RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer

[Null]

lol. and the war rages on...


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/2222214

and this one explains the idea behind it a bit better... http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/09102003d.php



lawsuit after lawsuit. one side to the other. ah the humor in it all.

[Jonbo298]

I never trusted the amnesty thing anyways. You know that they are going to continue watching you, so its useless to just "give in".

*gives KaZaa Lite++ a hug*

[GameMaster]

Long live the pirates!

[Happydude]

Long live the pirates!
...yes!


will the RIAA ever give up?! i mean come on...lol...they're just getting themselves emberassed.

[Ace195]

I don't think they will. I mean just look at who they represent THE MUSIC industry. In all honesty they loose what maybe 25% of sales to pirates. Thats still millions of dollars a year.

[Happydude]

...they can afford it!

[Ace195]

I agree with you completly that they can afford it. It's not like any of the Pop stars do any hard work. What I was saying is that the mentality of the music industry is that they will never give up.

[Ace195]

Long live the pirates!

Viva Los Piratas

[Null]

Neither side will win.

In the end it will be more of a compramise. Though neither side would admit that.

people will eventually settle on the sites you have to pay for songs. but IMO it will be the newer ones like the new napster that will have Montly payment instead of per song that will be the main ones.

[Ace195]

I don't even think there will be a compromise because people will never give into paying for what they can get for free. I mean you can still put a tape into a tape deck and record music. There is no diffrence there then doing MP3s. Someone will come up with something new to pirate music, ect...

[mickydaniels]

I mean you can still put a tape into a tape deck and record music. There is no diffrence there then doing MP3s.


Maybe it'll be time to start doing that again... =-D

[Null]

I don't even think there will be a compromise because people will never give into paying for what they can get for free. I mean you can still put a tape into a tape deck and record music. There is no diffrence there then doing MP3s. Someone will come up with something new to pirate music, ect...

thoes battles have been done before. the battle of recording music off the radio has been done before. thats why radio stations will talk into the intro of a song or cut off the end a bit. That battle has been faught.

And yes there will always be ways of getting the songs for free, any software imaginable can be found on the internet for free. even the OS itself.

Majority of ppl would do it a legal way if a good legal way was made.

even if a program came out. $10 per month. unlimited song downloads. all of GOOD quality. i'd be all about getting that. i believe most would also. not everyone. theres always the people with the mindset that they can just get everything for free.

[Happydude]

theres always the people with the mindset that they can just get everything for free.
i'll admit to being one of those people right now, simply because i have absolutly no money, if i had money i would no doubt buy what i needed instead of looking for it on the net...but i havent downloaded anything for months now...so im on my way to the side of light :)

[Ace195]

i'll admit to being one of those people right now, simply because i have absolutly no money, if i had money i would no doubt buy what i needed instead of looking for it on the net...but i havent downloaded anything for months now...so im on my way to the side of light :)
I am also one of those people that are "strapped" for cash. But If they did come up with a software that would allow you to download good quality music off the internet for a $10 a month fee. I would be for it too..

[Jonbo298]

I still find it funny how music artists bitch and moan about how they are losing money. To this I say (and it is a pretty big rant :p) "You still have more money then what the average worker makes, so shut up!. You go off and show your fancy state of the art houses, then try to say "I need more money to provide for my family". Please, thats a load of bull$hit. My mom is able to provide for my family and the job she has doesn't pay as great as other jobs do. If you have to declare bankruptcy, its your own damn fault."

Jeez, what a rant, heh

[Null]

Actually to be honest. majority of artists dont really give a flyin hoot.

its the RIAA themselves that are bitching and moaning. They want thier profits from the CD sales. not the artists. (some complain. but you hear about it hardly as much as the RIAA themselves.)

[The Germanator]

Yeah, artists really don't make that much money in royalties on CD sales...They make money from touring and such, which brings the argument to high ticket prices...

