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Suing Your Customers a Good Idea?

Posted by michael on from the nothing-better-comes-to-mind dept.

VB writes "Boycott-RIAA is running Fred von Lohmann's article which looks like the ideal answer to solving the P2P problem. He suggests setting up a payment system similar to SESAC, ASCAP, and BMI, collecting organizations for songwriters. This seems such an obvious solution and a great way to get artists paid and give listeners the right to listen to their favorite songs cheaply and keep them out of jail. Why wouldn't this work?"

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  1. Maybe by roman_mir · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe suing your customer is a good idea if it is a one-off customer and you don't expect to have any other customers. Ever.

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  2. we'll sue the pants off of them! by knowles420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    then we'll sell them pants!

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  3. Suing customers by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny
    I have always thought that suing customers is a great idea! It has all the benefits of:


    - Sucking them dry for every penny you can get out of them.
    - Free publicity from trials.
    - Insures the next time they go to buy, they will think of your company first.

    Any others that you guys can think up?

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  4. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, sales of vinyl records have dropped dramatically since the 80s.

  5. Re:Why wouldn't it work? by Epistax · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm afraid of the 30% of people who found my post "informative"

  6. I Have a Better Idea... by Nehi+the+Ganchark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Outsource all the lawyers to India. That way legal fees for downloading music on p2p will be the same price as a download from iTunes.

  7. Re:Just like an added tax to blanks by DragonMagic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yet another reason not to use Red Hat.

    Oh, I get it...

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  8. Re:News? by zpok · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..."The Recording Industry Ass. Of America"...

    Was that intentional? Very funny.

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  9. Why?-Numbers game. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The problem is that Soundscan shows a 10% increase in music sales when comparing the first quarter of 2004 to 1Q 2003."

    OK. Now here's a homework problem for you. How much of the increase can directly be attributed to illegal P2P? Hard isn't it? Now try to figure out how many computers out there have Linux installed? Hard isn't it? Same reasons.

  10. Re:Why? by Upphew · · Score: 1, Funny

    They should count blank cds as well... I'd bet then the sales would be up!