Begining of the end of free internet

[Yaduveer]

Imperialists are tying to take control of net. Someone better do something.........
Anonymous.......?

You should not talk about Imperialists because you are a imperialist ( भारतीय साम्राज्== Indian empire)!

look your location: Indian empire

 

[mirage 5000]

Filesonic bhi gae.

tum us se kuch desi download kerty thy ?

 

[Saifullah Sani]

This is ridiculous. The internet is an international system of cables that use TCP/IP to communicate, nothing more. If a country wanted to have "free internet", then they are free to build one. Or, like television, if you don't like a site or don't want to pay, don't go there.

It is inevitable that the internet would evolve into a mix of pay-for-content, and free content. There will always be free content if one looks for it. The only thing the "free internet" people need to be wary of is intellectual theft. For example, if a guy sets up a free entertainment site that uses Spiderman, then he can expect a nasty letter from the Marvel Comics people.

 

[aristocrat]

Mediafire ko baksh do plzzzz!!!

 

[Saifullah Sani]

Mediafire ko baksh do plzzzz!!!

chain reaction

the end of free internet

 

[Chogy]

Now what on earth does this political cartoon have to do with the topic here? Just a handy American post to take a jab at? Brilliant...

I hate intellectual theft. "Everyone does it" doesn't mean it is right.

About 15 years ago, I used to write software. I created a suite of casino games that were very popular. Overall, I had about 3 years of near full-time work on them. Then, one day, I found that hacked and cracked copies were all over the internet for easy download. Registrations went to near zero almost overnight. In the end, I was paid maybe 10 cents per hour for my time.

If "Free internet" means free software, music, and movies, I think it sucks. Being the victim of world-wide theft is not a good feeling. I have never downloaded a single pirated ANYTHING in my entire life, and I never will.

IT IS STEALING. No amount of mental gymnastics will change it. Those of you who do, man-up and admit to yourselves that you are thieves.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

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Begining of the end of free internet

 

[DRaisinHerald]

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Begining of the end of free internet

**** you're right, I read manga and I just realised this
They just licenced the big 3 which are read by like 80% of all manga readers...clever VIZ

 

[Awesome]

The "freedom" of the free internet you're decrying here never existed - the controls on protecting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) just weren't there. IPR is just as important as it is important that only you can keep or sell your own car and I can't just come and take it for a joy ride or re sell it.

With open source maturing so much and cheap alternatives to buying music - I think the move should be made to shift to legal software sooner rather than later.

 

[Awesome]

Now what on earth does this political cartoon have to do with the topic here? Just a handy American post to take a jab at? Brilliant...

I hate intellectual theft. "Everyone does it" doesn't mean it is right.

About 15 years ago, I used to write software. I created a suite of casino games that were very popular. Overall, I had about 3 years of near full-time work on them. Then, one day, I found that hacked and cracked copies were all over the internet for easy download. Registrations went to near zero almost overnight. In the end, I was paid maybe 10 cents per hour for my time.

If "Free internet" means free software, music, and movies, I think it sucks. Being the victim of world-wide theft is not a good feeling. I have never downloaded a single pirated ANYTHING in my entire life, and I never will.

IT IS STEALING. No amount of mental gymnastics will change it. Those of you who do, man-up and admit to yourselves that you are thieves.

You can't and I mean you just can't expect to ever have a control over what people do at home. Which is one of the reasons I have kept my software development skills tied to serving Corporations than enter the commercial market.

But still the industry has matured and now games built on Flash and HTML5 are being served off the cloud - go try pirating that. Downloadable games have a very strong online component as well which can't be hooked onto unless you have legal software - someone cracked it? Make them come online and catch them there (in the sense that their illegal product won't work online).

Major companies like Microsoft and Oracle don't even care what the home user does - they go after the big corporations only - well mostly.

 

[Rusty]

Now what on earth does this political cartoon have to do with the topic here? Just a handy American post to take a jab at? Brilliant...

I hate intellectual theft. "Everyone does it" doesn't mean it is right.

About 15 years ago, I used to write software. I created a suite of casino games that were very popular. Overall, I had about 3 years of near full-time work on them. Then, one day, I found that hacked and cracked copies were all over the internet for easy download. Registrations went to near zero almost overnight. In the end, I was paid maybe 10 cents per hour for my time.

If "Free internet" means free software, music, and movies, I think it sucks. Being the victim of world-wide theft is not a good feeling. I have never downloaded a single pirated ANYTHING in my entire life, and I never will.

IT IS STEALING. No amount of mental gymnastics will change it. Those of you who do, man-up and admit to yourselves that you are thieves.

I disagree with the whole stealing thing to begin with,is it stealing to watch a dvd that your friend bought but you didn't pay for?
Also I overheard someone blasting Eminem over their mp3 player, man I must be a hardcore felon. Hope the coppers never catch me

But the question I have for you is that, what about people who live in countries where this content is not available?
TV shows and movies don't come out in many countries and the only way for those people to watch it is to watch it online.
Now theft means that you are taking, in this case money, from the content producer but if the content producer was never going to make that money in the first place then is it still theft?

 

[Saifullah Sani]

**** you're right, I read manga and I just realised this
They just licenced the big 3 which are read by like 80% of all manga readers...clever VIZ

Anime A - Read Manga Online

 

[Chogy]

Now theft means that you are taking, in this case money, from the content producer but if the content producer was never going to make that money in the first place then is it still theft?

This is the classic tap dance done by intellectual thieves. "I wasn't going to buy it regardless, so I'm not hurting anybody."

That's a cop-out. How about simply respecting the person who poured sweat and effort into something for years?

It's symptomatic of a lack of civility and courtesy these days. "Screw it, I'm going to do it because I want to, and to <blank> with the morals of it all."

 

[Saifullah Sani]

The "freedom" of the free internet you're decrying here never existed - the controls on protecting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) just weren't there. IPR is just as important as it is important that only you can keep or sell your own car and I can't just come and take it for a joy ride or re sell it.

With open source maturing so much and cheap alternatives to buying music - I think the move should be made to shift to legal software sooner rather than later.

 

[Awesome]

I disagree with the whole stealing thing to begin with,is it stealing to watch a dvd that your friend bought but you didn't pay for?
Also I overheard someone blasting Eminem over their mp3 player, man I must be a hardcore felon. Hope the coppers never catch me

But the question I have for you is that, what about people who live in countries where this content is not available?
TV shows and movies don't come out in many countries and the only way for those people to watch it is to watch it online.
Now theft means that you are taking, in this case money, from the content producer but if the content producer was never going to make that money in the first place then is it still theft?

It is within your friends right to play it and let you watch/listen to it. But you can't keep a copy of the DVD and listen to it on your own while your friend does the same with the original.