yeah, well i guess thats why 4000 artists (some dead.....) think they need their copyright protections extended to 95 years from the current (already ridiculous) 50.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=421080&in_page_id=1773&ito=1490

12/8/2006 10:29:19 PM

RIAA showing its true colors here...turns out they could care less about artist payback, but just want the record labels to make bank no matter what:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/

12/8/2006 11:10:28 PM

^ I meant: http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/09/riaa-petitions-to-lower-artist-royalties-weakens-piracy-argumen/

12/9/2006 12:32:11 AM

SWAT teams ...

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/0744236

2/19/2007 11:33:38 AM

^ I read that. I understand the urge for anti-corporate terrorism now.

[Edited on February 19, 2007 at 12:15 PM. Reason : I'm probably on a list now for saying I understand terrorism. ]

2/19/2007 12:14:29 PM

I think the bigger question here is WHO THE FUCK STILL BUYS CDs?!? I haven't bought a CD since 1999.

2/19/2007 2:16:25 PM

I can't remember the last time I bought a cd, mostly because I don't have a cd player in my car, nor in my house, with the exception of my cd-drives on the computer.

2/19/2007 2:20:04 PM

This may be the best promotion Drama, Sense, and Cannon could ever ask for.

Or it might break them.

2/19/2007 5:19:48 PM

I really want to see Best Buy raided.

2/19/2007 5:24:37 PM

Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March
http://tinyurl.com/3yuwlh

Quote :

"With that in mind, Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. Am I saying you should start pirating music? Not at all. You can continue to support the artists you enjoy and respect in a number of ways."

2/23/2007 7:53:17 PM

Too bad kids aren't committed or smart enough to really boycott an industry that is trying to screw them.

2/23/2007 11:03:47 PM

power to the people

(*raises fist*)

2/23/2007 11:09:51 PM

my civics teacher told us to boycott nike to see prices drop but nobody did that either :-/

2/24/2007 3:57:33 PM

hotness

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/28/digital-fair-use-bill-introduced-to-ammend-dmca/

2/28/2007 1:43:56 PM

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2/28/2007 2:50:33 PM

Hmmm.

http://www.slyck.com/story1422.html

Now they are giving college students a chance to pay up before they get sued.

2/28/2007 8:20:20 PM

Extortion. Nice.

They could just probably send the letter to every man, woman, and child and see who pays up and just ignore the rest.

[Edited on March 1, 2007 at 7:20 AM. Reason : -]

3/1/2007 7:18:40 AM

duh... i think the record companies get over 90% of the money from the sale of a cd.

3/1/2007 8:28:34 AM

so this is a longshot..

but a friend of a friend (friend told me regarding their friend) that she is being sued for illegal downloading of music (she goes to State). Apparently they are suing her for $750 per song she's downloaded, which of course is several hundred (probably 500 songs). Thats like $350,000!? What is the best way to combat this? Again, no skin off my nose, but trying to help someone out. Not trying to condone illegal music or anything, but wondering from an individual standpoint how for her to not be owned by the RIAA.

3/1/2007 11:14:03 AM

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

This is a decent place to start looking for information about the RIAA legal process. It details the legal process and also gives a list of lawyers.

3/1/2007 11:24:02 AM

RIAA is actively pursuing lawsuits against some State students right now, so don't be surprised if you start to hear of more people being threatened with legal action.

3/1/2007 3:17:53 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255479,00.html

Honeycutt distributed this to CSC379 class.

Pretty much re-iterates what others are saying about NCSU students being sued, but also lists the other schools targeted.

3/1/2007 4:46:56 PM

Quote :

"Too bad kids aren't committed or smart enough to really boycott an industry that is trying to screw them."

Umm, they pretty much do without knowing it. I mean really, who the hell buys CDs anymore.

3/1/2007 4:51:55 PM

^^^
some == 33

3/1/2007 8:18:44 PM

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/riaa-extortion-site-thanks-you-looks-forward-to-future-business-together-241718.php

3/5/2007 11:16:16 PM

Another fun one, now we're targeting internet radio retroactively to make even more moneyz!

http://www.save-internet-radio.com/2007/03/02/save-internet-radio/

3/6/2007 12:07:33 AM

bttt

http://tinyurl.com/2yh6vv

3/12/2007 8:42:01 AM

damn.

3/12/2007 8:47:39 AM

they still havent got me

3/12/2007 10:02:15 AM

Quote :

""Since we first began suing individuals for illegal file-trafficking, we have witnessed immense growth in national awareness of this problem," RIAA President Cary Sherman said in the same chat. "There isn't a college student in America today who doesn't know that the online 'sharing' of copyrighted music is illegal. Yet file-trafficking on college campuses remains extensive and disproportionately problematic.""

Shouldn't that tell you something dipshit??? That every rational human being thinks that you and your organization are a bunch of fucktards??? Jesus, what a bunch of retards

3/12/2007 3:01:58 PM

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/riaa-sues-stroke-victim-in-michigan.html

3/14/2007 4:10:47 PM

Newest target: 10 year old girls!

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/24/2220222

3/25/2007 9:21:50 AM

Quote :

"Apparently they are suing her for $750 per song she's downloaded, which of course is several hundred (probably 500 songs)."

are they still only catching people uploading, or can they catch you for just downloading a song now? if the latter, how do they know how many songs she DL'd (assuming they only caught her DLing 1 or 2 songs), unless the courts allowed them to seize her hard drive? even then, how would they prove that none of those songs were legal copies?

