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Subject Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content

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The old philosophy, "I wasn't going to buy it, so nobody's losing out."

It is not against the law to make backups of DVD's btw.  It is however illegal, in the U.S.A., to distribute copyrighted material.

It is just a fact.  I don't even care, but you are just coming off as stupid.
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You call him stupid, yet something you say is "illegal" in the US should be punished by law....Yet, copying cassette tapes, vhs tapes, dvds, and now copying albums encoded in mp3 format and sharing with people is horrible.

I don't get it?? If you copied a VHS movie and gave it to your friend back 10 years no one would have cared and wouldn't think it was illegal. But downloading mp3s is???

Making a mix tape of stuff that was recorded from the radio back in the day, was that illegal? Technically it was, but did anyone care? No? So why care about MP3s/FLAC??????
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Come on now.  You used to have to know someone who actually bought the product in the past.  Copies degraded with each copy.  More importantly, the scale of piracy is massive online, hence all the fast connections.  With typical cable internet, you can download a movie in about 15 minutes.  Music is only a matter of seconds.  Etc. etc.

The whole copying movies took time and also reduced quality.  Redistributing digital goods does not degrade quality.  There used to always be poorer quality and more effort in duplication.

I never said anything about punishing anybody, in fact I said I don't care.  I just want the economy to do well, and all of this will scare more people into buying what they can afford.
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I appreciate your calm reply :D

But the economy, in regards to the music/movie industry isn't doing poorly due to illegal downloads...I for one, just like many people will download a movie then go see it in the theater. Or listen to an album and then go buy it. So "piracy" really isn't hurting the industrty
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Not from people like you :), but... there are plenty of those who don't follow up with the purchasing process after reviewing the product.  It is undeniable.

Movie tickets this summer soared after they started cracking down, breaking ticket sales records on movies that weren't special.

That is what I am glad about.
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Lolz! And you know what I'm glad about??? That I don't have to waste my money on horrible Hollywood movies and music label releases!

You keep spending your money thinking you are "doing the right thing".

Just remember how bad the music/movie industry is RAPING you. :D
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(CNN) -- It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online.

A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights. The Copyright Alert System was announced last July and has been four years in the making.

If you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, or Verizon as your Internet service provider, you could receive the first of one of these notes starting in the next two months.

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