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wilywombat said:

To nailgunner:- If you have"borrowed" noobvious's jpg then I hope you aren't sharing it using p2p!!!

I wasn't planning on it. But if I do in the future, I will do the appropriate copyright search to see who is the legal owner and see if I can get written permission to share from said owner.

My initial search will be slow and tedious, seeing as how there are no owner and/or copyright details listed in the properties section of the file.

But for any government copyright officials monitoring this thread, rest assured that I have only started my due diligence work, and there is no need to maintain a record of my IP address at this time.

Barman58 said:

David

That is a good idea about the actual creators of the content, the artist, benefiting from the distribution - unfortunately it's all the others who want a cut too,.

from a $15,99 album the artist gets $1.60 the rest is overhead

Source

one of the reasons why a lot of artists are now releasing content directly to the web

Excellent point Nigel. That hadn't occurred to me. Should have done my homework.

Skulblaka said:

I'm not justifying pirating, I'm pointing out that loyal customers buy and get crap in return. Are they so blind and cannot see that there is a reason why people pirate.

People pirate because they are cheap (or would rather spend their money elsewhere), and think that companies and artists are way too overpaid as it is. Are you SERIOUSLY going to suggest that if there was no "crap" or there had never been any "crap", that pirating would not still be an issue? Get real. That's just an attempt to justify behavior.

alfred01 said:

But we do it innocently without any illegal intent.

Ignorance of the law has never been a legal defense. But the obvious issue is putting it on the internet to share with the whole world as opposed to a few circle of friends/families. It's the same theory as to why police pull you over if you go 10 miles over the limit, but ignore you if you go 5 miles over. They go after the worse offenders. Going 5 over is still breaking the law.

When it comes to images that I want to use in my blog, found via Bing or Google image search, I download the image to my computer and upload to the blog, unless marked with a copyright.

However, I also have a saved image that I really liked and thought I would want to use to accompany a future blog post. Because the image was identified as a photo created by the author, I wrote to the person and asked permission to use it and received permission. I haven't used it yet but have saved the e-mail providing permission.

LiquidSnak said:

Actually, it's not because they go after the "big fish". There is a cushion to account for calibration error of your speedometer.

Nonsense. I know parts of a certain metro area where you can speed by the state trooper in the medium at 10 miles over the limit and they don't blink an eye. In fact if you aren't going 10 over, you're likely to get bump drafted as if you were in a Nascar race.

Closing in on 20 pages.

noobvious said:

Skulblaka said:

No, like I said, I don't justify it. Also, my form of music is not sold, at least a large majority of it.

What form is that?

Mostly trance, not mainstream, small time artists, not very big shot but make superb music.