RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer

Null · 09-10-2003, 07:47 PM

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/article.../09102003d.php

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

Jonbo298 · 09-10-2003, 08:21 PM

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 · 09-10-2003, 10:06 PM

Long live the pirates!

Happydude · 09-11-2003, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

Long live the pirates!

...yes!

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

Ace195 · 09-11-2003, 12:45 PM

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 · 09-11-2003, 01:44 PM

...they can afford it!

Ace195 · 09-11-2003, 01:55 PM

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 · 09-11-2003, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

Long live the pirates!

Viva Los Piratas

Null · 09-11-2003, 02:22 PM

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 · 09-11-2003, 02:34 PM

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 · 09-11-2003, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

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...

Null · 09-11-2003, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 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...

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 · 09-11-2003, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

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 · 09-11-2003, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by happydude666

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 · 09-11-2003, 09:19 PM

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

) "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