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Downloading previously bought musicFebruary 9th, 2013 by pirateadminI’d like to run another poll with you guys. Please feel free to vote – it is 100% anonynomous! Poll question: Do you consider it to be piracy to download MP3 files of a previously bought album? Let’s say you own some music as an LP, bought in the 80s. Now you don’t own a turntable anymore, but you can download MP3 or better files from the net from a site that offers unauthorized files. Since you already paid for the LP, should it legally and technically be “piracy” to download these files? John
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January downloadsFebruary 7th, 2013 by pirateadminDecember was a bad month for downloads, as I worked too much, and prepared for Christmas too much to look for new downloads to grab. But the last month I did some hunting, and found these little DVDRs floating around. Naturally, I cleaned them up from the net: Bad ass Out of these I actually watched Six Bullets, a small but nice action film with Jean Claude van Damme. Sorry, JCvD, but you received no money from me this time, but that would be no difference compared to the absence of the internet; had the net not existed and one was forced to buy physical DVDs, I would never have bought this movie, as my budget does not stretch that far. John No stream of moneyJanuary 29th, 2013 by pirateadminThe music industry is slowly trying to find new ways to make money when CD sales are being reduced every year. The newest trend is streaming, such as Spotify. The problem is that this is not really a “new model” – it is still about charging individual users a sum of money and then try to distribute that money back to record companies and composers. Here’s the truth about music streaming and what artists and composers earn from it:
Read the whole article here. It shows that even a million plays won’t keep an artist/composer with rent, food and working tools for a month.
The ones that really do make money off of music these days, are ISP who sell broadband services. Why are they not taken on by the music industry? John November downloadsDecember 11th, 2012 by pirateadminNovember 2012 was a pretty good month for downloads. I grabbed the following movie DVDRs: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter And some music grabs: Cliff Martinez – A l’origine (soundtrack) Being that Christmas is coming up, and I would like to compile another CDR of 50s and 60s holiday songs, I downloaded a bunch of Christmas music too. In fact, more than 11 gigabytes of MP3 files (last year I think I grabbed around 6 gigabytes). My collection of Christmas music is now around 35 gigabytes, although I actually listen to only a fraction of the songs. See you soon! John October downloadsNovember 4th, 2012 by pirateadminOctober was a little less active on the download front than September, but this was purely due to few interesting releases being made. With “releases” I mean scene releases, i.e. retail DVDs converted into “pirated” DVD files by ripper groups. These groups release their packages onto torrent sites, to FTP accounts, or other hubs. October’s DVD grab bag: Abraham Lincoln vs zombies I also grabbed some music: Parralox: Electricity (Limited Edition) And some software: Winzip Pro I am actually looking for two software: The TTS voice of Elin, and the soft-synth Synth-Werk. Any pointers? John The Pirate Bay now in the cloudOctober 26th, 2012 by pirateadminAccording to TorrentFreak, the filesharing news site, The Pirate Bay has now taken some major steps towards becoming secured from police raids and MPAA intervention.
Good luck to them! John |
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