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I don't endorse counterfeit discs, but a kid who has five dollars to spend on music, not 20 is going to buy them, won't give a rat's ass whether it is legal, and won't percieve himself as doing anything wrong. The major labels have a dying business model, just as the horse and buggy industry did once the automobile was invented. The labels must accept the digital revolution, or their place in the dustbin of history.

Their costs to bring these frivolous subpoenas and lawsuits is going up. Take their money away by boycotting them, and they will be forced to stop. File trading is promotion, not theft, and the genie isn't going back into the bottle. The recording industry must adapt, or perish. Our purchases are a privilege they must earn, not a debt we owe!

Indeed! The more people they anger, the more people will join the ever-growing boycott of the recording industry. When the current bunch of bloodsuckers are put out of business, a new music industry of, by, and for people who love music can rise from the ashes.

From now on, I suspect many Australians will buy the four dollar pirated disks sold on street corners. They will play in any player. Since the Government doesn't care about EMI ripping consumers off, consumers need to put EMI out of business themselves. Dontbuycds.org predicted that the labels would just drive everyone to the counterfeiters in an article called, What is piracy?

From now on, I suspect many Australians will buy the four dollar pirated disks sold on street corners. They will play in any player. Since the Government doesn't care about EMI ripping consumers off, consumers need to put EMI out of business themselves. Dontbuycds.org predicted that the labels would just drive everyone to the counterfeiters in an article called, What is piracy?

A business must sell goods or services to survive. After they sue every file sharer on the internet, they'll give in and start selling non-crippled media. I don't really understand why anyone would really want to listen to a music disc with one or two decent songs and ten to fifteen filler songs.

If the $20 legitimate CDs at the mall won't play in a computer, and the $4 pirated CDs at the flea market, or on a street corner will, what do you think the kids will buy? The RIAA is so stupid! They need to stop making copy protected disks, and go after the counterfeiters, not file traders. There is an article about that at dontbuycds.org called what is piracy? Well worth reading.

If the $20 legitimate CDs at the mall won't play in a computer, and the $4 pirated CDs at the flea market, or on a street corner will, what do you think the kids will buy? The RIAA is so stupid! They need to stop making copy protected disks, and go after the counterfeiters, not file traders. There is an article about that at dontbuycds.org called what is piracy? Well worth reading.

It might be possible to respect copyrights if there terms were more reasonable, and their holders didn't treat us all like thieves. To hell with the RIAA and the record labels. Don't buy CDs.

If 2/3 of us agree that file trading isn't wrong, then it shouldn't be illegal. Punish the recording industry for calling us thieves by boycotting them. If Congress keeps listening to the RIAA, and other greedy profiteers greasing their palms instead of the 2/3 majority, we the 2/3 majority need to vote those bums out!

If the RIAA is involved, you can forget about the artists getting anything. The RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America, not the Recording Artists' Association of America. They don't give a rat's ass whether the artists eat or starve, they only care about their cocaine, their Jaguars, their hookers, and their multi-million dollar houses. Don't buy CDs.

That could work, if they really let users determine the playlists. Artists and music fans would probably both be satisfied. It would take constant watchdogging to keep it form turning into the payola infested cesspool that is commercial radio, though.

You can avoid the most of the CD-R tax by buying the ones that say they are for computers, not the ones that say they are for music. Did you ever notice that the ones marked, "for music" cost more? The recording industry pockets the difference. Why do they need that, and "copy protected" disks that won't play in a computer? Boycott the recording industry.

This is yet another plot by the RIAA to make the end user pay for listening to music. It doesn't work that way with radio. What a load! File trading is a form of promotion as good or better than radio, and they don't even have to payola the file trading networks. If students have to pay for this whether they use it or not, that would be theft.

What do you get when you buy a CD? Ripped off! The prices are outrageously inflated, and maybe you get one good song. Don't buy CDs. The people who the recording industry most wants to rip off are teens, aka children. An industry that exists to rip off children is a public nusiance.

It is good that Senator Coleman is getting involved, but he doesn't understand some things. Copyright infringement is not theft. They are different, and file trading should not be considered copyright infringement, it's fair use. File trading networks are the new radio, and end users don't have to pay to listen to the radio. We can punish the RIAA ourselves without waiting for a Senate that unamimously passed the DMCA to do it by not buying CDs. Boycott the recording industry.

It is clearly music popular with teens that they are targeting. Teens are also the ones they want to sell CDs to at outrageously inflated prices. An industry that exists to rip off children is a public nusiance. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.

SBC forever! The RIAA and DMCA, never! Don't buy CDs.

Perhaps the recoring industry is intentionally making a pay-per-download music service that doesn't work, so frustrated users will go back to buying CDs. Don't do it!

If this works, then buy it, and use it. Take that, RIAA! In the mean time, don't buy CDs.

To hell with the RIAA, an illegal trust that needs to be busted, and all the corporate coke snorters at RIAA affiliated labels. Boycott them. Don't Buy CDs.

Amen! Preach on! The recording industry as it exists today belongs in the dustbin of history. Let's put them there. Don't buy CDs. After they are gone, a new music industry run by people who love music can arise.

