OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits

[Fyron]

That would indeed be good advertisement.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Erax:
I just wonder... what would happen if a small/independent recording co. started printing a small label on the back of their CDs : "We are not affiliated with RIAA. We do not support RIAA policies." Could turn out to be good advertisement.

Well, but how can you get people to forfeit their royalties ?? We all know the modern musicians to it for money and money only. The 60s will never come back

[Loser]

Originally posted by oleg:

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Originally posted by Erax:
I just wonder... what would happen if a small/independent recording co. started printing a small label on the back of their CDs : "We are not affiliated with RIAA. We do not support RIAA policies." Could turn out to be good advertisement.

Well, but how can you get people to forfeit their royalties ?? We all know the modern musicians to it for money and money only. The 60s will never come back

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Why would they need to forfeit their royalties? Just because you're not affiliated with the RIAA doesn't mean you don't make money. I mean, it's not like it's some socialist state-run record company, it's just a very successful corporate bully.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Great now the RIAA knows who you are and will force Shrapnel to give them your user info and IP information. Then they will force your ISP to give them your personal info and by this time next week you will be looking down the barrel of a very nasty and in my opinion, wrongful lawsuit.

Yes, the RIIA is an US monster. But it seems to reproduce quickly and it is breeding new laws everywhere. At the moment the french government is playing dead on this subject as he already got his hand full. No need to alienate just another bunch of people.

But it is just a question of time. It is not "IF" but "WHEN" some dumb DMCA will be voted in France.

[Atrocities]

I can see it now. The French people stand up and march in the streets and there government surrenders to them. Just like old times.

I read somewhere that the word surrender was described simply in a german WWII handbook as "French."

Sounds true enough. j/k

[ September 16, 2003, 00:27: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Mephisto]

He is lucky, he lives in France.

[Atrocities]

Regarding the RIAA, I read today in the paper that the reason they only filed some 200 lawsuits is because they can't prove anything. They went after the cases that they new would "settle" only to stir the pot and make people scared to trade music. It worked. On line uses of P2P programs have dropped off by an estimated 70% over the Last week.

The RIAA cannot prove, or identify people who trade music or movies. People can say their IP was hijacked, which can and has happened.

The article goes on to say that the RIAA is being counter sued by some rights group for placing worm viruses and spy ware on peoples computers in order to find out who they were. That the programs were "enbedded" in the data of the song and when the song was played, the spy worm program was activated. They claim that only about 200 or so of these worms actually worked and those are the people being sued.

"If this is true and accurate, as evident by the increased detection of spy ware and other privicy violating programs by anti adware programs such as Pest Patrol in many of the songs downloaded over recent months, then we do have a big problem."

If the RIAA is embedding worm virus in songs that they release into the P2P community to track and catalog P2P useres, then they should be sued. Sued into bankruptcy!

[ September 16, 2003, 00:38: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

I can see it now. The French people stand up and march in the streets and there government surrenders to them. Just like old times.

I read somewhere that the word surrender was described simply in a german WWII handbook as "French."

Sounds true enough. j/k

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[Mephisto]

I�m amazed that so many people think of the French as �cowards� or something like this. There are few countries with a more glorious military history. BTW, the joke with the rifle you can buy, dropped only once, is quite an old joke and originally about the Italian WWII-Army. Just FYI.

[Erax]

French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, near-defeat in WWI and defeat in WWII was the result of outdated military doctrine. Which may say something about the rigid thinking of their generals but has no bearing on the prowess and courage of the individual soldier.