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Comments on news posted 2007-10-17 08:42:37: Usenet has obviously long been a fantastic communication resource for users, though many ISPs have stopped offering it as an added service. ..
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 | | Look It's Simple - Starve The RIAA It's easy to write stuff, pontificate, harangue and what not, but the only sure thing that will help is to deprive the RIAA of revenue. To do that, buy music fron non-RIAA only labels. If you starve the major record labels and their subsidiaries, then have less money to fund the RIAA's efforts to prosecute. You sign your own file sharing demise, whatever it may be, by spending money with RIAA associated artists and labels. And get others who may have no clue to do the same. In the P2P trial of the Indian woman, Sony's chief counsel, as a witness on the stand, admitted that the RIAA prosecution/settlement scam was a money pit/loss leader for the labels. Make it even harder for them and don't give them the money to sue you with.
There are many labels and artists with all or some of their output out of the RIAA clutches. A simple Google search will turn up many a forum discussion of safe record labels with suggestions. For an overall view try RIAA Radar at:
»www.magnetbox.com/riaa/
If you want to nurture a musical revolution, then you have to do something to help. | |
| | | Anyone knowledable in law please explain. Anyone knowledable in law please explain.
Page 11 from the USENET COMPLAINT:
»blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/···lete.pdf
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Defendant (Usenet) also advertises that its service is comprehensive -- providing access to "billions of mp3s that can be downloaded by anyone with a Usenet account..."
Like many have said, they are advertising that they provide access to mp3s...FFS mp3s is just a file format, it could be billions of "dog's farting audio files" or billions of personal recording, or whatever comes to mind.
MP3 != COPYRIGHTED MUSIC
Anyone care to explain how the RIAA thinks they are going to succeed when it is self evident that what Usenet is advertising does not involve copyrighted music by default?
Question: When a case like this emerges, that involves knowing technical terms or concept to understand, how is the jury chosen? I wouldnt want a jury full of Joe Six-Pack or old people (no offense) because they cant understand whats being laid at hand. Do they try to choose a tech-savvy jury?
I cant wait for the current college generation to be at power, I would guess everything will be so different because we still have a lot of old-timers with the crooked mentality etc.
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| They are NOT suing Usenet, you fools Are you incapable of discerning the difference between Usenet.com and USENET, the public Internet system? The former is an easy target. It'll be a cold day in hell before the MAFIAA can touch the latter. USENET predates nearly all other web protocols.
I say let them keep at it. They're just encouraging a new generation to steal more and more - and find craftier ways to do it. Good job guys! | |
|  lrtc6
join:2004-06-05
Toronto | God Bless America God Bless America,
Land that RIAA loves.
Stand beside her, and sue her
Thru the handcuff nights, with the cop lights.
From the mountains, to your jail cell,
To the courts, with red tape everywhere
God bless America, My home sweet cell. | |
| | | Why, when you can get any popular song for free legally now I don’t need usenet to download my music, I can get just about any song I like for free simply by saving the song from my HD Radio receiver. The software I use does it all automatically, and saves the song as an mp3 using the artist and title info as the filename. The files sound just as good as any other mp3 since the HD Radio source is near CD quality. Most HD-2 and HD-3 stations are commercial free, so I get a nice clean archive of the song. There is absolutely nothing the RIAA can do about it since it is perfectly legal to record over-the-air audio broadcasts. I guess they didn't think there would ever be high quality digital over-the-air radio stations in existence. 
I use the Visteon Zoom HD Radio receiver with an interface cable and software that I got from here. | |
| bicker
join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | Karma's a B---- And if enough royalty avoidance takes place, regardless of the means, that will just provide the RIAA and others more evidence to justify recommendations to impose even more curbs on our freedom. So every time you come up with and use a dodge like going to off-shore servers to obtain copyrighted material without paying for it, just recognize that you're ostensibly contributing to whatever draconian and oppressive measures that get imposed on you after that. | |
| |  DavidNow accepting new patientsPremium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
kudos:70 | Re: Karma's a B---- I hear streamripper is another way to get songs now a days and it converts them right to MP3's including commercials. | |
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| | RIAA Well lets see... I bought the Metallica Black CD 3 different times when each failed on me and did I get a discount price on the 2nd or 3rd one since I had already purchased the rights once? No.. This was in the days before low cost CD burners. HOw about all the Cassette tapes and scratched records.. they had no trouble charging us time and time again for the same music. Funny that now some bands have offered their albums for free once they realized that the 100,000.00 they receive for all their CD sales versus the MILLIONS they make on the live shows and other items they sell isn't worth the risk of alienating thier fan base. I Loved Metallica music BUT I will NEVER purchase another CD from them because of the Napster storm they started. Being one of the richest bands in that era and them crying about a few hundrend thousand or a Million is crazy. Since the bands only get about .10 from each CD sale then why should they want to harm a fan by fining them $3K on something that the whole CD only created .10 in revenue.
Boycott all Music sold by companies that foster the "sue them" mentality. | |
| clynten
join:2001-03-13
New Westminster, BC | Irony If only we could defeat RIAA by having the artists themselves sue RIAA over infringement of copyright on their works | |
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