Posted on 05/27/2004 12:57:50 PM PDT by jjm2111
I wonder if it gets them all.
Online streaming radio usually stinks.
The exceptions are things like Launchcast and MusicMatch radio, which aren't streamed but delivered to you.
Customer: A person who purchases a product or service from a vendor.
The RIAA isn't suing their customers, they are suing individuals who steal the music (Steal: To take without payment).
It isn't just Steve Jobs. Fortune, Infoworld, The Wallstreet Journal, Time are saying it, too.
iTunes Music Store has sold 70 million songs the past year. The Pepsi promotion counted for just over a million of those.
All competing online stores combined have sold about 5 million songs in the past six months.
The RIAA isn't going after people who download. They're going after people who UPLOAD. If you have more than 1000 songs in your upload library, you get on their lawsuit list.
The RIAA simply logs into the P2P service, tracks your IP number, and serves a subpoena on the ISP to get your address.
Don't fall for the poor innocent victim single Mom in this. The daughter is a hard core music uploader with at least 1000 songs in her upload library.
Apparently you haven't been following it too well, although I will cut you some slack, since the "evil is good, good is evil" crowd have been notoriously one-sided in their reporting.
The RIAA criteria is simple. If an IP address has more than 1000 songs in their upload library, they subpoena the ISP for the address and serve the lawsuit.
They do. 80 years after the death of the author. It used to be less, but Disney has been lobbying congress every few years to have the copyright extended to keep Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters copyrighted.
I think my original point was lost somewhere along the line. The story implies that the industry has some way of tracking who downloads. I say they don't.
Perhaps they thought you were Mormons or JW's.
I stand corrected. I guess I was just thinking about an older news article.
I suppose anybody with enough money to burn on a $300 iPod with a non-replaceable battery that goes out in a year or two, has enough money to re-buy their entire music collection every couple of years, also.
Get off your high horse and don't pretend to lecture me.
You're right --- this should work both ways --- if anyone makes a pop-up ---- unsolicited porn or smut that goes to my kids they should be sued.
There are still some bugs to iron out. A link from one of your links: ‘Anonymous’ P2P users busted in Japan
I assume if it's on your hard drive, one of the RIAA people would actually have to download it from you to have any kind of case. I could have a file named Huey Lewis - Stuck On You.mp3 in a shared folder, and it's really a spreadsheet with a shill name. They would have to make sure it was the real deal. And, I believe in articles I've read in the past, they haven't figured out what to do if someone ripped a song from their own CD. Of course, the problem would be making it available to others, but they mentioned downloading the song and comparing it to known shared songs to look for certain "hooks" in the data.
I used to download a few songs here and there, and it did eventually add up. I would sometimes download songs I already had so I could make compilation CDs, since that's an easier way to do it than to rip the songs from my own CDs. Other than that, I would download songs I planned to buy. I know that sounds like a lame excuse, but it's literally true.
Of course, I was a leech and never let anyone download from me. ;)
"...posed as a mannequin..."
You gotta love TV. Let me give you an actual example. A man drove off the road and hit a car that was parked on the shoulder, permanently injuring the occupant. The court ordered regular restitution payments be paid to help with the victims long-term care. The driver subsequently disappeared and was not heard from for several years. Attorneys for the victim were unable to find this man and no payments were ever made. We were able, through a wee bit of deception, to locate this man in another state. Rather than pay one of us to travel there to serve him with a summons, the attorney elected to have a process server in that town do the service. We still got a nice little check for our detective work and justice was served. I don't understand how some think this makes us bad people.
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