RIAA hellspawns

[Sonic the Vampire]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030910/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music_19

What kind of monsters run this industry? I want to beat one of those executives bloody and sensless after reading this story. I want to round up a group of people to send a barage of DOS attacks to those *******s. This just crosses the line. File-sharing is too controversial to go around financially destroying 12 year olds across the country for. This is absolutely bull****. Couldn't they have started with adults and waited until it was widely acknowledged to be an illegal practice before targetting a 12 year old girl? Frankly I don't give a flying **** if they just hadn't done a background check before suing her. That was their responsibility. Who are the real criminals here?

 

[Phatslugga]

Yeah i heard of this over the radio, and I was disgusted. I agree with you completely Sonic.

 

[Nuttzy]

the only real solution to stopping piracy over he internet is the obliteration of the internet,

i agree somewhat with artists wanting imbursement for thier work, as it is thier job,

but this whole thing was just a tad unfair,

if they are trying to make a point, i dont think they should go after grade school kids, that itself could send out a different message than what they are trying to send out

its funny how the lil 12 year old got it, when i bet someone on her block was ripping a dvd, or downloading music or full length movies at that same exact moment,

as many people are doing this, and the amoount of people that have been busted, shows you how efficient they are

 

[SailorAlea]

I love it when the RIAA compares downloading music to shoplifting.

It's more along the lines of going into a supermarket with a special device that scans the food you want, and makes you a free copy. It didn't cost the Grocery anything, they just didn't get the money you WOULD'VE paid for it.

They keep babbling about the money that's supposedly just flying out of their pockets. I can just see their bank accounts dwindling down to 0, everytime someone downloads an mp3.

Everytime a bell is rung, an Angel gets it's wings.
Everytime an mp3 is downloaded, Aerosmith loses 100$.

 

[Evil_Trunks]

Not to seem like the bad guy here, but the music industry has a right to protect their music. Although I don't think going after young children is the right way about it.

But the point is that musicians make the majority of their money from cd sales. Otherwise they have to pay for tours, music videos and all that stuff.

Just because millions of people across the world download free MP3's doesn't make it right. Now i'm not saying I don't download MP3's, I am just as guilty as everyone else. But I can't blame the music industry for wanting to do something about this.

 

[Nuttzy]

i doubt youll see individual bands standing up against filesharing,


i mean, you saw what it did to metallica didnt ya?

napster may have got shutdown, but kazaa took over and metallica didnt gain a bigger fanbase over that,



i cant see whats gonna come of this in the future, but i seriously doubt they can stop piracy in its tracks, they are outnumbered greatly



though i do understand whythey want money for thier work, i really doubt that lil girl had 2000 $$ worth of pirated music on her computer

 

[Sonic the Vampire]

Just because millions of people across the world download free MP3's doesn't make it right. Now i'm not saying I don't download MP3's, I am just as guilty as everyone else.

But that's just it, isn't it? It is the norm. People who possess file sharing programs and don't trade MP3s out because of their personal beliefs are the exception to the rule, a minority. The RIAA shouldn't have the right to just stand up one day and take money from people that are taking a part of something that is considered the norm. They are fighting against a crapload of people who don't understand why it's wrong. Going around taking money from middle-class 12 year old kids who don't know any better is not sending out the right signal.

 

[Lynxy]

Absolute nonsense, how idiotic. I'd feel like giving them a smash-back-to-senses against their head. This is just absurd, 12 years old, my god...

 

[Bryggz]

I never really saw the problem with file-sharing, myself. I only saw kazaa as a try-it-before-you-buy-it kind of deal. I download songs...to see if I like the band. If i love their work, I support them by buying their cd. I doubt this goes for many other people, but personally, anything I've downloaded I've most likely bought.

 

[Scorcher2k]

The riaa and sco are both facist. Both have been the subject of attacks from hackers as well. The music industry has a right to protect its property, yes, but the riaa isn't even part of it. Its a group of lawyers that decided to go after people. The only reason that the music industry has stepped up is because there has been so much publicity about them. Most musicians don't really care and think that the internet is a good place to show music. While cd sales might have gone down a little bit over the last 3 years within the last year sales of singles have gone up 160% (give or take 10%). It just shows people don't want to spend the obscene amount of money on a cd with only one good song on it.

