A recording industry trade group said Thursday that it has filed another wave of lawsuits against 754 people it suspects of distributing songs over the Internet without permission. The Recording Industry Association of America has now sued more than 7,000 people for distributing its songs over "peer to peer" networks like eDonkey and Kazaa, in an effort to discourage the online song copying that it believes has cut into CD sales.
The RIAA typically settles copyright infringement suits for around $5,000 each. Despite more than a year of headline-grabbing lawsuits, peer-to-peer use has not declined. An average of 7.5 million users were logged on to peer-to-peer networks in November 2004, up from 4.4 million in November 2003, according to the research firm BigChampagne.
News source: Reuters
The RIAA typically settles copyright infringement suits for around $5,000 each. Despite more than a year of headline-grabbing lawsuits, peer-to-peer use has not declined. An average of 7.5 million users were logged on to peer-to-peer networks in November 2004, up from 4.4 million in November 2003, according to the research firm BigChampagne.
News source: Reuters
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Do they burn a cross in your front yard?
I'm not advocating it however.
Not DVD's, Xbox playstation 2 and PC games, mobile phones and their credit/contracts or PC's and the upgrades people do,
Yes, the only reason no one sells as many albums as Elvis or the Beatles nowdays is piracy, more competition has nothing to do with it...
The RIAA won't pay attention because that would make too much sense.
754/7,500,000 = 0.000100533... or .01% got sued because of their activities in November. I still like those odds. Was there any kind of discriminating factor amongst the sharers that got sued?
I really haven't fired up any P2P application in awhile. Last time was BT and I downloaded Fedora Core 3 DVD iso. Mostly because I'm paranoid about getting sued. Still, I miss downloading random TV episodes, like ALF. I was really into that for awhile.
Good thing most of us don't chicken out.
Just kidding I used to watch Alf.
Btw, I just downloaded Evanescence - Fallen, in about 10 mins, do you really think I would PAY for that kind of service??? I dont think so!!
If everyone pirating music would stop and actually buy it, the prices may drop lower. But 9.99 for a CD's worth of music is a good price. If stupid DRM wasn't attatched to it, I would definitly be spending my money on it. But for now I have my home computer (Windows XP Pro), my work computer (Linu
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*GROAN*... sorry, I really can't stand that band. Horrible female vocals that just make me cringe when she tries to sing. A lot of my friends really like Evanescence... I guess I just don't "get it."
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You're living in dreamland if you believe this. When CDs came out 20 YEARS ago, they cost the same price they do now. People weren't using P2P that whole time. In every other technology, as time progresses the price of the technology goes down, but not for CDs!
Make things easy and simple and people will buy more music.
Fritzly
Not!!
Gotta love Canada
also cd's prices rising aint helping matters at all! ... i would not mind paying 12-13 dollars for a cd but past this i think is a little bit bs.
also some artist cd's just aint worth buying... sometime they have only a couple of good songs on the entire cd and this is when downloading mp3's come in real handy
personally everytime there RIAA gets screwed out of money i think it's REALLY GREAT! cause of the facts i stated above about how there still gonna be rich in the end of the day.
and then u got em trying to get rid of p2p type stuff and just about everything else that makes technology good in the courts! i mean WTF man... those guys are pretty low in the eyes of the general public!
Thats it...they are not losing money with p2p..
They r just not winning that extra money from the small number of ppl who dl from p2p.
This craziness with the copyrights will end soon, i believe....its just like when the VHS and Betamax came out, after a while they forgot about and discovered that it wasnt a real trouble.
Buy online music, for what ?...as it was said, after u cant do anything with the file because u risk to transgress the copyrights laws.
Imo all this crap is going to far.
Btw, when was the last time u saw a good movie ?
I use to rent about 3-5 DVDs at the videoclub per week and ffs, there has been LONG time i dont see anything good....all i see is sh!t movies with terribles screenplays and histories.
This is sad.
Record lables should be outlawed. Musicians should have to do it all on their own. Just like indie muscians do. They sell songs over the net or on CD themselves. Suddenly you'll find that only the truely good music is being bought. A system of survival of the fittest on a track by track basis. No more cookie cutter music just because it will make a lable money. No more million dollar artists buying million dollar homes and sport cars and $10,000 hand bags. Because really they may write a good song but does that really means they should get that kind of money versus some guy or girl that goes to work every day 40 hours a week just to make ends meet.
It's just like sports players that have million dollar deals. For what? To hit a ball around. The rest of us do that for fun. Give them $50,000 grand a year and if they aren't happy with that they can go be a plumber or something. Same with movies and movie stars. As an independent filmmaker I could go for that.
Sure it's not a very well thought out idea. But hey whatever.
we need the huge idols, as much as I hate to admit it. We need the RIAA to maintain a feeling of community, music that's universally known. I can talk to anyone on the street about brittany spears, but not about belle & sebastian. that's b/c of the RIAA. No doubt we need major reforms, but to dissolve it completely is not as easy as you think.
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