[S-99]

Occasionally i download movie, but i keep it temporarily just because it was an old classic like kentucky fried movie or something that i wanted to watch and is hard to get. Most things i keep temporarily, i watch it once, or i play it once, and it's out of there. Most of the time because stuff isn't worth keeping these days.

As for games. I've never actually pirated those before. Then again i found the demos of certain games to be really fun that i'd just by the game. Star trek voyager elite force, the fs series, and unreal tournament 2003 were games i actually bought that were really fun.

These days actual games haven't interested me at all. The only game i have is orange box, i did have fear, but my friend kept it. Games like openarena, urban terror, and frozen bubble is all that i spend my time with and it's great. I can distribute it freely too.

Then again now that i'm reviewing things. I really shouldn't have bought windows vista just to mess around with it for a possible gaming computer os. All the games i play are cross platform and should have rather downloaded the windows vista 180 trial for free.

Why pirate windows anyway if you reinstall twice a year or more? Just get the 180 day trial repeatedly for free.

And although it's not stealing if you download tv episodes that you have already aired, but i now support such services as hulu even with commercials. The commercials are a lot less obnoxious than the time wasting ones on tv and much less frequent. I can just stream any episode i like in dvd quality just about any time i want without waiting for a whole season of hd quality episodes to finish. Is the hd better? Sure it is, but dvd quality on demand is a pretty ****ing good deal. Mainly i just want to watch the stuff and get it over with.

[Nuke]

i use such services already.

Are there actually any decent ones that work outside the US?

ive mostly been using tvu, i tried tv ants but that seems more focused on asian content. i watched old bsg on fancast, theres youtube of course. im curious how many commercial sites legally obtain copyrights for content the show. but in most cases im seeing comercials and thats enough to make me say its legit. the internet totally lacks a centralized center of distribution thugh, so you end up using a hodgepodge of player software of varying quality.

i dont know if any of those work outside of the us, sinse ive never left the us (aside from flying over canada from time to time).

[Rick James]

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I thought people here would be interested to learn that Wikileaks has released a draft of the ACTA.

Basically, we're boned even if we don't directly download copyrighted content. Ditto for TiVo users.

[chief1983]

I'm not arguing for or against piracy (well, you can't really argue for piracy, that's like being not pro life and saying you're pro death) but something like this sounds like it's ****ting all over Safe Harbor laws.  Just because the ISPs are somewhat regulated shouldn't give the government the right to demand that kind of usage information.  Public safety isn't at stake here, it's one commercial entity vs another one.  Government needs to back the frak off.

[Rhymes]

Oh, btw Rick James, if you want to, or need to necro a thread, use this

(colon)necro(colon)
replace (colon) with : and there you go.

For example

[Rick James]

Fixed.

So...opinions? Does this new draft of ACTA change anything? Are we more or less futtbucked than we heard about this the last time?

[Hellstryker]

You tell me, you're the one who found it in the first place.

[Polpolion]

Seeing as how these laws were put into effect because of people like myself, I can't really complain until I think up a good enough rationalization for internet piracy. Oh well.

[redsniper]

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Oh, btw Rick James, if you want to, or need to necro a thread, use this

(colon)necro(colon)
replace (colon) with : and there you go.

For example

It's not a necro, it's a bump. Don't use :necro: unless the thread is more than a month old.

[Nuke]

last thing i want to do is spend my whole evening reading a ****load of legalese. antipiracy law doesnt really concern me, not because im afraid i wont be able to pirate anymore, but because it shows how easily a government(s) can be bought. theres not a doubt in my mind that were slowly becoming a capitolfacist society, in fact i hope it starts a nuclear war or two.

when it gets to the point where you have to get a license to use the internet, then il be concerned.

[chief1983]

So don't read it?  You don't have to read every single page on GD.  Or do you?

[Nuke]

no not really. but i am sort of interested in what it says. lets just say im waiting for somone to write a short version, something that fits on one page.

[Rhymes]

It's not a necro, it's a bump. Don't use :necro: unless the thread is more than a month old.

I was just demonstrating what to do if one needs to necro. I know the necro rules, but I wasn't looking at the age of the thread.