Comments on: Have your say

By: JD

JD — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:48:22 +0000

It’s sad to see the Internet, which was once a great place of freedom and expression, being targeted by many big media instustries who are ill-advising the Government of reports that claims the industry is losing out on billions, and has had nothing to gain from piracy, which have all been proven and reported to false.

This is all in an attempt to pressure the Governemtn to rush through with such rash, careless and unthought out new laws.

The rational behind many pirates comes down to price and availability:

1. Media is far overpriced; the price of 30 music albums would cost you the same price as a flight from London to New York.

2. Availability.
The choice for many in obtaining media the most convenient, fastest and easiest way is BitTorrent.
This method of distrobution brings together communities of music/movie lovers from fair and wide from accross the world.

Just as in the way Facebook has changed the way in which people socialise and come togethert, so has BitTorrent, but the industry does not seem to want to pick up on this:
open a fairly price, legal torrent site and they could well be 3/4 of their way to solving this issue,

With the technologies available today, is there such need of a record label?
The Internet allows for self-advertisement, and is far more powerful than the millions of pounds that is spent my media companies with advertisements, who then take an unfair porition from the artists in return.

By: Ola25Ortega

Ola25Ortega — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:45:49 +0000

Every one acknowledges that humen's life seems to be expensive, nevertheless some people need money for various issues and not every man gets big sums cash. So to get fast personal loans and student loan will be good way out.

By: Joel NIchols

Joel NIchols — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:50:14 +0000

The way in which the music and movie industries is absolutely ridiculous. It would be like if the post office sued Gmail because it is putting them out of business.

The main reasons people pirate are simple:
1. It’s priced too high or they just don’t feel the content is worth the price. Go look on Steam, when I can buy a full game for not much more than a song, you can see why Steam are having no problem making money, yet the music industry claims it’s screwed. 1 pound for a song is too much. I can buy an album on iTunes for about 12 pounds, but I wouldn’t be willing to part for anywhere near that much for an album. It’s simple, they’re overpriced.

2. It’s not available. Simple. If say, a movie is available in the United States of America, but not the United Kingdom, then it’s pretty likely that UK citizens are going to resort to piracy.

Personally I use Spotify for music, and I think this is the kind of thing that the music industry needs to focus on instead. I’m perfectly happy to pay 5 or 10 pounds a month to listen to the music that I like.

By: G

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:25:51 +0000

What a bogus law.

Music industries make millions, but they still have to target those vunrable.

What about people like me who have wifi running? doesnt it just mean im a potential target?

Also this campaign needs to be advertised more. I just found this site and the petition closing date was 6 June.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:58:32 +0000

The Music companies are losing because of:
1) PRICE – 80p-£1 per song?
2) More independant artists
3) LEGAL Free Music streaming (e.g. LastFM)

Okay, Pirates should be disconnected, but this needs to be proved and run in a court trial.

I am against the DE bill, because I believe it is an invasion of our privacy.

Okay, if you want to download illegaly (which I do not) google “Hide my IP”

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:52:49 +0000

Let face it, for the music companies it’s all about profit. So let’s look at the figures, Sony Music Entertainment (which includes RCA and Columbia) had a net income of $5,227m in 2009, which is around a 31% increase on the previous financial year.

So let me get this straight; illegal downloads and file sharing is killing music? sales and profits are dropping? Well the financial facts show otherwise.

Personally, I use ‘Spotify’ to listen to what I want to hear … it doesn’t have everything, but the artists who won’t allow their music to be ‘broadcast’ are missing an audience and potential ticket/CD sales …

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:43:37 +0000

@ John Tobin

All ISPs can disconnect users for copyright infringement, it’s in their T&Cs.

That they might now be forced to do so because they are now obliged by law means there is no recourse for the customer under current consumer contract law.

By: John Tobin

John Tobin — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:03:20 +0000

If the ISP`S shut down the internet it is a
breach of contract between the company and the customer which is illegal because if the customer breaks the contract with the company, the company sends a letter to the customer to tell him or her that they have incured charges to pay for the broken contract. Ofcom should look into this because there will be alot of lawsuits against these ISP`s (i.e BT)

By: Canadian

Canadian — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:11:53 +0000

Guys… they’re trying to do this in Canada now as well, bowing to the pressure from the US. Help us!!!

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:11:29 +0000

They may be shooting themslves in the foot. If you read the smallprint of say MSWord’s license agreement… any materials published or produced using that software is copyrighted by microsoft.

This means that by accepting a liscense you give away your right to copyright… What are all the defence documents produced on?