[Locke.]

VideoBB were bad liars anyway, you would watch 10 minutes of something and they'd say you'd watched over an hours worth. At least when Megavideo would **** you over it would only be by 5 minutes or something

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Locke.

VideoBB were bad liars anyway, you would watch 10 minutes of something and they'd say you'd watched over an hours worth. At least when Megavideo would **** you over it would only be by 5 minutes or something

Yeah that's true actually, it'd keep telling me I used my 72 minutes when I'd only just started watching something

[Shaun]

filejungle i only started using it recently but it was decent.

Mediafire, Rapidshare and MegaShare = my favourites, though

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

wupload isnt mentioned on that list

[CharlieO]

At least Wupload is safe for the minute.

But all this is so ridic. It ain't going to improve revenue or nofink.

[lily.]

Scott, the torrent sites can be taken. There's already a ton of legal action against the big guns amongst them... The Pirate Bay for example.

[lily.]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Now there's the thing, someone in the US needs to make some sort of legal "On Demand" channel for the world, it could be subscription based at a reasonable price. What these big companies don't understand is people pirate their things because they're either hard to get or cost too much.

I would pay for that. The USA has Hulu where they can get all the shows already aired. If there were some kind of international Hulu, even if it were subscription-based, people would happily pay for it.

It won't happen though, because it takes money away from companies like Sky who can rip us off and still provide second-rate programming.

[Patrick]

Might aswell let the whole SOPA and PIPPA thing pass now, no point in fighting it.
They're just ******ing us all over anyway.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Might aswell let the whole SOPA and PIPPA thing pass now, no point in fighting it.
They're just ******ing us all over anyway.

I will fight them until they get it into there thick skulls that we don't want there stupid laws.

[lily.]

We [the people] can't really fight it though, can we?

I mean, what can we really do?

The 'anonymous' sorts can do lots of stuff, but individually, we can't do much at all.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by lily.

We [the people] can't really fight it though, can we?

I mean, what can we really do?

The 'anonymous' sorts can do lots of stuff, but individually, we can't do much at all.

We can fight it if we make a stand,the only reason they are holding off at the moment is because we have fought back so far.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by jedward fever

We can fight it if we make a stand,the only reason they are holding off at the moment is because we have fought back so far.

Nothing to do with us, it's only because of the likes of Wikipedia staging their blackout that they've become a bit cautious

Reality is we're not really in any position to do anything to stop this, expert hackers like Anonymous can, huge important websites can, but not us, not unless there was maybe some kind of huge collective action

[lily.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Nothing to do with us, it's only because of the likes of Wikipedia staging their blackout that they've become a bit cautious

Reality is we're not really in any position to do anything to stop this, expert hackers like Anonymous can, huge important websites can, but not us, not unless there was maybe some kind of huge collective action

Exactly what I was in the middle of typing to reply when I was suddenly called away on a 'cat vomit' emergency.

[Niall]

I think that trying to stamp out the sites altogether is a little bit pointless. It's just a big cat and mouse game that, in my opinion, will never end. The only way for the music industry to claw back some of the revenue they've lost at the hands of torrents etc, is for them to meet those illegally downloading music halfway by offering some kind of benefits or new method of listening to music for less money. Just stamping out the sites isn't going to fix it.. same goes for torrents too.

[Niall]

Originally Posted by lily.

Exactly what I was in the middle of typing to reply when I was suddenly called away on a 'cat vomit' emergency.

[Scarlett.]

It's funny, for years I laughed at conspiracy theorists for saying that we arent really free, we're just pawns, and that one day, the governments would pull away the sets, the props and reveal the brick wall that was hidden behind the facade of freedom all along.

Capitalism really is as dirty as communism.

[Black Dagger]

PUTLOCKER?

Now they can die

[GypsyGoth]

I guess something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

we could like form a little gang and kidnap some of the guys who are doing this and maybe molest them a little if they are hot

[Locke.]

Not going to be a very successful gang if you are the brains behind the operation

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

im clever

[Stu]

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Chewy

This might sound square, but I've never used a torrent or pirated a game...though I did download songs off Youtube, only to decide they all sounded **** and bought them all on Amazon Mp3...I mean come on, 99p a song? It's hardly expensive.

But if you want to download an album of an artist who you've only heard a couple of singles off and end up disliking the majority of the album, thats £8/9 pretty much wasted :/

Also, some songs are online that aren't available to buy, oooor they're not available to buy in your own country so you have to download them illegally

[Shaun]

the thing is everything that's legal has now been converted to be pretty much the same as illegally downloading. I mean what's really the difference between listening to a Lady GaGa song on repeat on YouTube all day and having it on your iTunes? They're both free.

[Marc]

Did that guy really get 50 years?