Winmx Is Back

[Deed]

Wihout filesharing 'someone I know' wouldn't have half the music tastes 'he' has now, and most definitely wouldn't be giving the deserving artists thier money, especially when the artist are almost impossible to find in this country. P2P has guided 'his' musical tastes and has definitely refined them.

Also, something called 'audio quality' has to be taken into consideration. Downloadable MP3s have very poor quality, and even if one manages to get a hold of some rare losless files, there has to be something said about actually physically having the record. If 'my friend' truely enjoys an album, 'he' wants to spend the money to own it, if not just to have it, to give the band back what little money they get these days through the record companies. Many people are like 'my friend'.

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That's so true ... People that don't agree with that are just hypocritical morons

 

[gametux]

Oh n03s burn teh bittorrents!

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Good point. I use a lot Azureus (BitTorrent Client) today, because it helps to keep the traffic volume down for a lot of software projects like OpenSUSE, OpenOffice.org... Even id Software uses BitTorrents to distribute patches for their games.
A lot of people say filesharing is bad. This is nonsense. Legal filesharing is very usefull.

 

[Racemaniac]

File sharing, aka theft...

Hey, I guess you don't mind if we all come round to your house and share your stuff? I bagsy the TV and Xbox.

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you might have a point concerning filesharing, but the idiotic comparison of actual theft of physical things versus downloading things without consent of the author is ridiculous and immediatly takes away any credibility...

i don't really support filesharing either, but if used "smart" (aka you may download things, but don't let it affect how much you buy, thus not harming the industry), i see no problem...
and making filesharers pay huge fines, and even make them go to prison (which ought to be for people who are a threat to the society), thus putting them on the same level as murderers (and not petty thieves what you compare them with, which is already worse than filesharing), is imo absolutely ridiculous.

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I'm not quite sure I get what you're talking about. If you download (pirate) a CD from the Internet are you still likely to go and buy it? If you download and then burn the CD you have basically stolen as you have a just about 100% copy of what is for sale in the store.

I have never understood this argument that piracy is not theft and you have done nothing to convince me otherwise.

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well, some people do that, they download things, and if they come across things they like, they buy it

but i was more referring to the fact that most downloaders download WAY more than they could ever buy. if despite downloading you still buy stuff, i don't see anything wrong with downloading, you'll justh ave more things, and you give the industry the money it can get from you, if however you replace your buying by downloading, then you're really doing something wrong...

 

[TelcoLou]

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What does this have to do with the GP32??

 

[beanfarmer]

how many people here have ROMs they have never actualy payed for i rest my case most people on this thread should stop being so hypicritical, i belive in try before you buy if i like someing i buy it if i dont then i wont and the "demo" gets deleted this is not piracy its just trying to save poor old me some cash

 

[Ferentix]

Filesharing is NOT piracy, nor is it illegal, nor should it be...

Using a filesharing system to share copyrighted, commercial material is illegal in most circumstances, but this depends on licenses and stuff. For example, some bands (usually minor bands and independant bands) will distribute some of their stuff for free using the internet, and encourage people to share those files as much as they like, in order to get more people listening. Some, such as Anubis Spire, distribute all their music for free- but still sell albums, and they presumably make a little profit. The music is still copyrighted, it belongs to the originator, but it can be perfectly legal to share those files.

Bittorrent... Bittorent is great, when you can join an active torrent I got consistent download speeds between 100 and 200 Kbps on the Linux distros I downloaded via bittorrent, and on other files too. Sure, it can be used to distribute pirated material, but then so could pretty much anything- a large coat for example. Shall we ban coats because someone might be hiding pirated goods under them?

Anyway, the impression I get about this "WinMX" software is that it was originally forced to shut down by the RIAA, presumably because many were using it to trade illegal files. I don't think the original poster (well, if the're even human- could be a spam bot or something I guess) means that everyone should be able to trade illegal files by P2P networks, rather that people should be able to freely use such networks without being treated like criminals- because so much of the traffic on P2P networks is legal and acceptable. I think that's a very fair point.

I fail to see what it has to do with GP* but I think we all know that it's just an advertisment- these have probably popped up on dozens or hundreds of boards, posted in the first available sub-forum.

 

[Inopia]

Stealing shit isn't a 'right of the people'

 

[taras]

I was just trolling. As if 98% of GP2X owners are innocent of file sharing!...

Although I don't use file sharing software, and I do buy all my music on CDs. Mainly because I'm on dialup...ha.

 

[DJprocyon]

WinMX was total shit anyway. In all my time using it I never got anything I searched for, unless it was queued by 2000000000000 users, or I was wanting to search for 50 Cent, or whatever other pish is in the charts these days.
Anybody else think this deserves to be categorised as spam?

 

[hando]

SPAM. Closed.