somebody just might someday - only thing is, it'll take YEARS to work through the courts.

I think I am going to live on a sailboat.

some people are still making $$. work a little harder

Are you just another jerking surfer? Thanks for your "wise" advices about protecting then.

We're still making money, that's not the point. It's a decreasing amount of money and these are real issues with a direct impact on the bottom line for almost everyone in the industry. If you or anyone else fails to see that, I wish you luck... you're gonna need it.


or maybe you'll just work harder.

No doubt it sucks but thats why people shouldnt depend on websites to carry them their whole lives. Porn tube sites dont help things either but what can you do? things like that were bound to happen one day...if something like rapidshare is hurting sales now, imagine what things will be like in the years to come. along with complaining, people should get jobs. How many of us have downloaded music/movies for years and dont give a fuck if record labels/artists are losing $
Is it suddenly a problem when someone does it back?

WRONG

giving up is never the answer

there is still right and wrong, and just because you can't stop all the wrongdoing is not a reason to give up completely

imagine if napster hadn't been shut down years ago, it was getting so huge and they stopped it

nowadays, there are itunes cards for sale in stores I go to everyday, and people are buying them.... if the world had given up and just let napster do its thing, there would be no itunes music cards for sale... the public were reminded that downloading copyrighted stuff was wrong, and many looked toward legal alternatives

it is when total complacence toward copyright theft is allowed that things get really bad.... the future is more enforcement and new legal solutions in countries like Sweden that are currently letting pirates have asylum to set up their parasitic websites

Thanks Bjorn:thumbsup We are working very hard at the moment (with great success) getting tons and tons of rapidshare links and other filehost links killed on forums.
Anyone that is interested having there content removed from forums see sig,

Do you realise how many p2p clients there are out there? The only people who pay for music now are pretty much the same people that would of paid in the past. Everyone else uses limewire, etc, they are exactly the same as napster was.

I do realize it, but it isn't the same as when napster was growing exponentially every day... if that hadn't have been stopped things would be different. If napster hadn't been taken care of and the other publicity along the way, I doubt that itunes music card sales would have even got off the ground. Limewire is far from what napster was turning into at its peak.

You are right though, it would probably take many more high profile cases of individuals being sued or prosecuted to really cause a shifting of attitudes.

Pornguy you are right

I don't think P2P itself is the worst threat. It's the fact that it's no longer people networking together to share what they downloaded, it's companies building their business on distributing copyrighted content by exploiting legal loopholes or hiding in countries that don't enforce copyrights.

So, instead of trying to fight rapidshare, torrent sites and tubes themselves or trying to go for the surfers using them, it may be a good idea to go for the sponsors paying them...

How about we all cry and post how bad tube or warez sites are, like few topics daily of this shit?