File Swapper Suit


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From CNN:

Recording industry files 261 lawsuits against Internet music file sharers, announces amnesty program for individuals. Details soon.

Whatever.

I dare them to come after me. I am judgment proof!

150,000 in student loans, and no assets . . . .hahahahahaha Good luck getting a judgment against any of these file swappers.

The only thing thye could do it *try* to enjoin the traders from trading music.

Whatever, the RIAA is so off their rocker.

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Yeah, they hit 3 people from my school. It's so easy to find people on a college network sharing stuff, and so easy to locate them. A lot of schools are actually trying to help fight the suits in one way or another, and I think the RIAA is going to quickly find this isn't the right way to go about its business.

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yea, they suck! wtf is there deal, goin after the consumer for thousands of dollars. i hope they pass legeslation banning lawsuits against the megapower-hungry riaa, they r worse than the german nazi party (well..., maybe not as worse).

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Well, first off, they claim to only be going after / filing lawsuits against those who've distributed in the thousands of songs. Their lawsuits won't be easy in some cases, and they'll have a lot of fun pursuing things in the quantity they have to deal with.

Their current "amnesty" signing thing is a total joke. I'll be very curious to see what numbers they claim actually participate.

Universal has been getting the very right idea (given competitor market with DVDs, videogames, etc.) of lowering prices. They're just still not doing it reasonably enough to counter market forces.

RIAA remains very very out of touch.

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The "problem" that the RIAA has is that the publishers are not making money from the distribution of digital media.

Although "the industry" has been faced with many solutions, they have always eschewed newer technologies for their old standards: physical distribution of media. Apparently no one has really shown them that digitial distribution can actually make a bett profit margin than physical distribution can.

there are many ways to infiltrate the file swapping systems to slap a paid for ad onto a song as it passes from user to user. Myself and a friend developed one such system. We met with many publishers and industry reps. They all did not like the idea. In fact in 1999 and 2000 they siad, and I will quote "We believe that the future of digital media distribution is in subscription services . . . like Columbia House." (whatever) My group and I responded. "You are right, there is a place for subscription services, but it is not the panacea. You will end up in a bitter battle with hackers who will continually develop routines to bypass any security systems you develop."

The recoding industry is not set up to change the way they distribute music. Thier whole source of income is based on distribution, to ask them to change would be to ask a bird not to chirp, a zebra to change its stripes, a neowinian not to flame.

They are going to spend MILLIONS fighting this lawsuit, and my guess is they will not come out on top.

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Quick follow up -

They settled for $2000.

Good job RIAA! That $2000 is really going to help Madonna, and Christian Aguliera recover from this 12 year old downloading music. I am so glad taht the artists have such a great force of law to support them!

Dear God people! Why is there not more of an outcry? How is it that John Ashcroft is considered the devil and the RIAA gets away with what I would call extortion!

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