arstechnica.com — An executive from Sony BMG admitted in court today what many have suspected: the RIAA's legal campaign is a money-losing proposition for the record labels. That raises the question of what the RIAA hopes to get out of the barrage of lawsuits.
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directsunOct 3, 2007
Nice kick in the ass of the RIAA.
tylanOct 3, 2007
Suck it Trebek.... Wait... I mean Suck it RIAA.The RIAA has shot themselves in the foot. Way back in the original Napster days they had a chance to embrace this new technology. They decided to squash it. If I remember correctly, when the original Napster was at it's most popular CD sales were way up. They panicked over perceived future losses. Now we have this wonderful mess of 20,000 lawsuits alienating their customer base. They are spending a lot of money and have nothing to show for it. Good for them! HA HA!
depthfunctionOct 3, 2007
Heh. If that's really the case, then it sounds like the RIAA is screwing over the record labels as much as any p2p downloader.It actually makes me hope the RIAA continues its lawsuit program. They're more likely drive the big labels into bankruptcy than "illegal" downloaders.
depthfunctionOct 3, 2007
f**k the RIAA:<a class="user" href="http://www.emusic.com/">http://www.emusic.com/</a>
heystoopidOct 3, 2007
Looking at this case who ever started this fight , was neither a good general or real strategist in any sense of the word , have no back up , contingency or even forward plans ! Thus everything was built on basic s**t piled on swampy foundations , it was always reliant of the game of blind man's bluff using jokers and deuces in your hand and then claiming you are holding all the aces in the deck , to force the other party to run up the white flag on your terms!Oh , what a tangled web they weave , by sending in a bunch single brain celled one track a time contract lawyers into a real court of law , let the fun continue !
matriOct 4, 2007
The entire jury is either computer illiterate or computer incompetent. Forget worry, go to Panic mode.
actorboyOct 4, 2007
The point is to deter piracy, which encourages a portion of downloaders to buy, a portion to do without, and another portion to keep playing the odds.. The first puts money in artists' pockets, the second doesn't matter because they wouldn't have bought anyway, and the third offers more opportunities for deterrent.