Your opinion is not the issue here. You seem to have this problem in avoiding the issues and focusing on only what you want to say since you cant truthfully answer questions. Politician style. ISP's could not possibly monitor all their lines for illegal material passing through their lines. It would be too costly. This topic was discussed before. And guess what "everyone does it" is a good reason to make something a law. Remember we became a country because a majority of the people wanted it. We elect officials based on the majority principal. Are you trying to say this is wrong? BTW keep in mind it has already been proven that under the DMCA rights given by the constitution are taken away.
Name one case where a person was prosecuted by the RIAA for sharing tapes or CDs with their personal friends.
Good luck on your search, because you won't find anything.
I never said that the RIAA publicly condoned sharing CDs or tapes, but they certainly haven't taken anyone to court over it. There are two reasons for this.
1) It's a bit of an iffy case legally, and if they lost then it would become legal to share these home-made CDs and tapes with your friends. The RIAA is more than happy to leave this a legal gray area.
2) The RIAA knows that casual music sharing is like free advertisement. As long as the copyright violations don't become widespread the casual sharing works to their advantage.
What i said was that they get money from people sharing. I said nothing about RIAA prosecuting the actuall end users. And as an end user having to pay the extra price for cdrs b/c of the RIAA Im not happy.
You need to get some testicles attached. Or get that vacant space inside your cranium rented out. Hmm let me think, I will send proof of illegal activity to someone I couldnt care less about. Let me just jump up and do it now. I hope you do this, they send you to jail, and while you are tossing salad, you remember my troll.
Although, the girl hasnt dealt with it yet. She could still fight back. With such extortion coming from the RIAA (800,000) I can see how no one has yet stood up. They have so far been lucky.
The RIAA doesn't care if you do this, in fact, they almost certainly approve
The RIAA has turned a blind eye to sharing among friends forever (as is their right)
Wrong. When tape recording and cd recording made an apperance they said the same tale. Those who dont pay attention to history are bound to relive it genius. Every time you buy a CDR or blank tape, some of the profits of the company that made it is going to the RIAA. Thats why they dont care if you copy, b/c they make money from it.
First of all, they pay their lawyers no matter what. Even if they are sitting looking at goatce all day. They will still pay them the same amount.
Second of all, the reason they are keeping the price to settle so low is b/c they cant seriously win the court case. Too many factors to question. How they got the information is at the forefront of being elusive. Seeing as how they are charging people who have no possible way of sharing files i.e. the mac user and the latin music guy.
Third of all you have this problem that the laws of this country are the words of god. I dont believe in god, but my guess is that you will value this comparison. Laws are made by people just like you and me, well not you since you have a room temperature IQ. Our constitution is specifically designed so that the people can change it according to the needs of the people. And yet we have un-elected organizations like the FCC taking away rights granted to us by the constitution. If you dont see a problem here, than I have no idea how out of a million other sperm you got to the egg first. Copyright laws are made by the people for only their own benefit, not the benefit of society. Starting in the 80's copyright laws were made to benefit the corporate entities like the RIAA. And why you ask, because RIAA had the money to either pay off politicians, or pay for their compaign, leaving them in debt to the RIAA. This is wrong. Laws should be made to reflect the common good, not just certain individuals. And in a society where you can buy laws, either with lawyers or stupid politicians, everyone suffers. Guess what, the biggest problem with people like you is that Bush will be elected. And I do say elected not reelected because he was never elected in the first place. No matter what happened with those votes in Florida, he still lost by over 537,000 votes. So keep plunging our country into shit. And considering we are only a few years older than the longest surviving republic, I guess our time is about up. Personally I hope whatever shitty SUV you are driving gets crushed under an 18 wheeler carrying manure.
The wooden pieces of shit they sailed on were not expensive. You could run them off an assembly line for 100 bucks a pop. Since the wood would cost you 10.
Gotta love the 'my computer was compromised by Windowz insecurities defence. I would like to see a jury of linux users making microsoft show its windows code.
Thats exactly what we need. We need someone brain washed by religion to be sued by the RIAA. It's like killing two birds with one stone. The religious nut kills an RIAA executive and then gets the death penalty. If we were only that lucky.
Put money in a bank, it will work for you. Save enough and you will never need to work. Same as artists. Make an a single album good enough to make you one mil. Put in a 5-6 percent cd. Never work for the rest of your life.
The argument that people are hurting "the artists" by trading music on the internet is extremely weak. Most active musicians make most of their money by playing live shows.
Actually, that point is extremely weak. For one, most active musicians do not make that much more money touring live than they do from album sales. Second, you are still hurting the artist--that is still money you are not giving them. Third, if an album doesn't sell well and makes no profit for the label, what do you think happens to that artist? Now you get it.
