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internetnews.com — The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today
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- jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0>_< they are evil.
- SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I asked Santa that the MPAA/RIAA get destroyed for xmas. Hope I get it.
- bitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Huh, 751 more people that should have been using i2phex for filesharing...
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"and a happy new year"! - RIAA
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When will these people learn to hide their identities, or to not share any files.
- jedijome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5tis the reason i'm never buying music ever again.
- jsnkc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I hope they don't stop untill every last person who steals music has to pay up!
- hriwo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"When will these people learn to hide their identities, or to not share any files."
I think you ment "When will these people learn to stop using kazaa" - laughterkillsme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0At the end of the article isn't it basically saying "we coudlnt' pursue these anyways cuz we can't tell who exactly at tehse colleges were downlaoding" ?
- BenStockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The title of this article reminds me of Die Hard 2, when the cop gives Bruce Willis a ticket on Christmas.
- JaggedEdge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Big christmas bonuses for them, while the working class joe has to suffer fighthing theyre lawsuit. Sickening, just give it up already.
- Cinder6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You know, if artists would release CDs that were actually 99% good, instead of having only 1 or 2 songs worth getting, maybe people would be more encouraged to buy them. Just a crazy thought I had.
- x2dx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Merry Christmas for us would be if the RIAA croked and died.
- Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I hope RIAA gets cancer and dies for Xmas.
Seasons Greetings from Canada you cocksmokers! - MicahC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I bet half of them aren't even guilty. They're probably the parents, grandparents, uncles or aunts of the kids downloading. It's the stupid kids who don't know anything about hiding their identities (yes, because they're using Kazaa) who get caught.
- snugsoho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Where are these terrorists everyone keeps talking about on the news?
I have some employment opportunities for them... hehe. - Stevo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"You know, if artists would release CDs that were actually 99% good, instead of having only 1 or 2 songs worth getting, maybe people would be more encouraged to buy them. Just a crazy thought I had."
Liking a song is someone's opinion..There is no possible way to ever please every person on the planet with 99% of the songs being the best songs ever. Most artists don't just throw a cd out on store shelves with it being mediocre. They want their CD to get good reviews and to sell well, they're not going to release a CD with only one or two good songs. This goes back to what I said, liking a song on a CD is your opinion. - Sizzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yet another reason to never purchase music ever again.
"We must do everything to protect the integrity of the marketplace."
Translation: We're rich bastards and want to keep getting richer.
http://www.sizzor.net - deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who still buys music CD's anymore now-a-days? Buying music retail is so old school.
*** NOW READ THIS *** NOW READ THIS ***
Screw the RIAA by simply recording broadcast music. It's just as good, legal and FREE for personal use.
The RIAA can't touch you (just use it for personal use and don't share it). When will people learn? The RIAA will go away and disappear like a bad rash. - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i believe paul simon put it best:
"Fools" said I "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grow
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence - chrisbaird, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I just knew that the title would provoke mindless reactions like "RIAA sux". The fact is that I am grateful that law and order still prevails during the holidays. This story is a genuine Merry Christmas to those who live on the side of the law. At some point, music pirates must ask themselves if it is really worth saving 2 bucks a song to live in mounting fear of getting caught and devoting more and more time to covering tracks.
- xbmcrules, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if you wanted integrity lower your ***** prices
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1chrisbaird said "I just knew that the title would provoke mindless reactions like "RIAA sux". The fact is that I am grateful that law and order still prevails during the holidays. This story is a genuine Merry Christmas to those who live on the side of the law. At some point, music pirates must ask themselves if it is really worth saving 2 bucks a song to live in mounting fear of getting caught and devoting more and more time to covering tracks."
yes. - firbuster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Who is getting the money from the suits? The artist's or is this a fund raiser for RIAA?
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd buy my music if I knew the RIAA wouldn't get any money out of it.
Funny how that works. - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1xbmcrules said "if you wanted integrity lower your ***** prices"
thats true too.. if artists got as much as 20% of the money made on the cds.. i'd buy every cd that ever came out.. but no.. artists get a set amount of money and the industry absorbs it all into their fatcat estate.
