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RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints
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."
It's retards like you that have killed the music industry. People STEAL because they don't like the music?
Dumbass
Egg McMuffins have a marginal cost (price of inputs + labor). Digital music (and movies, software, etc) has no marginal cost. Creating an additional unit of output costs $0. Therefore the only thing that a producer of such a product could conceivably charge money for is the right to use their "intellectual property," which we all know doesn't exist.
Its = possessive. It's = "it is"
When you download RIAA music, you are stealing the chance that an RIAA company will be able to sell you that music. If they catch you, you have to pay the man.
Now some might argue: "Hey! The chance that I might buy their music belongs to me, not the RIAA. Why should I have to pay them for something that belongs to me? They want me to pay them for not doing something (not buying their cr*p) that I don't want to do just because they think I ought to do it."
Others might argue: "Hey! The value of the chance that I might buy their music is zero. I wouldn't pay a nickel for it. Why should I have to pay them for the loss of something that's not worth anything?"
These arguments are to no avail and the Judge will have your ass. In the RIAA mindthink: "All your base are belong to us!"