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- mardak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+88Yes
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49No! I can't believe it. The RIAA is the best thing to ever happen to this world since DRM, DMCA and other things that start with D.
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I can't believe it. The RIAA is verging on Openly Hostile status.
- Rowen7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Yes.
Now if XM was a college student, the RIAA would take that student out of school to pay its $6,000 debt for approximately two cds. - Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's annoying to see the RIAA in EXISTENCE every day. They need to be RICO/anti-trusted to death.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Is there a large non-profit organization specifically for protecting consumers against RIAA and other media content owners from ripping us off at every turn? If not, there are a billion people that would love to join one and the time is ***** now!
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21@rdavidson3
"Let's not forgot everyone's favorite D-word... Diarrhea"
Don't you mean DiaRIAA? - ajwillys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16AAAAA
American Association Against Acronym Abuse
Couldn't resist - geninstability, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15That's a bit harsh don't you think? Drug dealers provides a desired and competitive service to the general public and don't expect a handout when you buy from someone else. Honestly, you don't see dealers running around suing college kids for growing their own, do you?
- falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Pretty soon we won't even be able to think about a song without paying some sort of fee.
- nikt0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@rasterbator:
Such a nonprofit exists. It's called the Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org - falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Only Jack Bauer can stop them now...
- tunercarzrock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13The RIAA is getting to the point where they won't even allow fair use. If you are listening to the radio and you record the song to a tape, that's fair use. Fair use is also changing intellectual property from one form to another (for example, turning one of your CD's into MP3's). However, the RIAA, because of the actions of a few, or even the possible actions of a few, is making life miserable for the many. RIAA executives, if you read this: This is stupid and unbusinesslike. Stop.
- joeysafe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Reminds of 1984...not just thought-crime, but thought-piracy.
- Dog_Paddle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12No one on Digg has ever bought a Brittney Spears album for themselves, ever.
Trust me. - meistaiwan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@soogy - "No! I can't believe it. The RIAA is the best thing to ever happen to this world since DRM, DMCA and other things that start with D."
DivX? (the bad one) - jokerr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This just in ladies and gentlemen, the RIAA has gone back on their word. In other news the sky is blue and people don't like getting sued.
- FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Blasphemy!!!! The RIAA is Evil in a good way!!!!!
- joesnow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11it's annoying to see the RIAA in the news every other day, they need to STFU and GTFO ASAP.
- BrewedInTexas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10NERA
Not Everything Requires an Acronym - XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Serves XM right fr working with the RIAA in the first place. They should know etter than to expect treatment any different from RIAA than they give anyone else.
Sleep with the dogs and you get fleas and smell like ...
So everyone take a break from Digg and write congress asking for fair use legislation.
Here is a good start if you need some help: http://www.digitalconsumer.org/bill.html - dolson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Who cares? Stop supporting them. Whining about them on one hand, and then buying the latest and greatest Britney Spears album is hypocritical.
It's like people who bitch about Microsoft being a monopoly and then go off and buy their products regardless. - dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Is there a large non-profit organization specifically for protecting consumers against RIAA and other media content owners from ripping us off at every turn? If not, there are a billion people that would love to join one and the time is ***** now!"
In addition to EFF mentioned above, there is also IPac
http://www.ipaction.org/ - Ainast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I have to ask, is it legal for me to rip my old grandpa's 8-track tapes to dvd? I mean I've already bought the music.
- MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh come on, you almost have a triple double on acronyms, ONE MORE!
- tallgreen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yawn. Who would like to make a guess as to how long the RIAA will continue operating? I'll say, mmm, 4 more years.
- Wolfman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That taught'em, Go You!
- easy4lif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6this is stupid. The People + Lawyers that work for the RIAA need to be drug out onto the street and shot like common drug dealers
- GrundlTerror, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah because people on Digg aren't lame at all.
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4geekee you have got to be kidding me!
I should have the right to:
1. "time-shift"
2. "space-shift"
3. make backups
4. use platform of choice
5. translate formats
6. use technology to do 1-5
For any content that is boadcast to me either in the open air or via a pay distribution method or purchased on media. - Greg-J, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7How is it that some nut-job with a sniper rifle hasn't lost it and taken out Dan Glickman and Cary Sherman?
I'm thinking Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down'? - XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Digital Consumer Bill of Rights in its own Digg
http://digg.com/links/Fight_back_support_a_Digital_Consumer_Bill_of_Rights - CyrusG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These acts by the RIAA and other bodies inspire one to purchase less and pirate more.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA sent pirates smallpox blankets.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@oGMo
"Verging? Suing customers including 8-year-olds and grandmothers and poor college students isn't hostile? Damn."
Don't forget to add dead people to that list! - repins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3can we sue the RIAA as a monopoly? How about the RICO laws after all they are almost as bad as the Mafia
"If you pay this small fee nothing bad will happen to you, think of it as insurance against a law suit" - zatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This only goes to show that RIAA has an agenda. They don't give two ***** about what they promised to who. They are the gold miners of today, and they are mining everybody and everywhere while justifying themselves with a cause.
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The say whatever they need to say to win the current battle at hand. It is as simple as that.
- prammy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Being a monopoly is not illegal or even immoral. Abusing that position is.
