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New RIAA File-swapping Suits Target Students

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the share-and-share-alike dept.

Fletcher writes "The Recording Industry Association of America filed another round of lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including students on 13 university campuses. The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had remained constant or risen up to the early days of 2004, despite the pressure of recording industry lawsuits."

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  1. Re:RIAA again going for the little guy by dafoomie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only give the artist maybe 70cents-1 dollar for each record sold.

    Its more like 6 cents if they're lucky, minus "expenses" that the RIAA charges them, like 25% for packaging. And thats not even considering how the recording industry cooks their books to screw people out of the rest. Artists barely see a dime from cd sales, their money is made from concerts.

  2. Re:RIAA again going for the little guy by espo812 · · Score: 2, Informative
    CDs printing costs are in like the cents (30-70 cents) to make the CD ready for packaging. They charged 15 dollars for most.
    You're missing the point. The value (and thus the cost it can be sold at) of a CD is not in manufacturing it - would you pay 30-70 cents for a manufactured and packaged blank CD? The value comes from the content, that is the music from the artists' time, creative efforts, innovation, etc. So when you are paying $15 for a CD (or whatever) that was manufactured for 30-70cents (or 6cents as the case may be), you're paying upwards of $14 for the "value added" by the artist, producers, distributers, promoters, managers, kitchen sink, etc.
    --

    espo
  3. the dutch boy and the dike by GreenEggsAndHam · · Score: 2, Informative

    The boy actually *did* prevent the dike from collapsing. The story is about how the boy's courage and endurance saved the town.

    HTH

  4. Why get music from the RIAA? by jwilcox154 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are several sites that carry a wide variety of music from independant artists.

    There's dmusic.com, Musician MP3, Sound Click, Vitaminic, CNet Music, and even modarchive.com, Just to name a few. There's a bunch of other sites to get music from independant artists so there is no need to even use P2P to share RIAA music let alone purchase it.

    This would be the proper way to protest the RIAA. If everyone did this, they would see their profits fall and at the same time, see that file swapping is way down, then they would have no choice but to confirm that they're really the ones to blame for the decreased sales. The biggest challenge is trying to get people that love the "Cookie Cutter Boy/Girl Bands" to switch over.

  5. Re:WOW! I never thought of that... by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Informative

    Music CDs aren't subsidized by movie ticket sales. Slashdot has been over this a million times.

  6. Wrong.... by Belial6 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Distribution of music without the authors permission is common and legal. It is called mandatory licensing. Radio stations do not have to ask permission to distribute music. Anyone know what the per play cost is for a radio station?

  7. Re:RIAA again going for the little guy by linuxpng · · Score: 2, Informative

    because the MPAA and studio made the bulk of money from the movie, the soundtrack wasn't paid for that way, I am sure there were royalties paid, but nothing like what the studio got. The DVD is just icing on the cake for them.

  8. Just Say No To RIAA-affiliated Music(R) by nnet · · Score: 2, Informative
    Non RIAA Music

    Ogg Stream