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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
its more than a slight annoyance. most isp's have caps on downloads. infact in my area the fastest residential package would only allow you to download 20 full dvd's per month.. if 10 of them are fakes , you just fucked yourself  |
Only twenty full dvd’s? 90GB of Data? MONTHLY? God you people with your bandwidth… I hate DSL :\ LOL. Anyways… as long as the files are not .rar’d up, i.e. that it’s an .AVI file (or another viewable extension) you can preview the data to see exactly what it is so it is not necessary to waste hours and your bandwidth downloading it if it’s a junk file or something like the MTV music awards. In fact many torrent clients have this feature built in (preview mode) so that is covered…. fake data just isn’t going to cut it and you will just end up wasting more money than you would have if you hadn’t bothered to do it in the first place.
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
I know from personal experience i went to find a cd that i own , that i wanted to listen to on my mp3 player, fuck if every song i could find was a fake file.. i wasted a half hour then went and found my cd and ripped it myself..
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I had the same problem when I was looking for MP3’s from Hanson’s Boomerang album! (seriously, not really, I found them all in less than two minutes!) [ok, super seriously, not really, I don’t download music for the most part, I can’t stand the vast majority of music. I’ve gotten maybe 5 mp3s before of ‘American’ music]. The biggest types of private communities though are MP3 communities from what I can tell, and I'm betting that if you looked there you could find that CD with all files working and ready to download in minutes.
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
Its not THE solution its part of a multi-pronged approach. make it harder to get the files, then start some lawsuits against downloaders individually.
did you know the recording industry made MILLIONS last year suing college kids , thats just from the ones that SETTLED out of court ( i.e. dad and mom footed the bill to avoid a court case ) imagine if the lawsuit wasnt "britney spears mp3" but "ass raped blondes" heh , i think alot more people would settle out of court
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You are making it *slightly* harder to get files. And I stress the word slightly. It will just end up pushing more people to go to private communities, and making the existing public communities change the ways that they accept uploaded torrents. On the lawsuit recommendation, you and I completely agree. It’s pretty straight forward and most people cave with a settlement under 3k bucks, many adult companies could actually make some nice bank doing that. Even more would end up settling than would in RIAA cases. It’s one thing to tell a judge you didn't download the “Happy Birthday” song. With porn it’s a whole different issue. Who wants to risk going to court and have to tell a judge that you didn't download Tranny Anal Busters III? You would shame most of them into settling, so yes, we agree on lawsuits completely!