Black March 2012

by sp332 • 14 years ago

24 12 14 years ago

Yarnage2• 14 years ago

I wish the people who started this "movement" actually understood the economics behind what they're doing. It's dumb and won't amount to anything.

untog• 14 years ago

Possibly the most confusing web site I've seen in a while. It's like the author got excited and threw half a dozen images they liked on a page.

zht• 14 years ago

Long story short:

"Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy. Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine."

Yarnage2• 14 years ago

"Do not buy a single record until April. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally until April. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy until April. Do not buy a DVD in the stores until April. Do not buy a videogame until April. Do not buy a single book or magazine until April."

Fixed that for ya as that is what the website suggests.

finnw2• 14 years ago

I would be interested to know if the author approves or disapproves of buying used CDs and DVDs

I remember some bloggers recommending it around the time the DMCA was introduced. (The idea being that MPAA/RIAA cannot make money from it but cannot ban it either.)

arbitrage• 14 years ago

oh, we're still passing around the "emergency" ip list? these people have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, or why this won't work.

i hope they remember to send us a postcard from 30 years ago.

sp332• 14 years ago

DNS is a good upgrade from passing around text files, but it's not the only possible solution, or necessarily the best one. An "emergency" IP list doesn't scale, but it's much better than nothing if your DNS stops working.

angersock• 14 years ago

YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A NAME RECORD

ScotterC• 14 years ago

but, but but. I already pre-ordered mass effect 3!

fourmii• 14 years ago

I want to support this sort of movement, but it seems a little naive. Sure, not going to a movie is going to have some impact on the big movie studios and companies, but I happen to love listening to music. And I still want to support the artists themselves, many of them not superstars...

pookiesbutt• 14 years ago

Waiting 4 weeks won't hurt the artist given the media industry's really-slow-payment policy to content creators.

finnw2• 14 years ago

> With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA,

I think you mean Internet-censoring legislation

Black March 2012

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