Are Any Of You Getting This When You Try To Use "Megaupload"?

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Well, I use iCloud now, which is legal, so I suppose they can't shut that down.

But I can understand the frustration over not being able to share perfectly legal things. I sent my aunt a pdf file, that was too big for my email, via megaupload, two months ago. If I had waited 28 days or so, I wouldn't have been able to send that pdf.

And it was a pdf related to my grandma's passing, so it was family related.

 

[LoneKiller]

The real crime is what they are charging the public for a music CD/DVD Movie. I'm not going to shell out $42 for a measly 10 episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", nor will I pay $20+ for a Reba CD. Not to mention upwards of $50+ for retail porn. I used to work in an adult boutique, the prices of porn are appalling. I experience absolutely no inner discomfort in burning music and movies.

 

[Hoffy]

Pirates unite!

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[LoneKiller]

Pirates unite!

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Hi Hoffy.
It's interesting that you posted the "Limewire Pirate" edition. I've tried to use it, but have had great difficulty in getting it to connect. I disabled my firewall and everything. Still no luck. Do you have any advice on getting it to work correctly? I use vista if that helps any.

 

[Hoffy]

Hmm, I haven't used Limewire in sometime. I just use something kinda like it on my iPhone to download music. I do remember that is took several minutes to connect and sometimes wouldn't connect at all. Do you have the latest version?

 

[LoneKiller]

Hmm, I haven't used Limewire in sometime. I just use something kinda like it on my iPhone to download music. I do remember that is took several minutes to connect and sometimes wouldn't connect at all. Do you have the latest version?

You must be talking about "Frostwire" are ya? I've downloaded the latest "Limwire Pirate" but still have difficulty. I'll just have to be more thorough in figuring out how it works. If it is "Frostwire" you speak of, I haven't used that in a long time. Maybe it might work.

 

[Hoffy]

I meant Limewire, but I've used Frostwire too.

 

[LoneKiller]

I meant Limewire, but I've used Frostwire too.

Cool. Thanks just the same Hoffy for taking the time to help.

 

[Minus]

The real crime is what they are charging the public for a music CD/DVD Movie. I'm not going to shell out $42 for a measly 10 episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", nor will I pay $20+ for a Reba CD. Not to mention upwards of $50+ for retail porn. I used to work in an adult boutique, the prices of porn are appalling. I experience absolutely no inner discomfort in burning music and movies.

Maybe i am mistaken but with music, movies, books and software unless they are in the public domain they have an owner. That ownership is represented by the copyright. The owner has the right to determine if they want to make the material available to the public or not. If they decide to make it available then they also get to decide if they wish to release it as freeware, royality free or if they wish to charge for it. If they chose to charge for it, they or their agents get to decide what they want to charge. The consumer gets to decide if they wish to purchase it at that price or not.

If you are going to download copyrighted material without paying for it then you are going to download it. I just don't understand the need to rationalize and justify it.

I'm only making a copy, it isn't available in the store, they want to much for it, i wouldn't have bought it anyway, they make to much money anyway, people got away with it before, they don't have a right to charge me because i consider it to be information, the money isn't going to the right people, i bought enough of their other stuff already and an endless string of others.

If you are going to download it then download it. I am not telling you not to. I just don't understand the need to attempt to rationalize and justify it.

 

[LoneKiller]

The real crime is what they are charging the public for a music CD/DVD Movie. I'm not going to shell out $42 for a measly 10 episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", nor will I pay $20+ for a Reba CD. Not to mention upwards of $50+ for retail porn. I used to work in an adult boutique, the prices of porn are appalling. I experience absolutely no inner discomfort in burning music and movies.

Maybe i am mistaken but with music, movies, books and software unless they are in the public domain they have an owner. That ownership is represented by the copyright. The owner has the right to determine if they want to make the material available to the public or not. If they decide to make it available then they also get to decide if they wish to release it as freeware, royality free or if they wish to charge for it. If they chose to charge for it, they or their agents get to decide what they want to charge. The consumer gets to decide if they wish to purchase it at that price or not.

If you are going to download copyrighted material without paying for it then you are going to download it. I just don't understand the need to rationalize and justify it.

I'm only making a copy, it isn't available in the store, they want to much for it, i wouldn't have bought it anyway, they make to much money anyway, people got away with it before, they don't have a right to charge me because i consider it to be information, the money isn't going to the right people, i bought enough of their other stuff already and an endless string of others.

If you are going to download it then download it. I am not telling you not to. I just don't understand the need to attempt to rationalize and justify it.

You make some strong points Minus, but I still don't feel bad about burning. They don't care about me or anyone else who might not have the money to pay the obscene prices they charge. Maybe it would be different if they weren't being so greedy and perhaps lowering the price which might deter piracy some. I can't see Tim McGraw going broke anytime soon due to people burning his music.

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

There are so many people who are broke nowadays, that they can't even afford albums.

In that sense, as long as they throw money at a $15 ticket, or a $20 shirt, they're not cheating the artist.

 

[Sci-Fi]

There's more than just the artist that makes money from the CD you buy. They get a cut from sales, but there's the expense in bringing that CD to the shelf. There's the record company fat cats who take their cut, but they also have to pay for the production of the CD, the printing of the CD, the easily breakable case it gets put into, the printing of the cover/photos/lyrics that come with the CD, the wrapping of the CD in that impossible to remove wrapping, the advertising to sell the CD, all which costs money which the companies hope to make back on selling the CD. If a CD sells well they make tons of money off it sure, if it doesn't they also lose tons of money off it. There have been a number of record companies that have gone belly up over the years due to the lack of their artists doing well.

 

[Minus]

You make some strong points Minus, but I still don't feel bad about burning....

I am not trying to convince you to stop. I thought i made that clear. I am just saying that i don't see the need for unconvincing rationalizations and justifications.

There is the support staff on down to the guy or lady emptying the garbage cans and sweeping the floors that get paid out of income that is made of the sale off the products.

 

[Sci-Fi]

Oh yeah, thank you Minus I forgot about the little people that work for these companies too.

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

There are so many people who are broke nowadays, that they can't even afford albums.

In that sense, as long as they throw money at a $15 ticket, or a $20 shirt, they're not cheating the artist.

Well, not everyone get's to see their favourite artist's shows, because of being broke.