[Article]Congress Passes Web Censorship Bill, Two Hip-Hop Sites Shut Down...
ustreet_monsta
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this is good news. you can directly trace the decline in quality music and album sales to internet piracy.
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tupacfan35
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Fuck this unconstitutional bill, that's all it is, tyranny.
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Downloading isn't any different than dubbing tapes or burning CDs. Downloadin has help people who don't won't to waste 10-13 on sup bullshit like was used to do back in the day. It doesn't have that fuckin much of an impact on sale cuz if your music is good THEY WILL BUY IT!!!!
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ustreet_monsta
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^^ that not true at all.
as soon as file sharing services like Napster came out all the kids I knew in high school stopped buying cds. before that, we'd be at the cd store every Tuesday or sometime the Friday before hand buying everything that came out. Yeah some of the stuff we would pool our money to buy and then make coppies for friends, but we still had to purchase it.
now in 2010 I get a mass email from the same kids on the daily and its filled with full album downloads. the technology has changed. before if you wanted to dub a tape or cd someone had to purchase it and there was a limit on the number of people it could be shared with. now if i got that new shit i can send it out to a couple thousand people by clicking a button.
with the economy the way it is (and has been since 2001) why would anyone pay $10 for a cd they could get for free? plus you can get it a week or month before it hits the store?
If everyone who had a free copy of Distant Relatives or Untitled on their Ipods and laptops had purchased it maybe Nas could get a release date for Lost Tapes 2. This is how downloading is fucking up the music.
as soon as file sharing services like Napster came out all the kids I knew in high school stopped buying cds. before that, we'd be at the cd store every Tuesday or sometime the Friday before hand buying everything that came out. Yeah some of the stuff we would pool our money to buy and then make coppies for friends, but we still had to purchase it.
now in 2010 I get a mass email from the same kids on the daily and its filled with full album downloads. the technology has changed. before if you wanted to dub a tape or cd someone had to purchase it and there was a limit on the number of people it could be shared with. now if i got that new shit i can send it out to a couple thousand people by clicking a button.
with the economy the way it is (and has been since 2001) why would anyone pay $10 for a cd they could get for free? plus you can get it a week or month before it hits the store?
If everyone who had a free copy of Distant Relatives or Untitled on their Ipods and laptops had purchased it maybe Nas could get a release date for Lost Tapes 2. This is how downloading is fucking up the music.
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Coming at filesharing networks is like suing the engineers who build roads for traffic crimes. Why are you going after the builders, go after the traffic violators (people who commit illegal file sharing), file sharing software is legal imo, what people chose to do with them is the illegal aspects. Shutting down Piratebay is not gonna stop people from sharing files, you would have to shut down blank cds, dvds, dvr,etc too.
As far as i'm concern, piracy is payback for all the years the record labels ripped off fans putting on 2-3 good songs on a album.
As far as i'm concern, piracy is payback for all the years the record labels ripped off fans putting on 2-3 good songs on a album.
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ustreet_monsta;1657583 said:
Nah homie the only thing downloading is fuckin up is that these cats to make some good music or you won't sell. I'm from that era where u paid your 10 dollars only to find out that the best track is the video track. Its just new age dubbing and just like every other genre' of music they doing just fine. The economy has more to do with why record sales are struggling than downloads. Hell when you got 10 dollars and you have to choose between eating or buying the CD. I'm choosin fuck it i gotta eat and i'll DOWNLOAD it later!!
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ustreet_monsta
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Piracy hurts artists who make good music. Artists like The Roots, Nas, Common, Lupe, etc.
I didnt grow up in the DL age so I can see it. Do you know why women are the demographic being catered to by major labels and radio? Because women be shopping. They arent on the internet getting it for free. So the whole genre has shifted to get them to hit the stores and buy music.
I didnt grow up in the DL age so I can see it. Do you know why women are the demographic being catered to by major labels and radio? Because women be shopping. They arent on the internet getting it for free. So the whole genre has shifted to get them to hit the stores and buy music.
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ustreet_monsta
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What does AHH do other than promote industry artists? The reason those sites are getting shut down is that they arent part of the machine. If you are sponsored by Interscope or Def Jam you don't have anything to worry about.
This is pointless though and 10 years too late. You can rip any song you want straight from Youtube and the industry lost that case Already.
This is pointless though and 10 years too late. You can rip any song you want straight from Youtube and the industry lost that case Already.
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Swiffness!
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Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, also opposes the bill and vows to keep the bill from passing.
Because senators have the power to put holds on legislation, if Senator Ron Wyden continues to oppose the bill, it is possible COICA will be dead following the end of this congressional season.
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N56/coica.html
Ron Wyden is a trill-ass dude and a progressive libertarian. Go Ron, GO!!! Filibuster!
Because senators have the power to put holds on legislation, if Senator Ron Wyden continues to oppose the bill, it is possible COICA will be dead following the end of this congressional season.
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N56/coica.html
Ron Wyden is a trill-ass dude and a progressive libertarian. Go Ron, GO!!! Filibuster!
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Swiffness!
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hrap-120;1657689 said:
man wtf Hrap. You forget what happened to DJ Drama already? If this shit passes, you're gonna go to Mixtape-Torrent someday and see this:
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Swiffness!
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"It seems to me the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act as written today, is the wrong medicine," Wyden, the chairman of the Finance International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness Subcommittee, said during a hearing on international trade and the digital economy. "Deploying this statute to combat online copyright and infringement seems almost like a bunker buster cluster bomb when really what you need is a precision-guided missile."
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