Comments on: Your iPod makes you a criminal

By: Garg the Unzola

Garg the Unzola — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:47:49 +0000

Atlas Shrugged is a great book! Yes, this sort of extortion does scare me. I am an avid collector of both CDs and DVDs (I own originals of all those reviewed on my blog).

Recently, I quit buying them because they are too expensive. While this is my primary concern, my secondary concern is quality. CD quality is now iPod quality. CDs are manufactured to sound good after being ripped to iPod.

My attitude with regards to this is my current collection will have to sustain me, and I will make my own music and movies, which I will distribute without any of this cumbersome nonsense.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:00:32 +0000

It’s all a bunch a crap.

By: Insomnic

Insomnic — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:10:08 +0000

Yeah… this stuff just kinda follows along with all the other stuff RIAA/MPAA gets governments to do.

I still like that they touted the shutdown of Demonoid as a big win for their cause … and Demonoid is back up and running.

I think the biggest part of the problem is that instead of changing with the times and realizing that the business of music and movies is changing, the RIAA/MPAA are just digging in their heels and saying “we won’t change for you!” Unfortunately, they have a lot of clout with governments … and so they tend to get their way without public discussion.

By: Rev Matt

Rev Matt — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:18:46 +0000

Yea, this is some very wrong crap. The problem, of course, is corporations and their lobbyists using their influence to get government to do things that should be none of the government’s business.

I think any non-commercial infringement of intellectual property rights (e.g. sharing a file on a file service is non-commercial, burning and selling CDs is commercial) should be a civil issue that the government has nothing to do with.