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RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a rare outburst of subjectivity, I commenced my blog post 'Ha ha ha ha ha' when reporting that, based upon the RIAA's disclosure form for 2008, it had paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 to recover $391,000. If they were doing it to 'send a message,' the messages have been received loud & clear: (1) the big four record labels are managed by idiots; (2) the RIAA's law firms have as much compassion for their client as they do for the lawsuit victims; (3) suing end users, or alleged end users, is a losing game. I don't know why p2pnet.net begrudges the RIAA's boss his big compensation; he did a good job... for the lawyers."
This is just more evidence that Piracy is Killing Music(tm)! Pirates, apparently less busy stealing food from the mouths of starving artists' starving children than they seemed, managed to pull over 15 and a half million dollars from the RIAA's coffers...
Clearly, we must set up a cabinet-level Department of Intellectual Property so that the War on Pirates can be fought at public expense, with the same efficiency and success as the scourges of drugs and poverty....
Clearly, $400,000 per downloaded song is not enough. They should raise their demands by 3992%, and everything will be OK.
I'd rather you rationally disagree than irrationally agree.
The other benefit is it creates fear in those who would have otherwise pirated songs.
I've been regularly advertising to friends, family, and online about the size of my music and movie collection and daring them to find me and sue me. Six years now, no letters. -_- Sadface.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
You didn't mention if you were uploading, and why would you want your friends and family to sue you?
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Just goes to show, nobody cares about Michael Bolton.
Are you a useless record exec right now?
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i'd trust a loan shark more than i'd trust an international bank.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
I don't buy Sony products because they suck. They're flashy, full of style, but not functional the way they should be. They're plagued with design flaws that never should have made it out the door, and when you buy one of their devices you're locked into their peripherals forever. From batteries to memory cards, everything you need to use a Sony has Sony written on it.
And those stupid Sony Style stores. You can tell people just go there to be seen. Sony is more of a fashion statement than anything else.
No, I for one, prefer Apple products.
The CB App. What's your 20?
Dont worry, the lawyers have a new plan and this one is SURE to get the RIAA a decent return: Suing iPod owners who only listen to one earphone and let a friend pirate the music through the other without paying a dime! The people who use headphone splitters so that two listeners can get full stereo are going to pay octupal damages too!
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
I agree