RIAA To Sue Individual's for File Sharing (This could mean you!!!!)

Miami Herald ^ | 06/25/2003 | Ted Bridis

[jimmccleod]

How many of you will stop downloading any music because of this. Has the RIAA won?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Good luck suing the file-sharing companies that are hosted from Europe.

[Skywalk]

I don't know. I guess the key is to not keep too many songs in your directory. I think any defendant should also cite relevant Constitutional passages.

I do not consider musical recordings to be "useful arts." It is clear that no one is using these files in business or to perpetrate a fraud that they are the original artists.

The Constitution clearly meant what we would consider to be patents or useful technologies to encourage innovation. It does not mean that an electronic recording is yours in perpetuity.

[muawiyah]

I never download music of any kind from the net, and I never buy CDs.

Still, RIAA wants a law that would allow them to cruise through my computer when I'm on-line to see what I might have.

Because of their attitude, RIAA is quickly alienating people who want nothing to do with them or their enemies.

[goldstategop]

Will we stop downloading from Kaaza Gold? I doubt it. Let them sue their customers out of existence.

[Henrietta]

Not by a long shot. They're not going after those that download, only those that offer stuff for download. And since they're only going after those that offer stuff for download who are in the United States, there's gonna be plenty of other sources around the world to download from for those who want to download music.

They should just offer the music for sale on the internet on a per-song and save themselves the distribution costs. I don't want to pay $18 for a cd on which I only like one song, and neither does anyone else, which is why file-swapping is so widespread.

[Jhoffa_]

GOOD!

I hope they make a Million, billion, kazillion, quantrillion⁹ dollars suing all these music thieves.

[Michael2001]

I'm going to keep downloading songs. I still buy the albums of the non-mainstream bands that I like

[Henrietta]

"The Constitution clearly meant what we would consider to be patents or useful technologies to encourage innovation. It does not mean that an electronic recording is yours in perpetuity."

As far as patents are concerned, you are correct. However, patents do not protect music; music is protected by copyrights. And you can protect copyrighted material until 50 years after the death of the author.

[Greg Packer]

I suppose all the Tom-Dick-Harry owners of porta studios who crank out MP3 audio crap for download could offer their own copyright waivers along with their crap. Sheez. It ain't even worth copyrighting, let alone downloading.

[ReagansShinyHair]

I don't bother to download songs because I would rather buy the nice CD in its shiny package. I don't buy that many, anyway.

However, how would they ever proove that it was me who downloaded the songs? Any guest could have come over, used my computer to check their email, and downloaded some songs that I don't have legal CDs to. There is absolutely no way for them to prove that it was a particular person.

[FORMERMID]

All I have to say is that, I have bought MORE cds since I have started downloading music than beforehand. I am just very selective. If I am going to spend 15 or more dollars on a CD there had better be a few good songs on it. All of these bands want to make money on ONE @#%$-ing song It drives me nuts. Show some real talent and I will spring for the cd (as I have) until then, the singers need to get ready to feel the pain for producing worthless music.

[BkBinder]

They're not going after those that download, only those that offer stuff for download.

At the risk of showing my ignorance (yet again today!), is an individual in violation of the law if: a)that individual offers for download copyrighted music; and, b)owns legal copies of each song that he offers for that download?

It seems to me that the downloader would be the party infringing the copyright.

[kylaka]

First there is a million, then comes billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, decillion and vigintillion.

What happens when the liberals have to resort to demonizing greedy decillionaires. I mean, it just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[plain talk]

screw 'em.

[Jhoffa_]

vigintillion...

You better watch using that one in mixed company.

[gaucho]

RIAA and the Organized Crime family of Music labels should get a clue and start by lowering the price of CD's. $20 for a CD? I only buy used CD's now and the RIAA and Mafia want to start collecting money on those too!

[b4its2late]

File sharing? What is that?

[Numbers Guy]

"It doesn't take too many tickets to get everybody to obey the speed limit," Prestwood said

Oh yeah, that's right, cops write a few tickets and everybody obeys the speed limit, happens all the time, everyone's crawling on the interstate at 55 mph (/sarcasm).

[plain talk]

here's the kazaa link in case anyone is interested.

http://www.k-lite.tk/

Besides morpheus what else is a good one?