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Yeah, artists really don't make that much money in royalties on CD sales...They make money from touring and such, which brings the argument to high ticket prices...
that greatly depends on what artist...because people like britney spears and justin timberlake make A LOT more off of cd sales than touring...its just the sheer number of cds sold

[Cyrax9]

Long live the pirates!

Amen Gamemaster!

The RIAA (Retarted, idiotic Ass-ociation of Ameriica) is a sick and pathetic Union group.

Notice how most artists could care two ****s less about you downloading their songs, and some ENCOURAGE it!?! This is because they usually make a nice fat $0 off of CD's from rigged contracts.

The groups I'm seeing that are pissy about P2P Sharing are biug name contracts who have $50 Million dolalr deals, and forgot that at one time they'd have welcomed filesharing themselves.

Also it's nice to see the RIAA's biggest enmeis are a 12 year old Girl, a 56 Year old Grandfather of two and a 56 Grandmother witha Mac who uses Kazza and Downlaods "Snoop Dog" (Whaddup Gran muh?) which when you think abut it , is physically impossible since, oh MAC'S DON'T SUPPORT KAZZA!

Hoenstly the RIAA Deserves to be sued for their BS Amenesty program, and I'd like to point out no law explicitly sates "Sending Music to you friends is illegal" no law, at all, and since this is an Intellectual property suit, they've now raised an important quiestion, since the IP is in the ahnds of so many now, is it still protected under IP Rights?

Also you have to think for a moet at the term "Scare tactics" scare pdeople out of fiileshgaring, if nobody is scared, they won't stop, and evntually the RIUAA caves.

I agree with Null, in a wway this is a "War" and we're going to have soem sort of "Armistice" with the RIAA after the suits are finished and sicne a few artists are pissed at the RIAA it stands to reason that these guys are in a hurry to crush any dissent like a bad communist dictatorship.

IN the end stores like iTunes will probably evolve nto the future of Pay music, but I have one problem with iTunes that even the "NO monthly subscription fee" can't fix and that's the alck of J-Pop and Soundtarcks I want music from.

I have odd tastes for stuff that's almost impossible to find as it is and if the RIAA has removed a CD from production they shouldn't eb ael to bitch about the copyright laws: Translation if you want to protect it, than have it availablee and do't coimplain when you loose money on it, if the stuff i waanted form teh 60's was readily avilabe I'd have it, but it's not, I got one song off of iTunes but any J-Pop/Rock and Anime songs are a no go, until this is fixed I stil have to reply ona Buddyf or most of this stuff, now think about that, the CD'sa re out there but you can't legallly get a download, I have no probelm wth a buck a sng, but I ahve a prooblemw hen the song I want isn't there. The enw napster wil suck, Pressplay is becomiing the enw napster and they're pretttty crappy as it is, the RIAA is ina too litle to late situation, if they don't figure thhings out soon they're going to have no CD Sales instead of "Few" and with scheduled boycotts and people sueign them in treturn we're seeiing that P2P users arfen';t going to take the RIAA's crap anymore, goood to see this.

You kmnow, theyc omplaoina bout loosing money, but they're making a large ammount anyway, maybe their should eb a cap on how muchyou can amake forma song befre peopel can filesahre it, this way nobodyc an say they've lost money on particular songs, and everyone has a fiar chance at selling a song.

[The Germanator]

that greatly depends on what artist...because people like britney spears and justin timberlake make A LOT more off of cd sales than touring...its just the sheer number of cds sold

True, established artists get hurt by piracy, while it may even help new artists.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

True, established artists get hurt by piracy, while it may even help new artists.
lol, don't get me wrong, i'm all for P2P sharing, and after what Cyrax said about the rigged contracts, i agree even more

VIVA LA REVOULUTION!!!!!

[Hero2]

hahahaha sue them for ten cents name just as they charge for song

(i dont know how much they really charge for song thats just the first number that popped in my head)

the irony... laughable