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2010-10-03, 15:42
(This post was last modified: 2010-10-03, 15:54 by PatrickVogeli.)
Hi there,
I'm quite intrigued to know where all you people around here get your media content from: music, films, tv shows, etc and how legal that media is where you live: for example, if I'm not mistaken, ripping dvds is ilegal in the USA even when you own the original. EDIT: Please don't post any torrent links nor torrent websites names or anything like that. Thanks
I'll start: I download all of my media from the net, except for some originals I own (both music and / or dvd video).
In Spain, downloading music, films and tv shows from the internet is not considered ilegal if it's for personal and non comercial use.
What about you?
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amet
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if I see as much as a hint of a name of some known torrent sites I am closing this.
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We have the same situation inside switzerland.
Any kind of download is allowed for personal usage only. Any upload to the puplic
with a p2p system (torrend / emule) is not alllowed. For donwloads only I use a special google search engine .... with very good results ...;-)
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Also in Spain we pay a tax on any digital media we buy (canon digital según orden ministerial PRE/1743/2008). So when I buy a memory stick or a hard drive it includes this tax. Its like a digital media rights tax. So you pay some compensation for the copying of potentially copy righted material.
I think its an excellent idea and prices for hard drive are still cheap.
If you can't fix it with a hammer you have an electrical problem.
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Wal-Mart! $5 DVD's! The Best!
I was nerdy, when nerdy wasn't cool! :p
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I second Wal Mart. Often they have new Blu Rays $20 on opening day.
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A new bluray for $20 ? sound's good to me ;-)
Inside switzerland most new blurays are about $40
I own only a few blurays and a big huge dvd collection including digital tv with 200 channels
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I get a good deal of BR off of eBay at an affordable price! Some of good deals can be found!
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so, you buy the dvds and the rip them? or do you play them directly?
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in germany nearly everything related to "download" is forbidden.
according to a brandnew copyright law...
the main passage (i hope the translation isn't that wrong):
"any media, which seems to be from an illegal source"
we don't have a "three strikes"-law like in france(?).
my media comes mainly out of the use-net.
the servers are in the netherlands. according to the law, the netherlands are "too far away".
everything as fast as possible and ssh-encrypted. at least it "feels" quite safe.
i only have 2mbit @ home, so my account is a flatrate with only 2mbit.
about 2,20 euros per month. paypal.
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and about germany legal TV:
in germany you have to pay about 53 euros every 3 month, just for having a tv and a radio! (no matter, if you are living in a forrest and have no tv reception)
it is called "GEZ".
damn. the GEZ is so mad. i do not watch TV, just tv-shows and movies (from my usenetaccount). and still i have to pay them.
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2010-10-07, 14:27
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-23, 15:23 by scokem.)
For video, I buy DVDs and Blu-rays that I rip then encode myself. For music, I rip all of my CDs and at the beginning of this year I moved to using legal music download purchasing services - mainly Amazon, Play and 7digital (although I occasionally still buy CDs as some things aren't available through download). I take a very anti-piracy approach so everything in my collection has been legally purchased.
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I have a data source on a server connected to 1gbit internet connection. Several TB Content (HD only) from various sources.
If anyone is interested in using it, i have capacity enough (EU only because of connectionspeed needed)
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I get mine from the rental shop.
New release for $3 on Wednesday. Hire them and rip them for viewing later on. I dont typically keep them as I dont re-watch a lot of movies
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I use Usenet mostly, torrents for other stuff. Even for things I've purchased I always download a ripped copy because it's so much easier than re-encoding it myself and way better quality than I could achieve.
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