| If this gets popular... ...the phishers will have a field day sending out millions of fake (well, more fake than the ones the RIAA has been known to send) infringement notices demanding that recipients follow a link and pay a certain amount.
Actually, I'm surprised this hasn't already happened.
But on the larger issue of piracy, it seems to me that it's time for the music and movie industries to have to admit that their entire business model is dying. I'm not advocating piracy here, but when a product becomes so ridiculously easy to copy, you're fighting a losing battle trying to stop it. Businesses and entire industries come and go, and it looks to me like the sale of music and movies may be becoming a non-viable business, or, at least that piracy is something that the RIAA and MPAA will simply have to live with. Of course, it might be much less of a problem if they hadn't done everything they could to fight against offering reasonably-priced downloadable media. That wouldn't have stopped it, but it sure would have avoided lots of very bad blood between these industries and their customers. |
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kudos:1 | Wasn't there already a string of phishes something like "NOTICE FROM THE IRS" or "You've been downloading adult material"? Replace that with "RIAA NOTICE," and there ya go.
Does anyone have any data or a link showing how much total revenue the RIAA/MPAA has garnered since their file sharing lawsuit push? |
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said by ISurfTooMuch:...it seems to me that it's time for the music and movie industries to have to admit that their entire business model is dying. ... they won't die until ALL sales drop significantly. consumers can hasten this day by NOT BUYING MUSIC except directly from the artist.
I haven't bought music (except directly from the artist) in years and refuse to buy anything DRMed.
until a substantial portion of people do this, the RIAA will just keep using lawsuits as their business model. |
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