How In hell are the Evil RIAA going to find a way to trace back to the original offender. Seriously now. Did they even tried to brain storm and think this through how they are going to achieve this?? It truly an PR stunt from the marketing dept.
"Why not just do like Canada does and tax all blank media (including hard drives, CD-Rs and DVD-Rs) and pay them as royalties to the RIAA, then legalize P2P piracy?"Heh, aside from the fact like others have stated that the levies unfairly tax people making backups of their own data and the like, there's also the fact that they didn't stop the big corporations here from trying to double dip, coming after customers and screaming profit loss and all that even after the levies were in place. Also, all of the money collected from blank audio cassettes, CDs, and DVDs (there are no levies on HDs currently, thank God...) is sitting in an account somewhere. Last I heard not a single cent has been disseminated to the artists or even to the corporate weasels that demanded it.
Closed AccountAug 19, 2005
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siouxmouxAug 19, 2005
How In hell are the Evil RIAA going to find a way to trace back to the original offender. Seriously now. Did they even tried to brain storm and think this through how they are going to achieve this?? It truly an PR stunt from the marketing dept.
chidragonAug 20, 2005
"Why not just do like Canada does and tax all blank media (including hard drives, CD-Rs and DVD-Rs) and pay them as royalties to the RIAA, then legalize P2P piracy?"Heh, aside from the fact like others have stated that the levies unfairly tax people making backups of their own data and the like, there's also the fact that they didn't stop the big corporations here from trying to double dip, coming after customers and screaming profit loss and all that even after the levies were in place. Also, all of the money collected from blank audio cassettes, CDs, and DVDs (there are no levies on HDs currently, thank God...) is sitting in an account somewhere. Last I heard not a single cent has been disseminated to the artists or even to the corporate weasels that demanded it.