think it presents your view well. Carry on though. | One thing he's very good at is titling his links and threads in such a way that when he links back to them, if the person doesn't actually click through and see it's just another forum opinion post, biased article or completely irrelevant to the topic, they appear to be factual references supporting his argument, at least to the casual viewer.
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18th November 2011
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#12 | | Gear Guru
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Thread Starter | Quote:
Originally Posted by rack gear | bump
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18th November 2011
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#13 | | Lives for gear
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zzzzz ... huh? whazzat? ... darn possums ... zzzzz
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19th November 2011
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#14 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Apr 2009 Location: State of Insomnia, sleepless USA
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Originally Posted by rack gear | Ah, thanks man,
was doing some Fall cleaning of my computer and accidently lost some links i was looking for.
Very helpful indeed!
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