Blogcritics: Comments on "Just keep looking over your shoulder, we will get you"

Comment by Al Barger

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:23:32 EDT

Everybody gets their own opinion, but they do NOT get their own facts. The RIAA's central BIG LIE: Here are the facts: stealing music over the Internet is no different than shoplifting CDs out of a record store. This is simply factually untrue. I just downloaded some groovy Grandpa Jones tracks. Now, all the stores can go check their inventory. No Grandpa Jones CDs missing. This is considerably different than shoplifting. Nothing missing, thus nothing stolen. Indeed, in this case there are no CDs to have gone missing, in as much as these tracks are not available commercially at all. But that's another set of issues.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:21:04 EDT

M, great eye, I didn't notice "steel" - maybe what they meant was "steel drum music." Maybe there are large numbers of steel drummers playing copyrighted songs without permission!!

Comment by mars sanford

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:14:36 EDT

Oh my god, i know critiquing spelling is so anal, but did they really misspell 'steal' as 'steel'? Priceless. Oh, and furthermore, if it's the same as stealing, why are they suing the people who share large amounts of files instead of suing the people who actually take large amounts of files? I just don't get the RIAA's reasoning sometimes. That is, if sometimes means all the time.