| RIAA vs Music i have purchased Well i live in canada and from what i understand the RIAA has some cross border abilities, i may be wrong but not sure. either way, if someone before me used my IP to download songs and they searched my harddrive they would wet their pants with the over 14000 songs i have on my harddrive... now the funny thing is every single song came physically off a cd an was loaded onto the computer. Do i own these cds well yes at one time i did. now some theif that broke into my house owns them... in their eyes because i dont' have the original media i stole them... Also there is not one song that i have downloaded that i have not at one time, or multiple times, owned. I must have bought the same few cd's multiple times because something usually happens, now with the new ways to fix scratches i started to buy cd's and rip em to my computer then i would burn a cd to take with me in the car etc.
Here is a scenario then. I rip all my music to my harddrive, my cd's and many other things get stolen, i in the mean time have made multiple burned cd's and now dvd's with mp3 formats so i can use them in the car or elsewhere, my hdd fails unexpectedly so i replace the harddrive and then reload most of my music from what cd's i did burn and what cd's i have left from the break in. When i use that song again some of em want to connect to the internet to obtain a licence...well since i have owned that cd at least once i click ok. deos that mean that the song is now valid for me again or what? also after getting sick of paying the same company/artist/whatever up to 30 dollars a cd again, i decide to download the songs that i actually liked off the cd, am i breaking the law by not choosing to purchase music i owned legtimately at one time in the past? Even insurance won't cover my cd's because they weren't itemized with reciepts, and if they are in the car when stolen, because they weren't attached to the car in any way... so how is the RIAA going to prove that the music you may have downloaded is not actually the same song you have purchased before but lost and don't feel you should repurchase it, as i am sure some dldrs feel.
also my cd's get stolen sold to a pawnshop who don't care cuz there is no way to track the original owners, then sell them to someone else at a much lower cost then i paid originally, or i buy them again from a pawn shop to replace em for less than a store, am i infringing on copyrights because i didn't buy the cd new? whos to say the cd i pick up from the pawnshop isn't actually the one that was stolen from me? Also are they going to go back through your financial statements all the way to the initial date of the cd's release to find out if maybe you did purchase that particular cd once or twice or are they going to try to sit high and assume that the media you chose to replace your stolen product is in fact stolen anyways so the victim now turns to the thief but morally they don't care because they are after what... up to 30 thousand in fines per song... if they can prove that what is on my harddrive right now is a song that i have not paid at least twice for in my life then i have no problems with them charging me the 2.00 a song that the artist may have lost, but if it was off a best of cd and there were more songs then normal the price would be what 1.30 per track... i am curious to find out where all these lost expenses are in these lawsuits that do pop up. where are they justifying that the amount they are seeking is legitimate and just?
hope this all makes sense i am tired and having problems focusing right now lol... |
