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- valkyries, on 10/12/2007, -3/+163the RIAA is gona try to fight google? good luck
- IQis87, on 10/12/2007, -2/+99it was only a matter of time
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+90but the 32kbps snoop dogg snippet that played during that dirtbike stunt TOTALLY deterred $1.2B of CD revenue...........
- tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+89Because you know, we all go to YouTube to record high quality background music.
- DwightSchrute, on 10/12/2007, -2/+84Google has some of the brightest minds in the tech industry. The RIAA is now picking a fight with Google and their merry band of lawyers?
Haw. That's rich. - yellowperil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+78the RIAA sure knows how to make friends.
I think the lawyers are just trying to bleed the RIAA dry by insisting on these lawsuits... cuz they know the ship is already sinking. hehe. - selgan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+76Douche bags!
- manfrin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+62Damn! They found out we have been pirating music by putting them into movies, uploading them to a service that downgrades the quality, and then sharing the link so our friends can, with the help of other third party programs, download these videos, open them in a video editing software (that we most certainly pirated), take out the video, and re-encode into an mp3!
Damn you Recording Industry Association of America! Damn you to hell! - jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+55background music for a homevideo? honestly you *****. They will eventually run out of people to sue and then wind up having to sue themsevles. It will be mass chaos at the RIAA.
On a serious note I have not purchased a label CD for 4 years now and will continue to support underground bands and if there is a CD I want to get from a label band I will steal it and go see the band in concert. - Oxidizer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56I wonder ho long it will be before you can’t hum the tune, or sing along to a song (not written by you) without the RIAA having a tantrum.
- bobbybobington, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44Well they sure as hell have their work cut out for them, since practically every other video on youtube/googlevid has copyrighted music in the background. *sarcasm* But its a good thing they're doing this, since everybody knows how many people pirate high fidelity music from web videos. */sarcasm*
Bastards.... >: ( - Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43How do the people in the RIAA not realize how incredibly rediculous they are? How can they go home, look in the mirror and not say, "I'm totally ***** insane"?
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Holy *****. Is there anything left that the RIAA hasn't taken the fun out of yet?
Yet being the keyword. - wheremyarm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Even better, let's raid them and steal all their servers, and all the servers located near theres, and then not return them until we're satisfied from going through them.
- PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Or you could just stop giving them your money. That works well too.
- ScuzzMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26@rushfan
Unless you have a pre-negotiated licensing agreement, singing a song in your head now constitutes infringement of the license holder's copyright. As such, your head must be found a device primarily designed for circumvention of copyright access control mechanisms and must be immediately removed and destroyed. The RIAA apologizes for any inconvenience if your head was also inadvertently useful for some other purposes of limited significance. However, the DMCA is quite clear in these matters. - GeneralFailure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25@Oxidizer:
Those damn copyright-violating preschoolers! That's why record sales are down, not the crappy music! - BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I allways wondered what the inside of their office looks like and how the meetings would be like there. How old are the people running the whole operation?
- samdu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I think they'll HAVE to fight YouTube and Google themselves if they continue down this road. It's what they've done against other services (Napster, GnuTella, etc...). It's what they know. Suing users is like putting fingers in a dam that's being demolished.
- founderofpork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23That's the problem. They can't see into the mirror because HUGE PILES OF CASH have obscured it for years.
- benhiler, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25good call
- skoles, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26We should all be thanking the RIAA for this.
Everyone seems to use Linkin Park for all their background music anyway. - tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Hell if were going to go that far, what about the logos on clothes worn in the "movies" or the dozen other brands you see in these home movies. Your logic suggests that every home movie ever made should be penalized for coprighted material being shown in the movie. I guess I should fork over some cash from my childhood home videos playing in the mud when I wore my Ninja Turtle shirts.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"the RIAA is gona try to fight google? good luck"
*This* is the way the world ends. - imdwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"If I make a movie and want to use your song, I need your permission. Simple as that."
Yeah, but low-quality streaming videos that aren't used for any kind of profit or financial gain? Who the ***** cares if they don't have permission? I think that YouTube meets most peoples' definition of fair use. - LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20actorboy, please, don't talk about things you don't understand. Bands make a hell of a lot more money off of concert tickets than they ever will off a CD, barring quadruple Platinum albums. The concerts and the merch are where all the money is made. So please, don't meddle in affairs that your mind can't conceive.
