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

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

[wizzler]

Is it illegal to tape a show with your VCR?

No, but that's because this is a particular scenario that was covered by a particular (and very famous) case in the Supreme Court many years ago. This was deemed fair use, based on a premise called "time-shifting" that applies to this specific scenario. It has no relevance to music downloads.

Is it illegal to post an article on FR?

Yes. But again, infringement is in the eye of the infringed. It's up to a copyright holder to pursue a claim of infringement. Only two so far have seen fit to do so.

Is it illegal to make a copy of a song or songs from a CD for friend,

Yes.

or to listen to in your tape stereo in your car?

No.

Now my question: Do you know what you're talking about?

[Old Professer]

You obviously need a more demanding job.

[Golden Eagle]

Enjoy your DRM-infested IBM PC that is nothing more than a XBox that can run Microsoft Office......

As a completely legal user of said system, I'll take it any day over your Chinese built Linux box getting your music from Kazaa......

[Old Professer]

Oddly, there is only one "S" in asinine.

[Golden Eagle]

Then those of us who value our freedom will adopt a new motto: buy European IT products, but products that actually work.

Better idea. Why don't you just move there.

[Old Professer]

You're a real piece of work, did you know that?

[Calpernia]

You are very close to being on the motive. Lawyers are just out looking for the next "Payday". Matter of fact, this past weekend, a bunch of these hungry sharks had a meeting in Boston to discuss the 'next payday'. The next deep pockets they are targetting is Big Food (junk food). I'm sure these file swapping suites are just to keep empowered.

[mylife]

The RIAA is cuttin off its own D!(k.
But it's hey its legal.

[Kevin Curry]

Lawyers are just out looking for the next "Payday".

Easy solution: buy a CD, starve a lawyer.

[doug from upland]

I haven't listened to music for years. I listen to talk radio.

[Calpernia]

bump!

[mylife]

bur hey it's legal.

i need an editor

[wizzler]

Great -- a goth-metal snob AND a plastic-and-silicon snob.

"My favorite artists are far more musically gifted than the stuff on MTV" ... "My system lets me hear the inferior quality of MP3s that the peasants can't discern" ... "My computer can beat up your computer" ...

Geez, man!

[metalboy]

I don`t get this...First off, how can they prove you downloaded music? OK, maybe your server keeps a log on what you`ve been up to, but how does the RIAA get a hold of that? Do they go to each and every freggin` server demanding these logs and then spend umpteen hours going through each and every one? And what about pictures? Does this now include pictures, photos a well? How many billions of photos are downloaded everyday on the web, photos that are clearly copyrighted, but these photos are made available to anyone? I`m not talking about porn (which is probably paid for anyway) but just photos of anything, pictures that right here on FReerepublic are posted all the time..Pictures of Clinton and Hitlery for example, pictures that some photographer probably took and had copyrighted...So that means because i have a picture of Satan, I mean Hitlery on my computer, that I am now a felon? And doesn`t this whole copyright thing just pertain to making money off someone elses copyright? How does posting a picture of Hitlery "steal money" from the photographer? This is insane! And what about radio for cakes sake?? Is radio stations now going to close down?? Are they kidding? How much music is recorded by people everyday onto cassette tapes from the radio? I can understand these musicians and photographers wanting to get paid, but to me this claim that the industry is losing millions is ludicrous. Of course they`re losing millions because the music they`re putting out is so great, right? Yeah, the last time I bought a CD was about ten years ago and it sure as hell wasn`t because I couldn`t get a free copy, it`s because I thought the band kicked butt (Nirvana, yeah I know, so kick me) But since that time, nothing I`ve heard has impressed in the slightest to make me want to buy a CD, and i know Im` not the only one. I don`t know many people who are lining up to buy the latest "kick ass Timberlake CD" WOW!

[Old Professer]

We in the Curmudgeon Community do not appreciate being associated with persons of questionable character who are obviously short-fused; as a member in good standing, I believe I speak for the rest of us when I say, we believe in reason first, persuasion second and ostracism as a last resort.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Except for making new, unauthorized copies

Really? Now I have about 20 years of making and having made copies of books and periodicals at the library. If the library did it, I had to have a copy of the cover.

Go figure!