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- pigfister, on 06/29/2009, -2/+40
lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate hardware DRM anymore.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the ***** capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
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If payola wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:
Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtm ...
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326 ... - borez, on 06/29/2009, -0/+24“We do not claim that your computer was used to commit the infringing act (although we do not exclude this possibility), nor do we claim that you downloaded our client’s work. Our claim is that your Internet connection was used to make our client’s work available via one or more P2P networks. The file may not, therefore, be on your computer.”
What the *****? - falafelkiosken, on 06/29/2009, -1/+18why £665? Didn't they want it to be too obvious who their real employer is and lowered it by one quid?
- Akairenn, on 06/29/2009, -0/+12Exactly.
This is their 'new' scam, btw - throw ***** at a wall and see what sticks. For the low price of pretty much nothing, they receive money from people who don't properly throw their letters in the trash. - daxxer, on 06/29/2009, -0/+12“alleged uploaders of 2nd rate games”. *Cough* more like 3rd rate games.
- jrm125, on 06/29/2009, -4/+15***** the MPAA, RIAA, COMCAST, and Bill O'Reilly!
- x986123, on 06/29/2009, -2/+12***** THE RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Sony Pictures
- ShoggothDreams, on 06/29/2009, -0/+8The points you bring up are even bigger than the story you are commenting on! How was this not MUCH bigger news?? And how can SoundExchange POSSIBLY be able to legally steal effective ownership of non-affiliated artists' music????
- Travelsonic, on 06/29/2009, -1/+9Support copyright reform, ***** the RIAA, and RIAA apologist trolls like Galt.
Speaking of which *buries and reports as spam* - Travelsonic, on 06/29/2009, -0/+8"I support copyright reform. Set the copyright limits to a 1000 years."
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
1000 YEARS IS NOT A LIMITED TIME!
"that frivolous reporting reflects poorly on yourself, not me."
And idiotic trolling only gets yourself into deeper *****, not me. - ZippyV, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7Thank TPB for including random ip adresses.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6This is a lawyers breakfast. Random IP "lottery" litigation to the millions of jumpy, ignorant Americans who cannot afford to feed the cat. I hope they fail in the cross checks and pick on someone who is loaded with enough money to bury these ***** permanently.
- my10cent, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6my first response would be a quick digital picture of my middle finger sent snail mail.
- twiztidsinz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5and Bill O'Reilly!
- Atario, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5Sheesh. At least have the balls to go all the way and make the demand for £666.
- twiztidsinz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4It didn't sound mean so much as idiotic...
Like the rest of your posts.. - BuckeyeGreg, on 06/29/2009, -1/+5You're an idiot, this article is about honest law-abiding Brits being duped into settling a lawsuit they would have won had it ever gone to court, not the pirates you've been hearing about lately. Learn to read the article before posting a comment.
- kevinchen22, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4The ASCAP (same people who went after girl scouts for singing around a campfire) wants to get paid when your phone rings, because it's a "public performance" of a song. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/225207/ASC ...
- gothicform, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4Reply number one should be something like "Irvine V Talksport allows claimants to receive their standard endorsement fee. Please give evidence of your monetary loss along with a full evidential breakdown of how this figure has been arrived at".
Now I'm all for people paying out for copyright infringement but the damages, and British law agrees with me fully here, state that they must be directly related to the financial loss caused. If you downloaded some game that costs £20 and then had a 1:1 seeder ratio you'd owe £20.
They can claim for extra damages thanks to Phonographic Performance V Stephen Russell Reader to cover their costs, but again they have to give you examples of how these figures have been arrived at. To simply demand X money is wayyyy out of line. - DigDugDigger, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Oh is it bad to run my WiFi network "open"... without any sort of encryption or MAC filtering?
I apologize on behalf of the unwelcome visitors on my network for downloading your copyrighted material. I will ask them to stop if I see them. But I probably won't see them. - JoeHague, on 06/29/2009, -2/+4You know whats mean, even though I'm one of your top Digg fans and enjoy reading all your comments, especially the ones about science and technology or programming, you won't upgrade me to a Digg friend, that's mean/
- RogerMcDodger, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Right, but this is against UK residents, not Americans.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2OK then...
This is a lawyers breakfast. Random IP "lottery" litigation to the millions of jumpy, ignorant Brits who cannot afford to feed the cat. I hope they fail in the cross checks and pick on someone who is loaded with enough money to bury these ***** permanently.
; p - zellfaze, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1True that.
- zellfaze, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1True that, I have never heard of those games xD
- synapsis9, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1i hear that the RIAA is still upset about people quoting that song "who let the dogs out"
- GanonApocalypse, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1You forgot the /s
- CowGoesMooo, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2A friend of mine got one of these notices from Davenport Lyons for £600+ for uploading about 2MB of Two Worlds while he was torrenting (real ***** upload speed), he ignored it and has heard nothing since. Guess they aren't that bothered, they just want some quick cash.
My question is, are any of these companies going after Rapidshare/Similar 1-click hosts or people using them or are they focusing mainly on P2P at the minute? - kevinchen22, on 06/29/2009, -0/+0Ha! LOL
- bobertoq, on 06/29/2009, -1/+1What that means is you don't have to actually download anything with P2P to download it.
- DigDugDigger, on 06/30/2009, -2/+1I woulda threw Michael Jackson in there too, but your list is complete enough for me.
- GaltShrugged, on 06/29/2009, -10/+1Also, I hope you know that frivolous reporting reflects poorly on yourself, not me.
- GaltShrugged, on 06/29/2009, -12/+1I support copyright reform. Set the copyright limits to a 1000 years.
- 123bucklemyshoe, on 06/29/2009, -15/+3I've seen SOOO many stories on digg about the pirates in the last week and I want to say one thing to all the people who wrote these stories I want to say are you serious? Why do you keep trying to defend them? How can you doubt the evidence it was on international TV the U.S. military got involved it's pretty obvious that there's enough evidence and they're guilty. Sorry by the way if that sounded mean I didn't mean to but it's hard to tell how someone wants to sound over the Internet. Maybe it's just me though.
- GaltShrugged, on 06/29/2009, -15/+1Support the RIAA. ***** THE PIRATE BAY.
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