Copy a compliation CD? The RIAA wants you to pay 1.5 million

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
The RIAA is losing money left and right, and they need a way to fill the void online distribution has created in their coffers so they are sue happy hoping to go back to pre-napster and put the genie called the internet back in its bottle. As the atomic bomb was created and the nuclear genie was forever released, the internet has released us from the shackles of the RIAA and they are not happy about it. Soon enough the RIAA will go after somebody that will fight back and put them in their place. I believe that we are getting close a "landmark case" that the RIAA will lose, and give the control back to the artists and consumer. I, for one, cannot wait until the dogs of RIAA get beat back into a cage that the FCC could join them in. The FCC and RIAA both have come to become like "the man" in the famous Apple 1982ish commercial.

online distro isnt the only reason they are losing money

people collectivily realized that most music is pure fing shit and dont buy it anymore, for some reason the RIAA does not understand that

Yeah RIAA uses lower album sales to claim that piracy is hurting them, but fail to mention that digital track downloads are selling like crazy. I don't think the problem is piracy, I think it's that people realize 90% of the stuff on an album is crap filler so they go out and buy the one or two tracks that are actually worth anything. With track downloads record companies can no longer get away with ripping people off by charging $10-15 for a few good songs.

Also they have no right to complain, overall sales (including ringtones, stuff like that) are up 15% I believe for '07. Now that they're finally embracing digital distribution people are buying it, if they had taken advantage of digital music right away as opposed to fighting it they could have been cashing in on this stuff a lot earlier. They just need to (and I think they're finally starting to) accept the fact that physical sales will no longer be their major income, they need to think of creative ways to sell music digitally. I think ringtones are brilliant, people buy them and this seems to be a big income for them. Adapting to the digital age will allow them to survive, fighting it is just going to hurt them in the long run.

 

[Xavier434]

I am so tired of this bullshit. Where is the line going to be drawn? If bought it, then I want to be able to use it even if that means through backups or making CD comps. I don't care if someone else can try and take advantage of loopholes with that. I am not breaking laws and shouldn't have my freedoms taken away in this regard because of those who do.

 

[Skunkwourk]

Sure they can have all rights they want, but if thats the case I think I'll stop buying music altogether.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: envy me
If given the choice to eliminate either the RIAA or Alqueda I think most people would choose the former.

:roll:

Hah... whiny college kids.

You do realize that if everyone thought like "envy me", Al Quida would have one less reason to kill US citizens?

You cannot possibly be stupid enough to believe that they hate us because we "have freedom", can you? You ALSO REALIZE that they want to murder our people because we're run by fucking assholes, right?

PS... I know someone will whine and cry that I think "america deserved 9/11" like a pathetic little nationalist baby, so let me just say that I don't think that at all, our fellow citizens didn't deserve to be murdered in cold blood at all. It's just a shame that nobody within our government has actually learned a damn thing from this whole shit-storm.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: envy me
If given the choice to eliminate either the RIAA or Alqueda I think most people would choose the former.

Yup.

 

[aphex]

Ya know, I was just thinking. Why not just make us give them our first born?

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: aphex
Ya know, I was just thinking. Why not just make us give them our first born?

pfft screw that. We clearly all deserve life sentences with no chance of parole.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Heh, that's crazy stuff. Damages in copyright law are ridiculous, hopefully this doesn't go through.

I believe they are so high because it is easy to get away with. Thus a more significant deterrent is deemed necessary. You think that it is absurd that the penalty for copyright infringement is so much higher than shoplifting the same copyrighted work, but despite the vastly disproportionate punishments, which happens more? You need a bigger deterrent when it's so easy to get away with. That's why the RIAA has been suing people. It's not about getting back at those people, it's about the deterrent effect. There is no disincentive to download music illegally if there are no repercussions.

Well in this case we're talking about buying a bunch of CDs at retail, loading them onto your computer and then burning a CD with all of the greatest songs from all of those CDs. I will do whatever the hell I want to with the items that I paid my hard earned money for!