AudioGalaxy Reaches Settlement With the RIAA

blanu writes: "Today AudioGalaxy reached an out-of-court settlement with the RIAA. To sum up the settlement, AudioGalaxy will pay the RIAA a lot of money and from now only provide songs for which the copyright holder has specifically given permission."

Comments

NNTP

[m0rph3us0]

Wait until the RIAA discovers NNTP, or IRC. Soon we won't be able to chat or recieve news in the name of copy protection.

I wonder what the RIAA would do if they found out that you could copy a CD and use a car to transport it.

DOWN WITH CARS!!!

m0rph

and hopefully, in the near future

[Chardish]

I'd like to see this:

Today AudioGalaxy reached an out-of-court settlement with representatives of a class-action spyware suit. To sum up the settlement, AudioGalaxy will pay the spyware victims a lot of money and from now only provide programs for which the user has specifically given permission for the program to install"

Re:Great, what about MY songs?

[rhizome]

I suspect it's going to be a bit of a pain in the ass to convince Audiogalaxy to allow me to share my band's music over their service. How can I satisfy them that I'm truly the copyright holder? If it's easy enough to make it painless, what's to keep others from attempting to get their favourite artist's music unprotected using the same technique?

As an independent artist, you're obviously illegitimate and not worthy of any exposure at all. Undoubtedly the only way around this little dilemma is to assign your copyrights to an RIAA affiliate for every means of distribution that they control.

Access Forbidden

[Roy Ward]

I got this when trying to look at the press release on RIAA's web site:

>HTTP Error 403
>
>403.9 Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected

Sums up their whole approach really.

Purchase CDs?

[Wakko Warner]

I know it's a novel concept around these parts...

- A.P.