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AudioGalaxy Reaches Settlement With the RIAA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the horse-head-stew-for-dinner dept.

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."

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  1. NNTP by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  2. Re:Great, what about MY songs? by rhizome · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    --
    When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
  3. Purchase CDs? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"