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give me an effen break:It's the advent of new technology and convenience - not their stupid tactics.Quote:
Executives in the music industry believe the increase in legal music downloads has to do with the 14,000 odd lawsuits the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has initiated in 12 countries
News post by Michael@HWG.com
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According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) there have been over 180 million legal music downloads this year sold through services such as emusic and apples iTunes.
The IEPI does not directly measure the amount of pirated music available but said that only 900 million tracks a rise of only 3% from the same time period last year.
Executives in the music industry believe the increase in legal music downloads has to do with the 14,000 odd lawsuits the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has initiated in 12 countries. The majority of the people sued by the RIAA are men aged 20 – 35. Although some elderly women and young girls have also been targeted.
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"We are now seeing real evidence that people are increasingly put off by illegal file sharing and turning to legal ways of enjoying music online," IFPI Chief Executive Officer John Kennedy said.
As services such as emusic and iTunes continues to grow they expect the number of legal music downloads to increase ten-fold.
Since when does being an industry hack equate with intelligence?Quote:
Originally Posted by lynchknot
:view: View: RIAA WEBSITE HACKED SCREENSHOT
Check it out. Some hackers hacked the RIAA website and put up links to many popular file sharing applications like edonkey, Kazaa, etc.. LOL
Quite comical. Screw the RIAA, SONY, VIRGIN, and all the other oppressive companies who want to shove your green in their pockets.
I agree Egg....:msnmad:
Don't you just love karma?
:view: View: The Forbes ArticleQuote:
The digital equivalent of homemade tapes are the next target of the Recording Industry Association of America.
After asserting that the RIAA's educational and lawsuit strategies were working to stall the illegal downloading of music, the organization's president and chief executive Mitch Bainwol told music retailers Friday that burning and ripping is a greater threat to the industry.
Speaking at the National Association of Record Merchandisers convention in San Diego, Bainwol said 12% of all households are burning CDs and 17% are burning more than ten CDs per month.
Ripping is the process by which a computer user imports music files from a CD to a computer. Burning is the process of moving those files to a new blank CD.
He cited data from the New York-based market research group NPD that stated more than 7 million 50 Cent songs have been burned this year. Mariah Carey, the Beatles, Green Day, Metallica, the Game and Eminem have each had more than 2 million of their songs burned.
What a load of crap... now they want to control how users back up their media??? WTF is that??? I am not using a crappy ass Kiosk to burn my media... piss on the RIAA... they have a convoluted agenda and it all involves stripping users rights down to nothing... and then charging them up the ass for crap music that no one wants to own (one song on a whole album is all you want to hear).
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/
The RIAA Radar. :D I don't know if this has been posted or not but it makes searching for non-RIAA related groups.
While downloading group x from p2p is illegal charging a three figure sum PER SONG in cort for 'damages renered' is obscene.
If they come lookin for me they can listen to me all they like in court. I have no money, I doubt i'll ever get money. there is no justification for p2p downloads of copyrighted material that will evade the law. In short I'd be screwed if they decided to phone me up, I know this, hence i have nothing to lose in court. I'm sure I could come up with something...entertaining...as a defense so that even though i'd go to jail or whatever, the judge still has to figure just how big fo a loss the riaa actually takes.
Not a chance in hell it'd be listened to, but can't blaim a guy for thinkin he'd at least try stabbing the dragon in the mouth while going down its throat.
the perfect defense...buy a wireless router.then play dumb about being being able to password it or even turn it off.
So they'll come to your home and physically remove it.
Next....
Recording industry sues more U.S. file-swappers
Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:45 PM EThttp://i.today.reuters.com/images/spacer.gif
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The recording industry on Wednesday filed its latest round of copyright infringement lawsuits, targeting 754 people it claims used online file-sharing networks to illegally trade in songs.
The lawsuits were filed in federal district courts across the country, including California, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
The world's major record labels, represented by the Recording Industry Association of America, have filed more than 14,000 such lawsuits since September 2003.
http://www.godwinslaw.org/weblog/arc...unaround-suits
MAKE SURE TO READ THE WOMAN'S TRANSCRIPTS FROM COURT:
http://riaalawsuits.us/elektra_santa...ript050506.txt
LOL
July 6 was 60 days. I would like to know what happened.
Here is more. LINK
I haven't bought a CD in years. I buy legal CDs. I am a big CD collector andQuote:
Originally Posted by efc
have 2,400 songs library. That is not a lot, except that they were all transfered from my CD collection or bought on the net. I think the record industry is really worried for a good reason. They can't get it together. I support your boycot (It is easy because I don't have to do anything). Good luck.