You have got to be an RIAA lacky. Artists make as little as 2-8 cents for every cd sold. Lets subtract 20.00-.08=19.92. Yeay money for lawyers, money for prostitutes, money for cocaine. Lets check concerts. Depending on the band, a single life performance could run over a mil. Cds sold by artists themselves at concerts, with all money going to artists, even more money for the creators. And dont think it costs a lot of money to produce an album. With the new technologies you no longer need a recording studio. You can do it at home with the same quality. Costs of no more than 10, 20 grand. Ohh no advertising costs. Lets see a 1 mil dollar campaign: tv adds, posters, radio advertisements. Selling 1 million cds at 20 bucks a pop: 20 mil. Oh no must create pieces of plastic. Assembly line costs of 40 grand for 10 mil cds. Lets add retarded crap costs to make costs an even 2 mil. Leaves 18 mil. Where is that money going to? Ohh yea, coke dealers. I'd like to kill off some of your other arguments but they have already been taken care off.
Because they're not sueing people who *download* them, but people *offering* them for free download.
So by your argument they should sue themselves
How do you know that? Maybe they offer free songs for download, then when you try to download they trace your IP iff you are sharing songs. BTW I can't wait for them to sue one of their own. Or some multi-millionaire that will fight back. Just to stop this crap.
Not exactly. Remember those previous articles on/. about Die.. whatever it was. That company specifically donated to the Bush administration. For a total of 200,000 in donations. Afterward the Republican Senators started pushing closed source election boxes. Do you see the circle do you see the circle.
I think it may have been in reverse. Not sure about Bushes knowledge of 9/11 before it happened. Only know about the German warning. Betting it never even got to the administration. The economy would be better. No fake refund, most people already forgot about it. And the RIAA and MPAA crap, Gore would probably kept away from it. Leaning on keeping the internet free.
Gee lets think. Gore has a 200+ IQ, while the Bush administration asked the public for ideas on the terrorist issue. Hmmmm. Maybe with a person with who actually knows how to think in charge, we would not be in as much trouble as we are in today. Trouble: Largest deficit, increased military spending... And if you think this is just b/c of 9/11 then think again. Look at the deficit figures and economic markers before that time. And lets not forget that Bush did get more votes. No matter what the voting problems in Florida came out to be.
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Your opinion is not the issue here. You seem to have this problem in avoiding the issues and focusing on only what you want to say since you cant truthfully answer questions. Politician style. ISP's could not possibly monitor all their lines for illegal material passing through their lines. It would be too costly. This topic was discussed before. And guess what "everyone does it" is a good reason to make something a law. Remember we became a country because a majority of the people wanted it. We elect officials based on the majority principal. Are you trying to say this is wrong? BTW keep in mind it has already been proven that under the DMCA rights given by the constitution are taken away.
Name one case where a person was prosecuted by the RIAA for sharing tapes or CDs with their personal friends. Good luck on your search, because you won't find anything. I never said that the RIAA publicly condoned sharing CDs or tapes, but they certainly haven't taken anyone to court over it. There are two reasons for this. 1) It's a bit of an iffy case legally, and if they lost then it would become legal to share these home-made CDs and tapes with your friends. The RIAA is more than happy to leave this a legal gray area. 2) The RIAA knows that casual music sharing is like free advertisement. As long as the copyright violations don't become widespread the casual sharing works to their advantage.
What i said was that they get money from people sharing. I said nothing about RIAA prosecuting the actuall end users. And as an end user having to pay the extra price for cdrs b/c of the RIAA Im not happy.
You need to get some testicles attached. Or get that vacant space inside your cranium rented out. Hmm let me think, I will send proof of illegal activity to someone I couldnt care less about. Let me just jump up and do it now. I hope you do this, they send you to jail, and while you are tossing salad, you remember my troll.
And if you don't like it, follow the law or change it
Me "Heres your check for 1 mil just like I promised Senator, now go make the laws the way I want them to be."
Hey wait a minute that wasnt me that was the RIAA, my mistake.
Remeber that both killing yourself and everybody else is illegal.
Mod this kid up!!!!!
Although, the girl hasnt dealt with it yet. She could still fight back. With such extortion coming from the RIAA (800,000) I can see how no one has yet stood up. They have so far been lucky.
The RIAA doesn't care if you do this, in fact, they almost certainly approve
The RIAA has turned a blind eye to sharing among friends forever (as is their right)
Wrong. When tape recording and cd recording made an apperance they said the same tale. Those who dont pay attention to history are bound to relive it genius. Every time you buy a CDR or blank tape, some of the profits of the company that made it is going to the RIAA. Thats why they dont care if you copy, b/c they make money from it.
Thank you miss republican soccer mom.
First of all, they pay their lawyers no matter what. Even if they are sitting looking at goatce all day. They will still pay them the same amount.
Second of all, the reason they are keeping the price to settle so low is b/c they cant seriously win the court case. Too many factors to question. How they got the information is at the forefront of being elusive. Seeing as how they are charging people who have no possible way of sharing files i.e. the mac user and the latin music guy.
