Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users

Moldy-Rutabaga writes "Technews says filesharing has gone up 10% on some sites such as Grokster since the Recording Industry Association of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and suing users of file-sharing programs. Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, commented 'even genocidal litigation can't stop file sharers'."

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Are the Mods on Crack Again???

[Uber Banker]

This is a quick succinct point explaining some of the indirect factors associated with filesharing and could go on to discuss issues such as innovation vs. critical mass adoption, motivations of the RIAA etc. Quite thought provoking really.

It has not been mentioned in such a way before in this discussion so is not 'redundant'.

Now please put that crack pipe away.

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Re:They need to study psychology not criminology

[SN74S181]

Only retarded people repurchased their albums on cassette tape. With a decent tape deck it is trivial to record a better sounding copy than the junk on commercially produced cassettes. Why do you think every record store back in the day had loads and loads of blank cassettes in stock.

In addition, If you ask music listeners today, the music pumped out today probably isn't worth buying again if the medium did change.

That's called middle age setting in. "The crap young people listen to these days" etc. etc. Been putting on any weight? Losing some of your hair up front, eh?

are you a f**king crack-head?

[visionsofmcskill]

first off.... the expression exists.... quite popularly across the states and more.... secondly the other derivitives youve mentioned are exactly that.,.. variations on a phrase that is already grammaticly horrible..

thirdly.... americans? wow!!! sometimes i'm seriously amazed at the assumptions foriegners (relative to me... an american) make of US citizens... the most culturaly and socialy diverse country on the planet.... as if we are all the same somehow?

it's an absurdity beyond belief. People honestly feel we are stupid.... the phrase "stupid americans".... or "stupid f**king americans" is common beyond the bounds of this country. Something of a oxymoronic phrase, considering.... if were so stupid and prone to making grammatical... and other mistakes.... why are great portions of humanity trying their best to live here with us? if were all idiots... why are we the source of a vastly disproportionate amount of innovation (light-bulb,car,radio,phone,airplane,nuclear bomb/power, computer,microchip,etc....)? if we are so geneticly imbred and infirior why do we run the world?

the last one is the fire-starter.... but keep in mind.... even a tyrant must be smart... cause dumb dictators dont live long. Amazingly enough.... bush isn't a moron, he simply has the verbal capabilities of one

Re:How?

[skywire]

Tell that to all the poor schmucks who have been kidnapped by the US and brought back to stand trial on various federal charges. They are not US citizens, and were neither in the US nor on a US vessel on the high seas. Thus they could not possibly be subject to US laws, if national sovereigny means anything. But the US has simply declared that when it feels that anyone's acts outside the US affect the US or its citizens (which of course could mean anyone doing anything anywhere on the planet), they are subject to US law. And the political hacks on the US Supreme Court has upheld the practise. So the DMCA does in fact apply to every human being in the universe.