GO INDIE. - Skyfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bitz said: "Huh, 751 more people that should have been using i2phex for filesharing..."
Correction: "Huh, 751 more people that *will be* using i2phex for filesharing..." - dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Personally, I'd like to see someone go "Deliverance" on them.
Squeeeeeeal like a pig, RIAA! - wordwilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The miracle of greed.... at Christmas no less.... how very christian.
Hope they put Merry Christmas on the letter... wouldn't want to start anything.
Desperation... as 15.35 zillion bittorrents are chugging merrily away... time for them to come out of the dark ages and into the open source. Use the source Luke, use the source...
Better start figuring out the next business model and start using it... parasites are getting old and $20.00 a disk leaches for something everyone knows costs .50 ( or a lot less )... well its time to get a realll job... a Bush era greeter at WallyWorld would do.... cause with the computer its realll cheap to produce, sell and distribute music... sorry its just the way it is.
- essrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well this should result in another wave of strange headlines about prosecuting people who don't own computers or have no idea what an internets is. More digg fodder to come
- deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@chrisbaird
I just knew that the title would provoke mindless reactions like "they get what they deserve".
Tards who make these type of statements are the reason this country is in the crapper.
Tard's ***** on fellow Americans (and the little guy) any chance they get.
In the mean time, the big wigs and political cronies get way with 90% of the real crime.
Why doesn't the RIAA pressure the current administration to block trade with China (a notorious and well known country for pirating)?
Why doesn't the RIAA sue a group of Chinese government officials who allow pirating factories to exist in their regions?
But no, let's screw the little guy.
What a tard. - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1with the RIAA being as powerful as it is you might as well give in...it's not worth a lawsuit just to get music. But then again paying 15.00 for a cd in fye and getting snared in the sony rootkit scandal is surely not a incentive to buy cd's. Sad there is no medium....once again the RIAA will not compromise a solution to solve the problem.
- derekknight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0They are Jewish.
- HairyBallz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The RIAA is doing this because they are afraid of the Internet and direct distributions. If the individual record companies are the artists would just sell there music on their own website, the RIAA is instinct. Don't worry, the RIAA would suffer the fate of the Dinosaur!!
- Aquinas315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Time is on our side though friends... Remember... all the cronies at the RIAA will be dead in about 30 years, and then this younger generation will be the ones making the laws. That said, don't be surprised if the copyright laws seem to disappear over the next few decades and are replaced with some GPL-like equivalent.
- Vektuz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The recording industry is figuratively trying to empty the ocean with a spoon. It doesn't matter why they're doing this, the fact is, its ineffective and stupid and doesn't do anything.
- Aquinas315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"the RIAA is instinct. Don't worry, the RIAA would suffer the fate of the Dinosaur!!"
HairyBallz: I believe you meant to say 'extinct'. - snugsoho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The biggest threat the music and film industry faces today is not from illegal downloaders but from itself and prehistoric business models... here in the UK it astounds me that new DVD's still retail at the £19.99 price mark seven years after they first started appearing in high street stores - remember VHS? they used to be £13.99 at most and they cost a lot more to manufacture and to distribute than DVD's today do.
What also pisses me off no end is labels and more so the movie industry re-releasing DVD's 12 months after their initial release onto the platform as 'Special Editions' or in terms of music, re-releasing the album with a few extra tracks or an acoustic disc - they should have put everything they had into the original retail release expect they don't - they hold some back deliberately to make more money then they wonder why the public at large has no sympathy for them. - Aquinas315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The RIAA is hanging itself. They're pissing so many people off in this coming generation I wouldn't be surprised if we saw an end to the 20th century "capitalism" (I use that term loosely, because everything is bureaucratic in this country now) and see a rise to a more socialist structure where everyone shares with everyone else.
