You Win This Battle

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-06-06 12:15pm

Verizon hands over names of illegal copiers of music.

But they haven't won the war.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-06 12:18pm

If they want to make people buy their CDs, do like Bal-Sagoth: Overload the lyrics booklets with opulent and frivolous fantasy artwork. That'll make people buy an album even if they've downloaded most of the songs on it.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-06-06 12:19pm

Holy Fuck... Orwell was right. Big Brother does exist. Privacy means jack shit now.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-06-06 12:29pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Holy Fuck... Orwell was right. Big Brother does exist. Privacy means jack shit now.

Quiet you fool! Don't say that to your Telescreen, the Thought-Police will catch you!

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-06-06 12:33pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote: Quiet you fool! Don't say that to your Telescreen, the Thought-Police will catch you!

:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2003-06-06 04:07pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:If they want to make people buy their CDs, do like Bal-Sagoth: Overload the lyrics booklets with opulent and frivolous fantasy artwork. That'll make people buy an album even if they've downloaded most of the songs on it.

Yeah, seriously. I once spent a two hour bus ride reading the epic from the Ultima Thule album! In all honesty, they have to make the CD's worth the money, which either means including more or lowering the price.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-06-06 04:24pm

I'll give props to Verizon for this--they're fighting those bastards as best they can (they also just lowered my DSL rates, so they're on my good side right now). Hopefully SCOTUS will shit all over the DMCA.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-06-06 04:25pm

Most CDs are shit nowadays, as a general rule. Sometimes there is a good song or two on there, but I don't want the whole fucking CD (unless I need use it as a $15 frisbee, but that's probably not gonna happen). So, you download it! Quick, easy, and if you use one of the less popular programs (or any programs run by German sites, i dunno why), you most likely WILL NOT get caught.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-06 04:31pm

Mitth'raw'nuruodo wrote:Most CDs are shit nowadays, as a general rule. Sometimes there is a good song or two on there, but I don't want the whole fucking CD (unless I need use it as a $15 frisbee, but that's probably not gonna happen). So, you download it! Quick, easy, and if you use one of the less popular programs (or any programs run by German sites, i dunno why), you most likely WILL NOT get caught.

Music companies intentionally only release one or two decent songs per CD, the rest is crap padding since no one with pay 20 dollars for a single song.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-06-06 05:09pm

If record companies had their way, we would have to pay $50 for each record, and each record would only have about 20 minutes worth of music on it. I say, hooray for piracy! It's keeping prices at a level of mere price-gouging.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-06 05:23pm

Hey, I have an idea! The recording industry can take all the CDs that I would have bought, and shove it up their fucking ass.