RIAA dirty tricks.

[kasparov]

I can't beleive that the RIAA has bought our government and is turning it against us. Pretty soon, all fair usage rights will be killed.
We will have to pay royalities on everything. The RIAA want to strangle us all -- if they could they would charge us $1000 per song.
Those bastards.

Link

This link shows that the RIAA has lobbied the government to fight on its behalf against file-sharers. Internet privacy is now in the toilet.

 

[Feldenak]

I would love to see Verizon ride this all the way to the USSC and see the DMCA get kicked in the jimmy.

 

[BatmanNate]

Don't buy from the recording companies that are members. That is the best way combat them.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Don't buy from the recording companies that are members. That is the best way combat them.

90% of all music that is released in the US is from a RIAA member

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Don't buy from the recording companies that are members. That is the best way combat them.

90% of all music that is released in the US is from a RIAA member

yep, they're really just trying to protect their virtual monopoly on distribution because, just like the movie industry, the real money is in distribution

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Don't buy from the recording companies that are members. That is the best way combat them.

90% of all music that is released in the US is from a RIAA member

That's 10% still available to you if it's that important to you. I probably enjoy less than 10% of the music I've heard all said and done so the odds aren't that bad.

EDIT: Also I think that they just hold the majority of sales, not necessarily the majority of records. Obviously there are a few records that sell much more than most all others combined, so you still would have a lot to choose from.

 

[CraigRT]

I hate RIAA so much.. oh my god.

 

[Tom]

Well another way to look at this is maybe it wasn't such a great idea for the youth of America to turn into a bunch of thieves.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
Well another way to look at this is maybe it wasn't such a great idea for the youth of America to turn into a bunch of thieves.

Whether or not people are stealing should not affect my rights to fair use.

 

[Platypus]

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

 

[kasparov]

Hm.... YAGT and YACT get a 100+ replies.

A Fair usage rights thread which affect millions of computer geeks like us gets only 10 replies?

Misplaced priorities here guys?

 

[0roo0roo]

thieves vs thieves. yay!

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: kasparov
Hm.... YAGT and YACT get a 100+ replies.

A Fair usage rights thread which affect millions of computer geeks like us gets only 10 replies?

Misplaced priorities here guys?

No, you're just a bit dramatic

"RIAA bought our government"
"Internet privacy is now in the toilet"
etc.

 

[Spencer278]

Justice also said that the law did not violate due-process protections because nothing in the Constitution specifically barred the investigative process set up by the DMCA, which requires record labels to get approval from a court clerk before asking Verizon or other Internet providers to surrender customer names.

Good thing that justice knows how to read the Constitution.

 

[Bowfinger]

In my opinion, the RIAA and MPAA are the real Axis of Evil (or at least the Axis of Weasels). When the troops are done in Iraq, they should be next.

 

[Tab]

Wow, I don't see why anyone is complaining. Its online a matter of time before someone cracks their tracking system. Besides that, it's stealing. I don't care if its from Osama Bin Laden or God. Its still stealing.

 

[kasparov]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, I don't see why anyone is complaining. Its online a matter of time before someone cracks their tracking system. Besides that, it's stealing. I don't care if its from Osama Bin Laden or God. Its still stealing.

the naivity of some people astounds me. taping a song off the radio is not stealing.. but downloading it from a P2P site is?

Are you asking for the record companies to take away your rights?

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: kasparov

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, I don't see why anyone is complaining. Its online a matter of time before someone cracks their tracking system. Besides that, it's stealing. I don't care if its from Osama Bin Laden or God. Its still stealing.

the naivity of some people astounds me. taping a song off the radio is not stealing.. but downloading it from a P2P site is?

Are you asking for the record companies to take away your rights?

Radio station plays a song royalties are paid. Kazaa dioesn't pay royalties.

 

[Zebo]

Awww poor babies. You're just gonna have to actually meet some real friends, in person, and swap CD's if you want to share like us oldies had to do before the internet.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: kasparov
Pretty soon, all fair usage rights will be killed.

If you are going to complain about losing rights you should at least know what rights you are talking about. Fair Use covers using samples from a piece of copyrighted work for journalistic, educational, and/or criticism/coment purposes. Fair Use does not entitle you to make copies of copyrighted material you legally own for personal use.


Lethal

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe

Originally posted by: kasparov
Pretty soon, all fair usage rights will be killed.

If you are going to complain about losing rights you should at least know what rights you are talking about. Fair Use covers using samples from a piece of copyrighted work for journalistic, educational, and/or criticism/coment purposes. Fair Use does not entitle you to make copies of copyrighted material you legally own for personal use.


Lethal

This is something people fail to relieze yes you can legally make backups BUT being allowed and INTITLED are to seperate things.

 

[kasparov]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: kasparov

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, I don't see why anyone is complaining. Its online a matter of time before someone cracks their tracking system. Besides that, it's stealing. I don't care if its from Osama Bin Laden or God. Its still stealing.

the naivity of some people astounds me. taping a song off the radio is not stealing.. but downloading it from a P2P site is?

Are you asking for the record companies to take away your rights?

Radio station plays a song royalties are paid. Kazaa dioesn't pay royalties.

This is complete BS -- and an example of how much misinformation is out there. Record companies actually pay radio stations to air their songs.
They have only taxed internet radio stations because they want to put them out of busines.

 

[kasparov]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe

Originally posted by: kasparov
Pretty soon, all fair usage rights will be killed.

If you are going to complain about losing rights you should at least know what rights you are talking about. Fair Use covers using samples from a piece of copyrighted work for journalistic, educational, and/or criticism/coment purposes. Fair Use does not entitle you to make copies of copyrighted material you legally own for personal use.


Lethal

Fair use does allow for educational and personal use. It does not allow you to sell copyrighted material. Look it up.
An example of protected fair use is being allowed to photocopy articles at a library.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: kasparov

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: kasparov

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, I don't see why anyone is complaining. Its online a matter of time before someone cracks their tracking system. Besides that, it's stealing. I don't care if its from Osama Bin Laden or God. Its still stealing.

the naivity of some people astounds me. taping a song off the radio is not stealing.. but downloading it from a P2P site is?

Are you asking for the record companies to take away your rights?

Radio station plays a song royalties are paid. Kazaa dioesn't pay royalties.

This is complete BS -- and an example of how much misinformation is out there. Record companies actually pay radio stations to air their songs.
They have only taxed internet radio stations because they want to put them out of busines.

If what you say is true, why are there advertisments on the radio and not just a constant stream of songs?

 

[kasparov]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: kasparov

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: kasparov

Originally posted by: Tabb
Wow, I don't see why anyone is complaining. Its online a matter of time before someone cracks their tracking system. Besides that, it's stealing. I don't care if its from Osama Bin Laden or God. Its still stealing.

the naivity of some people astounds me. taping a song off the radio is not stealing.. but downloading it from a P2P site is?

Are you asking for the record companies to take away your rights?

Radio station plays a song royalties are paid. Kazaa dioesn't pay royalties.

This is complete BS -- and an example of how much misinformation is out there. Record companies actually pay radio stations to air their songs.
They have only taxed internet radio stations because they want to put them out of busines.

If what you say is true, why are there advertisments on the radio and not just a constant stream of songs?

To further increase their profits. The practice is called payola.
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