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Originally posted by: Mr Bob
"What other replies?"
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You think "record an mp3 yourself" means ripping a cd into mp3 format?
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You try to prove your point right, by bending things around, such as the quote above.

I'm done studying for now, I don't plan on wasting my time staying up for a good laugh at you. But tomorrow I have some more work to do around the same time, assuming the thread is still open. So if you have some more time to keep me entertained while I am working, that'd be great.
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Sure, I'll address that. You mean to tell me that you have close to 20,000 mp3s of your own creation (e.g. not ripped from commercial CDs)? You mean to tell me that if you did in fact play in a band, that they'd be stupid enough to record directly into a lossy format rather than going from lossless to transcoding?

Let's play around with your hypothetical situation. You happen to record an mp3 (not in the sense of ripping and encoding a commercial CD) for your band or whatever. You place it on the network and give your friends permission to download it. Why is it that there are 20,000 files available to you on your LAN (which your other post seems to indicate you've taken)? Is there some sort of huge swell in music production on campuses these days? Did you get permission from all of these other artists before you took their music? Why not just burn a CD for your friends so they have something a bit more permanent? Why not just create a standard shared folder and avoid the hassles of dealing with iTunes for sharing your files (after all, you can legally stream from iTunes)?

Of course this is all hypothetical, and you are nothing but a thief trying to get around forum rules against the discussion of piracy, while under a misguided notion of copyright law (fair use does not cover copies given to friends).
 
Mr. Bob, you should just quit while you are way behind. It's obvious to anyone that the odds are 100:1 in favor of you not having purchased the right to download 97% of the 20,000 songs you're speaking of. Just let it go. Nobody here is an anti-piracy secret policeman with surveillance powers, but the ethic here is that the board isn't used to promote that kind of stuff. It's a good ethic.
 
You could be enjoying the argument but I would say don't feed the troll. I'm honestly surprised this thread isn't locked yet.
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- Ah, but I don't mind if the thread is locked, as long as I get a good laugh outta sparky 🙂

"You try to prove your point right, by bending things around, such as the quote above. "

Sounds like he is trying to do it again!

Hey Sparky, you can look at it hypothetically, backwards, forwards, with one hand behind your back, but no matter what "recording an mp3 yourself" will never mean ripping a cd into mp3 format.

Just let it go.
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- I was enjoying Sparky's comments. Dave was the only one actually making any sense, or even sounding like he knew what he was talking about.
 
Originally posted by: Mr Bob
- I was enjoying Sparky's comments. Dave was the only one actually making any sense, or even sounding like he knew what he was talking about.
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Thanks, I probably take music piracy too seriously but gosh darn it I just really like music 😉

I actually own a bit over 1,000 CDs (0 burned/copies) and have them stored on a lossless FLAC music server for easy access. I'm such a goody two-shoes I even pay Napster $10/month to try music before buying instead of just p2p it.

The halo does help in the dark, since I don't have any nightlights in my aparment.
 
Originally posted by: Mr Bob
You could be enjoying the argument but I would say don't feed the troll. I'm honestly surprised this thread isn't locked yet.
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- Ah, but I don't mind if the thread is locked, as long as I get a good laugh outta sparky 🙂

"You try to prove your point right, by bending things around, such as the quote above. "

Sounds like he is trying to do it again!

Hey Sparky, you can look at it hypothetically, backwards, forwards, with one hand behind your back, but no matter what "recording an mp3 yourself" will never mean ripping a cd into mp3 format.
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Don't kid yourself, if you have 20,000 mp3's recorded by someone else with NO copyright restrictions more power to you. As Markbnj said, the chances of that being true are slim to none. Trying to act all high and mighty to someone who misread your words is just you deflecting the fact that someone installing ourtunes has a 99.9% probability of getting a shared file from someone else illegaly.


 
"Thanks, I probably take music piracy too seriously but gosh darn it I just really like music "
- Around 80% of my cds were only purchased because I listend to an illegal mp3s from the cd (note to sparky, I did not say that I illegaly downloaded it, or even stole it). It was usually from friends who downloaded the song, or from Napster. I wouldn't have purchased the cd to begin with if that mp3 wasn't available.

"I actually own a bit over 1,000 CDs (0 burned/copies) and have them stored on a lossless FLAC music server for easy access"
- How long have you been doing that? I couldn't even think of 1,000 cds that I would listen to!

Trying to act all high and mighty to someone who misread your words is just you deflecting the fact that someone installing ourtunes has a 99.9% probability of getting a shared file from someone else illegaly.
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- I got a few msgs from people who thought the thread was quite funny (thanks sparky).

I'm not trying to deflect that opinion. But I will agree that just about 99% of everyone who uses OurTunes does so for illegal purposes. But that doesn't make the program illegal since it can also be used for legal purposes as I pointed out earlier.
 
Originally posted by: Mr Bob
"Thanks, I probably take music piracy too seriously but gosh darn it I just really like music "
- Around 80% of my cds were only purchased because I listend to an illegal mp3s from the cd (note to sparky, I did not say that I illegaly downloaded it, or even stole it). It was usually from friends who downloaded the song, or from Napster. I wouldn't have purchased the cd to begin with if that mp3 wasn't available.

"I actually own a bit over 1,000 CDs (0 burned/copies) and have them stored on a lossless FLAC music server for easy access"
- How long have you been doing that? I couldn't even think of 1,000 cds that I would listen to!

Trying to act all high and mighty to someone who misread your words is just you deflecting the fact that someone installing ourtunes has a 99.9% probability of getting a shared file from someone else illegaly.
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- I got a few msgs from people who thought the thread was quite funny (thanks sparky).

I'm not trying to deflect that opinion. But I will agree that just about 99% of everyone who uses OurTunes does so for illegal purposes. But that doesn't make the program illegal since it can also be used for legal purposes as I pointed out earlier.
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And thanks for the laughs from you as well. Nope, nowhere did you explicitly admit to piracy. Nowhere did I state that there aren't some limited legal uses for this software. It's been a good laugh watching you try to dig yourself out of that hole you've put yourself in though by doing everything but outright saying that you pirated 20,000 songs on a forum that prohibits discussions of acts of piracy.
 
"on a forum that prohibits discussions of acts of piracy"
- Exactly why someone wouldn't admit to it...

"It's been a good laugh watching you try to dig yourself out of that hole"
- Dig myself out of a hole? You still don't see that I don't care about these hypothetical situations? I only used you for a good laugh while I was staying up late studying.

"Nowhere did I state that there aren't some limited legal uses for this software"
- But you didn't understand something so simple as "making an mp3" lmao. That's why I was explaining how it is legal, so someone as stupid as you can understand.

Are you going to be on here tonight? I have another test to study for around the same time.
 
But you didn't understand something so simple as "making an mp3" lmao.
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Do you feel a compulsive need to be a complete sphincter? Just point us all to this wonderland where we can download 20,000 of these homemade mp3s that have no copyright restrictions on them.

Have fun studying tonight. What's your field? Sophistry?
 
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