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RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown
New submitter souperfly writes "The Inquirer has a list of 21 sites that the RIAA is looking to get shut down by ISPs this week. The list includes sites filestube, Bomb-Mp3, Mp3skull, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Torrenthound, Torrentreactor and Monova, and at least one ISP — Virgin Media in the UK — has confirmed the number of targeted sites. BT confirmed it will block the site, but didn't say when. Before, it was thought that only six sites were lined up for a chop."
Please, find a violation on RIAA.org and get them shut down. I'm begging you.
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I didn't know about half of those before.
And all these sites will have due process rights and a day in court before any of thier sites or livelyhoods are ruined... Oh wait a minute....
And, ah, yes, iTunes, AmazonMP3 are just terrible market failures that prove no one still pays for music.
I'm glad the whip and buggy industries were not as organized as today's IP industries.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default. What music I have released, and most of my friends have released, was free and distribution was encouraged. In fact, my first release was on ocremix.org, where all the music is free and torrents of their content are an encouraged distribution method. I'm sure glad this RIAA shill has set us straight and made it clear how illegitimate our free community-minded distribution of our works is. Sure wouldn't want to encourage that kind of illegitimate "online music marketplace."
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This brings to mind a persistent fantasy of mine: buying a substantial share of an RIAA member, and having them repudiate the RIAA and otherwise stop being evil, and watching the rest of the RIAA panic as they lose market share. The reason this comes to mind is that while I don't have the resources to do it, Richard Branson might...
oh, I'm no artist. I was a post-surgical kid on Vicodin with a demo version of Fruity Loops on Win98. But I have since taken up guitar, partially inspired by that experience.
Music is not an industry. Music is practically a food group.
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H1Bs are an underclass. That's the real problem with H1Bs.
If someone is important enough and their skills important enough that you want to drag them half way across the planet then treat them like a real person and give them a green card or even instant citizenship.
No republic should tolerate the creation of an underclass. It's a threat to the liberties of everyone. It's also ultimately bad for business since the bottom line is entangled with individual liberty.
Also, the idea that corporations can poach talent from across the planet is also unequal. If they can do that then we should likewise be able to do the same (work where the cost of living is cheap).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Vaguely. I seem to remember lots of violence being the result, incidentally.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Well, kinda. Music sales are way down, even including MP3s. What is booming is streaming. Most music is shit, or at least not worth 50p to own, so people just stream it instead of owning it. Streaming doesn't make as much money as sales.
The other worrying thing is that apparently streaming and MP3 are good enough quality for most people. The music industry was rather hoping that there would be a market for higher quality than CD, in the form of SACD an DVD-Audio. It's their own fault really, modern music (even re-releases of old stuff) is so heavily compressed and distorted that there really isn't any point trying for higher quality recordings.
Protip record labels, if you want to sell more discs. The last two I bought were re-issues of ones I already owned but properly mastered. The only people still buying your warez care about sound quality. Everyone else listens for free on YouTube or the radio.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
They steal from US artists, too. Never believe them when they say they're doing something for the sake of the artists. The artists never see any of that money (bar one or two out of a thousand or so). They drive more artists into debt than they make wealthy. And by debt I mean they get them to sign a contract allowing the company to promote the artist as they choose, and commiting the artist to pay for it, and when the promotion costs more than (by *their* accounting) they bring in, the send the artists a hefty bill. And every time they've been reviewed by an external auditor (it's rarely possible to force this) they've been found to be under counting the profits.
You are, on the average, better off if you never sign anything they offer you. The exceptions occur, but they are so rare as to be an anomoly.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I don't pirate online, but that's not to say my previous collection is from umm...dubious origins. In any event, I do stream music rather than listen to FM radio because it opens me up to whole genres of music I would otherwise not be exposed to short of making a random purchase of music. Which BTW was the norm back in the mid 90s's and prior. Back then if you wanted to hear music other than what was on radio rotation, you got exposed to music from other peoples collection (which was often limited), or close your eyes and pull an LP/CD/Cassette and random and hoped for the best. However today, I'm finding all sorts of obscure bands that range from absolute shit to pure genius-why-isn't-this-top-40 level of stuff. Eventually, I'll find something I like and will do one of two things. 1; find a used CD and purchase online or, 2; purchase music from iTunes. Come full circle now, I'm purchasing more music thanks to legitimate internet streaming than I've ever did before. As for the RIAA, they can go fuck themselves!!! They're not the sole arbiter of what music should and shouldn't be popular. I'm not fucking cattle!
Life is not for the lazy.
This is good news. The torrent server panorama was getting stale and complacent.
Cheers to the new players! Live short and bright lives!