3/25/2007 10:03:07 AM

^ Look on this page: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com

They have a detailed outline of how the RIAA lawsuits works and how all the evidence in presented. Above all, remember that these are civil cases and the rules for evidence and burden of proof are much looser than in criminal cases.

3/25/2007 10:59:20 AM

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/university-of-nebraska-will-bill-riaa-11-for-each-threatening-letter-received-246813.php

3/26/2007 12:46:34 PM

^ Good stuff. I've been waiting to see something like that.

3/26/2007 1:13:29 PM

i wish i could like find people i knew that downloaded stuff and be like an online bounty hunter

thats the ticket!

3/27/2007 1:32:38 AM

Quote :

"UMS refuses to hand student info to RIAA http://tinyurl.com/ytmdpa email: noway@email.com | pass: noway thanks to bugmenot via digg: http://digg.com/security/UMaine_refuses_to_hand_student_info_to_RIAA "It's not the university's role to, in effect, serve papers on our students for another party," John Diamond, spokesman for the university system, said of the decision. ... The RIAA sent the system only the numerical Internet addresses of students the industry has accused of copyright violations. They asked the UMS to provide the names of those students. Diamond said the RIAA's request for student information asks the system to violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which bars the UMS from divulging information not considered public. The Internet addresses the university assigns to students accessing the network is not public. Despite this, some institutions have given up their students' names to avoid court fees. ... "The only way the RIAA can get that information is if the RIAA takes us to court to get those names," Diamond said. ... Ippolito said the practice of subpoenaing universities won't necessarily hold water in court, and was critical of the RIAA's newest tactics with colleges, a policy he called "mafia-like." "They want to bully universities into exposing students and also bully students directly into signing onto a discount," Ippolito said. "There's no legal process and that's the end of the story." According to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998 bill meant to protect copyrighted material in the digital age, the university is not responsible for copyright violations on its network. The university system needs only to make sure students delete any copyrighted works found by an outside agency such as the RIAA."

[Edited on March 28, 2007 at 2:05 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2007 2:05:24 AM

Quote :

" RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds via slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/0111205&from=rss "In SONY BMG v. Merchant, in California, the defendant's lawyer wrote the RIAA a rather stern letter (http://p2pnet.net/story/11785) recounting how weak the RIAA's evidence is, referring to the deposition of the RIAA's expert witness (http://tinyurl.com/39x4j5) (see Slashdot commentary (http://tinyurl.com/245t4o)), and threatening a malicious prosecution lawsuit. The very same day the RIAA put its tail between its legs and dropped the case(http://tinyurl.com/326b95), filing a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal (http://tinyurl.com/yqtmmx). About an hour earlier NYCL had termed the letter a 'model letter' (http://tinyurl.com/29d75x); maybe he was right.""

i read the letter but if anyone understands it, feel free to elaborate.

[Edited on March 28, 2007 at 2:18 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2007 2:11:36 AM

So while other universities are not selling their students out to the RIAA, NC State is apparently complying in full? Not that I would have expected anything less.

3/28/2007 5:15:34 AM

actually, we're not.

we are forwarding the information to the students. we have not and will not give ANY information to the RIAA until we are ordered to by the courts.

we have been in email correspondence with the RIAA as well, and have told them essentially that they are becoming burdensome. however, the law requires us to forward their notices, so we do.

we try to keep our network open. if we went the way of many other schools and just banned p2p at the network level, we wouldn't have these problems. but we recognize there are many legit uses of p2p, so we let it go.

3/28/2007 6:56:27 AM

Thanks...been wondering about it since its been in the news lately. Theres been a few times where NC State has did very little to protect accused students, and Ive yet to read anything that proved contrary in this case. Thanks for the info...not of personal importance to me since Im not a student now, but I did get kicked off Resnet for 2 weeks when I was for having an FTP server with mp3s on it .

3/28/2007 7:25:48 AM

Quote :

"i read the letter but if anyone understands it, feel free to elaborate."

Holy Shit! I just read that letter. It's the legal equilivent of slapping your wang on the table. Bascily, the letter said that the RIAA's lawyer had so little eviedence that after the defendant spent the 30 seconds it would take to clear his name beyound a shadow of a doubt that they would see the RIAA's lawyers held legally accountable for malicious procecution. The lawyers interspersed the letter with lots of additional barbs and shit-talking. It's great. The guy who wrote that has balls that are big, shiny, and brass. He called the RIAA on all the bullshit they try to pull and promised them that it would cost them millions if the tried to continue their case against his client.

3/28/2007 3:08:43 PM

Could it be?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/

4/2/2007 9:58:27 AM

I've thought about this for awhile, and I don't think removing the DRM is going to do shit to the industry.

It isn't that the DRM is oppressive, it's that todays music just sucks ass.

4/2/2007 10:16:59 AM

I'm impressed.

for the first time, maybe ever, some portion of the music industry is actually paying attention to what consumers are demanding, at least in terms of the medium.

[Edited on April 2, 2007 at 10:17 AM. Reason : ads]

4/2/2007 10:17:02 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/02/steve-jobs-and-emi-present-an-exciting-new-digital-offering/
live updates from there

4/2/2007 3:29:59 PM

fuck $1.29 per track, fuck that

4/2/2007 3:48:57 PM

anything more than $0.50/track is highway robbery IMO...even then, it's pushing it

4/2/2007 5:01:24 PM

^^maybe, maybe not, its 1.29 but the file has no DRM, higher quality, and if you buy the album the album is still only 9.99

[Edited on April 2, 2007 at 5:03 PM. Reason : .]

4/2/2007 5:02:44 PM