Comments on: Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o's laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:12:00 +0000

More like ‘hired goons from the record labels saying they’re representing the bands… then the bands being horrified how their names are attached to this and sue.’

By: cdh1971

cdh1971 — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 07:54:00 +0000

Only if you’re male.

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:10:00 +0000

No thanks, as all music created automatically falls under copyright unless the creator specifically licences it under say, Creative Commons (which of course is another form of copyright) I think that action might be a little overzealous. The concept is also completely unworkable as your view wouldn’t be shared with even a large minority and by extension the boycott would be rather fruitless.

By all means, avoid buying music from record labels that are involved with this sort of heavy handed approach, but don’t expect it will run them out of business, and please keep supporting the record companies and independent artists that don’t use these sorts of techniques (despite still copyrighting their music).

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:10:00 +0000

Are their profits shrinking though? I think you’ll find that it is only the rate of growth that is shrinking.

By: Marco Meneghello

Marco Meneghello — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Ah, this is justice!

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:17:00 +0000

Absolutely. We all know that the recording industry’s first concern is for its performers.

Oh, wait…..

By: Timmy

Timmy — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Can we at least agree that all artists are better off now that this little girl has been punished?

By: NynjaSquirrel

NynjaSquirrel — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:45:00 +0000

Reminds me of this: http://youtu.be/I2AcJSkUw6M

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:38:00 +0000

Spoilsport!

By: SheriffFatman

SheriffFatman — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:55:00 +0000

@boingboing-b571ecea16a9824023ee1af16897a582:disqus
And you try and tell the young people of today that ….. they won’t believe you.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:19:00 +0000

Because whenever someone does they’re branded a pedo.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:04:00 +0000

She knew were to go, she typed it into a search engine.
She might not have been as savvy as everyone else… but then we all laugh at the people who fall for the advance fee fraud and wonder who would be like that… if it wasn’t working they wouldn’t do it.

By: teapot

teapot — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:06:00 +0000

XKCD wins the argument, again.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:49:00 +0000

And that’s how you raise a hardcore pirate party member.

By: David Trotsky

David Trotsky — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Spotify anyone?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:25:00 +0000

You don’t hear that every day.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:15:00 +0000

What they didn’t tell you is that the little girl burned dozens of copies of the song to CD’s and sold them on eBay!

But seriously, you wouldn’t prosecute anyone if that girl had stolen a candy bar, but she saw a link dangled in front of her and suddenly – a crime has been committed! Give me 600 euros, right now!

By: Ipo

Ipo — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:47:00 +0000

You need to socialize with kids more.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:44:00 +0000

My mother lives two hours away and every time she calls me for tech support I tell her she needs to make friends with some kids in her street.

By: TelmeaStory

TelmeaStory — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:42:00 +0000

Ambient music from Limbik Frequencies on Screamer Radio.

By: Grok

Grok — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:35:00 +0000

I’ve turned my back on commercial radio, i-tune type sites and the like.
I attend live performances were possible and buy directly from the performers, or buy directly from them online.

The major labels have been lashing out more than ever because their control and profits are shrinking. They will soon be a bad memory.

I say good riddance! Most have never really stood for the artist or their art, just profit.

We are fundamentally at a point with the w.w.web that any artist can promote themselves and handle the sales of their own content. This is the future I think.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:18:00 +0000

Well, I had to badge in to work a half hour after I went to bed, work 29 hours a day down software shop, pay software shop owner to work, and when I got home, download videos from BBSs at 3 baud of people killing me and dancing about on my grave singing Hallelujah.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Copyright trolls around the globe use nondisclosure agreements to protect how they operate, how much they extort, and how the shakedown works.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:02:00 +0000

And if she was using Opera, she just clicked a link and it did all of the work for her.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:01:00 +0000

One possible solution to overly zealous copyright enforcement is to promote a wide-spread and long duration boycott of all copyrighted music until the bastards go out of business. After that, just mention to the movie and book guys that if they don’t come up with more reasonable copyright solutions, they’ll go the way of the music industry.

By: SheriffFatman

SheriffFatman — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:22:00 +0000

FORTRAN? Luxury! My parents had me setting zeros and ones by hand before my constituent gametes had even fused.

By: danarmak

danarmak — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Oh, your poor mother.

By: miasm

miasm — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Another disaster averted by the timely and conscientious adjudication of tolerance by our wise and perspicacious leaders, brows trammelled with naught but a crease of concern for all of the free and happy world.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:27:00 +0000

That’s nothing, I was programming in FORTRAN in the womb.

By: Kaleberg

Kaleberg — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:11:00 +0000

This sounds like something Cory Doctorow would write with running gun battles, deadly midnight raids, and diabolical scheming in the battle between youthful fans and the hired goons of their favorite bands and performers.