Remember, thanks to computers, Teckies rule the world. Imagine how ***** everything would be if all the computer geeks of the world decided to take a strike. - mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It amazes me how mnay people are brain-washed into thinking the RIAA is doing a good thing, no matter what they do. They're legalized Mafia, nothing more. Sure, they're not killing people (yet), but they're racketeers, using the threat of lawsuits in place of leg-breakers. They screw you over on the price of a cd, they screw you over by putting crap like rootkits on their cds (coincidentally making file-sharing safer than buying cds), they screw over the artists, etc. They've screwed over everybody, including their supporters. Open your eyes. Remember those commercials about how drug users are supporting dangerous criminals? If you support the RIAA, that's what you're doing, supporting a Mafia-like organization out to bleed you dry and deprive you of legal fair use with merchandise you legally purchased.
Want to stick it to the RIAA? Support artists who aren't affiliated with them. There are a growing number of bands who haven't signed a contract and are selling their music cheap online. And a lot of them are good! The record labels don't want them because they're not the same as the other manufactured pop stars they already have; in other words, they have their own sound, not just parroting whatever the record company tells them to. Do a search for these artists online and you'll find them. - Aquinas315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From the article:
"'That means educating fans about steering clear of pirated products and continuing to enforce our rights to send a clear message that stealing music will bring consequences'"
Umm... one question... what rights? Whatever happened for the "country by the people for the people." Last time I checked the RIAA is a trust (technically illegal under the Sherman Anti-trust Act) but nobody seems to notice this? - Aquinas315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another one from the article:
"'At stake is the music industry's ability to invest in the next generation of music and a chance for legal online music services to flourish'"
Ok... wtf? "Next generation of music" From looking at what "singers" are putting out now a days (ie [c]rap... which questionably may not be music), I'm afraid of seeing what the "next" generation of music will be. Looks like I'm sticking with P2P - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"So what if you download, but don't share? The article says people who were sued "distributed" music. What if you just turn sharing off?"
@mynickel
Yes, leaching would save you from lawsuit. Only those who are brave enough to share are targeted. Spineless cowards and leachers are not targets of the RIAA. Perhaps they feel that spineless pricks are family, and shouldn't be sued.
To all leachers: if you aren't willing to PAY for your content (for whatever reason, moral, religious or otherwise) and you decide to break copyright law to obtain it illegally, and then you stab those in the back who brought risk upon themselves to bring it to you... what does that say about you?
If it were possible to have your IP number right now, I would not only block it, but publish it for everyone else who takes risk in file SHARING (key word sharing) to blacklist.
If you want to be a leaching dick - use htt://www.allofmp3.com for your music. As for the rest? It is thankfully moving towards torrents... where I can easily see you are a leaching bastard and forever blacklist your IP.
We risk to bring to you, yet you won't return the favor? - flynntastic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I cant wait to get mine.
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I'd buy my music if I knew the RIAA wouldn't get any money out of it." True true, I used to buy CD's (have close to 100) until they started suing people.
"is really worth saving 2 bucks a song to live in mounting fear of getting caught and devoting more and more time to covering tracks" Time covering tracks? I simply use firewalls and peer guardian 2, that doesn't take away any time...honestly, the RIAA doesn't scare me at all because I haven't downloaded ANY music in over 2 years (and I own most of those CD's already anywho). The MPAA is the one people should worry about. They ask for hundreds of thousands in damages for a single movie download, distributed or not! - electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seriously therer has to be a reasonable limit to the amount of justice per infringment of the law. 750 to 5000 dollars is not a reasonable limit. 1 to 5 dollars is. Seriously this is getting way out of hand. I would support them more if theyd just sue everyone and drop the amount they sue for.
- hybrid8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2people would buy cds if it wasnt a SECURITY THREAT!
- striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That 14.95 a month to newshosting will pay itself off in lawsuit fees saved alone.
- sirplus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://mp34u.com
happy kick ass free and legal mp3 holidays ;-) - dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they/we should all band together and start a class action lawsuit against the RIAA for ridiculous and frivolous lawsuits...
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