RIAA continues with the monthly tradition of suing people today. Adding 482 more people to the list.
A U.S. music industry trade group on Tuesday said it has sued 482 more people for copyright infringement in a continuation of its anti-piracy campaign. Including the latest suits, the Recording Industry Association of America has now sued 3,429 individuals since last September as it seeks to discourage music fans from copying and trading songs through peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and LimeWire.
The RIAA's newest round of legal action includes copyright infringement lawsuits against 213 individuals in St. Louis, 55 in Denver and 206 in Washington, D.C. and eight in New Jersey. The RIAA again used the "John Doe" litigation process, which is used to sue defendants whose names are not known. The trade group began using the "John Doe" method in January after an appeals court ruled that Internet service providers like Verizon Communications do not have to provide customers' names to recording-industry investigators.
News source: Reuters
A U.S. music industry trade group on Tuesday said it has sued 482 more people for copyright infringement in a continuation of its anti-piracy campaign. Including the latest suits, the Recording Industry Association of America has now sued 3,429 individuals since last September as it seeks to discourage music fans from copying and trading songs through peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and LimeWire.
The RIAA's newest round of legal action includes copyright infringement lawsuits against 213 individuals in St. Louis, 55 in Denver and 206 in Washington, D.C. and eight in New Jersey. The RIAA again used the "John Doe" litigation process, which is used to sue defendants whose names are not known. The trade group began using the "John Doe" method in January after an appeals court ruled that Internet service providers like Verizon Communications do not have to provide customers' names to recording-industry investigators.
News source: Reuters
We've now had this story twice :)
been there, done that. its their own fault for being noobs and using kazaa.
Just because i like to sample or test out before I buy does not make me a criminal.
Proud to be Canadian.
So what?
By buying just about anything you support greedy monopolists or worse. Every time you buy gasoline (or pay for transportation that uses gasoline) there's a better than even chance that some of the profits from your purchase are finding their way into the hands of terrorists who are using the money to kill and maim innocent people—many of whom are children.
What are you going to do? Encourage everyone to stop using any form of transportation that uses petroleum products as an energy source?
But of course that is all beside the point. You don't really give a sh*t one way or another about "greedy monopolists", do you? All you're doing is looking for a way to justify stealing. If buying music is supporting the "greedy monopolists"—a bad thing—then stealing music must be a good thing, yes? This way you can be a petty thief and feel good about your dishonesty at the same time.
Isn't self-deception a grand thing?
The fact is, if everybody stopped buying CDs, you would no longer have a source of ripped MP3s. Somebody has to first buy the music before it can be ripped and posted to the web for downloading. Ergo, if you listen to music, you're supporting the "greedy monopolists", even if you're stealing it. So you can quit with the "I'm stealing in a good cause" bullsh*t.
No, if I were you, I would be encouraging other people to buy music. Hey, the more music that other people buy, the more will be made available for you to steal!
It is not nice, you talked to me in an aggressive manner. You took it too literal I guess.
First of all, you brought a good example about terrorists.
I am, actually, really want for the us government to stop buying oil from saudian arabia and other middle eastern counties, and start buying it from russia perhaps. (Like europe does.), and in the mean time look for some other sources of energy.
I said that by buying CDs you support greedy monopolists, so is it incorrect or what?
Second, I do not mind buying music, but I do hate RIAA. Currently RIAA is the one who controls the music industry in America, how can you fix this? Boycotting RIAA by not buying their CDs.
At this point, I just refuse to buy any more CDs perriod, I've already replaced all my music collections once when the format went from LP to CD and I refuse to pay for ANY content from such a greedy industry again. Besides, one less customer will not hurt the greedy riaa.
Justify downloading music without paying for it anyway you want. It makes no difference in the way the law is carried out. Wether you agree or disagree with the RIAA makes no difference. Downloading music that hasn't been purchased is illegal. Get it thru your tiny brains.
I think the RIAA suing people wether they are "hardcore" or not makes little difference to them. They are getting the word out. I can only assume that the percentage of people downloading free music has dropped a great deal.
There are legitimate ways to get music now. It isn't perfect but it is legal, it's fairly cheap and it solves the problem. The people still bitching and moaning over this are the ones who are too freaking cheap to purchase even 1 song and instead use all kinds of excuses not to do so.
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