Comments on: Operation Payback is a Bitch: Hactivism at the dawn of Copyright Controversies

By: Charrles

Charrles — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:17:58 +0000

There is no ‘it’ to control, how could you write an entire article about Anonymous yet fail to get the most basic concepts?

(Great article other than that.)

By: Generation D is for Disruption | The Alphaville Herald

Generation D is for Disruption | The Alphaville Herald — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:47:39 +0000

[...] recap of the issues can be found here and here. Meanwhile, some people praised Anonymous for their hacktivist efforts, while others condemned it, [...]

By: IntLibber Brautigan

IntLibber Brautigan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:37:54 +0000

Joao,
There are plenty of actual artists who oppose pirating and have had their band websites attacked by OPIAB hackers. Do you oppose actual artists standing up for their rights? Or are they “exploiters”, too, just because they wont give you their blood sweat and tears for free? Gee, it sounds actually like you and the pirates are the real “exploiters”, taking for free what artists want to get paid for.

It really is none of your business what sort of contractual relationship they have with their music or movie studio. That’s up to them and their attorneys/agents, if they didn’t find the terms rewarding, they wouldn’t do what they do. It certainly isn’t an excuse for you to steal their work.

Pirating is NOT what open source is about, despite how many confuse the two. Open source means that the artists/creators actually put their work in the public domain voluntarily. Forcing someone’s content public via piracy without their approval is a greater exploitation than whatever terms those creators have with the companies that distribute their work legally.

By: Joao Rodrigues

Joao Rodrigues — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:58:13 +0000

Operation Payback is a Bitch have my complete support. I’m just a Portuguese internaut who will not accept a law that will break my civil rights just to protect the profit of some legal thiefs…

The artists are exploited, the consumers are exploited but the only thing the law makers think about is how to protect the profit of the exploiters…

I would have a lot more to share about this subject but my English don’t allow me. I’ll be fighting in my language for the rights that I believe. (And yes, I also believe in Intellectual Property)

By: overblown

overblown — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:05:13 +0000

All this, the fight against copyright infringers, the fight against copyright protectors et all, is completely useless.
when the pirate bay goes byebye, there will be numerous other sites like it to replace it. There are already countless sites like it. So that’s a futile fight.
When companies and organisations like the RIAA etc go byebye, there will be others like it to continue the endless fight against copyright violations, because there is money in it. So that fight is useless too.
And in between, companies will continue making movies, artists will continue making music, because despite all the piracy, there is still money to be made with it. And there are even those artists, amazing as it may seem, that aren’t in it for the money. They simply enjoy making music and movies.
people who download material illegally are not destroying the industry, as they might very well buy the cd or dvd if they enjoy it, and then of course there are the masses who wouldn’t even think about stealing anything, even a single mp3. They will still pay for their movies, music and software.
I bought the game flightsim recently, because I enjoyed playing it for years prior, and didn’t want to go trough the trouble of illegally downloading and cracking it again, after losing one of the disks I had burned it on.
it was in the discount bin yes, but I now own it legally.

Its really that simple, pirate bay won’t be the end of content being created, the RIAA won’t be the end of sites likePB, and anonymous won’t be the end of companies like the RIAA.

By: MattyK

MattyK — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:41:18 +0000

@Norton
“It was put in there to protect and service the needs of the rich.”

Congratulations, you may now eat your hat for the very hyopcrisy you spouted.
Governments are corrupt, mmmkay?

By: IntLibber Brautigan

IntLibber Brautigan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:49:39 +0000

Have to agree with Darien, Norton. The commie freak show is those thinking that if all information were free, that anybody would put any effort into producing any. Those of you producing information for “free” wouldn’t be able to do so either because you, or your parents, wouldn’t get any welfare from the state because the state wouldn’t have anybody to tax…. get a clue.

By: Darien Caldwell

Darien Caldwell — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:19:21 +0000

“What commie freak show do you live in?”

lol. Sorry I didn’t realize Democracy was Communist.

The real point is, if most people believed all films, music and other media should be free, it would be, as that would be reflected in the laws. Want to change the law, you have to change the perception. And stealing and wearing masks isn’t going to do that.

By: c3

c3 — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:50:01 +0000

amazing how a culture that cant tell the difference between “information” and “entertainment” is so sure it KNOWS what “content” it wants to be “free”.

sad global netizens…

By: PaleFire

PaleFire — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:13:56 +0000

I’ll just quietly leave this here –>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/14/gene-simmons-anonymous-attack-filesharing