I heard they are sending alot of these out lately.
apparently the music industry does not know how to spell.
I have lots of songs also. But I turned off "sharing" so nobody can get them from me.
It seems they go after the ones who have lots of songs that are available to others.
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One word: BitTorrent.
Interesting story. But the reporting and misspelled words leave a lot to be desired.
This is a legitimate candidate for stupidest BS in the American business world. In business math 102 or simple calculus they teach that there is a price for anything which maximizes profits and that price is NOT the highest price you could ever get for one copy. The whole world seems to know that EXCEPT for the RIAA which went in a single day from selling LPs for $7 to selling CDs which were cheaper to produce for $16 - $18 and they've never dropped the price a dime since then and they wonder why people share files over the internet.
Somebody needs to sue the RIAA into tommorrow-morrow land, this thing they're doing is harassment pure and simple and it amounts to the same thing as cops pulling an individual car here and there out of a line of traffic for speeding, which also will not hold up in court on a permanent basis.
I find it interesting that they mention the cd plant worker and the and the record store clerks. It looks like to me like the record compaines would have no problem making all they sell digital downloads. Also, if somboady ordered an actual prerecorded cd on-line aren't they putting some record store clerk out of work?
I am willing to bet that more people are working at plants making CDs now than before downloading became common.
Kazaa: www.kazaa.com
Bearshare: www.bearshare.com
Limewire: www.limewire.com
Brilliant! I wonder what Pepsi's website is? Or Free Republic?
I havent heard anything worth copying in the last 5 years.
I like country music and this new crap isnt country.
I will stick to my George Jones and Patsy Cline CD's
Jeez, about half the songs I have are probably on CD or tape around here somewhere, or at least used to. I see no sense in re-buying every album I ever bought because I want to hear a song or 10 that I have owned in the past.
Regardless, my share folder has squat in it. MP3s get moved as soon as they are downloaded.
I'd be willing to bet they aren't nailing adults like me who download old one-hit-wonders, classic rock and bluegrass. The music industry is in the sorriest state it has ever been in and it is NOT file-sharing's fault. It is the industry's fault. As long as it's all "ganta's and ho's", American Idol-type manufactured "talent" singing dopey crap, and the slut-singer-du-jour I will keep on downloading.
If I want to listen to something, I download it online. Usenet, BitTorrent, there are plenty of options. If I can't find it online I will go down to the local I.T. mall and for a few dollars buy a DVD filled with the latest albums... all without a penny going to the RIAA's lawyers.
P.S. RIAA you can send your threat letter to me here in Thailand and I will be more than happy to laugh at your stupidity... while my newest MP3 is playing in the background.
Now without that distribution instrument, we become more hesitant about listening to new music since CD's cost 15-19 dollars. That reduces the exposure of new bands we would listen to.
Yes, MP3 technology is illegal, but also remember so was the radio broadcast of music. The music industry shoots itself in the foot constantly.
It isn't on my hard drive anymore, I don't know where it went. It may have found it's way onto a compilation of DVD data disks.
Wow. This is one of the most poorly-written aritcles I've ever read.
The only way they can see what you have on your hard drive is to copy the list of songs and other files that you have stored in your "share" file that you offer to others.
Either that or they installed and/or used a hacker's program on your 'puter, which is illegal.
If the recording industry would embrace legally selling music online at 99 cents a song there would be little incentive to pirate music. Using programs file sharing programs like Kazaa fill your computer with spyware, browser hijackers and worse and the audio quality of some of these downloads is questionable. Instead of going to a record store and spending nearly $20 for a CD that is mostly shlock if people could go to a music store step up to a computer Kiosk and pick the songs they want from 100,000 titles for under a buck and load them directly to their I-pod or MP3 player, more outlets would sell music and sales would increase. The recording industry, particularly Sony, is shooting themselves in the foot.
Well, my hard drive crashed Sunday so I lost my 2000+ songs that I had downloaded from Limewire. I was going to dump them anyway because Limewire was giving my system a lot of trouble.
Problem is - STUPID ME I hadn't backed up the stuff I really needed like resumes and cross stitch patterns.
If the lawyers are going to go after music copyright laws then they also need to go after thrift stores, used book stores, garage sales, etc. because copyrighted material is resold in all.