www-tech.mit.edu — An MIT student accused of copyright infringement has been documenting her struggles with the RIAA. Upon trying to negotiate her settlement, a representative told her "the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements." Is this justice or insanity?
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zimmApr 5, 2006
anyone notice all the anti RIAA comments are being modded down? funny that...
olivercApr 5, 2006
Ok, there is so much wrong with this post it's hard to know where to begin...The RIAA does not have any rights that you do not have. If someone breaks the law and you are the victim you can sue them *and* you can offer to settle out of court for an amount of money. This is all the RIAA is doing. If you want this to be not allowed then you would be the one expecting rights that others do not have.If the government suddenly disappeared the result would be anarchy and probably a big person would come along with a big stick and enslave you because they can.I think what you are suggesting is that the RIAA has no value. While it is true that they have no value to you, they have a great deal of value to the entertainment industry; if they didn't have value, they wouldn't exist!I'm not saying that there are no corporate-government immoral conspiracies going on because there are. The best example being the ridiculous farming subsidies that everyone ignores and cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year. I just think that you're seeing a conspiracy where it doesn't exist.
reddog_x2000Apr 5, 2006
@Why on earth don't people just buy the CD with the song/s in question on ebay for pennies as soon as the extortion demand from the RIAA turns up in the mail??Its not copyright infringement if you own the original CD (no matter how much the RIAA tries to change the law so that it becomes illegal to rip a CD you own to your MP3 player).BecauseThey're not suing for having an mp3 on your system. They're suing because someone is sharing it on a p2p network. Where the mp3 came from is irrelevant.
geekeApr 5, 2006
Don't get geekee and me mixed up I have nothing to do with that moron. Unlived it seemed like she shared 272 songs as the RIAA said. Hell RIAA is a bunch of dumb f**ks hell they sue people that don't even have computers or people that are dead. RIAA read the reports "FILE SHARING" is not causing cd sales to drop, the stuff call music today is CRAP, that's why cd sales are dropping!
jmknappApr 6, 2006
> Not to mention the eroding of the US Constitution/bill of rights. Americans protect the idea of freedom .. blah blahHow about actually reading the Constitution? Specifically Article 1 Section 8 that grants exclusive rights for limited times to artists and inventors. To open that up to theft without consequences would be antithetical to the principles this country was founded on & would stifle Progress, as the framers noted.It cracks me up to see people whining about getting caught stealing music as they wave the Constitution they haven't a clue about around.
kalisphoenixApr 6, 2006
De-digged for using the word "snarky."
drawkboxApr 6, 2006
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.- Albert Einstein
samuelcotterallApr 6, 2006
It's old news though. The whole anti-RIAA thing has been done to death - we know that pretty much everyone who has ever bought a record hates them.People still don't realise you can't boycott the RIAA - and the only reason they are enforcing stuff like DRM is because people are still downloading music illegally.
chabuhiApr 13, 2006
I'm sure there are varied reasons as to why people are upset by the RIAA's (and other's) actions, but -- come on ... the punishment really doesn't fit the crime, does it?
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