RIAA Wins Against Usenet.com

[exfileme]

The Recording Industry Association of America came out as the victor in its legal battle against Usenet.com.

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[macer1]

waits for everyone to flame the courts for ruling in favor of the RIAA. Laws are laws, live with it.

 

[chripuck]

**Yawn** No worries for me, I haven't bought a new CD in years. I don't download illegally, I just buy them used. Of course leave it to the RIAA and that would be illegal too.

 

[chripuck]

[citation][nom]macer1[/nom]waits for everyone to flame the courts for ruling in favor of the RIAA. Laws are laws, live with it.[/citation]

Waits for you to get sued by the RIAA because you decided to copy your own legally bought CD's to your computer.

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2007/12/30/Recording-industry-ups-ante-for-downloads/UPI-14291199046551/

The RIAA is the devil. When will they learn that people didn't stop buying the CD's because of pirating but rather because they have 90% filler on them that are nothing but crap music.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]macer1[/nom]waits for everyone to flame the courts for ruling in favor of the RIAA. Laws are laws, live with it.[/citation]

Yea we shouldn't complain about a company that has no people suing anyone, including 7 year old girls. That and refusing to change their decade plus obsolete business model.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

Can we burn the RIAA and kill it's CEOs? Am I going to get sued now?

Serious, burn it to the ground.

 

[tenor77]

[citation][nom]macer1[/nom]waits for everyone to flame the courts for ruling in favor of the RIAA. Laws are laws, live with it.[/citation]

I would have no problem with the courts siding with an artist who was getting ripped off. A bunch of lawyers who claim they're supporting the artist but pocket the money themselves should have no right to sue anyone.

 

[ckthecerealkiller]

This decision is another example of courts recognizing the value of copyrighted music and taking action against companies and individuals who are engaging in wide scale infringement.

In other words this is how deep our pockets are.

 

[brendano257]

Rich Industry Assholes of America?

 

[1haplo]

No Tapes, CDs, or MP3s. Vinyl, The Way It's Meant To Be Played!

 

[mavroxur]

God help us all, the RIAA Gravy Train has been set in motion.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

[citation][nom]1haplo[/nom]No Tapes, CDs, or MP3s. Vinyl, The Way It's Meant To Be Played![/citation]

No the f&%king RIAA would sue because "records" are violating their company name.

 

[gorehound]

Rich Industry Assholes of America? hehehehe great comment

i would definately not buy any music that comes from a corporate label or buy from any artist/label who signs with the RIAA.

if every one works together we can really hurt these bastards.
these folk do deserve to get it in the ass.i hate these blood leeches.

 

[Guest]

Direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and vicarious infringement. OK I know I'm stupid, but come on them some big words up there. The RIAA can do this because they have the money to do it. Wait? Didn't they say that pirating taking money away from them???? I guess they need another 50 room house. I think if you put something out for the public. There should be no such thing as copyright laws, but what do I know. I'm just a dumb POOR hick, well not a hick, and they fell they need to take every last bit of our money. I guess it's fine. Not like I have the money to say anything.

 

[noobinberg]

[citation][nom]brendano257[/nom]Rich Industry Assholes of America?[/citation]
HERE HERE!!!!

 

[Guest]

If usenet.com hired lobbyists and made bribes... errrr.... I mean campaign contributions, it might be a different story....

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]leafman420[/nom]There should be no such thing as copyright laws....[/citation]
Jesus fuck NO.

There should be sane copyright laws (i.e. not "life of the author +70 years," more like "10 years from date of publication" or something), but not NO copyright laws.
I don't know about you, but I'd like the ability to get paid for people buying something I created instead of being ripped off by everybody. If creators want to give it away they can copyleft/Creative Commons it or whatever, but that should be optional.

Also, just to remind people that this doesn't have anything to do with Usenet, but Usenet.com, which was to Usenet what Pirate's Bay was to P2P only more blatant. They advertised and encouraged piracy with their service.

 

[Guest]

Usenet.com did something stupid. Fine. But Usenet as a whole has nothing to do with Piracy. There are over 100,000 groups there is what... a handful of pedo & piracy groups? Going after Usenet is like going after the entire web... or even Walmart for sellin Billy the PC used to go onto Pirate Bay or P2P to steal some crappy Jonahs brother CD.

 

[okibrian]

[citation][nom]1haplo[/nom]No Tapes, CDs, or MP3s. Vinyl, The Way It's Meant To Be Played![/citation]
Not for new music, but for anything made before the early 80s hell ya. All that classic and mowtown music belongs on vinyl ONLY. It needs that pop and cracking sound. It's like hot dogs and a cold beer at a ball game. It's just the way it should be.

 

[velozzity]

Come on everyone lets get real it's always been about money and greed, I am in my mid thirties and all i remember since I was young is the price of digital media constantly increasing in price. I was suspect that the cost of making a DVD or a CD over the years has substantially decreased to a few cents per each unit. I have not bought any cd's and purchase a few DVD's a year due to their outrageous price. Guess what I spend the most of my time here, thats right, on the internet where I can entertain and challenge my mind for free, but I guess the pricks at RIAA will find a way to make money off of the internet too, once they've ruined the Digital Recording Industry. For Gods Sake, Drop the Price of a CD to about 5 Dollars and Dvd's to about 10 and I'll be glad to buy my share a year, but until then keep your COPYRIGHTS