To hell with the RIAA. Don't buy CDs. Slashdotters in Michigan and California need to vote these bastards out. It would speak volumes if they don't even survive their primaries.

The recording industry needs to accept that the P2P genie is out of the bottle, and stop trying to identify file traders. They are wasting their time. If they keep insisting that only pre-recorded media like CDs are legit, they will find themselves in the dustbin of history, and good riddence! Don't Buy CDs.

Some groups like that have been around for a long time, since the first "copy protected" CDs that won't play in a computer came out, such as Don't Buy CDs. and Boycott RIAA. An industry that presupposes that its customers are freeloaders and thieves doesn't deserve to have any customers.

The EFF rocks! The RIAA sucks. Don't buy CDs.

A victory anywhere is good news. A judge in Brazil understood that what the labels are doing is wrong, and wrong is still wrong everywhere. Chances are good that courts all around the world will rule the same. The price fixing lawsuit, and a judge's refusal to shut down Morpheus and Grokster suggests that U.S. courts will agree with the Brazilian judge when the ruling comes down in Dickey V. Universal Music Group et. al". The recording industry are a bunch of racketeers who don't deserve our patronage. Don't Buy CDs.

They refuse to accept that file trading gives them free promotion, because it threatens their ability to tell artists, "I made you a star, and I can take it away." Fans make and break "stars." A massive corporate leviathan laying the smack down on lots of defenseless "little guys" won't win them any friends. They deserve to lose every customer they have for using these bully tactics. Don't buy CDs.

Nobody wants to pay $20 for one good song, and 10 or 11 fillers. That is a big reason a growing number of us Don't buy CDs. Besides, popular music is not art, it is just a business. Classical music was art. These "artists" need to understand that the fans are their customers. If we only want one or two songs, sell us one or two songs, or we may not by any of your music at all. There is an old saying that the customer is always right. The popular music racket is one of many that seem to have forgotten this.

Buh bye, Musicland, Sam Goody and Tower Records. Join the 8-track in the dustbin of history.

It has been demonstrated again and again that file trading is free promotion. It increases the sales of music. It only threatens the power of parasites in the recording industry over artists. The big labels don't deserve out patronage. Unless you are buying direct form an independent artist, Don't buy CDs.

I don't know if she will still be spewing the RIAA party lne at CNBC, but either way, Don't buy CDs, unless you buy them directly from an independent artist. The recording industry doesn't deserve our business.

Just what is Orrin Hatch smoking?

If grousing informs people who didn't already know that this stuff exists before they waste their money, it serves a useful purpose.

More about these issues.

That penalty was a slap on the wrist, but consumers can really punish the recording industry by boycotting them. Let CDs gather dust on the shelves.

The RIAA are the real pirates, doing the reverse of Robin Hood. They deserve to be put out of business. Boycott the recording industry. That is the payback they deserve.

The RIAA won't be able to hire expensive lawyers, and bring frivolous lawsuits if we take their money away by not buying CDs. The RIAA are the real pirates.

A "copy protected" CD will copy, but won't play in a computer. Since many of us use computers as our CD players, we should all tell the recording industry what we think of this crap by boycotting them.

This SLAPP suit will lead to many others, as only the rich can afford to defend themselves in court. There is one thing we can do to voice out anger. Boycott the recording industry, and any company that uses SLAPP suits.

Musicians should be the ones making a living from music, not those parasites at the RIAA and the big labels. Fat Chucks Music is a good idea. Unless they come direct from the artist, or another such honest non-RIAA source, don't buy CDs.

Let's hear it for Judge Stephen Wilson. He "gets it," and the RIAA was not able to buy him. We need more judges like him. Maybe he will be nominated to the Supreme Court one day! Anyway, the fight isn't over yet, so keep sticking it to the RIAA. Don't buy CDs.

An industry that exists to rip off children is a public nuisance, and should not continue to exist. That is what the recording industry is today. Don't buy CD.

Actually, It says Washington PORT. Did they change it since they posted it? Is that a shipping dock? I am not surprised that Big Brother has sided with the big labels. The people can still fight back by not buying CDs.

The last time I bought a CD, it was one of those "copy protected" ones that won't play in a computer. My computer is my primary player. The recording industry made a mistake by presuming me a thief. It cost them my patronage as a customer. I suspect that there are millions like me who don't buy CDs, and don't use P2P networks either. You shouldn't assume that the ones yelling, "Boycott the RIAA" are "pirates".

In the future, a new licensing model might help artists get compensated for their work, the very purpose of copyright, but first, we need to get the parasites out of the recording industry. To do that, we must boycott their products.

That's some interesting stuff. They need to add a link to it on dontbuycds.org, and all the other anti RIAA sites, too.

The president of MTU should issue a statement asking all the students to join the consumer boycott of the recording industry in protest of the RIAA's latest stunt.

I couldnt agree with you less. The issue is the broad reaching implications of such a case. Wake is a search engine which searches for files. You can use google also to search for files on internet using advanced search. Does this make search engines illegal. I guess this is a chance to take RIAA head on. Give examples of google, Lycos search, Hotbot.... all these are search engines.

What RIAA says amounts to like, "This guy built the road on which trucks ferry pirated CD's... Arrest him!!"

We can all stick it to the RIAA by not buying their products.