This really is not a huge surprise, but in the IsoHunt case the judge has now ordered site operator Gary Fung to magically stop anyone from infringing. It is, as Fung notes, effectively a shut down order.

This is getting to be a really common tactic amongst Big Media supporter judges: “Either do the impossible or shut down, your choice”, and I’m getting really sick of it. When a legal system ceases to be fair, it loses it’s moral authority. And without moral authority, obeying or participating in it becomes immoral. I think some people need to be reminded of that.

Well, we can all go back to using news groups. Of course most of you (I didn’t say all) probably never used them before. Or *shudder* bulletin boards (WOW! Take me back about 17 years!). I remember my long distance phone charges back then, yikes! There is also emule and the like. So many ways to skirt the law.

Listen people, the plaintiff got pissed because the shit they spent money to produce is now out there for free, whether or not they are still making money from the venture, they don’t want it to be free to ANYONE. They don’t even want you to allow your friends or family to come over for a listen, let alone actually give them a copy or (GASP) actually have the want and know how to go download it for themselves. The plaintiff also would like to kill C.C. because of the possibility that this ideal can take down their entire industry. And put one in place that could also have the potential to be a big factor in the changing of our economy. which would oust them entirely. They actually think they are loosing money when in fact most of the people who download can’t afford what the plaintiff is selling in the first place so they go around the plaintiff to enjoy the same things as those who can and do afford the content. So the plaintiff isn’t loosing out on any funds, they just aren’t growing like they want them to. and i think their income is big enough. They are “legally” (and i use the term loosely)(and probably buying) tightening their grip and pretty soon we are just not going to buy their crap and just boycott them. all of them. I have already started. I absolutely refuse to buy or download anything from Warner Bros. now because of the petty bullshit they are “legally” shoving down our throats. this effectively cuts off their reasons for sicking our own on us, and funds going in their direction for them to stay in business. Now I know I am just one person, but is there anyone else who wants to join me in my crusade? i love well made movies just as much as the next person, but i don’t like the shady shit these companies are doing.

A sith lord once said, “the only thing those in power fear the most is ………loosing their power.” – Chancellor Palpatine
We are the Jedi and they are the Sith, and the we are loosing.

This goes out to the M.P.A.A., the R.I.A.A., and the C.R.I.A.A., and any other organization bent on the same goals: you guys are just one hunter who is backing a bear (the world) with the teeth and claws of a lion into a corner. and what happens if you back an animal into a corner? Hhhhhhmmmm? something tells me your not going to like the consequences of your actions. but you don’t care, anything to keep your grip on the industry and tighten it. boy are you in for a surprise. people are just going to use the creative commons anyway and totally bypass your money grubbin, dumb asses.

THIS GOES OUT TO ALL ARTISTS: CREATE YOUR OWN WEBSITE AND CONTENT UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS, AND FINISH OR GET OUT OF YOUR CONTRACTS. I’D BE HAPPY TO PAY FOR YOUR STUFF (EVEN FULL PRICE)AS LONG AS I’M NOT PAYING THE MAJOR COMPANIES. I DO BELIEVE THAT MOST PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD FEEL THE SAME.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

I think there’s a large portion of the file sharing community that consists of people who can’t otherwise afford to buy all this movie/music content. When you make $10/hr at a shit job, have no realistic path to improving socioeconomic status, and your choice becomes between buying food/rent and paying for a movie, then I, as an individual, am certainly not going to condone trying to use the legal system to squeeze money from these people.

It may sound like a form of welfare. That’s okay in my book. I think the system is working for the studios as is. They are still making record profits. Maybe they could squeeze a few more dollars out of people already teetering on the socioeconomic edge? Okay. Maybe it’s not perfect, but it’s certainly *not* actionable in my opinion.

I think there are a lot of hard to pin down benefits of their content being freely accessible to certain segments of the population. It generates word of mouth buzz or panning. It may, in effect, increase revenues by merchandising of music/films, and possibly inspiring some people to buy special editions or just regular editions even of the content. People who would not otherwise buy.

