EMI Says Online File Storage Is Illegal

WiglyWorm writes "MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson sent out an email to all users of the online music backup and place-shifting service MP3tunes.com, asking them to help publicize EMI's ridiculous and ignorant lawsuit against the company. EMI believes that consumers aren't allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service."

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Re:Jumping to conclusions again.

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

1 The loudness war
2 High prices for little content
3 Competition for the entertainment dollar (pay TV, satelite radio, cell phones, computer games, MP3 players, and others that had no or little presense 30 years ago.)
4 Retaliation for the industry's nukes on student's finances.
5 DRM on CD's makes them incompatible and dangerous to use. I don't keep a list of safe to play CD's. The lack of the Philip's Compact Disc logo on the good bad and ugly makes shopping by the cover very difficult.
6 Free music online (not piracy)
7 Piracy (fueled by all of the above)
8 Restrictions on use... Can't leagaly do the Carson Williams light show legaly unless you buy one of the approved for use licenses from Lights-o-Rama or play it in public at a reception, etc. No weekend DJ'ing for me.
8 ?? did I miss anything?

Nice list, but I think you misunderstand what people want. They don't hear or don't care about DRM, about the RIAA, or about the loudness war. The internet introduced an immediacy to entertainment that traditional physical music distribution simply can't tap into. That's the main cause of piracy today. They want their entertainment now, and the lack of effective enforcement allowed it. Of course, it doesn't make much difference to these people whether it's good illegal content or good legal content. It ends up the same for them. Of course price plays a large part as well.

Parent is probably a copyright violation

[Brown]

Ironically, the parent post seems to have been ripped from the diary of "Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr" on Kuro5hin, from more than 4 years ago.

See original on Kuro5hin

E.M.I,?

[flyneye]

Don't judge a book just by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
Of stupid fools who stand in line
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