Posted on 05/14/2007 8:16:26 AM PDT by tranzorZ
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — At first, Sarah Barg thought the e-mail was a scam.
Some group called the Recording Industry Association of America was accusing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore of illegally downloading 381 songs using the school's computer network and a program called Ares.
The letter said she might be sued but offered her the chance to settle out of court.
Barg couldn't imagine anyone expected her to pay $3,000 — $7.87 per song — for some 1980s ballads and Spice Girls tunes she downloaded for laughs in her dorm room. Besides, the 20-year-old had friends who had downloaded thousands of songs without repercussion.
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The RIAA, In their frivolous lawsuits, Are trying to stave off the future of their industry.
Yes.
Shouldn’t the RIAA be going after those putting the songs on the web for free, not those who download them?
IMO, $3000 is excessive as hell. Considering the massive amount of people that do it and they target people who sometimes can’t afford it.
It’s more fun to show crying co-eds than to show tattooed, nose-pierced, shaven-headed, freakazoids...
Yes.... but they gotta be older than 1980s vintage. And pubic domain speaks to the right to "re-record" them as in make a new version. Not to make a digital copy somebody's existing version.
I'm not familiar with P2P networks, but wouldn't this mean the RIAA is running a honey pot?
This is off the top of my head.
p.s. Restaurants will not sing “Happy Birthday” to you because it is still copyrighted. That’s why they sing their own made-up song.
You’re right. Considering that it’s pandemic.
Funny thing is they have no way of knowing if anyone legally owns a song or not.
I bought tons of albumns over the years.. if I go download the MP3 of any song from them I have not violated any copyright as I legally own the song. There is no way they can know without question that someone does not legally own a song by download records.
RIAA is a monopoly that needs to be broken up.
I've got hundreds of albums and CDs too. I always just rip my own mp3s from my own collection.
This looks like the RIAA’s death spasms. The sooner the carcass is thrown out, the better.
I don’t, I can DL them faster than ripping them, and with less of a hassle. I haven’t opened a jewel case in years.
Frivilous? Hardly. Federal law clearly prohibits a person from using copywrited material without the consent of the copyright owner. The unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music is no different than stealing a gallon of milk for the corner mini-mart.
Plus... I don't mind supporting artists by buying their CD. I buy the ones I like... and hope the garbage (hiphop etal) will go away :)
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