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- MrBabyMan, on 10/18/2007, -9/+256I heard the RIAA once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
- Cyclone, on 10/21/2007, -9/+222I heard the RIAA just sued a guy for walking down the street while whistling a tune!
- ScytheNoire, on 10/22/2007, -7/+190I heard the RIAA just sued independent musicians because they aren't giving the RIAA half of any money they make.
- flea79, on 10/21/2007, -7/+164HA, isn't this RIAA vs Earth?
- jmkiii, on 10/18/2007, -10/+124I heard the RIAA just killed 500 puppies.
- jtingley, on 10/22/2007, -9/+120The first rule of Usenet is - you do not talk about Usenet.
The second rule of Usenet is - you DO NOT talk about Usenet.
Third rule of Usenet, someone yells Spam, goes link-dead, logs out, the download is over.
Fourth rule, no crappy reader clients.
Fifth rule, one movie at a time, fellas.
Sixth rule, no worms, no viruses.
Seventh rule, downloads will go on as long as they have to.
And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night on Usenet, you have to Download.
I see that some of you have been breaking rules 1 and 2. - supermanred, on 10/18/2007, -3/+88The so-called "music industry" or should I say the "middle men of music" will remember the bad advice they got and these law suits as the straw that broke the camel's back. Many artists are already going independent, and I support them all the way. $30 for Radiohead!
To the Record Labels: You are suing your own customers. They don't like this, and we don't like being treated like criminals. You are now officially OUT-DATED, EXTINCT and OBSOLETE and we throw up our middle fingers to you.
I would rather give 25 dollars directly to my favorite artists, or throw a whole dollar at an artist who's song I think is cool than give you one ***** red cent.
Good bye Record labels, neither we nor the artists will miss you. - diggmegood, on 10/18/2007, -6/+89I don't want to pay to leech but Usenet provides a great source of material for people to bring to BitTorrent and for this reason i'm supporting Usenet.com in their fight against the RIAA. Its a different front in the same war.
Usenet doesn't need BitTorrent but BT needs Usenet. I DON'T want the RIAA to win ANYTHING against ANYBODY - TrevorBradley, on 10/18/2007, -7/+86"usenet.com"? Sounds like we have a bit of time while they figure the intar-web out...
- MikeBasinger, on 10/28/2007, -8/+83I have a tune stuck in my head, and the RIAA wants me to pay a license fee.
- alok0, on 10/17/2007, -4/+69next on the list: IRC.com
- dirtyhand, on 10/18/2007, -1/+62Usenet.com is just one hosting company, there are hundreds of others and if they want to take them all down its gonna cost them a lot :)
- SocialPoison, on 10/18/2007, -3/+64I heard the RIAA downloaded the new Radiohead album without paying a penny for it
- Falconwing, on 10/17/2007, -3/+62Actually, this is truer than you think. Many independents rely on file sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay to get their material out. Guess how they felt when their competitor shut off their distribution channel?
- gamemaker, on 10/18/2007, -3/+62You know who I want to thank? Radiohead. They have made ten million dollars in ONE DAY off downloads of their new album, where you choose how much to pay ($1 - $20 - apparently they are averaging around $11!). So why am I thanking them for getting rich? They may be the final nail in the coffin for the record industry. No artist makes that kind of money from record sales, not even the best most-established stars.
All praise Radiohead, all praise the Interwebs, and damn to the furthest reaches of Hell the RIAA. They are a dinosaur mindlessly lashing out in their death throws. - kickinazz, on 10/17/2007, -5/+61You don't pay to leech. You pay for a dedicated server which holds TB's worth of material, which will always max your connection.
- Dayyve, on 10/17/2007, -6/+60Mr. Cyclone,
Hi, I am a lawyer for the RIAA. Since you did not get our permission to bring up the topic of our intellectual property (tune*) we have contacted our technical department and through highly sophisticated means which we do not have to disclose at this time have logged your digg avatar and have alerted the respective authorities to be on a lookout for Gilligan.
THANKYOUVERYMUCHHAVEANICEDAYYOU'REAGOODAMERICANNOWPAYTHEFINE
*not yours! - crthorn, on 10/17/2007, -4/+57I read recently that the RIAA is pro cancer.
- supermanred, on 10/17/2007, -2/+50Earth has won apparently, as artists are beginning to go independant and just selling their own songs through their web sites and on sites like itunes or amazon. 35% of all music released last year was online digital format only, and now big artists are jumping on that bandwagon. ***** the RIAA.
- Kitsune818, on 10/18/2007, -11/+56I heard the RIAA engineered the bird flu just to stop file sharing.
- RVSTY, on 10/28/2007, -4/+46I farted a d note and now I owe the RIAA 2 million in royalties.
- bonked, on 10/22/2007, -0/+41When audiogalaxy was forced to settle with the RIAA, I had a friend who was using their service to promote his band, and the RIAA claimed copyright over his music and even threatened to sue him for distributing it. So, yes, the truth of your sarcastic statement is downright scary.
- jonnyeh, on 10/17/2007, -5/+39and can provide encrypted SSL connections
- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -0/+29By my count, this will be the fourth time they've logistically gone after usenet, and it will be the fourth time they fail, and for the fourth time, the very same reason: service providers are not liable for content.
- gabeN, on 10/17/2007, -1/+27cue imperial march...
- norman619, on 10/17/2007, -4/+25What?
- wageslaven, on 10/19/2007, -5/+25Perhaps Digg could send an email to Steve Jobs (the largest single shareholder in rabid copyright villian and RIAA/MPAA ringleader Disney Corporation, and who also sits on the board of this RIAA/MPAA firm) and ask _STEVE JOBS_ to withdraw a firm he virtually controlls from the RIAA / MPAA.