- Rampart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20"retarted" you say?
Why yes... they have once again come to have a sharp, sour taste... - mv10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19This is a new low, EVEN for the RIAA
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I REALLY hope Google fights back, they would CRUSH the RIAA into non-existence.
good things could come from this - Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Bands get a pittance on CDs sold- literally a few cents per each. They don't just make more off concert tickets, they make a LOT more.
The reality that the RIAA doesn't want you to really think about is that it's NOT the artists who get hurt by file sharing (with the exception of the multi-platinum types whose PR machines are in our face all the time) but rather, the record labels.
Which, of course, is why it's the Recording Industry Assosiation of America that's suing people like it was going out of style- not an association of artists.
The artists know that there will always be people willing to pay for their art. The suits, on the other hand, are the ones who are afraid. - mark925, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's stories like this that make you want to download all kinds of music just to spite the RIAA.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I wonder...might fair use apply here?
Either way the RIAA should be thanking them for promoting the music. - techmonkey4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Vampires don't have reflections in mirrors ;)
- SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17wow, seriusly RIAA, MPAA. just go die. up to this point i wanted to do things the legal way, and yet dip my toes in the illegal ways. but youve gone to far. a big middle finger to all the enterainment industry and greedy basterds. from now on all media i get will be from bittorrent.
without US there would be no YOU. - VMark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I hate the RIAA like the rest of you but, I just have ot ask..
If you're the RIAA, why even waste your resources with this? Why not tackle the 1,000,000 bots on IRC or all the P2P networks and torrent sites? Seems like a giant waste of time and money, not to mention it makes them look like complete *****. - fiji5555, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The RIAA are total douche bags plain and simple and they can go stick their enforcement up ther ***** asses and eat *****. Just my opinion and i'm really a mild mannered person in real life but hey this crap is the straw that will break the camel's back. They have absolutly no clue how to run a music business. I hope they are ripped a new one by Google and everyone on the internet. Don't give into their gestapo tactics folks. ***** em.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17maybe they will all die off soon
- imdwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"Bands get royalties on CDs sold. You're not really supporting them by only buying the concert ticket."
True...but they get a hell of a lot more from a concert ticket than they do from a CD. - expertninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Personally, I think "Douche bags!" is a little too nice, but I can't think of any words possible to describe the stupidity of the RIAA. "Douche bags" will have to suffice for now.
- rushfan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Talk about weird. I was just singing a song in my head (The New World Order) and I got to the part where it goes "Its only a matter of time," right as I read your comment. Dumb, I know, but still a weird coincidence...
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Damn. They're onto us. Instead of spending 99 cents on a song I like to search YouTube instead. Yea there's some drawbacks.. I can't use it on my MP3 player, the quality usually sucks and about 90% of the time there's 2 Asian kids singing along Karokee style but I'm such an evil Nazi that I will put up with that so I can screw the RIAA out of 99 cents. Yep, they're onto us.
- onelove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11http://creativecommons.org/
- afpunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13@Chickenlegs
I really wish people would stop linking the RIAA's own list of member labels. You don't trust RIAA for anything else but you trust them to tell you what labels are really members? Many independent labels get put on that list after they establish a certain level of notority, and have a tough time getting RIAA to remove them. Don't believe me? Google Fat Wreck Chords RIAA and research it yourself. - falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Only Jack Bauer can stop them now!
- trompete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10And Senators
- djgump35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I say let them scare people into excluding the music, then when I actually want to buy the cd, I won't know what the song is, because I won't ever hear it anywhere but the radio, which I rarely listen to. Others may not be able to relate, but I have actually come to notice a song because it was in someone's video.
At least there not subpoenaing them for the users info, to accuse them of violating the copyrights by putting it on there....yet - redalert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the eye can see
and only one will survive, I wonder who it will be
this is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" - Nitro2985, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10What about Fair Use?
These folks aren't making money or using the video to transfer the music for use by another person outside of the file (though you could record your audio output from the file). - caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You know..this is why I try to make my own music for my podcast, or get someone that I know do it. The RIAA takes the fun out of music, seriously.
- Ibox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9but me putting some song with clips of random ***** and post it on you tube makes me NO monetary gain. its for fun. there is no reason for this to be an issue untill someone starts selling it.
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