According to this article here, the RIAA found another target in their on-going battle against piracy. Usenet.com is in sight of the RIAA’s crosshair. More to come after they take down Usenet.com. And the cycle goes on and on. It’s never going to end.

Like I have said in my previous post The War of Piracy, they the AA’s can go on suing till the end of time. As long as there are reasons for people to buy pirated stuff, it is not going to stop. Either ‘Shut Down The Internet‘, or find another approach.  Stop trying to tell us to “Buy originals”. We heard you the first 1000 times, repeating calls about educating and other threatening tone won’t make much differences. People will still find ways to pirate and buy pirated stuff.

Want to make a difference? Then LISTEN to us consumers. Given a choice, if originals become affordable, I would be the first one to jump on it. Unlike some anti-piracy people who only consider one side of the story, while ignoring the other side of the story. Like I have mentioned in ‘Why people choose to buy from pirates.‘, there are more reasons than just ‘because pirated stuff are cheap’.

Give us reasons to buy originals and not just sent out the lawyers. Give us quality music, movies and products. We just want to enjoy good entertainment while we still can. Don’t you?

MPAA, RIAA, and all the other AA’s. They are losing the war I dubbed “War of the Piracy”. However, I am not going to say that p2p side is winning either. Once the entertainment industry feels that it’s time to give up, it’s all over for both the entertainment industry and also the p2p-ers.

Why is it like that?

This is because that on one hand, the entertainment industry is shooting themselves in the leg by producing mediocre and lousy movies and music and selling them at prices that only can be bought by those that have the extra money. Others will have to save,save and save. So, when there is an opportunity like p2p and piracy being sold at cheaper prices than the originals, do they the AA’s think that people will be thinking like this: “Oh no. This is illegal. I will not buy it.”???

They(the AA’s) probably do think like the above.

Mind you. What most (not all) of the people buying pirated stuff are really thinking this : “Hey, I can afford to buy this. Maybe I will buy the original if this is really good and worth every penny.”

It’s Social-Economics.

When people can’t buy something, they opt for cheaper alternatives. It’s just that simple.

And yet, there are other factors. However, for the layman, it’s nothing but bullshit. The layman’s will only understand this simple thing: “Cheap, affordable and good enough.”

A number of people buy pirated because that’s the limit of their economic status. Are they to be deny entertainment that only the rich can afford? Are we going to blame them for not succeeding in their life? Are we going to say that they are the filth of society because they are only moderately educated? Are we going to say “You deserved to be poor because you fail at life.”. How are we going to conclude that from? Not everyone is born with a shining star above their heads.

Alas, if only the AA’s understand that, instead of thinking : Oh noes, our cash cow is shrinking! Call out the lawyers and politicians! We must protect out “MONEY”!

I support piracy all the way. However, if originals become affordable, you bet I will buy the originals any day! (I own a couple of originals, and I have seen the real quality it holds, but alas the price was beyond my means, I had to borrow from family and friends.)

p2p. The word dreaded by movie studios and movie assiociations all over the world. Why? because p2p are blood suckers that are sucking up their monetary gains they “rightfully” should have gotten if it wasn’t for the likes of Kazaa and Edonkey..etc.

Wait. Hang on. Talk about blood suckers. With their cut throat prices and their lousy and lame(most of the time) storylines and acting. Tell me who really are the REAL Blood Suckers?

The delusional view is that, you pay for what you see. Actually, that is fact of life. You PAY for what you WANT to SEE. However, I don’t see it that way. In fact, lots of people also don’t see it that way, because you pay for medicore and lame and lousy and stereotype storylines and acting. Bad movies don’t get you the money. Good and Great movies does. However, because they, the movie industry people only care about how much money they will earn. Lame storyline or not. They are probably only looking at the $$$$$$$ and care less about the QUALITY of a movie. But hey, they are a bunch of delusional people, at least to me I see them as delusional people blinded by greed. They think what they do are “world class” stuff. But to the eyes of the viewers, what they do aren’t even worth a mention(most of the time). Maybe once in a while, there will be one or two great movies like Star Wars and Lord of The Rings. But that’s only 1 or 2. What happened to the other 1001 other movies? What happened to the other thousands and thousands of movies produced over the years? Are they getting better? Are they doing a good job? NO. In fact, over the years, the quality of movies have degenerated to lame storylines and acting.

