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RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College
boarder8925 writes "An MIT student accused of copyright infringement has been documenting her struggles with the RIAA. Upon trying to negotiate her settlement, a representative told her that "the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements.""
Drop out of school so you can afford the settlement offer, which will severely hinder your earning potential, causing you to pirate more material because you can't afford it... lather, rinse, repeat.
clearly, if the person is no longer a college student, he/she will be less likely to pirate music. Brillant.
She might have to drop out of school just to pay for the webhosting bill...
Why not? An MIT kid would DOMINATE over there.
Reminds me of a friend who was born in Spain and took Spanish in high school. His halfwit teacher could't figure out how a guy with a last name of Perez could score near 100% on every test.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
if I like the song I have downloaded I will usually buy the album [...] does this mean I am commiting a crime?
It's not a crime. It's perfectly legal to voluntarily give money to an illegal price-fixing cartel, although the morality is obviously questionable.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
causing you to pirate more material because you can't afford it
Back in the old days we had this other answer to that one. It was called, "You don't get to have it."
Fortunately, in this modern age, absolved of all personal responsibility, it's the content producers' fault for making such great content that we really have no choice but to pirate if we can't afford it. I mean, seriously, it's not like we can go without that extra Britney Spears CD - it's practically a right that we have it. If the founding fathers were around today, they'd almost certainly agree.
So the solution is simple: hold up a record store, pay the RIAA with the proceeds, and keep the rest to yourself.
I'll continue to stand behind the glass, tapping away, wondering which of us is on display.
Isn't that a lyric from the new Nine Inch Nails album?
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
It's not funny because it's redundant.
Abaddon: An Xbox 360 Indie game
Yeah wow nice troll buddy but it more likely will go like this:
Anti-**AA lawyer "Your Honor, These *.AA people are threatening lawsuits all up in here. They have no evidence. They should make their peace.."
Judge - "Wow.. your right. Case dismisssed!"
*.AA - " but but PIRATES!!"
Judge - "Pirates sail the sea son, now take your extortion racket and leave town"
*.AA - * whine whine lumbering dinosuar of the old world noises *
Judge - "Thats it motherfuckers, you going down!!"
*Judge pulls out sawed off shotty and jumps up on his bench*
Judge - " Pistol grip pump motherfuckers!! "
* *.AA lawyers head asplode *
* Lawyer falls down, a crimson fountain coats everything in recently depreasureized blood. A leather satchel falls to the floor *
Judge - "Well now you dirty slime-yer, whats this?"
* Judge opens the satchel and a small white kitten tumbles out*
Kitten - "mew!"
Judge - " Those evil bastards, they were going to eat that kitten "
* Anti-**AA lawyer steps onto the severed skull of *.AA lawyer crushing it to dust*
Judge - " your kitten eating hording culture days are over. Set my people free! "
* all the peoples of the world get together and share their collective culture and world peace is declared (also bu$h gets cancer and dies)*
-FIN-
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
Let's pause for a moment and consider a few things: first, Anglo-American copyright law since the Statute of Anne (circa 1700) has been built on print. It arose from print, meant to protect publishers. Since subsequent recodification of copyright law under Queen Victoria in 1842, the law has also protected the idea of "originality" and "authorial substance"; however, its primary purpose has always been the protection of the entity responsible for publishing and distributing the information.
Over ensuing decades, little has changed but the fines - the wording of copyright law hasn't changed much at all. The problem is that under its original framing, copyright law was designed to maintain the integrity of original content; however, with digital content, the integrity does not deteriorate. Our model of law coincided with the age of print - based on physical, concrete substance and actual space. Digital space is foreign to our current body of law - an entity such as the RIAA obtaining your IP address without probable cause violates rights to due process as well as protection from unwarranted search and seizure, especially when one considers that the RIAA is not a recognized law enforcement body, and therefore could never obtain a warrant - thus having no right to search. Would you say that your neighbors could walk into your house without your presence or permission, look around for something illegal, and then call the police?
"Tu fui, ego eris" - Virgil
Of course. Hey, aren't you part of the IRA too?
Watch out, they'll sue you for violating lyric copyright.
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Maybe it would be interesting to either report the IP address of an executive of RIA or spoof the ip address. See how long it takes them to figure out they are suing themselves
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