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RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints

Posted by timothy on from the we-were-just-bored dept.

Doug Lederman writes "As colleges receive exploding numbers of complaints from recording companies about alleged illegal downloading of music files, theories abound about whether the industry is changing its criteria, aggressively targeting users who merely make downloaded music available to others rather than actual infringers. But after weeks of silence, the president of the RIAA says No: Better technology, he asserts, is merely resulting in better enforcement."

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  1. Re:In other words... by MBGMorden · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, I completely agree with you. What the major labels need to do it offer a good quality, reasonably priced, non-DRM'd, easy to search downloads. Don't know how well it meets your criteria (since some like "easy to search" are kinda in the eye of the user), but the Amazon music store seems pretty nice. It's got a pretty good selection of stuff available in plain-ol no-DRM MP3 format. What I normally do when I have a song I want to purchase is check Amazon first. If they have it, I buy the MP3 from them, then import it into my iTunes library. Their setup isn't quite as nice or integrated as the iTunes store, but I like to give priority to non-DRM purchases when I can just so that I help lean the statistics in the right direction :). If they don't have it, I'll go ahead and settle for the iTunes version.
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  2. MediaSentry - "contractor" or "investigator" by NewYorkCountryLawyer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Note that the RIAA is no longer referring to MediaSentry as its "investigator", instead referring to it as a "contractor" or a "vendor". I wonder if they think that will make their legal problems go away.

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