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Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use
Washington Post ^
| Sunday, December 30, 2007; Page M05
| Marc Fisher
Posted on 12/30/2007 4:13:28 PM PST by WVNight
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lawsuits; musicdownloads; recordingindustry; riaa
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Is the RIAA included in the the Dinosaur media death watch?? If not it's time they were added.
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:13:30 PM PST
by
WVNight
To: WVNight
I was just thinking that very same thing.
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:14:59 PM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
(Mitt to supporters: "DON'T TRY TO DEFEND MY LIBERAL RECORD. BELITTLE THEM WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS")
To: WVNight
These guys have the ability to tie up the federal court system completely. They purchased software that allows them to file something like 50,000 lawsuits SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Congress will have to call them up short by mid-Summer is my guess.
In the meantime the declining number of teenagers is what is hurting them, plus the fact that most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P.
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:17:49 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: WVNight
Cut and past this one. Great read if you are interested in the current state of affairs in the Music Biz.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=1
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:18:33 PM PST
by
Afronaut
(Press 2 for English - Thanks Mr. President !)
To: WVNight
"I know! If we sue the pants off all our horse-and-buggy customers who are now buying automobiles, they'll want to go back to buying buggy whips from us!"
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:18:41 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: WVNight
The most important sentence:
"The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed."
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:19:24 PM PST
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: WVNight
The last music CD I bought was in the mid 1990s. Here I am a kid of the 1960s and 1970s and that with a bit of 1980s is all I will listen too. Some 1940 and 1950s also. But, nothing much after about mid 90s. Junk.
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:20:01 PM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(Better prepare, come Nov 08, we have a Marxist Commissar President and Marxist Congress.)
To: muawiyah
>
...the fact that most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P.DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!
Except that you are way too kind. The stuff they're peddling isn't fit to wrap up an over-used toilet bowl brush prior to disposal.
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:21:18 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: WVNight
Live music is where it’s at. Support your local musicians!
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:21:20 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: capt. norm
Two minds, single thought!
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:22:04 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: muawiyah
",,,,most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P."
I tell my kids that all I've heard lately is "Grade C Rap"
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:22:35 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president!)
To: RetiredArmy
The last music CD I bought was in the mid 1990s. I purchased some CDs for Christmas gifts that ranged from $4.99 to $7.99 per disc. The RIAA could solve this problem overnight by lowering the price of CDs to the point at which it is "cheaper" to buy them than to download the tracks illegally.
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:23:28 PM PST
by
pnh102
To: RetiredArmy; muawiyah; WVNight
most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P. Bingo!!!!
after about mid 90s. Junk.
I always liked what PJ O'Rourke said about modern music (I'm paraphrasing here) "Everything recorded since 1980 (I'd say about 1995 myself) sounds like someone pushed a china cabinet down a stair case".
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:25:21 PM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
To: pnh102
If you actually read the article, then you would know that copying songs from your compact disc into audio files on your computer constitutes a serious and grave offense against the recording industry. And if someone else is in the room when you listen, you’d better get an extra copy just in case...
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:26:29 PM PST
by
dufekin
(Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:26:55 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: WVNight
The record industry need to force more Rap, Hip Hop and Gangsta music on the American public. That is a sure recipe for success! /sarc
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:27:09 PM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Real men don't vote Democrat.)
To: WVNight
Come and take it!
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:28:10 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
To: WVNight
First off, Mp3’s are a facsimile of recorded music, 1/10 the quality of an analog recording.
The RIAA can kiss my ass.
Live music is better, Bumper stickers should be issued!
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:28:26 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: WVNight
Meanwhile, announced this week. Virgin Records Megastore on Sunset Blvd. in LA to close. Rent too high, cited as reason.
To: dufekin
If you actually read the article ... Well I was going to read the article, but as I clicked the link, I was sent a bill for reading a copy of the article without paying for it. :)
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posted on
12/30/2007 4:30:15 PM PST
by
pnh102
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