Also I think what’s really going on with filesharing is that it’s locally correcting in the movie and music markets for global (here I mean the entire market not Earth) socioeconomic injustices.

Secondarily, if it were more clear who people were compensating when they bought movies/music, I think that would help. Everyone wants to pay creators for their content if they enjoy it. But no one wants to pay essentially “distributors” exorbitant mark ups because they were essentially able to package and ship something to a store because there’s no special labor there.

With such an efficient distribution technology as filesharing, the market can be a lot more efficient by cutting out the middle man. Of course, the middle man then loses his chunk of the pie. To that I say, do something else.

What we are witnessing is averaging in evolution. You see, the movie stars and industry itself already makes way too much money. Last time you did a school play, were you paid 13.7 Million dollars. No chances are. the next three branches of your family tree won’t see that kinda money as a group. And this is the kinda money they tend to make sometimes yearly. Do you think it’s fair that you slave your ass off at work for a measly 40K a year when industries out there for the lucky ones and hand me down riches thrive. We slave for them when we cook, clean, wait on them, drive them. But it’s starting to even out. As you can see, they are loosing profits. So they wanna shut stuff down, cause when you made 58 Million last year, 34 Million this year just doesn’t cut it. It’s called GREED people. Greed always appears very powerful at first, and then they collapse. There’s enough money in the world for us ALL to have a million dollars and more. But who will do the dirty work? As soon as the Movie industry figures out they can make more profits on the internet, they’ll jump right at it. But for now, they need to control it as much as possible to protect their precious profits. GREED people. I really hope there is a heaven and hell so I don’t have to see these people in the next life. Let them love their money now, because they can’t take it with them when they die. Meanwhile I’ll laugh and keep downloading their movies because I get ripped off at the pop-corn stand at the movies. I’ll continue to sneak my food in, I’ll continue to keep my dollar instead of giving it to them every chance I get. If they don’t wanna share the wealth, we’ll just take a helping for ourselves. So.. to the movie industry out there, keep building you castle walls, because lately, it’s all crap on the inside anyway. More shit to get us to buy more shit. Hey.. maybe you can get a bailout. LOL

I recently went to isohunt because I have finally got around to converting my CD content to digital via itunes. Well, when I was trying to copy my cd to my computer, it kept failing at a certain point. I tried to repair my cd with one of those repair kits (skipdr), and it still didn’t work. I held my cd up to the light and discovered that the reflective foil on the other side had been scraped.

I went to isohunt, because I wanted to find a copy to download to replace my music, and that is when I found the “lite” version.

I refuse to pay any company more money to buy another copy of my CD when I already have the rights to listen to that content from my initial purchase.

I bet I could very easily find thousands (if not more) people who would show up in court to say that they have owned an irreparably damaged CD, due to the quality of the workmanship and materials used to make it.. at the very least, replacement copies, which can be downloaded online, should be available by the vendors.

CD’s are made to be taken out of protective sleeves, put into players, taken out of players etc.. You don’t think putting a CD into a player puts a scratch on it.. setting a hard surface against another hard surface? I don’t see any rubber stoppers on my cd tray protecting my CDs when I place them in there.

Do they think we are stupid? Although, some of you reading this may have gone out and purchased a new copy– did you ever think about that. The MPAA and other big media vendors are white collar criminals, and you support them time and time again with your subsequent purchases of the same thing you already own. It is like Disney.. how many times do they need to re-relase the same ancient movie? “Oh, we’ve added this first hand commentary, and therefore you are buying the rights to this new content in addition to what you already own.” Collector’s edition, director’s edition, 20th anniversary edition, extorting you out of more money edition!!!! Do their prices take into account whether you already own the right to view the majority of the content you are repurchasing?

The MPAA and other big media vendors are scam artists, pure and simple… well not really so simple, but I think you get my drift.

Anyway, I am going to search by any means to replace my purchased content. “Justice” is blind and stupid sometimes.

hey dude!
best performance and great People just need to understand this, all content is software and all devices are hardware an xbox360, DVD player, PC, and Iphone are all computers running software