 

[The Cheese]

Music sales have gone down in the past 3 year... So what, it could mean that the music industry has signed a bunch of ****ty bands to there labels and expect them to make mad music that everyone will buy. I personally think that music has really hit a low point in these last few years.

Everything I see today is Emo or something cross-pollinated with Emo. I hate Emo, it all and I do mean all sounds the same. I just think in the long run the industry is only going to hurting themselves by doing things like this, not set examples that everyone is going to bow to.

True the industry can and should protect there interests, but if there charts are down a few points and they are earning 12.5 billion instead of 12.7 doesn't mean that anyone is to blame but themselves. I'm sure that it does hurt then a little bit when people download music instead of buying it, but to go to the extreems that they are you would think they were hunting down people that were taking millions from them a day.

 

[SailorAlea]

What is acceptable and normal, "the norm," is what most people do. Most people online I would say, have or do, download mp3s, and therefore it's not morally wrong.

Everybody eats, and breathes, and it's not morally wrong. The RIAA would have you believe you're actually stealing, that is, physically removing something they ALREADY have, like stealing 20$ out of someone's wallet.

It's just "lost profit."

I don't hear the Porn Industry constantly complaining that their movies are turned into random files or pictures and distributed across random websites, do you?

I'm sure the Porno industry loses just as much, if not more revenue from people copying video tapes, dvds, and digitizing information--but we don't hear Slutty McGee *****ing about it.

The RIAA makes me sick; they don't represent a majority of people in the Nation, and therefore -should- have no authority, but they're backed by greedy multi-millionaires like Aerosmith.

I don't hear very many small-time bands complain about being "hurt" by having their work spread around.

 

[The Cheese]

I don't hear very many small-time bands complain about being "hurt" by having their work spread around.

That’s because struggling artists without a label don't get **** for coverage, fans, or money. But if they take there music and put it out there on the net for free people will download it and then they will give it to there friends and there friends will give it to there friends and so on and so forth therefore creating a fan base.

Then the band gets a label and the label says "We can spread your music far and wide and make you rich, but we keep most of the profits you make for ourselves" The band still gets rich but not as rich as the label does. So the only one that it truly hurts is the greedy middleman.

 

[Sonic the Vampire]

It's common knowledge that the record industry steals far more money than filesharing ever has or ever will. These lawsuits are all about the RIAA trying to show the world that they're big men who won't stand around and let middle school kids download a few tracks for their MP3 players. They've filed lawsuits against people with as few as 2 songs being shared total. How ****ed up is that? They need to get their priorities straight. This is just another reason why I don't support the reccord industry.

 

[fryd4good]

I don't agree with their reasoning either. It's silly, but as long as they are "big men" there's not much that can be done about it. They aren't going to win, anyhow. They really CAN'T stop it, it's too widespread.

 

[SierraSonic]

Heres my question, how does the RIAA know whos downloading the music, wouldn't they have to break privacy laws to get that info?

If the RIAA sues me, I'll Counter-Sue for Privacy invasion. Simple as that.

 

[Scorcher2k]

It's not an invasion of privacy when you walk out the door as well as you go onto the internet. If you had the files on your comptuer and didn't share or download then theres nothing they can do about it. It is an invasion of privacy to go after the people after they track the ip though and go to the isp for there information. There have been several cases where colleges and isps haven't released information about the people being supeoned (or however you spell that). Other colleges fold under the pressure such as one my friend goes to saying that they will give out any information requested by the riaa.

 

[imported_Mystix]

The RIAA has nothing better to do. All they want to do is bust people and get attention, ill bet $1g that they download music as well, those ****ing *******s... i hope they get a good beating one of these days. They need to be taught a lesson for ****ing with other peoples buisness :\

 

[Evil_Trunks]

\ They are fighting against a crapload of people who don't understand why it's wrong. Going around taking money from middle-class 12 year old kids who don't know any better is not sending out the right signal.

Ignorance does not make you exempt from the law. But I do think going after young children is fairly obsurd. They can try as they might, and sue as many people as they see fit.

But it will take a lot more than suing to stop piracy.

 

[imported_Mystix]

Protesting should do the job. People should raise their ****ing voices instead of saying, "Ok, ill the $2000 dollar fine for 1 ****ing song that my daughter downloaded, she should have bought the CD for $20 at the store, but ok.. ill pay"

****ING $2000!? I woulda said straight up "**** you" :\