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Posted on 05/14/2007 8:16:26 AM PDT by tranzorZ
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RIAA is out of line in their tactics. I can see where they wat to prevent downloading copywrited material, but they are being bullies.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:16:34 AM PDT
by
tranzorZ
To: tranzorZ
Is there such a thing as public domain songs?
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:19:35 AM PDT
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: tranzorZ
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:21:16 AM PDT
by
Lawdoc
(My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
To: tranzorZ
The RIAA, In their frivolous lawsuits, Are trying to stave off the future of their industry.
To: svcw
To: tranzorZ
Shouldn’t the RIAA be going after those putting the songs on the web for free, not those who download them?
To: desherwood7
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.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:25:42 AM PDT
by
tranzorZ
To: CertainInalienableRights
File sharing usually involves the person who is downloading to also upload.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:26:02 AM PDT
by
chaos_5
To: CertainInalienableRights
It’s more fun to show crying co-eds than to show tattooed, nose-pierced, shaven-headed, freakazoids...
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:26:25 AM PDT
by
hunter112
To: svcw
Is there such a thing as public domain songs? 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.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:26:39 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
To: tranzorZ
for some...tunes she downloadedI'm not familiar with P2P networks, but wouldn't this mean the RIAA is running a honey pot?
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:27:02 AM PDT
by
holymoly
(With an anti-gun Congress, we must have a pro-gun President. www.gohunter08.com)
To: svcw
I believe music can be copyrighted for a number of years then it can fall in public domain.
A musical groups performance can also be copyrighted.
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.
To: tranzorZ
You’re right. Considering that it’s pandemic.
To: tranzorZ
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.
To: tranzorZ
RIAA is a monopoly that needs to be broken up.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:32:22 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: HamiltonJay
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. I've got hundreds of albums and CDs too. I always just rip my own mp3s from my own collection.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:33:50 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
To: tranzorZ
This looks like the RIAA’s death spasms. The sooner the carcass is thrown out, the better.
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posted on
05/14/2007 8:34:05 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
(Isaiah 10:1 - "Woe to those who enact evil statutes")
To: kjam22
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.
To: desherwood7
The RIAA, In their frivolous lawsuits, Are trying to stave off the future of their industry.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.
To: HamiltonJay
See... I'm the opposite... I can load a CD in my studio and rip the whole thing faster than I could login to some p2p site and find and download something I want.
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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posted on
05/14/2007 8:41:14 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
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