RIAA offers file-sharers amnesty!

[monkspider]

I really think they crossed a boundary with the twelve year old girl, and the grandfather. The whispers of "boycott" amongst even mainstream consumers are getting louder. The RIAA is not long for this world

[Boris Godunov]

"Irated" isn't a real word!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by monkspider
I really think they crossed a boundary with the twelve year old girl, and the grandfather. The whispers of "boycott" amongst even mainstream consumers are getting louder. The RIAA is not long for this world

My roommates and I actually just vowed to no longer buy new CDs from RIAA sources. Of course, we have access to used CD stores and independent means that many do not...

[monkspider]

Who needs CDs when there are so many more economical forms of entertainment available cheaply, such as DVDs and video games? Of course, I just hope Deutsche Grammophon is not part of the RIAA.

[Boris Godunov]

http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp

DG isn't listed, thankfully. Makes sense, since the RIAA is American, after all.

Unfortunately, Decca and Sony Classical are listed. That pretty much nixes my recent plan to purchase the complete Mahler symphonies conducted by Bernstein with the NY Phil.

[mrmitchell]

Well, you know, there's one thing to know:

The RIAA is making up for another department.

[Soul Survivor]

A college student who sets up a network to pirate music, who knows full well it is illegal is one thing. But when they start going after 12 year old girls......

[Nubclear]

The MPAA (who cares, same goal) commercials saying that "OMFG I can't pay for anything!!!" attempt to guilt trip you....But then the RIAA goes and sues a poor girl and a poor grandfather?

I hope the RIAA goes out of business and is dissolved.

[The Mad Monk]

You know, we really should use one of the better-titled surviving threads.

[Ted Striker]

As heartless as it is, it was a pretty tactically smart move on their part.

I mean, if they are going to go after a 12 year old girl, they are going to go after ANYBODY.

---> That's the point they are trying to make

When I was younger (back in the 80s), my 13 year brother had this friend who ran a BBS with illegal copies of computer software on it. Well one day the FBI showed up at his doorstep...

[The Mad Monk]

Strategically dumb. I'm not going to buy any more CDs from them. I may change my mind in time, but I buy a lot of music -- that's right, buy, not download -- and in the meantime, they will lose those dollars.

I'm not alone, either.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Sheik
This proposal is absurd.

My understanding is that they can really only catch people if they are sharing files. Therefore it seems that the best way to not get caught is to use Kazaa lite and enabled the IP block and to stop sharing files. Am I correct in this assumption?

Yes, and this is what I do. Still, they win if people do this because then there will be much less content available for download.

[Skanky Burns]

What the RIAA should do is look to the porn industry for how to handle these new market situations. They are both in the same situation, new technology allows one copy of their product to multiply for free across P2P networks and their main source of income is from selling these products. Why pay for something when you can get it for free, as has been mentioned before.

Well, the porn industry, instead of fighting and trying to destroy all filesharing actually embraced the technology. Why not use it to help their business? They actually upload lower-quality files to the network, include advertisements for where you can get the higher-quality files, and then allow filesharing to actually increase their net presence.

Why can't the RIAA figure out a way to make money that doesn't involve suing 12-year-old girls?

[Dinner]

In the laat five years I've only bought one ligite CD (Beattles One) where as I've purchased something like 80-100 bootleg copies while on trips to east Asia and/or Eastern Europe.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Strategically dumb. I'm not going to buy any more CDs from them. I may change my mind in time, but I buy a lot of music -- that's right, buy, not download -- and in the meantime, they will lose those dollars.

I'm not alone, either.

I don't think so. I think that the number of people who don't want to get in trouble is way greater than the smaller number of people who just want to rip off free music or make a statement.

However at a tactical level this lawsuit is still brilliant. It shows these suits have TEETH. And that ANYBODY, anywhere, can get in trouble.

The ultimate answer for the dumbass RIAA is to simply set up a damn site where people can download music. I mean it is a total no brainer! When the movie industry stopped fighting VCRs their revenue tripled from video sales.