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Today is the day.

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SimsFreak

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I have been doing P2P for over 3 years now, I have every song I have ever downloaded on my 2 250GB External drives (Fresh formats now), Over the past year about hearing about everyone getting sued I stopped using share about 1 year ago and have been downloading new artists, listening to there whole album. Today I got the 517th CD in my collection. Every Song I have ever downloaded is on one of the 517 CD's now piled into my room. If I had a camera I would show you, but I don't I'll see if a friend has one.

Any way I just wanted to share with everyone that is saying people should be sued for using P2P, my story proves that just becasue we download musing does'nt mean we don't buy the CD. I would have never heard of alot of the the bands I have now if it was'nt for P2P.

Anyway I know it's useless thread but anyone got any story's like mine or anyhting like that?
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
BAN

MIKE
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Quit neffing.

congrats to you SimsFreak for doing the right thing and owning what you downloaded.

I wish all of us could follow in your footsteps and do the right thing.
 
Originally posted by: onza
i think i got stupid after reading the post

or i just didnt pay attention.
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it isn't very well written. so:

he downloaded a total of 517 cds on P2P and has on his hard drive.
He purchased all 517 cds over the course of time so he owns all he has downloaded.
 
While it is nice to know that you finally paid for the music you had previously stolen, that doesn't make the stealing justifiable.
 
Originally posted by: SimsFreak
I have been doing P2P for over 3 years now, I have every song I have ever downloaded on my 2 250GB External drives (Fresh formats now), Over the past year about hearing about everyone getting sued I stopped using share about 1 year ago and have been downloading new artists, listening to there whole album. Today I got the 517th CD in my collection. Every Song I have ever downloaded is on one of the 517 CD's now piled into my room. If I had a camera I would show you, but I don't I'll see if a friend has one.

Any way I just wanted to share with everyone that is saying people should be sued for using P2P, my story proves that just becasue we download musing does'nt mean we don't buy the CD. I would have never heard of alot of the the bands I have now if it was'nt for P2P.

Anyway I know it's useless thread but anyone got any story's like mine or anyhting like that?
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So you're saying that you downloaded 517 CDs of music and then went out and bought all of them? Or did you just burn all the stuff to CD?
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: SimsFreak
I have been doing P2P for over 3 years now, I have every song I have ever downloaded on my 2 250GB External drives (Fresh formats now), Over the past year about hearing about everyone getting sued I stopped using share about 1 year ago and have been downloading new artists, listening to there whole album. Today I got the 517th CD in my collection. Every Song I have ever downloaded is on one of the 517 CD's now piled into my room. If I had a camera I would show you, but I don't I'll see if a friend has one.

Any way I just wanted to share with everyone that is saying people should be sued for using P2P, my story proves that just becasue we download musing does'nt mean we don't buy the CD. I would have never heard of alot of the the bands I have now if it was'nt for P2P.

Anyway I know it's useless thread but anyone got any story's like mine or anyhting like that?
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So you're saying that you downloaded 517 CDs of music and then went out and bought all of them? Or did you just burn all the stuff to CD?
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Inquiring minds want to know. I didn't understand it either.
 
Originally posted by: PricklyPete
While it is nice to know that you finally paid for the music you had previously stolen, that doesn't make the stealing justifiable.
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Jesus christ will you people stfu already. Thats a decision based on his morals. He isnt going to just go "Ah I never saw it that way" and whip out a shotgun and pull a kurt cobain.
 
So if not faced with the consequences, would you have still bought the 517 cd's? Sounds the the RIAA wins.
 
Good work. I buy all of my music too, and after almost 2 decades am up to about 1,300 CDs. Now I just need to finish ripping the last 400 to my lossless FLAC music server 🙂

FYI, one legal way to preview CDs before buying is with Napster Premium or Rhapsody. For $10/month you can legally play thousands of CDs from your hard drive or by streaming, you just can't burn CDs or download songs to a portable player (without buying tracks for the usual $1/song).

I've using Napster and am fairly happy with it despite not having every artist in their catalog (no Soundgarden, Tim Finn, or Mono Puff, missing about 1/3 of what I search for). I also get to legally listen to stuff I'd never buy, like the new William Shatner CD 🙂
 
Wow....do you actually like every single song on each one of those CD's?

Over $5000.00 worth of CD's....most people are settling with the RIAA for less than that.


I guess if you like every song, then cool. I personally usually only like 1 or 2 songs of most CD's. Hurray for the option to buy songs individually instead of entire albums, especially when the record companies only care about 1 hit single and the rest of the album is crap.

My 2 cents.
 
^ I don't take many pictures nor did I use any of the disposable one's I have had in the past. I Bought the CD's pretty cheap on ebay and here. And they were all legally bought, did'nt burn it to a CD and slap a label on there. this had nothing to do with the RIAA, but once they sued a few people I stopped sharing not downloading. I know doing what I did does not make it right but I like to listen to every album a few times to see if I like it or not, and yes every song on all albums I like, they range from country, to Metal, and techno, to Trance. I had to buy a HUGE wallet for it aswell so it's sitting in the back of my car right now.

I think the final cost of all my CD's was around $2500, I don't really like any of the new artists since it's the same tunes, lopps from 2 years ago, so most of them are old and can get brand new CD's for under $5 which is around what I paid for each. The only exceptions are A Perfect Circle, Cold, Papa Roach, and Evanescense or however you spell it. If this is going to turn into a flamefest then just lock the thread, there's no point in having this if people are going to flame me for something I think was very good.

Also most teenagers are settleing for under $5,000. Adults are paying minimum $7,000, and the highest I have heard is $23,000
 
he downloaded a total of 517 cds on P2P and has on his hard drive.
He purchased all 517 cds over the course of time so he owns all he has downloaded.
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he's also one hell of a storyteller too! If its true, I feel sorry for him. He has probably 5000+ songs he doesn't care for that he paid for anyway.

While it is nice to know that you finally paid for the music you had previously stolen, that doesn't make the stealing justifiable.
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I love these zealots. Good thing I've never taken a picture of the Eiffel tower, because freaks like this would accuse me of stealing it.
 
I think a lot of people use P2P to find what they like and then buy the music.

the way i look at it... some of the stuff I download, i don't like, and I wouldnt buy anyways, so 🙂

but some of the stuff I download, and I like, I buy the CD... then I delete the MP3's and make my own in higher quality. :thumbsup:
 
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