Third of all you have this problem that the laws of this country are the words of god. I dont believe in god, but my guess is that you will value this comparison. Laws are made by people just like you and me, well not you since you have a room temperature IQ. Our constitution is specifically designed so that the people can change it according to the needs of the people. And yet we have un-elected organizations like the FCC taking away rights granted to us by the constitution. If you dont see a problem here, than I have no idea how out of a million other sperm you got to the egg first. Copyright laws are made by the people for only their own benefit, not the benefit of society. Starting in the 80's copyright laws were made to benefit the corporate entities like the RIAA. And why you ask, because RIAA had the money to either pay off politicians, or pay for their compaign, leaving them in debt to the RIAA. This is wrong. Laws should be made to reflect the common good, not just certain individuals. And in a society where you can buy laws, either with lawyers or stupid politicians, everyone suffers. Guess what, the biggest problem with people like you is that Bush will be elected. And I do say elected not reelected because he was never elected in the first place. No matter what happened with those votes in Florida, he still lost by over 537,000 votes. So keep plunging our country into shit. And considering we are only a few years older than the longest surviving republic, I guess our time is about up. Personally I hope whatever shitty SUV you are driving gets crushed under an 18 wheeler carrying manure.
The wooden pieces of shit they sailed on were not expensive. You could run them off an assembly line for 100 bucks a pop. Since the wood would cost you 10.
Gotta love the 'my computer was compromised by Windowz insecurities defence. I would like to see a jury of linux users making microsoft show its windows code.
Thats exactly what we need. We need someone brain washed by religion to be sued by the RIAA. It's like killing two birds with one stone. The religious nut kills an RIAA executive and then gets the death penalty. If we were only that lucky.
Obviously... a sense of humor isn't yours.
For that matter, why in hell would I download anything by Spears or any other trash the RIAA puts out?
Put money in a bank, it will work for you. Save enough and you will never need to work. Same as artists. Make an a single album good enough to make you one mil. Put in a 5-6 percent cd. Never work for the rest of your life.
The argument that people are hurting "the artists" by trading music on the internet is extremely weak. Most active musicians make most of their money by playing live shows.
Actually, that point is extremely weak. For one, most active musicians do not make that much more money touring live than they do from album sales. Second, you are still hurting the artist--that is still money you are not giving them. Third, if an album doesn't sell well and makes no profit for the label, what do you think happens to that artist? Now you get it.
You have got to be an RIAA lacky. Artists make as little as 2-8 cents for every cd sold. Lets subtract 20.00-.08=19.92. Yeay money for lawyers, money for prostitutes, money for cocaine. Lets check concerts. Depending on the band, a single life performance could run over a mil. Cds sold by artists themselves at concerts, with all money going to artists, even more money for the creators. And dont think it costs a lot of money to produce an album. With the new technologies you no longer need a recording studio. You can do it at home with the same quality. Costs of no more than 10, 20 grand. Ohh no advertising costs. Lets see a 1 mil dollar campaign: tv adds, posters, radio advertisements. Selling 1 million cds at 20 bucks a pop: 20 mil. Oh no must create pieces of plastic. Assembly line costs of 40 grand for 10 mil cds. Lets add retarded crap costs to make costs an even 2 mil. Leaves 18 mil. Where is that money going to? Ohh yea, coke dealers. I'd like to kill off some of your other arguments but they have already been taken care off.
Because they're not sueing people who *download* them, but people *offering* them for free download.
So by your argument they should sue themselves
How do you know that? Maybe they offer free songs for download, then when you try to download they trace your IP iff you are sharing songs. BTW I can't wait for them to sue one of their own. Or some multi-millionaire that will fight back. Just to stop this crap.
saying pr0n is wrong and destructive to people and relationships
I disagree, my relationship with my right hand has never been so good.
Diebold gives money to Bush. 200,000 so far. Not a good idea for a Bush supporter to diss them.
Remember a little thing called Y2K, chances are we are going to be using the same software and hardware for the next 30 years.
Not exactly. Remember those previous articles on /. about Die.. whatever it was. That company specifically donated to the Bush administration. For a total of 200,000 in donations. Afterward the Republican Senators started pushing closed source election boxes. Do you see the circle do you see the circle.
I think it may have been in reverse. Not sure about Bushes knowledge of 9/11 before it happened. Only know about the German warning. Betting it never even got to the administration. The economy would be better. No fake refund, most people already forgot about it. And the RIAA and MPAA crap, Gore would probably kept away from it. Leaning on keeping the internet free.
Woops Gore got more votes, by 300,000 I think. Hit submit too soon.
Gee lets think. Gore has a 200+ IQ, while the Bush administration asked the public for ideas on the terrorist issue. Hmmmm. Maybe with a person with who actually knows how to think in charge, we would not be in as much trouble as we are in today. Trouble: Largest deficit, increased military spending... And if you think this is just b/c of 9/11 then think again. Look at the deficit figures and economic markers before that time. And lets not forget that Bush did get more votes. No matter what the voting problems in Florida came out to be.
Microsoft has been releasing Windows code to specific partners. Most recently they were going to release Longhorn code. Look it up on Neowin.
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