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Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month

Thomas Hawk writes "Mark Cuban is arguing over at Blog Maverick that with the introduction of Yahoo!'s new $5 per month music service that this needs to become the new de facto 'damages' that the RIAA ought to be able to claim when suing kids. After all, when the kids could have paid for the music via Yahoo! for $5 a month it makes it hard to say the music loss is worth more than that. 'The RIAA can no longer claim that students who are downloading music are costing them thousands of dollars each. They cant claim much of anything actually. In essence, Yahoo just turned possession of a controlled music substance into a misdemeanor. Payable by a $5 per month fine.'"

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  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Been waiting to get one of these

    1. Re:First Post! by ak3ldama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Some peoples lives are just so unfullfilled ;-P

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      "but money is the God of Algiers & Mahomet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
  2. cuban eh? by bnitsua · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always knew slashdot was a little left-leaning, but using Fidel Castro as an article source is going a bit too far I think...

  3. Irishman says GUINNESS beer should be $10/week. by duffbeer703 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Since you can get swill like Miller Genuine Draft or Red Dog in any college town for $5 all you can drink from 9-1, Guinness should be available at a bulk discount as well.

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    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
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  5. Re:disingenuous if I understand it correctly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    -- Philip Mendes, THE NEW LEFT, THE JEWS AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965-1972, Lazare Press, North Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, pp 9-10, from information in Rechter, David. Beyond The Pale: Jewish Communism in Melbourne. Master of Arts Thesis, Department of History, University of Melbourne. 1986, p1; Beer, Max. 50 Years of International Socialism. 1976, pplO3-107; Beit-Haltahmi, Benjamin. Original Sins. Actions in the History of Zionism and Israel. Pluto Press. London. 1992, pp28-31, Jacobs, Jack. On Socialists and the Jewish Question after Marx. New York University Press. New York. 1992, p159; Wistrich, Robert, Revolutionary Jews From Marx To Trotsky. Harrap. London. 1976, p1.

    Jewishness Was International Communism -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin

    "There the great world-progressive features of Jewish culture stand clearly revealed: its internationalism, its identification with the advanced movements of the epoch (the percentage of Jews in the democratic and proletarian movements is everywhere higher than the percentage of Jews among the population)."

    -- Lenin, Vladimir Ilich. "National Culture" in Lumer, Hyman. Lenin on the Jewish Question. International Publishers. New York. 1974, p107, via Philip Mendes, THE NEW LEFT, THE JEWS AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965-1972, Lazare Press, North Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, p 9.

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    "In many countries, in Russia and Rumania for instance, but above all in Hungary and in Poland. the leadership of the working-class parties (the Russian Social Revolutionary Party excepted) is almost exclusively in the hands or Jews, as is plainly apparent from an extermination of the personality of the delegates to the international congresses".

    -- Philip Mendes, THE NEW LEFT, THE JEWS AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965-1972, Lazare Press, North Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, p 9, from information found in Michels, Robert. Political Parties. A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modem Democracy. The Free Press. New York. 1962, p 247.

    Jewish Communists
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