That EULA would never stand up in court. You can't legislate through contract, and the jury is still out on if you have entered a contract when you haven't signed anything.
Ha! They spend millions, if not billions developing these schemes and they are cracked for nearly nothing! All they do with this crap is piss off legitimate owners of CDs. They are not even a bump in the road for the pirates making the $3.00 CDs you see at the flea market, and on street vendors' carts. If there were idiot asylums, all the jokers in the recording industry would be committed.
Here is an answer. Boycott lexmark. You need a printer? May I suggest Brother, Canon, HP, Xerox, the list goes on and on. Boycott Lexmark into bankruptcy for this insult! Don't buyanything they make.
This is certainly a good idea, and is listed at dontbuycds.org under non-RIAA music sources. When the RIAA and affiliated labels perish, a new industry of, by, and for music lovers will emerge. This has already begun.
Why do The Onion's fans think no one but them can do satire and parody? It would be lame if there were only one source of them. Maybe these Onion people aren't really fans, but employees plugging their product. Besides, The Onion doesn't even have anything cool like Batboy. Weekly World News is funnier than them any day.
Isn't it pretentious how the leeches and hangers on in the recording industry claim to be in the music business. Composers and performers are in the music business, not the parasites at the labels, or Hilary Rosen. File trading isn't theft, it's the digital ages radio, and the best form of promotion music ever had. Dont'Buy CDs until the recording industry cleans up its act.
Why is such flamebait scored 5 insightful? You can say that file trading is copyright infringement. Others will say it's fair use, but when you call it theft, or call it immoral, "them's fightin' words." Morality is subjective. Many see nothing wrong with using napster-like services, as we saw nothing wrong with trading home tapes in the '80s.
What would be an acceptable course of action for the RIAA? Here is an exerpt from dontbuycds.org:
To sum it all up, the recording industry needs to reform itself. Our boycott will end when they meet these demands.
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Stop using copy protection schemes.
Using them denies us our fair use and personal property rights, and accuses us all of being thieves. If we buy discs, we have the right to play them in the player we choose. If that is the CD-Rom drive of a computer, so be it. We have the right to copy them to a personal MP3 player, or make a custom CD-R of favorite songs.
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Leave file traders alone.
File trading gives artists, and the recording industry free promotion. Radio used to be a great promotion, but now rarely deviates from limited play lists which labels must pay to get onto through independent promoters. While Napster was online, CD sales were up. File trading is a legitimate way to try before buying. Music fans need it, and so does the industry.
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Stop selling music at such an obscene mark up.
The cost to press and package a disc has continually gone down. It is currently less than one dollar. We realize that there are production costs beyond manufacturing, but that doesn't justify gouging. When CDs were new, they cost twice as much as LPs and cassettes. The industry claimed that the cost to produce this new format was high, and promised that as their costs came down, so would retail prices. This price drop never occurred. Instead, retail prices have gone up. In stores where vinyl records and cassettes are still sold, they are priced lower than CDs, even though they cost more to manufacture. A movie on DVD frequently sells for less than its soundtrack on CD. The industry has colluded to fix prices, and was forced to settle a class action law suit over this practice, yet CDs in suburban malls can retail for more than twenty dollars. In many countries, CDs cost more than that. In Iceland for example, a CD can cost 2500kr, equal to 29.50 in US dollars. This is unacceptable.
They are beginning to understand that their practices have made countless former customers abandon them, and have led to the creation of organizations like dontbuycds.org.
The recording industry must reform itself, or perish like the horse-and buggy industry did after the automobile was invented. If you don't like that comparison, try this one. If your head is in the basket, you were on the wrong side of the revolution. The RIAA are trying to avoid sharing the fate of Louis XVI.
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Why don't IBM, and anyone else he has sued just make Darl McBride sleep with the fishes? How about a re-enactment of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on SCO's whole executive and legal staff? Business just isn't done like it was in the 1920s any more.
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That EULA would never stand up in court. You can't legislate through contract, and the jury is still out on if you have entered a contract when you haven't signed anything.
Ha! They spend millions, if not billions developing these schemes and they are cracked for nearly nothing! All they do with this crap is piss off legitimate owners of CDs. They are not even a bump in the road for the pirates making the $3.00 CDs you see at the flea market, and on street vendors' carts. If there were idiot asylums, all the jokers in the recording industry would be committed.
