Downloading Songs over the Internet is TOO easy

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Cat burglar (in the sense of being really lazy)?

 

[Jeeebus]

First rule of Pirate Club...

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

i didn't know a gun was required for robbery?

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

Yup... And it is also not intellectual property theft because no one downloads a cd and says "its mine!"... People that download albums actually help promote the band by praising them and letting friends etc know about them... So this whole argument is stupid

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

i didn't know a gun was required for robbery?

Some states require that one use a gun for robberies. Little known fact!

 

[NL5]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

i didn't know a gun was required for robbery?

Some states require that one use a gun for robberies. Little known fact!

Name one. Just one.

 

[3NF]

Watch your cornhole, and say no to butt pirating.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

i didn't know a gun was required for robbery?

Some states require that one use a gun for robberies. Little known fact!

Never heard of that at all either, what state?

also those that say crime X is nothing like crime y are usually a bit biased as they are the ones commiting at least one of those crimes and would rather not see a penalty for it.

Stealing is stealing whether one believes the item is worth a penny or a few thousand bucks.

 

[frostedflakes]

Maybe he's thinking about armed robbery. :laugh:

 

[AMCRambler]

My argument isn't that it's too hard to buy the music. It's the stupid DRM attached to the songs on many of the sites. Amazon is pretty good though. Lots of selection, you can get the songs for 89 cents a pop and can copy it to as many cd's, mp3 players, computers as you want.

iTunes, what a royal pain in the ass there. Girlfriend got a new laptop and has to go through a whole friggin export/import process to get her mp3's to load into iTunes on the new laptop. Friggin' stupid. I'm telling her to buy her music from Amazon from now on. iTunes will eat it hard and be forced to ditch DRM to compete.

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: Calculator83
audio quality is the most important and that requires some tweaking while ripping. Most of the iTunes amazon stuff are terrible , I can in fact tell the difference between 256 kbps and 320 Kbps , I can also tell the difference between ABR/CBR , 2 pass vs 1 pass , and I can tell u for sure the stores don' t put in the measley efforts at consistently. for some reason audiophiles/possibly pirates on torrents do the extra mile. Thats just on quality.

The torrent setup is fool proof since PNP is universal for most router defaults.

Use utorrent if ur having problems.

At Amazon.com, the distributors provide the music to be sold. Amazon.com does no ripping of anything.

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
amazon is best option so far. so i support it.

the only thing i don't like about amazon is that you can't redownload the music you bought if you should lose it somehow, like in a HDD crash.

I'm not sure if the other sites allow this or not as I've never used them, but thats a big issue.

As was said, be responsible and backup your data.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: eos

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
amazon is best option so far. so i support it.

the only thing i don't like about amazon is that you can't redownload the music you bought if you should lose it somehow, like in a HDD crash.

I'm not sure if the other sites allow this or not as I've never used them, but thats a big issue.

As was said, be responsible and backup your data.

thats a given, but if you paid for it, you should be able to download it again. if they can do it with video games (D2D, STEAM, etc), i don't see why they can't do it with music.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

my car is drm'd sucka

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Enjoy your ban? I mean you're basically bragging about pirating...

Are you really Blain?

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: eos

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
amazon is best option so far. so i support it.

the only thing i don't like about amazon is that you can't redownload the music you bought if you should lose it somehow, like in a HDD crash.

I'm not sure if the other sites allow this or not as I've never used them, but thats a big issue.

As was said, be responsible and backup your data.

thats a given, but if you paid for it, you should be able to download it again. if they can do it with video games (D2D, STEAM, etc), i don't see why they can't do it with music.

They can. However; it's not necessarily what you have purchased. If you don't agree with the licensing model, don't buy the song.

 

[villageidiot111]

Its easier to walk into a convenience store, grab a candy bar, and walk out with paying too.

How often do you do that?

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
I find it easier to hit 'checkout' from amazon/half.com compared to installing a torrent app, setting up the router properly, etc... Now I'm not claiming to buy 100% of my music this way, but come on it's not that hard to get stuff legally.

Yeah, I really want to pay for something with DRM, poor sound quality from compression, potential incompatibility depending on what portable player I choose, etc.

I will not buy music online until it's the same quality and ease of use as my own CD rips.

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I'm having too much fun ripping everything to FLAC to bother figuring out how to download music.

I ripped my whole collection to FLAC and I love it. I get full lossless CD quality from whatever device I choose (I use PCs and Xboxes with XBMC to play music) and can create any lossy format I want anytime I want for whatever portable I want.


Edit: From what I'm reading in this thread, I may check out Amazon to purchase singles here and there. Might be the ticket. I'd prefer a lossless option, but I'll give it a look.

 

[Calculator83]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
Its easier to walk into a convenience store, grab a candy bar, and walk out with paying too.

How often do you do that?

Never, I don't like sweets.

If you look at a larger picture, It is not stealing in that the act is well in the capability of the actor to pull off without any consequences to himself.

 

[Beev]

Everyone in here flaming the OP for pirating is a fucking hypocrite. I'm sure you've never pirated anything ever.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
OP, where do you live? I don't feel like buying a new car. I'll just take yours.

God you anti pirate people are retarded. Downloading somthing for free is not like stealing a car.

Hey, I'm not the thief.

Neither am I. I have never put a gun to someone and taken their cds. I have however downloaded a copy of a cd.

i didn't know a gun was required for robbery?

Some states require that one use a gun for robberies. Little known fact!

Never heard of that at all either, what state?

also those that say crime X is nothing like crime y are usually a bit biased as they are the ones commiting at least one of those crimes and would rather not see a penalty for it.

Stealing is stealing whether one believes the item is worth a penny or a few thousand bucks.

Guess I should have added a

Didn't think anyone would take it seriously ...