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- ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55I'm waiting for the RIAA to start going after people that play their music too loud.
"We're going to sue you because at the volumes you've been playing your bought music at, other people who HAVE'NT bought the music can hear it...which violates the DRM".
Or "you there...whistling that tune....you're in violation of DRM"! - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54Because so many people rip the shortened edits of songs they hear in flash videos on youtube and google video
- jpwillms, on 10/12/2007, -13/+63Seriously. These RIAA bastards just never stop do they? One thing after another after another after another. I stopped pirating music years ago, but it looks like I may start again just to spite them. YA BASTARDS!
(I jest -- Pay for music. Support your artists) - jpwillms, on 10/12/2007, -12/+57You are in bed with the RIAA -- you rat bastard. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46"(I jest -- Pay for music. Support your artists)"
thats not supporting them - Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41Kinda pointless really, the quality of the sound on GV/YT sucks.
- mrm52, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38I'm waiting for them to start charging for echos.
- fredclown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32This could actually be a good thing if Google and You Tube stand up to the RIAA, because they have the money to do it. Maybe they'll beat down the RIAA and win one for the Average Joe.
- jpwillms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30P2P != YouTube and Google Video
This is a whole other battle.
Here is my belief:
People spoofing videos for fun etc, is not hurting their industry and only increases label and artists end sales. Why would they want to take down a good thing? - bieber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30I'm ever paranoid that I'm gonna be pulled over for playing my music when my friends are in the car...
- thegreatsam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I seriously thought that this was going to be a joke posting.
Sad that I was wrong. - disquietus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19oh, i see... now that music piracy is "contained," they can move on to the videos.
- uber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21So in the same vein .... any spoof on SNL will also be a violation?
Boycott the RIAA! - Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Plus you can't download content from YouTube anyway, it's all restricted..
The RIAA has lost perspective, they started out to help protect artists, but they've become a corrupt, money hungry mob. Something needs to be done about them, or come five years from now, we'll be paying fees to browse HMV and extra charges will apply to looking at CD covers.
Jimzip :D - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15RTFA - Vidoes that contain MUSIC - read before typing next time, please - thank you.
- theone2Punch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18idiot.
- theotheragentm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yup. The RIAA is losing tons of money on the sale of "Barbie Girl" because of Google and YouTube
/end sarcasm. - samdu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"there is A LOT of stolen content on You Tube and Google Video."
AFAIK, there isn't a SPECK of "stolen" content on either source. Copyright infringing material, perhaps, but nothing "stolen." STOP using those terms interchangeably. It plays in to these rat bastard's hands. - JLTB, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Crazy! I thought those guys just claimed they won (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/13/1528236)? Yet they attack again!
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Didn't you hear, they joined together to become the MAFIAA almost three months ago!
http://digg.com/music/RIAA_and_MPAA_merge_to_form_MAFIAA - Cyrusman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12honestly...the RIAA will never win. They can go ahead and make it seem like we're all *****, but in reality, it is only a matter of time before their demise rolls around.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12They can't defeat those so they are going to fight a battle hoping they can win by shutting down the internet entirely and building it back up with their short term interests first.
- jpwillms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Have they been on bittorrent? edonkey?
p2p contained. HA! - jswinehart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@fredclown
Google has the money yes but YouTube? Dont they burn through absurdly high amounts of bandwidth every month with as of yet no way to monetize what they provide? - allthewhile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Um. Where exactly is this reported? Some website called "project octopus". They don't even link a reputible source claiming this is true. No Digg, reporting as lame until I see evidence.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Technically the RIAA is in the right here, no? It's stupid for them to go after this (considering the press will not be favorable), I agree. However, there's nothing illegal about what they're doing in this regard. The government wont' do anything about this, you have to vote with your wallets on this one."
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that there is something in the Fair Use laws that say parodies and similar are not illegal and it can be argued that a lot of these fall under that. It might also fall under personal use since it is not making the person any money. - Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Now that's just not true. The RIAA wouldn't challenge a kid for humming on the street. They'd sue him. And probably kick him in the crotch when nobody else was looking.
