RIAA offers $200/burner reward to report illegal CD manufacturing

[PsychoAndy]

http://www.cdreward.com/english/index.html

GENERAL GUIDELINES

To be considered for a reward, you must meet the following requirements:

1. You must provide information to the RIAA about a CD-R manufacturing location
illegally producing RIAA member company sound recordings.

2. The CD-R manufacturing location must have either: (1) a minimum of ten operating
CD burners; or (2) the equivalent output of at least ten CD burners, if the reproduction
equipment is something other than CD burners.

3. The information provided must be previously unknown to the RIAA staff. The person
providing the information must also be in receipt of an acknowledgment from the RIAA
that the RIAA has received the information. This acknowledgement will also act as an
indicator that the information was not previously known to the RIAA.

4. As a result of the RIAA's receipt of the information, the CD-R manufacturing location
must be dismantled as a result of civil or criminal legal action, in order to receive an
award.

5. You must completely and accurately fill out the RIAA's entire CDReward
Program submission form, including a valid name, address, telephone number, and
social security number.

6. You must be eligible to work and receive wages in the United States.

If the above conditions are met, you will be considered for a reward up to $2,000.
Each additional burner above the minimum of ten burners will increase the potential
reward by $200 for each CD burner up to a maximum of $10,000.

Also, http://www.riaa.com/Protect-Latin.cfm

Like sharks to blood, music pirates zero in on what is popular. The Latin music market is growing twice as fast as the overall music market. In fact, 50% of all illegal product seized by RIAA in 1998 and the first half of 1999 was in the Latin category. Piracy of Latin music has predominantly involved cassettes, but instances of CD and CD-R piracy are growing.
To combat the problem, the RIAA is devoting approximately 70% of its non Internet-related investigative efforts to Latin music piracy, including a staff of attorneys and investigators who operate nationwide. In addition, RIAA has clamped down on illegal CDs manufactured in the United States and shipped to Latin American music markets. For example, this effort turned up 70,000 counterfeit Brazilian CDs en route to Latin America. But that?s not all RIAA is doing.

I liken it to the War on Drugs.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Every time you use a burned cd... you're helping to support Terrorism.

 

[AnyMal]

Why am I not surprised?

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I wonder if someone burned their own music but lets say had a buncha burners laying around what would happen.

Anyway, the RIAA sucks.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Read it again guys. Its about places that burn them to sell for profit, not just your average joe burning a few MP3s.

 

[SuperSix]

The RIAA can suck it.. :|

 

[HappyPuppy]

My only problem with it is that their reward is ridiculously low. If they are losing so much money, why don't they pay a bounty of $2000/burner with no max?

Yet one more reason to piss on those bastards.

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
The RIAA can suck it.. :|

 

[BatmanNate]

2. The CD-R manufacturing location must have either: (1) a minimum of ten operating
CD burners; or (2) the equivalent output of at least ten CD burners, if the reproduction
equipment is something other than CD burners.

Uh-oh, time to pawn number 11 and 12.

 

[Placer14]

Hmm...I can't think of anyone that I hate that much.

 

[MacBaine]

I don't have a problem with this... like Antisocial said, it refers to operations that illegally copy and sell full CDs... this isn't just some guy downloading and burning CD's, this is a business selling what isn't theirs.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Originally posted by: Spac3d

Originally posted by: SuperSix
The RIAA can suck it.. :|

 

[Darein]

Wow, they sure look like they are getting desperate.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: Darein
Wow, they sure look like they are getting desperate.

Their golden goose is slipping away from them and there is nothing they can do to stop it.

 

[PsychoAndy]

Yes, CD Pirating isn't a crime and everyone should recieve free music CD's from the CD Pirate Fairy. The RIAA is evil for trying to crack down on CD piracy.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

2. The CD-R manufacturing location must have either: (1) a minimum of ten operating
CD burners; or (2) the equivalent output of at least ten CD burners, if the reproduction
equipment is something other than CD burners.

Uh-oh, time to pawn number 11 and 12.

I think you should go down to 9 for good measure.

 

[lupohki]

Originally posted by: Spac3d

Originally posted by: SuperSix
The RIAA can suck it.. :|

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
The RIAA can suck it.. :|

 

[Pepsi90919]

the RIAA should have been sh1tcanned years ago

 

[DigDug]

The RIAA uses misleading statistics and legal strong-arming to get their way - all this does is build a resistance. They are fvcking themselves over. If they actually listened to a few kids insteading of devising their "strategies" from a board of bonehead business graduates.

 

[Dedpuhl]

What's so hard for a lot of you to understand? They are trying to go after people that are SELLING bootlegged music. Although I think the "bounty" is low, I have absolutely no problem with this course of action...

 

[OutHouse]

2. The CD-R manufacturing location must have either: (1) a minimum of ten operating CD burners; or (2) the equivalent output of at least ten CD burners, if the reproduction
equipment is something other than CD burners.

Hummm i wonder if our mechanical cd-burner we use at work can output the equivalent of 10 burners. Its pretty fast.

 

[Scarpozzi]

They need to start bugging China and leave us the hell alone.

 

[DigDug]

The point is that the RIAA are still fighting like they have a chance at winning! Intellectual property simply ISN'T like real property, and you can't use conventional methods to defeat it. So what if they catch a place with 10 burners. BIG sh!t. The major piracy, that is, the ones who dent the market are much too spophisticated to be running an operation that can be so easily dismantled. While you'll here of a vust here and there, its much like the drug game - the big players are outside the US and outside of harm's way. The Boerne Convention was meant to implement standardized copyright laws, and was used as a vehicle for the US to ramp up the duration of copyright (which has constitutional issues itself - for a high-profile example of the back-pocketting of Congress, check out the history of copyright legislation), but really does nothing to stop piracy outside America's borders.
They are fighting a losing battle - you can't control the movement of something that is not physically tangible, and made increasingly easier to duplicate with required technology being sold at your local Staples.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
What's so hard for a lot of you to understand? They are trying to go after people that are SELLING bootlegged music. Although I think the "bounty" is low, I have absolutely no problem with this course of action...

Lack of reading skills and a knee-jerk, canned response to anything with the word RIAA in the title?