The RIAA Sues 744 More
Published August 26, 2004
From here:
The trade group representing the U.S. music industry has filed a new round of lawsuits against 744 people it alleges used online file-sharing networks to illegally trade in copyrighted materials, it said on Wednesday. The Recording Industry Association of America said the various suits, filed in courts across the country, cover "John Doe" defendants whose true identities are unknown to the group. There were also suits against people who were identified but did not agree to an out-of-court settlement with the RIAA.An RIAA spokesman was not immediately available for further comment.
The RIAA said the individuals it sued used a variety of Internet platforms to swap songs, including Limewire, Grokster, Kazaa and eDonkey.
The rich suing the poor in civil court over the horrible crime of (GASP!) listening to music.
It's shit like this that makes the RIAA about as popular on the 'net as cyber-Nazis and child-predators...
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"The rich suing the poor in civil court over the horrible crime of (GASP!) listening to music."
Actually it's more to do with the owners of intellectual property suing the thieves that steal it.
Nope, have no affiliation of any kind with the music industry. Am just a consumer who (legally) buys CDs or downloads music from places like the iTunes Music Store. It's much less expensive than CDs, not to mention convenient.
Big, brazen, and abusive in their business practices? Amen. That's the RIAA. Don't like them? Don't buy (or steal) their music. Don't listen to it or try the radio where it's legally free. Try Indie music.
What is there about "not listen" that's so complicated? Too expensive? Don't be so materialistic. There are many things in life most of us can't afford and do without.
While indeed the musicians no doubt deserve compensation for their efforts and creations... the model the RIAA holds up is busted. They can fight digital downloading forever, or get on board with digital downloading like the rest of us did 6 years ago.
When cassette tapes came out, the industry (wisely) was concerened that everyone would just make tapes of their friends legal tapes. They were right. So a percentage of of audio cassette tapes go to the RIAA to compensate musicians for their lost revenues. So maybe that is a thought.
As for the RIAA's mentality, why don't they start suing people who fast forward through commercials or use Tivo? I shouldn't have said that, they are probalby already working on it... like those asshats who tried to sue Jib Jab for that Bush/Kerry satire piece, only to find the music in question is public domain (not to mention the fair use applications that would have protected the creators).The RIAA can be the betamax of the world and wonder why no one buying their stuff... or step up and revulionize media distribution. It is already being done... they need to get in and control it though. They can do that by creating and participating in distribution... not blocking it.
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you can keep up to date on the riaa hootenanny at Boycott-Riaa
there's a lot going on this area that just never makes it to any of the mainstream media (like anti-piracy techniques and the like)