- aiiee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Damn, you spelled piqued correctly. Digg is getting better :)
- SAOSiN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12:( Why dont they just give up....there wasting so much money, I can think of a few orginaztions that use donations.
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0eNa85qDZs&search=riaa
- techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In some other dimension, the song that has topped the U.S. charts for 16 straight weeks is "The RIAA Sucks" by Green Day
let's see the RIAA go into court fighting against a copyright infringement of THAT one! - jonathanex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8In other news, RIAA challenged a kid for humming a song while walking down the street as they claimed he was distributing it to other people's ears.
- fatalflaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Pay for music, you support the RIAA. If you want to support the artist, send the artist a check directly because thats about the only way the RIAA wont take almost all of it and throw a few pennies at the artist.
- fatalflaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
Couldn't have said it better myself. - mat735, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The RIAA makes me sick. Every time I hear about another victim of their attacks I become less inclined to purchase my music "legally" and now they are attacking YouTube and Google Video. Where does the nonsense stop? Something needs to be done and I applaud all those fighting against the mafia of media that is the RIAA as well as hope that the artists that they claim to represent speak up against this mockery.
- vedichymn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@b-dizzle
Radio stations are basically "grandfathered in" and only have to pay royalties to the songwriters, but not performers, recording companies, and anyone else who owns the rights to the song.
The people recording the videos on youtube or whatever else haven't licensed the music, and therefore don't have the rights to use them, which motivated the RIAA lawsuit. - gukid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8RIAA SAYS: ENJOYING MUSIC IS AGAINST THE LAW!
- banjk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Welcome to the NEW McCarthyism!
- dougmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, parodies are still protected as a form of fair use. And SNL is probably lawyered up, and so if they do a skit or something that's probably not considered to be a parody (and therefore protected by fair use without paying any royalties), they probably ask for permission and pay any appropriate royalties.
I wonder if a karaoke performance qualifies as a parody? Does it have to be bad?
Wierd Al does mostly parodies, and as such it's generally protected as fair use, but he still asks for permission, and I imagine he does pay the appropriate royalties, though he might not actually have to. (Or he might have to pay royalties for the music itself, since he doesn't normally change that much, but not for the lyrics? I dunno.) - fredclown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@jswinehart
Yeah you're probably right about You Tube. But I'm still looking forward to the day when the RIAA pisses off some company that actualloy has the means to fight them. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5absolutely.
The RIAA is the mob... you're supporting the artists as much as you're supporting neighborhood peace by paying that protection money to that sicilian "security firm" - filmtex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It was really only a matter of time, the use of unlicensed music in videos of all types has been on the radars of copyright owners for years, ask anyone who produces video professionally and they'll tell you that music is their biggest headache. We've really got a quagmire on our hands about copyrights.
- tarmithius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well posting videos with the songs playing in the background and someone lipsyncing and dancing is considered a public performance. Look up the copyright and you will notice it specifically prohibits this type of performance. I am not saying it is right or wrong that the RIAA go after these guys but it is there.
Radio stations pay to play, these use advertising to pay royalties and their own DJ's. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Artists don't deserve compensation for use of their work?
- joshlrogers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Watch what you say....with our president now....you just might "disappear" saying stuff like that about a big spending lobbyist like the RIAA/MPAA
- bosewicht, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7News Flash: The RIAA sues all karaoke bars!!!
- rfunches, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4IANATVNL (I am not a tv network lawyer) but I think the networks use blanket licenses (e.g. a performance venue pays for the license to cover any material that would not fall under fair use) and/or cue sheets (submitted, with royalties paid post-hoc) to deal with on-air music and avoiding copyright infringement.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The Riaa the AIDS of the internet.
- ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I report my comment as inaccurate :)
I guess its hard for me to believe that a company would sue its customers over crappy 64kbit versions of their songs, but this is the RIAA we're talking about... - projectopusnews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lots of sources - here's just one, the Washington Post. topmusicblog.com, afterdawn.com The quote was from a brief story in digitalmusicnews.com, quoting UMG, not RIAA.
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