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Music industry attempts to blackmail ISP's
Posted: 10/5/2002, 3:28 pm
by OLP4AM
They want Verizon to give them the names of the people that subscribe to their internet service and are downloading song files to cut off the person's service or Verizon will get sued. This is so freaking dumb if you ask me. Do they think that they can hold the millions of people worldwide as hostages in order to get people to stop downloading music?
Posted: 10/5/2002, 4:10 pm
by Sufjan Stevens
Are you serious? Why would they do that? Hey, the way I see it is, if a band makes an outstanding album, people will go buy it regardless if the internet has downloadable music or not. That's what I do. I bought Jimmy Eat World and all my Alkaline Trio cds after downloading them. So the music industry can fuck off.
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:10 pm
by Susan
Thats crap. Do they realize how much business they'd lose?
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:14 pm
by superrgirll
My ISP limits my uploads and downloads to 5gb per month
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:15 pm
by Susan
Eew. Are you on... Sympatico?!
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:16 pm
by superrgirll
yes
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:21 pm
by Susan
*patpat* There's hope for you yet. All we need are some matches and steel wool. How long can you hold your breath?
Or you could swap over to Rogers highspeed.
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:38 pm
by nelison
I have Cogeco high speed... just the Niagara equivalent to Rogers...
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:38 pm
by Susan
Yeap. I'm on Cogeco too. I wuvs it.
Posted: 10/5/2002, 6:41 pm
by superrgirll
Damn sympatico
Posted: 10/5/2002, 7:36 pm
by Furious George
Back when I was still in Toronto, my Roger's broadband was absolute CRAP. I'm not joking, within every 4 hours you could count on having a disconnection (usually lasting an hour or so). I was stuck with this @$&)*er for a long time and it kept getting worse. Eventually we got fed up with it, but couldn't sign up for sympatico because we were going to move in the next month or so, and my dad didn't want to go through the hassle.
Now, I'm hooked on AT & T broadband and my connection is faster than most business connections and never goes down! Sure makes up for that year of internet hell.
Posted: 10/5/2002, 7:42 pm
by lora
I only have one thing to say: dial-up connection must burn in hell.
Posted: 10/5/2002, 7:45 pm
by happening fish
su7an wrote:All we need are some matches and steel wool. How long can you hold your breath?
Hurrah for Tycho!
Posted: 10/5/2002, 8:03 pm
by Gimme_Shelter
5gb a month? i've downloaded more then that a day a number of times
and i still buy lots of cds even after i've downloaded them, only difference is now i know that they are good and i dont get fucked going wow this cd is a piece of shit
people who think downloading music is going to kill the music industry are retards, hell people said then same thing years ago with recording songs from tape to tape
fact is that coping music wasnt killing the music industry, garbage music was
Posted: 10/5/2002, 8:12 pm
by Susan
90% of the CDs I own started as a few MP3s sampled on my computer.
Posted: 10/5/2002, 9:24 pm
by happening fish
Amen sister!
Posted: 10/12/2002, 7:10 pm
by Canadian Coast Guard
2 words: University Ethernet
and also Earthlink Cable at home.
Makes up for last 10 years on a 28kbps line (one year went up to 40). I still remember internet in 1992, *click*, wait no mouse yet, *type, type, type*, enter....... get drink, play nintendo, disconnected.
Posted: 10/13/2002, 4:38 pm
by Xavier870
I'm on Sympatico Hi-Speed too Lori. It's so much better than Rogers. I had Rogers for 3 years, and then got fed up with one of the following happen every day:
1) Disconnection for at least 15 minutes every 3-4 hours.
2) Slow speeds.
3) Downtime of up to 3 weeks.
Fuck Rogers.
Posted: 10/13/2002, 4:54 pm
by happening fish
Fuck Martinez! Fuck, fuck Martinez!
I'm sorry
Posted: 10/13/2002, 5:07 pm
by Xavier870
What's Martinez?