I don't believe the "retail value" works the way we think, either. I believe it's much higher. You would think that each song would be worth $20 CD divided by 12 (or so) = $1.66. But it's much higher than that. I'm looking for a link, but having no luck. The numbers will always work in the RIAA's favor, I suppose.
Yep, that's correct. Probably land you an E Felony. Over time, the MPAA/RIAA has been able to move file trading into the same effects as if you were bootlegging a million records and selling them for cash.
The NET Act says that even if you do not recieve money for your mp3 trading, receiving an mp3 file is considered financial gain.
What's scary is how they come up with the total cost of damange, and your fine. It can be something like $2,000 per song. And we already know how the RIAA can make magic numbers. I might only have 300 mp3 albums on my hard drive, but somehow it'll turn out to be 4,000 acts of copyright violations (4,000 songs) and then they'll count all the CD-R spindles in my room and claim that I'm a world wide bootlegger with thousands of underground contacts...
"...and just as the media companies violate federal antitrust laws and get caught but nothing happens to them,..."
Actually, they were rewarded with about a 280 million dollar fine for Conspiracy and Price Fixing. Just think, for 10 years of price fixing and making 20 billion dollars a year... all they had to do was pay 280 million dollars. They got a great deal!
-That should mean I should be put in jail for 5 minutes due to my 12,384 mp3 albums.
LOL! Yea, I know what the wrong message to American Corporation would be: we hurt you so quit funding us.
The message they want to send is: we want to suck your cock so that you can keep raping the sheep of america, so that we can keep getting our 10% of your slave money.
Yea no kidding. So far, I have been religiously supporting the terrorist for the last 5 years at a total of $0! Next year I propose to spend twice as much.
How is going to the public library and ripping & encoding 10 cd's at a time supporting terrrorist in Russia?
If you don't want to make a life-time pricing policy, though, you can still protect yourself by giving away fully functional demos that expire after 120 days. They can be registered with a key your provide them after you get paid.
LOL. Why is it we laud the achievements of a male actor sculpting his body, but when a female does it, she gets criticized.
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you on your statements.
However, in Bridget Jones Diary, one of the themes was the pains of being 20 pounds overweight. She easily did that in each cottage cheese thigh. And in Chicago, she was a sack of bones.
Similar to Robert Dinero. He got in fighting shape for Raging Bull and then put on over 50 pounds (by eating the producer's wife's home made pizzas) to act out the overweight fat boxer at the end of the movie. Truly amazing.
The Gangs of New York was missing one guy who could have cinched up the baddest accent gamut: Keanu Reeves. Think back to Dracula.
People argue when I talk about Keanu's terrible acting (don't get me wrong, he is a great type-cast bonehead in such films like Bill & Ted's, and Pointbreak)
But one only has to look as far as Dracula to see the total scene and setting break.
"Exccccelent Drac-dude!"
Oh, but what about Matrix, they say. Well, all I can say is....Keanu...hardly....spoke...a....word...
while watching the academy-release DVD (downloaded on SVCD format) the "For your consideration" text below each scene or actor, I can say there was no such words for Astin.
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I don't believe the "retail value" works the way we think, either. I believe it's much higher. You would think that each song would be worth $20 CD divided by 12 (or so) = $1.66. But it's much higher than that. I'm looking for a link, but having no luck. The numbers will always work in the RIAA's favor, I suppose.
Operation Buccaneer was the operatoin that took down an ex-warez scene...software distribution, etc.
The NET Act says that even if you do not recieve money for your mp3 trading, receiving an mp3 file is considered financial gain.
What's scary is how they come up with the total cost of damange, and your fine. It can be something like $2,000 per song. And we already know how the RIAA can make magic numbers. I might only have 300 mp3 albums on my hard drive, but somehow it'll turn out to be 4,000 acts of copyright violations (4,000 songs) and then they'll count all the CD-R spindles in my room and claim that I'm a world wide bootlegger with thousands of underground contacts...
The NET Act is out there, and it will be enforced one of these days.
Actually, they were rewarded with about a 280 million dollar fine for Conspiracy and Price Fixing. Just think, for 10 years of price fixing and making 20 billion dollars a year... all they had to do was pay 280 million dollars. They got a great deal!
-That should mean I should be put in jail for 5 minutes due to my 12,384 mp3 albums.
And in Texas, it might work.
The message they want to send is: we want to suck your cock so that you can keep raping the sheep of america, so that we can keep getting our 10% of your slave money.
What about the Godfather?
He only got that high score by cheating off his brudda, Jeb.
How is going to the public library and ripping & encoding 10 cd's at a time supporting terrrorist in Russia?
Personally, I want a spyder-bot to get all the info from Allmusic.com
If you don't want to make a life-time pricing policy, though, you can still protect yourself by giving away fully functional demos that expire after 120 days. They can be registered with a key your provide them after you get paid.
do as mysql site does and others... supply links for both options
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you on your statements.
However, in Bridget Jones Diary, one of the themes was the pains of being 20 pounds overweight. She easily did that in each cottage cheese thigh. And in Chicago, she was a sack of bones.
Similar to Robert Dinero. He got in fighting shape for Raging Bull and then put on over 50 pounds (by eating the producer's wife's home made pizzas) to act out the overweight fat boxer at the end of the movie. Truly amazing.
Proof!!
One of the comics, Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, won the fantasy short story of the year award a few years back.
but that was when I fell in love with the nude body of Nicole Kidman. But now she's gotten all skinny and disgusting.
People argue when I talk about Keanu's terrible acting (don't get me wrong, he is a great type-cast bonehead in such films like Bill & Ted's, and Pointbreak)
But one only has to look as far as Dracula to see the total scene and setting break.
"Exccccelent Drac-dude!"
Oh, but what about Matrix, they say. Well, all I can say is....Keanu...hardly....spoke...a....word...
I'm sure the guy got paid. That's the most he should be guaranteed.
heheheheh. Fargo has got to be the best ad for visiting your dentist, nationwide.
Mostly Legolas.
Because people like my parents still talk about how stupid Pulp Fiction was. Or how scared bijezus they were of it.
Hey, I'm all for the critical acclaim everyone is giving this guy. But Gangs of New York was no masterpiece.
Couldn't we just get in a spaceship and shoot away from the Big Crunch?
Likewise, Einstein, I ate some Chinese food for lunch yesterday, and guess what, I wasn't in China at the time.