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Ugh, how sad
Bouminok:
Surely they should go to the big guys... as Sheob said.
Aren't the folks that share over 50,000 mp3s on p2p networks and run servers doing that.
Maybe its just to scare.
Aquilo:
any one interested in starting a huge CD boycott??
I mean you have to spend what $12.00-$18.00 for one or two songs on a CD with 10+ others you are forced to buy and don't care for "Normally". why can't we buy the songs we want at a per-song price or release singles with the artiest songs the People wan't, BUT they won't they would loss money because not every one will buy the crappy songs they don't relate to just the singles.
to bad I've got burned out of downloading songs a few months ago when I lost two HD's I would like to go head to head with these RIAA F***s and show them a wall of CD's and DVD's and tell them I'd like compensation for the product they MADE me buy just to get the few songs I wanted and I would not have got half if I had not previewd them first as Mp3's
I like movies but befor I spend $21.00 on a movie I missed in the theater I'll rent it first, there's a suggestion - rent cd's. I mean I spent extra money to get LOTR 2 Towers a day early but if they bundled another movie with it and sold it for ten dollars more I would not own that move if they are going to force another on me just to get what I want.
I was thinking about the service charge that little girl's folks paid so she could get music does Kaaza sell this service under false or hidden pretenses that they are subscribing to something legal like RR's subscription service or do they state "in an inconspicuous place" that they are still legally liable for the crime of using there service or should we say sting op. to obtain Mp3's?
Aquilo:
honestly why isn't the consumer protection agency stopping these services from charging in the facilitation of a crime?
they could help start by stopping all the ads
Tony Reid:
--- Quote from: Aquilo on September 13, 2003, 05:54:23 PM ---honestly why isn't the consumer protection agency stopping these services from charging in the facilitation of a crime?
they could help start by stopping all the ads
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Hmmmm......Absolutely!
Just looking around the web on this subject I found this....
http://eff.org/share/petition/
I did hear that a couple of US record companies - will be dropping the price of CD's down to $7-$8. Maybe then that will bring about a change.
Personally, If CD's were a lot cheaper - I feel it would kill a lot of this piracy mallarky.
Seph|roth:
--- Quote from: Shoeb Omar on September 13, 2003, 04:46:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: Seph|roth on September 13, 2003, 04:09:42 PM ---"Damn RIAA" ... how would you feel if you were an artist and your songs were ripped from the net instead of being paid for?
I totally understand what the RIAA is doing... look at it from their side...
I'm not saying i don't download illegal stuff... more than most people i know anyway.. but i'm not mad at the RIAA for doing what they should do!
Besides, i'm safe here in holland, downloading is not illegal here ;)
EDIT: Oh, and that girl's case was settled for a total of $2,000, instead of $150,000 per song :P
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Christ man. Sure they should go after people, but how about going for osme of the bigger targests like those sharing 4 million mp3s or osmething. Wouldn't that shut off more file sharing rather than going for easy victims?
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no offence, but you should really inform yourself better before saying that. This little girl was one of the 261 (don't quote me on that number) top sharers of RIAA's blacklist. Whenever that girl was not at school, she was sharing a countless number of files. So yes, it's sad for the girl, she obviously did not do it on purpose (meaning she didn't know that she was acting illegally), but that doesn't mean the RIAA should just forget this particular case and let her go on with her practices.
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