Superflys Fate is sealed....

[Pongo]

At the insistence of Superfly I got lead astray into the world of Napster and now bad things are going to happen to me...
But at least I will share a cell with Superfly... http://www.joecartoon.com/buddies/chaos/

[Baddawg]

hahahahahahahahahahahahah breath hahahahahahahahahah deep breath hahahahahahahahahahah breathe damit breathe hahahahahahahahah cough cough gasp gasp
oh my gut hurts hahahahahahahah
oh stop stop it hurts hahahahah
Pain Bad! laughing good hahahahahahah
i laughed so hard i think i popped a vein.
Son of a squeak thats gonna leave a mark

[Superfly]

LOL!
Me?  I lead you astray to Napster?  To my recollection, that event never occurred.  See, the glove is too small for my hand!  
Does anyone else think it is stupid that no one seems to care about people tape recording cd's from someone.  People have been doing that for years.  Are they going to start suing the whole planet for spreading free music now?  Absolutely ridiculous!  Long live free mp3's!  Metallica sucks these days anyway.  


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John "SUPERFLY" Guytan - Art Director
HiTech Creations
"Happiness is a warm gun momma" - The Beatles
-=HELLFIRE=- SQUAD

[StSanta]

Damned record companies get what they deserve for keeping an iron hand on the prices and artificially keeping the price up.

besides, am i the only one who thinks that succesfull "artists" are big spoiled weenie brats? They do wahat they like for a living and then whine when they only have $20 million income a year.

Hell, I say pay 'um less and lower the prices.

Too bad about Metallica. Let 'um screw their fans, they get no respect from me for this.



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StSanta
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[Vermillion]

That link is so damn funny, I about passed out laughing  

Screw em I say. Rich little whiney weenies.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"

[CavemanJ]

That is hilarious, I had to download it and save it to watch again  

SUPERFLY it was you who posted the napster url and led I dinnae how many of us there.  I have the proof =)  BTW thanks for the link, it's come in very handy  

Pongo were you one of the ones banned?  Who from here got hit with that crap?

I'm firmly in the F#&$ Metallica camp now.  Thier music these days suck, and they've shown how much they care for all thier fans.  I've bought every albumn they've made up to the black albumn.  Some I've bought several times.  For various reasons (friends, theft, 3yr old daughter) they've gotten lost/damaged.  I figured I'd slowly rebuild my collection (and only get the songs I really liked =) by snagging mp3s.  Hell I've paid for'em.

Guess it's the old fashioned way now.. get a friend to tape the cds or make a copy of them if they have a burner  

 

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Here's another link for a flash parady.  This one make sense too  

 http://www.newgrounds.com/assassin/metallica/index.html

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[Pongo]

naw I use napster to get Garth tunes. All I know about Metalica is there tshirts and that cartoon...man I laughed. How does it feel to get flamed by a world master like that.....wow.
I bet those idiots would pay millions for that cartoon to never have been made.
When he starts climing arround the screen like a monkey I started crying....

[sourkraut]

And all software should be free to copy and distribute?

[Voss]

 

Originally posted by sourkraut:
And all software should be free to copy and distribute?

Absolutely not! However, you have to understand the hypocrisy the music industry has engendered upon us. New bands HAVE to release free MP3's in order to get exposure. Once they get recognized they become 'too good' for the MP3 realm, and the megabands are just prima donna's about it. Still, the best use of MP3's is HD storage of your favorite tunes, and not internet trading. Did anyone notice that the use of Napster increased as a result of this headline?

Metallica. What a joke. There was a time when people knew the true value of performers, actors, and politicians. They were on a par with prostitutes and vagabonds. Kind of like knights and rooks  

[NATEDOG]

Voss, to add to your post, Metallica sales have gone WAY down!  
LONG LIVE NAPSTER!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nathan "NATEDOG" Mathieu
Art Director
HiTech Creations
-=HELLFIRE SQUAD=-

"Man's 2nd greatest thrill in life is FLYING. His 1st greatest thrill is LANDING!"

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[sourkraut]

Voss & Natedog -

I don't really want to start a flame war here , but I disagree that the music industry is wrong here.

Sure new talent is relying more and more on the internet to get exposure. Once a little name recognition is achieved, then they have the right to start charging for their new music. This is a huge advantage over the old days when a few cronies had a say over what we all were exposed to.

Let's put this in the context of HTC. Aces High has a two week trial period. If you want to continue, it's going to cost you $30/month. Doesn't sound unreasonable to me, but others may think that, since they can download demo of other games and play (in limited manner) for free for forever, they should be able to with Aces High.

I don't think that HTC would be too happy if someone reverse engineered the AH server interfaces and started using the AH FE to run their own on-line sim, either.

Sour


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Sourkraut
JG-2 Richthofen

"Hey - someone has to be the target...."

 

[This message has been edited by sourkraut (edited 05-16-2000).]

[Voss]

Please reread my post.   I agree. I do not think that distributing the intellectual/artistic efforts of anyone should be condoned. Absolutely not.

[sourkraut]

And BTW - that cartoon was good.

Sour

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[Pongo]

was still very funny......and had just enough truth in it to really sting the target....

[CavemanJ]

bit of difference there sourkraut.  AH does have a limited play.  The H2H play is free, only requiring a registered account.  People can play this as much as they desire.  There is also unlimited offline play.

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Originally posted by samoht (granturismo.com Pit Stop UBB)
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has reached separate settlement agreements with ... the five largest distributors of recorded music ... in the United States to end their allegedly illegal advertising policies that affected prices for CDs.
The proposed agreements would settle FTC charges that all five companies illegally modified their existing cooperative advertising programs to induce retailers into charging consumers higher prices for CDs, allowing the distributors to raise their own prices.
The FTC estimates that U.S. consumers may have paid as much as $480 million more than they should have for CDs and other music because of these policies over the last three years.

link:  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/05/cdpres.htm

Now I'm not saying it's right to be pirating music.  I did hunt for several Metallica MP3s on napster and downloaded the ones I was looking for when I found them.  That being said, I have purchased every albumn Metallica has released, through the black albumn, atleast once.  A couple of albumns were purchased up to 4 times (friends moving away with them, kid thinks cd's are frisbees, etc).  To hell with going and paying for the discs again when I can just snag what I want, and most of what I was hunting for was off the black albumn, which I've bought 4 times.