[Article]Congress Passes Web Censorship Bill, Two Hip-Hop Sites Shut Down...

[stringer bell]

for every 2 websites they shut down 3 more will be up next week.

its just like the gov't "war on drugs"...

 

[daboyag1]

bootlegging was mostly going on in the innercity the hood which is only a small percent

of record sales. You dont see bootleggers on the burbs where the bulk of the sales come from.

as far as budden goes in 2003 budden 1st album( his worst album) sold 500,000 copies. his last album 35,000

rick ross current album teflon don is at 312,000. you cant tell me the internet buzz is making up the difference.

hell canibus sold 300,000 back in 99 when ppl were dubbing. and now he cant even move 5,000 records. downloading has had 30 times the impact as

as dubbing.

I still the economy has something to do with it, more or less

 

[politicalthug202]

Fuck, that's how Drake blew up. So Far Gone....

dude marketing mixtapes through the internet to get ur self a buzz.

does not mean downloading is ok.

Artist record mixtapes over other ppl beats or cheap beats and release it for free

for marketing. its called low cost marketing. THEY WANT IT TO BE FREE.

then they release the album which cost money and they loose money because of illegall downloading

 

[hrap-120]

bootlegging was mostly going on in the innercity the hood which is only a small percent
of record sales. You dont see bootleggers on the burbs where the bulk of the sales come from.

as far as budden goes in 2003 budden 1st album( his worst album) sold 500,000 copies. his last album 35,000
rick ross current album teflon don is at 312,000. you cant tell me the internet buzz is making up the difference.

hell canibus sold 300,000 back in 99 when ppl were dubbing. and now he cant even move 5,000 records. downloading has had 30 times the impact as
as dubbing.

Rick Ross "Teflon Don" is currently GOLD according to the Recording Industry Association of America who award Gold and Platinum plaques for artists who sell Half-a-mill or more from their releases.

http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata...ndYear=2010&sort=CertificationDate&perPage=50

 

[Tupacfan]

Smh at this!

 

[ustreet_monsta]

Teflon Don woulda went 2-3x platinum without downloads easily.

 

[Focal Point]

shit is wild

 

[P. Town]

Get all them sites outta here. Niggas need to quit being so muhfuckin cheap!

 

[P. Town]

Promote them mixtapes like albums and sell them muhfuckas for $1 if you have to. Get rid of these damn sites. This shit made my day.

 

[daboyag1]

What about bootleg movies?

 

[StillDreaming]

As long as the internet exists there will be illegal downloading. Plus from what I hear if the website is on an out of country server(besides Canada because they're prepping a law as well) these laws do not apply. I am for this though, in the end I think this is the only way to save the music industry. Only time will tell I guess if this has any real impact on sales.

 

[Fazeem_Blackall]

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smdh @ this fucking gov't...

lol Bill will never become law, you can't make stifle technology and creativity.

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!!!!

Fuck this unconstitutional bill, that's all it is, tyranny.

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.

These mfs didn't learn shit from Napster, you spit in the consumers face and they come back 5 times as hard at you.

They worried about Mixtapes but all them workers from 9/11 who caught lung cancer from all that dust cant even get Healthcare...... This country is sooo fuckin ass backwards.... But this only step one in "Censoring the Internet" better use it while u can to learn as much as u want before this shit be like China LOL....

for every 2 websites they shut down 3 more will be up next week.

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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Real shit homie!!!! It came from a computer geek who got pissed off cuz they waited a cpl of weeks for this ablum to drop only to find out out of a 15 song CD 1 or 2 tracks were bangin.

I was gona make this thread yesterday,but i thought everybody knew, damn ahh stay bein latelol, but what people aint understandin is this site prolly gonna get got too

Those artist were never gonna sell alot of albums to begin with, they are artist who make their money touring.

Man this whole thing is messed up period.

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!

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:

"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."

That's what i've been saying, they are not fixing the problem. The software and hardware is still out there to pirate music and movies, who are they going after next, Sony, Toshiba,etc for making burners and blank disc. It's too fucking late now, you cannot fight technology and progress.

I hope all these major labels collapse and their crooked and illegal contracts (imo) go to hell, for years they have been fucking artist and now the shoes have turned. Word to the Cold Crush Brothers and older artist who got fucked out of all their money.

I could have swore congress had more important things to do.....

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Word. China has gone to amazing lengths to censor the internet and it hasn't fucking worked. Any Chinese computer user with a spoonful of computer skills can easily slip past "The Great Firewall".

The Industry will continue to die, despite their best efforts. CD sales will continue to plummet. And that iTunes money will continue to NOT be enough to sustain, to borrow Malcolm's phrase, "a corrupt, hypocritical system".

Mannnn, internet downloading saved Joe Budden's career. Back in 05/06 when he was getting NO love from the radio or even the mixtape circuit, back when Def Jam left dude for dead, it was niggas posting YouSendIt and Rapidshare links to "Dumb Out" and "3 Sides to a Story" on Hip-Hop forums that built up the cult following that allowed him to live comfortably as a independent artist.

The way YOU tell it, niggas wasn't bootlegging albums before the internet. lmao

I can't make a case for J. Cole but Joe Budden laid an egg with his first album. They said the same about dubbing tapes and burnin CDs. This too will pass just like they will. If you have so much of a problem with this, howcome the person who leaks it NEVER gets in trouble. I'll be damned to believe that NOBODY knows the person who leaked their music. Instead of getting mad at the people who recieve the music how bout goin after the people who makes it possible.

IF YOU THINK THIS CENSORSHIP BILL WILL SOMEHOW MAKE IT SO THAT LUPE DOES WAYNE NUMBERS, YOU'RE RETARDED

i mean really

Same could be said for 50 Cent who was the king of the shit. DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz whole existence, Not to mention J. Cole, Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, are a slew of artist who have used to it to be relavant.

Right? Remember when a album leak was rare? Ever since like 06 *EVERY* album has leaked 2 weeks before the release date, with clockwork precision.

Well there are a lot of short bus ass niggas!!!!!

Fuck, that's how Drake blew up. So Far Gone....

its just like the gov't "war on drugs"...

Smh at this!

shit is wild

As long as the internet exists there will be illegal downloading. Plus from what I hear if the website is on an out of country server(besides Canada because they're prepping a law as well) these laws do not apply. I am for this though, in the end I think this is the only way to save the music industry. Only time will tell I guess if this has any real impact on sales.

All THis and so much More...

 

[TRILLip Brooks]

this is good, first limewire, now this. more should come

 

[Dakari]

that shit got seized!!! wtf?!?!?!

that was a big site too. mannn this bill already fuckin shit up

whose next? the NMC? allhiphop??!?!?! lol

 

[dalyricalbandit]

websites die?..kanye shrug...r.i.p i guess

 

[ysl313]

eh.........................

 

[Swiffness!]

The RIAA's official stated position is that ALL Mixtapes are ILLEGAL BOOTLEG ALBUMS.

 

[TRILLip Brooks]

The RIAA's official stated position is that ALL Mixtapes are ILLEGAL BOOTLEG ALBUMS.

aint that what dj drama got arrested for?

 

[daboyag1]

this is good, first limewire, now this. more should come

They got thepirateby.org too

 

[Swiffness!]

They got thepirateby.org too

WTF you talkin about, Pirate Bay is still up.

besides, Torrentz.com >>>>>>>>