Lets talk about the RIAA and copyright laws!

Feel free to bring anything to this one, from a variety of sources!  I guess you should still try to respond to earlier posts though

The Story

This young woman attending university and sued by the RIAA was given her options.  They suggested she either see them in court, to face tens of thousands in fines, or pay a 4K settlement.   Of course, to pay the settlement, since she doesn\'t have the money, they recomended she \'drop out of school\'.  Really.

Here\'s another

The music industry launched 2000 lawsuits in 18 countries of Europe on the fourth.  Apparantly they\'ve decided that this works, and every country that has laws where a challenge would be more \'difficult\' is getting filed in.  Notice that they haven\'t filed suit in France (where the current climate is very anti-copyright), or Canada yet (because of the ruling of the Canadian copyright board, saying that we paid for piracy through media-taxation)?  I\'m sure they\'ll get around to those countries eventually, but it\'s going to take someone risking big fines (and short-term incarceration) in a few of these countries standing up and fighting this in court, AND WINNING, to make these suits dissapear.  They must be chortling with glee over this new money making opportunity.  

Frankly, they can probably make more by suing... make a fake site with X number of songs, track the downloaders, sue every one for 5-15 k settlements.  Talk about your big profit margins per song, even with the lawyer\'s fees involved!

[Titan]

Pricks is all I have to say. They even sue elementary school kids.

How about buy your own damn music so you don\'t get sued?

[Viper_Fujax]

i buy full cd\'s that i know ill like, which is relatively rare. But i download a lot of songs that i know i wont like their whole cd. I know you can get songs for a dollar or whatever, but thats still a lot..plus i dont have a credit card.

Another article

The gist: because of piracy in China, the Chinese will now be able to buy legit DVDs for $1.50.  

I find it unreal, the movie industry could be making money hand over fist if they would market to North America and Europe with \'basic\' DVDs at $10 bucks a pop, or downloadable full quality DVDs (again, fully legit, no extra DRM) for $5... They\'re trying to to hold off on digital innovation, and I think the only thing that stops this from being a total loss is the number of consumers out there (like me) who buy DVDs to support certain shows, despite being ripped off.

Price stuff to move and I\'m there. Worked for the last DVD I bought, as well as the last video game.
 
-Dan

[Titan]

How about buy your own damn music so you don\'t get sued?

I do from the bands I like or know I\'ll like. I also like to sample what I may potentially buy first to see if I\'ll like it. Otherwise, if its crap, it\'ll just stay on my computer I download movies once in a while but they typically are movies I a) already saw or b) will watch once on my computer and delete them. Again, if I like the movie, I\'ll buy it. The image quality is not that good on a direct connect program to where I\'d keep it. Besides, I\'d rather support the movie industry and buy the DVD. Sound and image is better than a download.

Now the RIAA is yapping about how the music labels want to renegotiate their license agreements with Apple to permit more flexible pricing on iTunes downloads, instead of the $.99 per song flat rate.  They want to be able to charge more for hot songs and less for old tracks (yeah right, like they\'re ever going to lower the price for anything).
 
I don\'t fucking understand the music labels.  It\'s like they\'re run by a bunch of old codgers, who are completely incapable of absorbing new information.  The audio CD business is doomed because those companies have been ripping off their own customers for years.  I don\'t know anyone who feels guilty for stealing music from a record label.
 
The MPAA is doing fine because they charge a reasonable price for DVDs.  Hell, even the new HD DVD is only a few dollars more than a normal DVD.  Somehow, the RIAA cannot understand that their own pricing decisions are the cause of all their problems.

[Titan]

Well if the music industry goes under, then we have no songs to steal. The way I see it, yes it is stealing but its making up for all the years they charged me 20 bucks for a 10 song cd.

cds are not worth 20 bucks.  dvds are not worth 25 bucks.  screw the riaa, screw copyright laws... pirate everything until these costs are driven down.

there is only one music store in my local mall, when there used to be like 5 or 6.  I walked through Sam Goody the last week they were open.  Everything was supposed to be "going out of business" prices... most of the cds were still over 18 bucks.

I haven\'t bought a CD in years.  I bought hundred of cds back in the day, i\'m just trying to break even now

[Living-In-Clip]

Mp3search.ru

I live by it.

get a better job if you cant afford to buy cd\'s/dvd\'s

simple minded

Come on mm, it\'s value.  I could afford a $30 cup of coffee, but I wouldn\'t buy one.
 
No, I would illegally download the coffee, burn it onto a cd and share it with my friends.