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Is Berman walking both sides of the fence? Yes. He is now backpedaling as a result of the pubic's backlash. His article is an attempt to hide an iron fist in a velvet glove. I am not fooled, and I hope the voters in his district aren't either. I would like to see him lose his job on November 5, along with all those in Congress who sell us out to the highest bidder. Don't vote for these crooks, and don't buy CDs.

Price fixing is one of the reasons for the bocott of the recording industry called for by dontbuycds.org, and other groups. Maybe the tide is turning back in consumers' favor.

The recording companies continue to rake in billions, and artists continue to starve. The labels are the real pirates! Any RIAA affiliated artists who publicly voice their support for file trading face retaliation from management. Boycott the Recording industry.

You got that link wrong. Here it is. I guess they got you so angry you can't type. How ya like dem apples, bubba?

Just getting your e-mail and surfing web pages a little bit faster is not enough reason to pay the price of broadband, but Napster was. ISPs have the RIAA to blame for DSL not taking off. They should join the consumer boycott of the recording industry.

Dontbuycds.org endorses Tara Sue Grubb. If North Carolina's 6th district Slashdotters will get out and tell all their neighbors why they are voting for Tara, she has a chance. All it really takes is name recognition. Don't tell the old timers she not a dem or repub. Just tell them her name, and that we need people who understnd technology in congress, not just white haired old men with VCRs flashing 12:00

Offering perks should sell more CDs whether there is piracy or not. In fact, I don't think piracy ever entered their minds, only marketing. Even if I liked Bon Jovi, this would not be enough to make me stop boycotting the recording industry.

Never sell out your principles. They are truly priceless. Don't buy CDs. If your wife has a problem with that, let her downlaod the song herself. If she is not capable of doing, that isn't your problem, it's hers.

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Isn't it ironic? The RIAA was fighting against the PMRC's censorship in the 1980s, and championing freedom of expression. Now, they are for censorship, asking the courts for prior restraint against file trading. This stifles freedom of expression by taking away one of the only forums unsigned artists have. They also will not sign anything but Britney Spears style teenybop crap to recording contracts. They are now stifling music more that Tipper and her bunch ever could have. Maybe the almighty dollar was all they ever cared about, and they never gave a damn about freedom of expression. Does the DMCA still allow us to express what we think of them? Boycott the recording industry.

If Mozart had lived in our modern age, with our recording industry, his end would have been the same. The record lablels rip of artists, and fans, then call both theives. Check out this article. They accuse artists of "biting the hand that feeds them," if they don't repeat the RIAA party line. Fans' hands feed them, not those record company leeches! Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.

Piracy is a paper tiger. Those who have discovered new artists through file trading have spent more money than the "freeloaders," most of whom wouldn't have bought anyway, have held on to. I suggest having a look at this Life In Hell comic strip from 1988. It shows that the RIAA's whining about piracy was BS then, and is BS now. The music biz first said player piano reels were killing them, then said the radio giving away free music was killing them, and so on. It's the same old BS.

If the record labels weren't stupid, they would have offered Napster, Morpheus, and the like payola to make artists on their labels appear in searches first. Because downloading appeared to threaten their power over artists, they crushed Napster, and try to crush all file trading, damming up a huge potential revenue stream. When opportunity knocks, the stupid bar the door. The ultimate insult was calling us all theives by making "copy protected" disks that won't play in a computer. boycott the stupid recording industry.

The Recording industry calls its paying customers theives. No such industry deserves to have any customers. Boycott the recording industry. Kudos to Verizon and Yahoo for refusing to be their goon squad, and realizing that privacy is one of the things we pay our ISPs for each month.

All consumers need to continue to boycott the recording industry. Hilary Rosen, Thomas D. Mottola, Martin Bandier, and the like all need to lose their jobs. Any industry that calls its customers theives deserves to lose its customers.

Napster was dead the day they shut it down. We really knew it was never coming back, didn't we? I hope all consumers continue to punish the recording industry for killing Napster, Gouging kids for up to $20.00 a CD, and worst of all, making copy protected CDs that won't play in a computer, by shunning its products. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.

The mainstream press is finally reporting what sites like dontbuycds have been saying all this time. Maybe Congress will read the article, and stop listening when Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti show up asking for corporate welfare. Manybe they will get it that piracy is a paper tiger.

This method would make CDs and DVDs cost more. IF they implement this, and CDs cost $30.00, DVDs $40.00, nobody will buy them, and they will still try to blame "piracy," and try to get Congress to give them corporate welfare. This is a stupid idea. The main reason people today don't buy CDs is because of the outrageously marked up prices.

Who says that the RIAA will wait for the Berman law to pass? They probably already have hackers doing their dirty work clandestinely. The law would just allow them to do it openly. They already have overpeer flooding P2P networks with bogus files. I wouldn't put it past an indusrty that exists to rip off children, charging up to 20 dollars for something that cost them one to make.

