Would you ever stop Downloading?

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:35 am

Would you ever stop Downloading Music, Videos, TV, Movies, ect?

I don't personally think I will ever stop downloading, If I like something enough I will go to the shop and buy it. I have downloaded 600 book's in the last month alone and some of them are in the £30 - £40 price range most of them are computer book's which are valid for a year or two and then you have to find the cash to get another one. Music is another point here in the UK a full album an cost twice the price or more than the rest of the EU and Itunes are doing this too, I love my music but I don't see why I should have to pay the £15+ price tag when the band will only get a small portion of that money.

Do you see where I am going with this? What's your opinion?

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:10 pm

no i would never stop dowloading. ever. my personal view, its the most pain and hassle-free way to get things like music and books and movies, wasting plastic to print it on a disc goes against my nature Smile

i beleive that given enough time, its eventually going to be THE way to buy or acquire said media formats. eventually if enough people get pc's or media centres or watever well have in 40 years time, there wont be much use for physical media if the internet gets faster and everyone gets their arses on it. (my gran doesnt understand the concept of a network Sad

) oh im in the UK too and i totally agree on CD prices. i was in HMV recently and a metallica album released about 20 years ago was £17.99. i cannot beleive they expect me to shell out that much. thats 3 hours work for me! supermarkets pay in peanuts and the exchange rate of peanuts > £ sterling is abysmal Very Happy

. also alot of new dvd releases are up to £16 in price, and although i have a large dvd and game collection i am now against buying them unless i like it enough to think that the makers need paid. anyone else this side of the river? id be interested to hear some views about media prices here.

OH by the way GBP £1 is about AM $1.80 or $1.90 ish i think, so a cd from HMV would be $36 for you guys. sucky or what!?

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:23 pm

Yhea Dude it was HMV the had the 20 year old Metallica album for £17.99, what I find hard to live with more than the price is the fact that they expect us to pay a massive price difference from the rest of the EU. I am unemployed at the moment so anything other than a pack or fag's is a REAL drain on my cash.

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:11 pm

if the Feds showed up at my house and found all the stuff i have on my computer then i would probably stop because i'd be sitting behind bars...

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:05 pm

If the feds came around, by the time they got me down the station I would have got to atleast one of them so much Ide convinced him to download before they even banged me up.. so no.. f**k em.

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:44 pm

Im thinking of developing a drive enclosure with a keychain rc pnumatic puncture or head to knock the drive platters out of alighnment just in case .

The hardest part would be ensuring it diddent go off accidently , Which would be bad . So no

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:08 am

Nah i would never stop downloading. If they come knocking on the door id be inside destroying the hard drives before they got to them. Laughing

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:22 pm

drive enclosures to knock platters out of stuff, eh? whats wrong with some good old homemade napalm? im pretty sure all you need is bleach and soap......then develop a device to let you detonate it remotely with a mobile or somethin. TBH if armed police came nocking, id just put my hands up and act all innocent, where i live the police spend all their time doing people for speeding instead of tracking down file sharers. i dont think they care. i know that every now and then in america someone gets their arse sued off but from what i hear the PR is so bad because of it its not worth their time doing it. and also its not as easy to sue people here, i think the attitude of the courts in Britain is more like "grow up you pansy" rather than the american "oh my god he really called you a slag!? thats $30,000 straight off!"

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:37 pm

Napalm would do nothing a hard drive Sadam tried that and we where able to salvage the drives for intelligence. To make napalm explode like you see in war films it has to be egnited in a confined space or use a material spreading charge. To mess up a hard drive the way you mean is a EMP (electromagnetic pulse) or good old fashioned Thermight the downside is that Thermight that it will burn through anything except ceramics and hardened concrete.

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:52 pm

Yeah having napalm in your pc generly isnt a good idea , Im not taking the piss i actuly am going to build this probibly with some sort of failsafe (a plate under the impacter) , It should be cool i might even sell some of them online .

Ill post my designs in the foruns soon Wink

From mod:

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:58 pm

_Raymond_ could you PM me over this i would like to here more.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:18 am

I'm fairly certain than napalm isn't something you can just sell over eBay Laughing

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:30 am

It can be made at home quite easily if you know what you are doing.

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:25 am

this weeks special offer at wallmart is buy 2 litres of napam,get 1 litre free.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:27 pm

(I think someone up there ^^^ mentioned thermite - I _love_ thermite)

*cough*

Thermite is a _far_ better bet than napalm - & _so_ easy to construct. All you need is:

1 - rust
&
2 - aluminium (uk sp.) powder

TA-DA!

It's iron oxide mixed with aluminium powder; so... get out yer file & grind down a bit of Dad's ladder. Even better, smash open your old Etch-A-Sketch (nice pure Al powder there, but _don't breath that shit in). Save that & find something rusty. Collect some (good 'n' rusty Laughing

) rust & pound it into a powder.

Simply mix the two together in fairly equal quantities (by _volume_ not weight - by weight, the ratio is 8:3 but Al is pretty lightweight) & VOILA!

Nothing happens? What? Are you sure? You even tried a blow lamp to ignite it? D'oh! Forgot to mention. Laughing

It's almost entirely inert, until...

You'll need some magnesium strip to fire it up - so go nick some from school - or get lil bro to (failing that, use a 'firework' sparkler). Step back now - that shit will melt straight through an ENGINE BLOCK & keep on going! Great for 'sensitive' hard drives, n'est-ce pas?

Be safe & have fun now, y'hear. Very Happy