Two more mothers have decided to fight the RIAA instead of paying. Let's wish them luck.
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I just joined the forums in order to reply to this one...definitely boycot them! add me to the list..
I'm not going to buy another CD for a while actually...the RIAA really gets me angry
Stick around. :D I've been boycotting since the beginning of this thread. I refuse to buy a CD from an RIAA backed company. SCrew them.Quote:
Originally Posted by slapdaddy06
Slashdot.org reports that RIAA has finally lost a case. Details
Yeah count me in.
Hardly anyone in my town buys a cd. The only place to get them here is Walmart and they never sell. Mot people who don't know how to get music through downloading will ask a family member to get it for them. It's common practice nowadays. Of course I have never agreed with buying music anyways. You shouldn't have to buy it. Musicians who play for the love of music would agree, and the ones who need fame to feed their ego onlyh care about money and that is the mentality that has created this mess in the first place.
We play in a club about 20 miles away and its hidden away in the sticks but its a large club. Well, some rat tipped off ASACAP over paying fees to play copyrighted music. He had to pay like 20,000. They tried to tell him this bull**** that even if a customer was singing an ASCAP song they could be sued for it. NOT. The record business is full of nothing but mafia criminals just like the White House. GOD gave us freewill and everything in this world is a gift as long as we dont abuse it. To give up this born right for money makes us no better than the crimes commited by RIAA.
I will never buy music ever again and I suggest you make sure you are running the best firewalls, proxies, and take all necessary steps to not get caught so their business can crumble down.
**** RIAA BMI & ASCAP
Slashdot reports story from p2pnews/p2pnet revealing that there isn't any depth that RIAA lawyers will not go. When a suit fails against the mother, go after the child. Story
I'm in to progressive music, therefor I listen to underground mixtapes (live and radio shows), and I collect hard to find vinyl from small independent record labels. Therefor I haven't bought a music cd in at least 4yrs - and I only listen to FM radio for Stern. SO COUNT ME IN!!!
I respect egg, and support Big B.
As always;)
This is not new news, however I had not run across it until this morning. Sony is including code on approx 24000 CD titles that install rootkit software on your computer. Everyone who has played a sony CD on your computer in the past year should download and listen to Security Now Podcast No. 12, Sony's "Rootkit Technology" DRM. This is a major security issue that allows the script creep to take over your computer. Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson discuss the danger and how to remove a rootkit once it is installed.
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I totally agree with this statement, it's my sediments exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by cooljoebay
Music is about human communication and sharing that communication, it should not be sold, and given freely, like freedom of speech.
That being said, we would have to live in a money free world for this to happen, i hope we achieve this one day, the whole human race would be much better off.
Nuke Sony.:boom:
Shame on you for not reading our front page. :Poke: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by efc
Sony Issues Patch As Hackers Pounce On Rootkit (3rd Nov)
and a follow up story claims that the patch is itself spyware because it installs without notice and permission, and it can’t be removed.
Sony Copy Protection Called Spyware
Yes, shame on me. I am lower than dirt. I should have known that you had already posted on this subject. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend
I now remember the post. It just didn't register as being something that might impact me. However, listening to the Security Now podcast made it clear that we should all be aware of the danger. It also let me know that it should be included in this thread. This is one more method of deceit from the music industry.
Seems to be a lot of activity on the Sony issue. California has filed against Sony for virus-like techniques which create management rights on the users computer. This leaves the computer vulnerable to attack. Hackers can take total control of the computer.
California is contending that Sony has violated three state laws.
Go A r n o l d!
Also today, the Register is reporting that the first trojan taking advantage of Sony's DRM rootkit copy protection has appeared.
Yeah count me in!!!
First RIAA case to go to trial. LINK
I hope Mrs. Santangelo wins a big judgement. RIAA, the organization we love to hate.
Movie company sues man for $100,000. It seems that someone downloaded a movie via his wireless network. No matter. They have conficated his four computers and sent him to court.
Thugs are thugs, regardless if it is in the movie business or music business.
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This is a good Christmas present for me. Stick it to the RIAA.
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Patricia Santangelo's legal costs have reached $24,000 and she has not gone to trial as yet. She has run out of money and will have to proceed without one. Just goes to show that you can be crippled financially trying to defend yourself. MORE
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More action of the RIAA lawsuit front. More
Australia is considering legalizing recording of television shows and ripping music from CD's. Three cheers.