I hope techies will reward this ISP for their decision by patronizing them. Boycott the recording industry and do business with Information Wave Technologies if they have a presence where you live.

This is yet another reason to boycott the recording industry. Since Microsoft is now doing their bidding, boycott their products as well. Consumers should never do business with companies that presume we are all theives and pirates. They all deserve to be out of business.

Now that Sony's computer division is on the same page as their music division, it is time to boycott all their products, not just their CDs. Don't buy anything from Sony.

The RIAA has nearly ended webcasting, which was a form of promotion that cost them nothing, and now want a royalty scheme that would end it entirely. Enough! Boycott the recording industy. Don't buy CDs.

Cincinnati had 11 or 12 show up over the course of the night. At least half were members of CINPA (CINcinnati Networking Professional Association) members. We talked about our tech toys, work and school experiences. I talked about my websites, Uncoveror.com and Dontbuycds.org, and gave out copies of The Uncoveror newsletter. It is good we met at a resturaunt, and not a bar because one slashdotter named Matt was a high schooler who couldn't have got in otherwise. We had fun, and will do it again next month.

This could be the test case that goes to the Supreme Court, and gets the DMCA ruled unconstitutional. The Edward Felten case could have been the one, if it weren't dropped. In the meantime, we should still not buy CDs or DVDs

Naturally, a 13 year old would listen to Eminem. A prefabricated product of the industry like him might be willing to preach some stodgy record executive's party line to kids, but that would kill his rebel, bad boy image that angers parents, and makes him look so cool to teens. He would help himself more be encouraging file traders. An industry that wants to sell things to kids who don't even have jobs for 20 bucks each is no better than the dope dealer on the street corner. Boycott the recording Industry. As Axl Rose said in the song, Shotgun Blues about a record executive, "and while you're ripping off children, somebody's F**king your wife." Record executives, and the RIAA are the real pirates.

"If the record labels make a concerted effort to get their artists to educate the public about how downloading takes money directly out of the artists' pockets, things may change." This quote tells it all. The recording labels view artists as a commodity they own, like slaves. They tell artists, "I made you a star, and I can take it away!" What nonsense! They view music fans as a commodity as well. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs. We, the fans decide who is and isn't a star. The RIAA and record executives are the real pirates.

The broadcasting and recording industries have both stopped giving us any music worth listening to, and now are trying to push congress in opposite directions. It's a shame congress listens to either of them. If Clear channel, and the big recording labels end up destroying each other, it might be a victory for music fans. Boycott the recording industry.and Boycott Clear Channel.

Janis owes nothing to the labels. You are still believeing the "I made you a star" lie that record companies have been telling artists since the invention of the phonograph. They are leeches. www.dontbuycds.org

Many artists understand now that the RIAA are the real pirates. "I made you a star. YOU owe ME!" has been repeated like a mantra by recording company leeches. Fans, not the leeches, make artists stars. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.

It is great that fair use, the public domain, and consumers have a friend in Congress. Rick Boucher is a great public servant who deserves our support. It's a shame that we need a new law to secure what should be protected already by the First Amendment, though. An idea, once expressed, belongs to the public domain, and is only loaned to copyright holders to promote creativity and innovation. Fair use is a natural right. It is part of free speech.

I especially liked how he would have royalties sent directly to the artists, and not to the robber barons who are ripping them off. The RIAA will really hate that! p.s. check out www.dontbuycds.org

Red on yellow? I was just on that site, and it's almost basic black-and-white? Are you tripping?

"I made you a star, and I can take it away!" This has been repeated by record company leeches to artists like a mantra. Peer to peer file sharing made it possible for artists to see that fans alone decide who is and isn't a star. This terrifies the recording industry. While Napster, Audiogalaxy, and the like were in their heyday, new artists were able to find their audiences without selling their souls. This pointed out how unneccesary the leeches really were. Read more at www.dontbuycds.org
be sure to check out the article, What is piracy?

This action by overpeer, at the behest of the RIAA and the labels is harassment of music fans. What do they hope to gain by angering us? They stand to lose a great deal more. I call on everyone to Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs, except used ones, which they get nothing from. If we put the corporate robber barons who hold the recording industry hostage out of business, then people who do it for the love of music can take the industry back.

Hollywood made more money the Memorial Day weekend of 2002 than at any other previous time. Piracy is no threat to them. People who watch pirated movies on their computer are just sneak previewing, and will go to a theater. People who buy pirate DVDs at the flea market for fewer than ten dollars won't pay full retail for legit ones. People who do pay full retail for legit ones wouldn't be caught dead in a flea market or with DVDs from one. When you boil it all down, piracy is a non-issue. Shutting it down would not get Hollywood or the recording industry any richer. They are wasting their resources fighting it, and would waste our resources if Congress gives them tax money to combat piracy. This is all true of the recording industry as well. They are not interested in anything but protecting their power over artists.

Amen to that! Copyrights last way to long, and rob the public domain. For more info on that from a music angle, check out dontbuycds.org