 hambone6666Sigmarick Said Arse
join:2001-02-13
Stamford, CT
| RIAA can take a hike. Instead, the students waited for the National Music Publishers Association's licensing arm to authorise a Seattle company called Loudeye to sell the students MP3s of the 3,500 CDs their fellow students had suggested. The students then paid Loudeye $8 per CD for the MP3s (they plan to expand the collection as students request more music).
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This means they actually PAID for the music, artists get their cut. RIAA doesn't...too bad.
And their distribution system is basically like a campus wide boombox that students can change if they like. So I own a vast collection of CD's I paid for, I load them in a 2000 CD changer and let my neighboors change CD's when they want to hear something else. Can the RIAA sue me? I dont think so.
I dont think the RIAA has a leg to stand on->hence, the no comment from them. I'd like to see them take on MIT. Imagine how much pro-bono work alumini's would be willing to do.
KUDOS to these 2 gents. The RIAA is going to be on the losing end of the stick very soon, they should just accept it and actually figure out a way to make their cut instead of cutting off their own faces.
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 bistro777Donuts-Is There Anything They Can't Do?Premium
join:2002-02-07
Englewood, CO | The story just hit CNN. Kudos to these guys is right! 
Veni, Vedi, Napi. I came, I saw, I took a nap. |
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Boohoo to the RIAA crybabies. Listen RIAA, they PAID for the music and YOU didn't get the cut, so STFU, you have enough $ as there is (from ripping most artists off) |
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Boohoo to the RIAA crybabies. Listen RIAA, they PAID for the music and YOU didn't get the cut, so STFU, you have enough $ as there is (from ripping most artists off)
What are you talking about? I thought the RIAA had no comment. Did I miss something? |
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