Here is an answer. Boycott lexmark. You need a printer? May I suggest Brother, Canon, HP, Xerox, the list goes on and on. Boycott Lexmark into bankruptcy for this insult! Don't buyanything they make.
If you signed up for the RIAA's amnesty program, here is some important information you need to know.
This is certainly a good idea, and is listed at dontbuycds.org under non-RIAA music sources. When the RIAA and affiliated labels perish, a new industry of, by, and for music lovers will emerge. This has already begun.
Moon and Uranus in a single headline? Goatse trolls to begin in 5, 4, 3...
So, this is what all the money they raised with those scam emails was used for.
Why do The Onion's fans think no one but them can do satire and parody? It would be lame if there were only one source of them. Maybe these Onion people aren't really fans, but employees plugging their product. Besides, The Onion doesn't even have anything cool like Batboy. Weekly World News is funnier than them any day.
Isn't it pretentious how the leeches and hangers on in the recording industry claim to be in the music business. Composers and performers are in the music business, not the parasites at the labels, or Hilary Rosen. File trading isn't theft, it's the digital ages radio, and the best form of promotion music ever had. Dont'Buy CDs until the recording industry cleans up its act.
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usage: Yo, Bitch! Lick my Scotus!
So called intellectual property laws defeat the very purpose of communication. They are an abomination, and should be abolished.
The RIAA are dinosaurs who deserve to be extinct. Read more at dontbuycds.org
Xbox is dying, just like BSD. That is why no one is posting on this thread.
The RIAA affiliated labels deserve to be boycotted into oblivion. Don't buy CDs.
What would be an acceptable course of action for the RIAA? Here is an exerpt from dontbuycds.org:
To sum it all up, the recording industry needs to reform itself. Our boycott will end when they meet these demands.
* Stop using copy protection schemes. Using them denies us our fair use and personal property rights, and accuses us all of being thieves. If we buy discs, we have the right to play them in the player we choose. If that is the CD-Rom drive of a computer, so be it. We have the right to copy them to a personal MP3 player, or make a custom CD-R of favorite songs.
* Leave file traders alone. File trading gives artists, and the recording industry free promotion. Radio used to be a great promotion, but now rarely deviates from limited play lists which labels must pay to get onto through independent promoters. While Napster was online, CD sales were up. File trading is a legitimate way to try before buying. Music fans need it, and so does the industry.
* Stop selling music at such an obscene mark up. The cost to press and package a disc has continually gone down. It is currently less than one dollar. We realize that there are production costs beyond manufacturing, but that doesn't justify gouging. When CDs were new, they cost twice as much as LPs and cassettes. The industry claimed that the cost to produce this new format was high, and promised that as their costs came down, so would retail prices. This price drop never occurred. Instead, retail prices have gone up. In stores where vinyl records and cassettes are still sold, they are priced lower than CDs, even though they cost more to manufacture. A movie on DVD frequently sells for less than its soundtrack on CD. The industry has colluded to fix prices, and was forced to settle a class action law suit over this practice, yet CDs in suburban malls can retail for more than twenty dollars. In many countries, CDs cost more than that. In Iceland for example, a CD can cost 2500kr, equal to 29.50 in US dollars. This is unacceptable.
The recording industry must reform itself, or perish like the horse-and buggy industry did after the automobile was invented. If you don't like that comparison, try this one. If your head is in the basket, you were on the wrong side of the revolution. The RIAA are trying to avoid sharing the fate of Louis XVI.
No real rules there are for engrish grammar.
Great Google-ey Moogle-ey!!
Why don't IBM, and anyone else he has sued just make Darl McBride sleep with the fishes? How about a re-enactment of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on SCO's whole executive and legal staff? Business just isn't done like it was in the 1920s any more.
The yahoos like shiny things.
And Microsoft doesn't have a total on operating systems for the PC. They didn't need government help to take almost total control.
Where is corporate "intellectual property" more important than freedom of expression? In the United States of Avarice.
Yeah! All they would have to do is doctor the picture. No bombs needed.
All those how many _______ does it take to screw in a light bulb jokes would be gone, too. Could comedy survive without them?
To hell with C3PO. I want Cherry 2000!