Warner, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Sued for Piracy

[gekko668]

what's goes around comes around.

 

[captaincharisma]

this sounds like every company in the US. all they do is steal material and ideas from other countries. and they wonder why there country is almost bankrupt

 

[Manos]

Im not surprised so I really hope so that they do charge them the maximum possible to hurt their wallets if possible so next time around they think twice before they do any kinds of shit to the consumer or artists. REALLY someone needs to shut them up a bit.

 

[christop]

Hurts soooo good!!!!

 

[xrodney]

Now i want them pay 25k per song and responsible persons should go to jail for very long time, after all its them who want those ridiculous prices for single downloaded track and screaming piracy on every corner.
Maybe its finally time for revolution in film&music industry so those greedy a******s get what they deserved from beginning and real authors get finally more money.

 

[dtm4trix]

RIAA = Hypocracy at its finest!! It's really typical of American big business it seems. This is sad to say cause I am an American but gzzz man how fricken blantant can you be?

 

[okibrian]

Shut them down! Close the web sites! What? You asked The Pirate Bay to do just that.

 

[longerlife]

...the labels have already admitted to owing at least $50 million for infringing the rights of artists...

WOW, important words there are 'admitted' and 'at least', it is quite obviously going to be a lot more...

Of course the real difference between these labels and someone who torrents music, is that they were making money from it, taking a genuine physical music sale, and literally stealing from the artists (not theoretically).

 

[darkguset]

Morpheus: Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony

 

[Khimera2000]

LOL this is great, lets hope that they used there tracks in a couple of movies and I hope they get them for every track every copy of every movie released in theaters every DVD sale in store and every CD sold. I know there's more then 30000 theaters in the US not to mention world wide... so if they placed even one song in one movie and consider every theater at least one copy of the song then we can just go on from there. here's hoping they get a dose of there own medicine in a BIG way ... o ya WHY DO THEY CHARGE 20 BUCKS A CD... they should slide that in to somehow

 

[sylvia648]

And there Ladies and Gentlemen we have the piracy issue cleared up... total bullshit. Checkmate.


P.S. Be sure to copy the link to the article and if you ever have a debate with anyone that is anti-piracy link this and you win automatically.

 

[brendano257]

O M G. There is hope left in the world!

 

[Guest]

LOVING THIS...........

 

[jarnail24]

I just got some respect for Canada. now if we can grow some.

 

[jimmysmitty]

And that my dear friends is what we call irony.

And it is delicious.

Yummy.

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]khimera2000[/nom]LOL this is great, lets hope that they used there tracks in a couple of movies and I hope they get them for every track every copy of every movie released in theaters every DVD sale in store and every CD sold. I know there's more then 30000 theaters in the US not to mention world wide... so if they placed even one song in one movie and consider every theater at least one copy of the song then we can just go on from there. here's hoping they get a dose of there own medicine in a BIG way ... o ya WHY DO THEY CHARGE 20 BUCKS A CD... they should slide that in to somehow[/citation]

$20 bucks is steap. I think the last CD I bought worth its value (was $15 too) was 21st Century Breakdwon by Green Day. It was 18 tracks and 69 minutes long. Haven't seena CD like that for a while. Most are 10 tracks and maybe 30 minutes long.

And the CD was great too.

 

[tommysch]

I still think a global and perpetual DDoS attack on all labels is the way to go. No need for illegal botnets, just a willing coordinated attack.

 

[Regulas]

I love it and I hope the big record labels loose their collective asses.

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

This is all good and fun to gawk and high-five each other and say "take that you dirty corporations"...but lets step back into the real world for a minute.

Who essentially owns the world's governments? The massive conglomerates that cover the globe do. Who do you think has the money and the power to manipulate the laws of different countries? The people?

Let's speak honestly. In the end these corporations will be found guilty but on lesser charges than what we would like and what they deserve. They will most likely pay a paltry sum like $50-100 million which is petty cash for these corporations. Lawyers get half and the people suing divide the rest, get taxed and then walk away with a few million for their time.

It's a nice dream to believe that a mighty thor like hammer will come down from the heavens and smash these corporations and teach them a lesson by using precedent that they created against them....but we all know it's not going to happen.

 

[necronic]

That's pretty funny. Not just were they taking the songs without paying for them, they were selling them! Outstanding.