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RIAA Claims P2P Has Been Contained
Magorak writes "USA Today is reporting the RIAA now claims that the issues surrounding P2P and piracy have been contained and are no longer as big an issue as they once were. From the article; 'The problem has not been eliminated,' says association CEO Mitch Bainwol. 'But we believe digital downloads have emerged into a growing, thriving business, and file-trading is flat.'"
Looks like Grandma and her illegal downloads of the "Happy Birthday" song can rest easy once again.
Mission accomplished!
We won!
I tried hard to come up with a serious comment to this article, I really did. But every time I started writing one, I starting giggling. The RIAA is just too much. So, then, let me be the first to say:
BAHAHAHAHAHAAH
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
If you cannot win, claim victory.
Pirate 1: Arrr! The RIAA ship has been swashbuckled! Pirate 2: Ayye! The fools even think they sunk us! ARRR!
Isn't that like a /.er's parent saying "My child doesn't spend that much time on the computer"?
file-trading is flat.
I actually think of it more as a rectangular prism....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Was the guy who made this press release doing so on the deck of a ship with a big "Mission accomplished" sign behind him?
Any chance there?
I'm a fiscal conservative, it's a pity we don't have a political party anymore
A story about Microsoft calling a truce with the GPL followed by the RIAA saying P2P is not a problem.
/. has been hacked and someone is posting bogus stories.
It's not April 1st.
Hmmm... Only logical explanation is that
--Keith
Apparently your grammar has been "contained" as well.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Just... where have I heard that before...
Well, if you can't win, just say you won and rely on your opponent to not contradict you.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Dude, I don't actually care. If they're trying to convince the public that filesharing is no longer a threat to them... HOORAY! I can share without guilt or fear of reprisal!
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"Nearly 10 million people are online, swapping media, at any given time," he says. That May figure is up from 8.7 million people in 2005, he says.
Apparently a 15% growth rate per year is what the music industry calls 'contained'. I wish someone would come and 'contain' my savings account...
Yeah, as soon as they stop downloading and listening to inane anime music.
First, MS declares a truce with Open Source.
Then, the RIAA stops chasing P2P downloaders.
Next, Hell freezes over.
What a day!
Don't tell them! Let them declare victory and leave....
...richie - It is a good day to code.
Some prankster let free all the dangerous animals on a zoo. The public was in panic, so the zoo chief gathered all the people inside the lion's cage. Then they locked it from inside.
"We're safe! The animals are contained!"
...welcome our oblivious overlords.
Shoot myself in the face sixteen times for the betterment of society as a whole.
Seriously...
Wait... is RIAA French?
/me ducks
Ignore this signature. By order.
Everyone SHUT THE HELL UP and let them believe it is contained. SHHHHH. Seriously.
Cheers.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Dear God, you heard my prayer twice today, I'm really thankful for that. But, if I may formulate a third one, could you convince the U.S. House that net neutrality really matters ? That would be really cool. Thanks.
I can still get on Gnutella and find almost every song that exists.
It rather seems that p2p shaped your notion of what exists.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
No, They're the president of the US. /Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished!
Sound familiar?
TMS - Typical Movie Scientist
TMG - Typical Movie General
TMG: Doc, what's the status of the plague?
TMS: As of an hour ago, the virus has infected every living thing on Earth.
TMG: But it hasn't spread since then?
TMS: Well, no, but--
TMG: Then it's been contained! Victory is ours!
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Quiet! My remote Jedi Mind Trick finally worked!
"These are not the nodes you're looking for"
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
Unfinished requirements became "future enhancements". Non-working projects became "proof of concepts". Half-baked projects became "prototypes".
This reads like a summary of "eXtreme Programming Explained".
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
I am curious to see if the RIAA ever considered that the reason music piracy levels are not increasing is because everyone already has all the songs they want. It's not like the RIAA is flooding the market with an excess of quality releases.