High James,
this is why they are opting to post their music and videos on sites like you
tube and my space.
Those ruthless people you are speaking of, these are the people that the
musicians are trying to get away from.
These people pockets just about all of the money, while the musicians hardly
get anything out of it.
I would venture out to say, it won't be very long before they have their own
websites to post their music and videos on.
And people will take to it like ants take to sugar.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <ja...@the-jdh.com>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 8:32 PM
Subject: RE: It's Still Stealing
The RIAA is in quite a bit of hot water right now because of its legal
tactics over the last few years. Namely, sue first, intimidate second, ask
questions later. They sued a 60-year-old woman who didn't even know how to
download music because they claimed someone from her house was
downloading
music illegally. She was the only one who lived there, and didn't have any
kind of network or anything for anyone not living there to gain access to.
But, that didn't stop them from suing her, trying to force her to settle,
and successfully bilking her out of multiple thousand dollars. That's just
one example. Throw "RIAA lawsuit" into google or some other search engine
and you can probably find plenty of others. So no, I wouldn't be overly
concerned if someone from the RIAA showed up at my door, because at best
their track record has been questionable. And if just one of the things I
supposedly downloaded proves to be inaccurate, they effectively have no
case. Every day now I hear of another court case that gets tossed out
because the RIAA basicly had no leg to stand on but was kind of hoping
their
victims would crack before that could be established. And yet, every day,
the RIAA keeps going on and on about how it's got an extremely high
success
rate at restoring the billions upon billions of dollars stolen out of the
pockets of musicians by the wicked evil music downloaders. Because, you
know, they're just looking out for the artists after all. Nothing to do
with
the fact they get pretty much all the money generated by CD sales anyway.
-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Tom
Sent: April 18, 2010 2:38 PM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: Re: It's Still Stealing
The websites that allow you to download music and other copyrighted
material
are illegal in the United States. Many of these sites are not in the
United
States and there have been situations where The the United States have put
blocks on these out of country websites. The RIAA is going after people
all
the time and arresting them and fining them for all the material they
downloaded illegally. If you do a lot of illegal downloading you could
well
find someone from the RIAA at your door someday.
If you pay for a CD or an MP3 song you can make as many copies of it you
wish as long as you and only you use it for yourself. If you give a copy
of
that CD or MP3 song to someone else then it becomes illegal.
Books from the NLS is a completely different situation. The copyright
holder of the books gives the NLS permission to reproduce their books in a
special format. That's why the NLS books that are on cassette are
recorded
in order, track one, track three, track two and track four. The idea was
that when recorded in this format the books could not be played on a
standard cassette recorder. The NLS cassettes are also recorded at half
normal cassette speed. This is also the reason digital books from the NLS
are in a special format. The NLS had to insure the copyright holders of
books that they would be used only by blind people and other handicapped
people who could not read a normal print book.
Tom
** Message From: DJ DOCTOR P **
>Ok, so you say, "it's still stealing."
>Then you tell me, why are there still some websites that lets you
>download
music and audio books without having to pay anything for it?
>Yes these sites still exist, and people are downloading music and audio
books without having to pay a dime for it.
>Explain that one to me, if you can!
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