I try not to watch movies now. Since most of them have that typical storylines and lame acting. It’s not even worth my time and effort to download movies either. Nowadays, I rather watch TV Series/animes/Hong Kong serials/Jdramas. Not that I am saying the storyline and acting are better than those in the movies, but at least there are good storylines and some unexpected storylines that is original and less stereotype(but still have the usual stereotypes in some series!)

The reality about p2p is, it is giving viewers a chance to get to watch movies that they can’t afford to buy. Not everyone can afford to fork out their hard earn money to buy a movie. If they did, they will have less moneyy to feed their families! So, when given a choice between a cheap alternative aka “piracy” and buying originals, one tend to take the most optimal way. It doesn’t matter that piracy is illegal and it infringed on the copyrights of the movie studios and such. Pirated goods buyers are motivated by how much money they can spend and how much money they can save for their families. But does anyone care about this facts of life? NO. No one cares. Actually, in fact, no one wants to admit that this is the FACTS. Buying one DVD at 1/4 of the original price is something WE lower-income and middle-income people can afford to buy. But does anyone bother to find this facts out? NO. They tried to hide it by saying their prices are justified because of they quality of the stars, quality of the storylines and stuff and also their insanely high production costs. I might not really know how much money is used to make a movie, but I know it is darn expensive. However, in my opinion, that is not an excuse to sell movies (VCDs/DVDs) at an insanely high price that only those WILLING to pay for it can buy. What about those who can’t afford it? Is it the fault of these people that they are not earning enough to afford some entertainment? or it is the fault of these lower-income people that they didn’t study enough to become doctor’s, engineers..etc? These people can’t afford to buy originals, that’s why when there is a cheaper alternative place in front of them, do you really think that these people will say “This is illegal. I can’t buy it! I am committing an offense.” These people don’t have to think twice nor they care if the movie stars and movie studios are whining that their earnings are 1million less than what they should be earning. These people that buys pirated goods are in reality POOR PEOPLE. But hey, who cares? These POOR people doesn’t deserve to have what the RICH PEOPLE have because their social status is way below the RICH PEOPLE. Is this what the RICH PEOPLE are thinking? Is this what the movie studios are thinking?

The Entertainment industry thinks that by suing everyone they can save their dying/losing money/whatever they think it is industry. Yes, suing works! I have to admit, it does work. But it is a very short term strategy. They can’t possibly stop everything just by suing. Assuming they can shut down all bittorrent trackers, which will render bittorrent useless. There are still MANY other Peer-To-Peer clients/networks out there in the World Wild Web! Some are PRIVATE network that only caters for friends and families. Some have major encryption that it would take major CPU power, time or maybe even money to break into them. Maybe they (Entertainment Industry) might win the battle in taking out bittorrent tracker sites (we might never know though), but they sure ain’t hell going to win the war. So, assuming bittorrent it totally wiped out. The downloaders will still download only the option would be others Peer-To-Peer networks!  Then again, even if they managed to shut down all bittorrent trackers, with Decentralisation using DHT , even without a tracker, bittorrent users are still able to download. And the most recent weapon that bittorrent has developed is http seeding or webseed. So, in the end, it is a futile attempt to stop bittorrent at all by the entertainment industry.

Think about it.  Even before there was bittorrent, people were still happily downloading via other Peer-To-Peer networks or IRC or Usenet. The only advantage that bittorrent has is that downloaders are able to download at a faster pace. So, wiping out bittorrent isn’t going to stop downloaders or cut down the spreading of copyrighted content! They only managed to bring everyone back to the days before bittorrent. And, as I remember correctly, I was using emule, kazaa..etc. So, will the spreading of copyrighted content lessen after wiping out bittorrent? Yes and No. Yes as in, some people that doesn’t know how to use other Peer-To-Peer network will be lost. No as in, there is still TONS of Peer-To-Peer client that downloaders can use.

So, the ONLY way to stop Peer-To-Peer is……..SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET. It’s a 100% method to stop the spreading of copyrighted contents!