As far as RIAA goes, I have not purchased a music cd since they sued Napster. However I have not downloaded any illegal music either.
It may sound hard to stop listening to music but then you discover new music which are not RIAA sponsored. Most of the music I listen to (psy trance) isnt distributed by RIAA labels anyway :) - ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone from my old secondary school has a band who have a recording contract with Sony. They're a great band, and I love their music, but I'm not willing to pay for their EPs. Instead, I'm going to copy the tracks and send the band the full cost of their EP. I'm paying for my music, I'm just choosing to pay the right way.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3RE:Dog paddle.... i dunno, I think quite a few people on digg bought the album just for the ::cough:: 'album art' but i agree, they likely never put the cd in...
- cybershoplifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2don't download or share RIAA crap..just fuk-em and the artist who r a part of them...got it flea/lars..
- asplodzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"No one on Digg has ever bought a Brittney Spears album for themselves, ever."
One of my friends used to work at Best Buy who, like many major retailers, mark deinventoried items at $0.01. As it happens, there were a significant amount of Ricky Martin / Brittney Spears singles left over from the holiday season and my friend pocket them all with change from said pockets.
Endless fun w/ microwaves, tesla coils, etc ensued. - asplodzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um... come again, monkey boy?
- shade73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hope XM takes them down. It's about time consumers started having rights again ;). Oh never mind, we have rights.. we can buy the cd.. but then we can't rip it and move it, stream it or carry it, or use it as a ringtone without buying it again, because that's fair right?
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yes, the RIAA is fighting, not for the artists, but for their own existence.
- requiem18th, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More like 4 hundred years, the riaa got all the money and all the government backing, they are here to stay, violent revolution not withstanding...
- cybershoplifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RICO and that ain't Rico Suave ...... It sure would be cool if this flys.
p2p news / p2pnet: We've been calling the members of the Big Four record label cartel the Organized Music family since around October last year.
Tanya Andersen, 42, a disabled mother, lives alone with her eight-year-old daughter. The two exist on government disability payments.
EMI, Warner Music, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are accusing her of downloading and sharing music online but she says the accusation is entirely false and, like Patti Santangelo, is demanding a jury trial to prove it.
In addition, she launched a counter suit against the Big Four's RIAA under the Oregon RICO Act, claiming the RIAA qualified because it had committed at least two acts of racketeering.
RICO is short for Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization and it was originally created to combat Organized Crime as epitomised by the Mafia families.
The Big Four's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) wants Andersen's RICO suit dismissed and she, in her turn, has asked to have the RIAA's complaint thrown out, says Recording Industry vs The People.
Andersen, who lives off a fixed income from Social Security, says she's never shared or downloaded music in her life and before the RIAA attacked her, told its 'investigators' they could examine her computer any time they wanted.
But the record companies have never bothered.
"I have always been against music downloading," said Andersen last year after being approached by Mark Eilers from the Tukwila, Washington, 'Settlement Centre' who was demanding money to make the RIAA go away.
"In fact, I have been a member of BMG's music club for quite some time and I purchase my music either from there or from Target," said Andersen. "When I first got my computer set up almost three years ago, I had a friend set it up for me since I did not know how to do it. She had put Kaaza Lite on there and told me what it was. I never used it and had no interest in doing so. I deleted it since I had no use for it. Even though I deleted it correctly, as is recommended by Microsoft, Mr. Eilers has told me it can hide out in my system and play without me knowing about it. I have done a total check of my computer and it is no where on there.
"These files you are speaking accusing me of sharing (which Mr. Eiler told me about), are not and never have been on my computer system. Several of those artists, I have never even heard of! One, I understand, is a rap song. I am 42-years-old and do not even like rap music. The login that this person who did this apparently used, which Mr. Eiler told me of, is not a login name I have ever used or heard of.
"There is no one at my household who could have done what is being said at all. Mr. Eiler had brought up the fact that maybe a babysitter could have done it and that is impossible because I seldom have a sitter since I can't afford to pay one and am usually home."
The RICO pattern Andersen accuses the RIAA of, "constituted a common course of conduct used by plaintiffs to target thousands of citizens throughout the United States," says Lory R. Lybeck of Lybeck Murphy, the Washington law firm which is acting for her.
"These activities shared the common objectives of seeking payment of thousands of dollars from each person targeted, regardless of their innocence. These acts had the same or similar purposes, results, participants, victims and methods of commission.
"The predicate acts of racketeering include, but are not limited to attempted violations of Oregon’s coercion statute ORS 163.275 in furtherance of a plan to commit coercion is a violation of ORICO 166.720.
" These unlawful activities were not isolated. The record companies have repeated this coercive conduct with many other victims throughout the United States. Settlement Support Center, has reportedly engaged in the same pattern of threatening and coercive conduct.
"In 2004, the record companies targeted another innocent person in this scheme. When presented with evidence that the defendant did not engage in any of the downloading activities, plaintiffs insisted that her lack of involvement was irrelevant and that plaintiffs reportedly threatened that they would sue her for hundreds of thousands of dollars whether or not she had ever engaged in the alleged file sharing, 'It didn’t matter. Someone is responsible and someone is going to have to pay'." - joeysafe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Ainast
Legal, for his own (or the current owner's) personal use. But you really should have left a new comment instead of a reply... -
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