Somehow, this website seems to always so eager to disscuss Steve Jobs, misses that Steve Jobs == RIAA / MPAA Executive who personally profits from this persecution of customers. They also seem to miss that iPod, iTV and iphone is actually a manner to build a DRM-laden and controlled content distribution for his RIAA / MPAA friends to continue their collusion, mafia behaviour and monopoly. - Slackdragon, on 10/17/2007, -6/+25I'm going to post this on the internet.com!
- zyklon, on 10/18/2007, -6/+24***** the RIAA, etc, etc. They're going overboard. Their lawsuits have been more like the lottery. They spend millions trying to sue, and only win one or two cases here and there. They should've cashed in their money a while ago. Now, they're just being ***** stupid and greedy (Funny, I thought they were being greedy before).
- LilJimmyNordin, on 10/17/2007, -5/+23"Well, it was a real nice secret organization we had once..."
- moofree, on 10/17/2007, -0/+17You know usenet has existed longer than the internet, right?
- lordsandwich, on 10/17/2007, -1/+18That's what you get for playing a Fall Out Boy song.
- DWatch, on 10/17/2007, -8/+25lol... hippogriff = clueless about usenet. do not want cluelessness
- msgyrd, on 10/17/2007, -2/+18Usenet offers a different subset of content than BT. There's a lot of overlap, but the amount of DVDs available on Usenet dwarf anything I've seen in even the best of private BT sites.
- mateo60, on 10/17/2007, -0/+16I hope you don't get sued for basing your statement off of a copyrighted song. Best of luck to you.
- wolfzombie, on 10/28/2007, -1/+17Better keep that tune stuck in your head. As soon as you let it out they'll sue you for sharing it.
- chedabob, on 10/17/2007, -5/+20My ISP provides a Usenet server for free. Granted, its not got some of the bigger channels, but it's pretty decent, and free.
- Racerx52, on 10/17/2007, -5/+20Limewire, lol
Enjoy! - norle, on 10/17/2007, -1/+16Yeah, about that...
The article is talking about the company named Usenet.com. They provide servers to access usenet content. They are not talking about usenet itself. People have been trying to control usenet for years...it ain't gonna happen.
Better go back and research up on them there "intar-web" sites... - wingo123, on 10/17/2007, -0/+15Time Warner Music. Same difference. The story of the copyright for the song is an interesting one that goes back like 150 years. Perfect example of how screwed-up and outdated the copyright laws are in this country...
- ninjasteeve, on 10/18/2007, -9/+24Im just waiting for the Mission Accomplished Banner on the front of a Tower Records store
- bjornski, on 10/17/2007, -0/+15And if you are an independent artist, and DO NOT WANT the RIAA to collect royalties on your music for when it's played, you DO NOT have a choice. SoundExchange will collect those royalties on your music if you want them to or not.
RIAA is a RAAcket. And we should be using RICO laws against them as the extortionists they are. - mjaleo, on 10/18/2007, -5/+18So they're going after a provider, but are they targeting users? For instance, if they successfully sue a provider and get records, can they then prosecute its users?
Also because you're not uploading anything in order to download, is there a precedent for that prosecution? Are you as liable for your downloading as you are on a P2P network? - wingo123, on 10/17/2007, -0/+11@BurnTees: Yup. ***** absolutely, without a doubt. Nice try, though.
As soon as they wreck the band's image, make $10 million and then decide not to invest in a second album because they ***** up the promotion, the label will charge us to recoup 'overhead' costs, and we, the musicians, will be flat broke. I've seen it happen to friends of mine, and it's basically the norm. You MAY be the 1% that sells out miraculously and becomes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but that's like winning the marketing lottery, with or without a 'contract'.
That $1million 'advance' they give you is like a really, really ***** loan-shark type of loan. It's like signing up for the worst credit card EVER, and then you are beholden to the label until the contract runs out - meaning they can dictate everything, including your sound, your image, and your profits. Plus they own the rights to the music YOU made, forever. It's happened time and time again, and that's why musicians are finally fully fed up with this system.
No thanks. I stand by my original statement. Read Steve Albini's book, 'The Problem with Music'. - bjornski, on 10/17/2007, -1/+12And you don't know much about Johnny Cash, do you?
- wingo123, on 10/17/2007, -0/+11Record labels doll out payola to get crappy, corporate, formulaic ***** songs on the radio. Who the hell listens to that crap anymore? As a musician, the last thing I want is those ***** at the RIAA bastardizing my music and image to have it played on some ***** Clear Channel radio station so that they can rape me for the profits. More people get discovered through MySpace than the radio these days...
- Innova69, on 10/17/2007, -1/+12When I had Insight cable, they had most of the big channels, which I always had a steady 1.5Mb download. Downloading 5-10Gbs a night is not what you get with BitTorrent.
- chedabob, on 10/17/2007, -0/+11Quite a few ISPs provide a Usenet service as well, so the RIAA are gonna have a hell of a job.
- FearAndLoathing, on 10/18/2007, -7/+18The RIAA and MPAA bringing fascism back since 1952!
- wingo123, on 10/17/2007, -3/+14Oh yeah, those crappy low bit-rate MP3s just SUCK. That music is horribly unlistenable. ***** them for letting me download it for free if I want.
Dude, I guarantee you that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 160kpbs and 192kbps on the random crappy earbuds or ***** computer speakers you normally listen to music on. If you don't like it, don't download it. Wait for the goddamn CD. Quit bitching. You, my friend, are the *****. -
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