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Music News: "Loss of Internet access for between one and 12 months"
Member Since: 4/12/2007
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Originally posted by Departure
.99 cents per song is over priced. I'm with Yankee. Doesn't it cost money to make the packaging and the artwork? Yet it's logically less than .99 cents per song when you buy the physical album vs. buying one song on iTunes for .99 cents with no artwork or packaging.
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And yet you were pleading with people for them to buy Departure and it hasn't even sold 200k. Your logic ends up hurting the artists you love so much, you know that right?
No, 99 cents doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all. If you listen to the song 10-20 times, you're getting a lot of play for your money. What about a frappucino, you pay nearly $4 and get one use out of it. A cigarette alone costs nearly 50 cents in most states (and almost a dollar in NY) and you get only one use out of it. A movie ticket costs $7-$10 and you only get one use out of it. Who cares if you get something tangible out of your dollar? Because you're either going to throw it away immediately or leave it on a shelf to gather dust.
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Member Since: 10/5/2008
Posts: 2,938
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Originally posted by JSparksMCarey
Huh?
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yankee said something so I'm dunno what's the problem.
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
Posts: 6,202
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Originally posted by JSparksMCarey
And you and a lot of other people are doing this to thousands of people every year. And honestly, I dont see how you sleep at night. So now STFU cause I am done talking with a bigotted person like you. You can reply all you want but I am done talking about this with you.
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Now I don't understand the personal attack on another member here. We are arguing about music downloading here, but there is no reason to make it personal. I sleep at night just fine and I'm sure the member you were talking to does too. As a matter of fact, we sleep better knowing we didn't spend additional money that day to buy music.
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Member Since: 9/6/2008
Posts: 5,795
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Originally posted by JSparksMCarey
So you can honestly tell me that if it was impossible to download music, you woldn't buy it? I highly doubt that. Who gives a **** if the music industry is paying your bills?! Your a selfish asshole! You only think about your ****ing Beyonce and yourself!
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NO I WOULDN'T BUY IT!
FYI: I don't own a Credit Card, So I even illegally download Beyonce Music, But I always Buy the album, Because I respect her and I appreciate her music.
I have purchase CD when I live at home, but now I'm a college student I can't afford to pay for EVERY ARTIST ALBUM  ...I buy who I like!
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
Posts: 6,202
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Originally posted by funmaker11
yankee said something so I'm dunno what's the problem.
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Forget it. We were making a point and he kept disagreeing by saying exactly the same thing even when it didn't make sense. It is not important anymore.
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Member Since: 10/5/2008
Posts: 2,938
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Originally posted by bobbymfw
And yet you were pleading with people for them to buy Departure and it hasn't even sold 200k. Your logic ends up hurting the artists you love so much, you know that right?
No, 99 cents doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all. If you listen to the song 10-20 times, you're getting a lot of play for your money. What about a frappucino, you pay nearly $4 and get one use out of it. A cigarette alone costs nearly 50 cents in most states (and almost a dollar in NY) and you get only one use out of it. A movie ticket costs $7-$10 and you only get one use out of it. Who cares if you get something tangible out of your dollar? Because you're either going to throw it away immediately or leave it on a shelf to gather dust.
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But it's the same as the albums.
You can play it at the same amount.
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Member Since: 10/21/2005
Posts: 19,258
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Computers crash, iPods crash. You lose everything.
Albums don't. That is if you take care of them. So why waste .99 cents, clearly when it's overpriced, for something that you probably will most likely end up losing?
I still buy albums, but only by ar****ts that are worth buying. It took me a few months to go out and buy Archie's album, because I didn't have the money to spend, but I really loved the album and wanted to go support him. If the album was nothing special, I wouldnt' have it now...
And again, we don't live in a perfect world, you can't control what people do or not do. You can only manipulate them into thinking differently...
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Member Since: 4/12/2007
Posts: 5,851
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Originally posted by funmaker11
But it's the same as the albums.
You can play it at the same amount.
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So what though? Would you rather pay directly for the songs you like, or pay for a more expensive item loaded with a lot of "filler" you don't want? That's the way everything in our economy works, doesn't it? Things cost more individually than they do in bulk.
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Member Since: 10/5/2008
Posts: 2,938
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That's what I mean, Departure 
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Member Since: 10/5/2008
Posts: 2,938
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Originally posted by bobbymfw
So what though? Would you rather pay directly for the songs you like, or pay for a more expensive item loaded with a lot of "filler" you don't want? That's the way everything in our economy works, doesn't it? Things cost more individually than they do in bulk.
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Ok, I forgot about that... 
I still rather buy a full than a part.
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Member Since: 12/21/2002
Posts: 20,569
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Originally posted by Departure
Computers crash, iPods crash.
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If you're not a complete idiot and have a backup drive and always have antivirus software running, you should be fine.
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
Posts: 51,546
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Originally posted by bobbymfw
And Rico, that is THE DUMBEST post I have ever seen you make. Civil rights? Seriously, I'm busting up laughing. The internet is not a "right," it is a privilege, and by using it to pirate copyrighted material you are abusing that privilege. Simple enough, actions have consequences. Just because you pay for the internet service doesn't mean you get free reign over everything else. Music is a separate entity and you must pay for that as a separate cost.
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Well, you didn't have to get all bitchy.  I understand the privilege part. Still doesn't change how pretty much majority of people download illegally, and cutting off their internet would make the companies suffer.
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Member Since: 8/9/2004
Posts: 21,889
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You have to be naive to believe the ISP would risk losing their customers to serve RIAA.  This is ******** and they will probably do it for one or two publicly to scare the airheads like JTard.
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Member Since: 1/10/2009
Posts: 1,117
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I'm done, no one is listening to what anyone is saying. I am not saying I am perfect but I DO actually look at other point of veiws of other people. But MOST of you only see your selfish side and dont bother seeing that their are other people in the world. So I am done in this thread. PEACE <3
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Member Since: 10/5/2008
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^Bye!
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Member Since: 10/5/2008
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Member Since: 10/21/2005
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Member Since: 2/1/2008
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This is ridiculous. Instead of looking for ways to block ISPs from illegal downloading they must be creating stores like iTunes available worldwide, in all currencies. Believe me, I can pay $1 for a song, because I'm not miserable. However, I can't do it since there's no iTunes Store or any other kind of store in my country, specially in Latin America. That forces me to download them through P2P software, and don't tell me Last.fm or any of them, since it is a pain to visit the site everytime I want to hear the song and I can't transfer them to the iPhone. The majority of albums come after 2 or 3 months (at least) of being released, they have to make ways to speed up this process instead of making drastic decisions like this one. Even if they really do that there will always be a hack. Piracy can't be defeated, especially as technology evolves, accept it.
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Member Since: 6/25/2008
Posts: 20,616
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This won't work.
If they will cut the internet to people, the internet compeny will loss.
Besides, alot of people download music yet, buy album.
And, with sites like Youtube, people sometimes don't bother to even download music but just listen to it over there.
Lets say they will kill the file sharing, people could still rip off the songs from the Youtube videos.
What's next?Killing Youtube?Killing the internet? .
They just can't stop it, they need to realize this is how it is these day and find a way to adjust to the situation.
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