RIAA to begin suing individuals

[Giaguara]

Originally posted by pseudobrit
There's no way they'll win any of these lawsuits if the poor college kids they choose to target mount any defence.

upon getting a subpoena

1) wipe any music you don't own from your hard drive or buy the CDs for those songs you want to keep. (now you don't hold any copyrighted material you can't prove you didn't pay for)

2) if someone else downloaded music they didn't own from your hard drive, RIAA must prove that that person doesn't own a recording or never purchased said recording before (even if I owned an 8 track that broke and got thrown away, I still paid for the songs)

If the court decides that the burden of proof will be twisted backwards for these cases (the defendant must prove he owned the songs) then we are heading into dark days indeed. I don't think the Supreme Court would allow such a precedent, but I hope someone is able to take a case pro bono as far as it needs to go to put the pigopolists in their place.

RIAA will probably win all the cases that it will have. SImply because they have money and e.g. the college students rarely have enough $$$ for good defence. Money wins. Sad.

 

[Giaguara]

Also, if you buy a cd that is e.g. 20 $ why does the artist still get like 1-2 % of the price of the cd?

I'd rather enable the artists to have their own pages where you download songs and pay e.g. via paypal. (guess if the record companies allow them to do so?) So 5 $ for mp3s of a cd, of which the artist gets 5 $ is 1000-2500 % more than what they get from the record companies now. Greedy pig RIAA.

 

[pseudobrit]

Screw radio. Just listen to what you already have. Refuse to buy any new music.

That's essentially what I've done. I have a 300+ CD collection that I've added maybe 10 albums to over the past two years. My love for new music dwindled as prices rose from $12 to $18 for a CD. Now that I know the bastards did it on purpose, it'll never return. I'll get $13 back from them as a result of the class-action lawsuit.

Too bad I still can't afford a CD with that much. Some punishment...

 

[iJon]

Originally posted by Giaguara
Also, if you buy a cd that is e.g. 20 $ why does the artist still get like 1-2 % of the price of the cd?

I'd rather enable the artists to have their own pages where you download songs and pay e.g. via paypal. (guess if the record companies allow them to do so?) So 5 $ for mp3s of a cd, of which the artist gets 5 $ is 1000-2500 % more than what they get from the record companies now. Greedy pig RIAA.

that comment kind of makes me thinkg sometimes. you say they get 1-2%, which is probably right, you know more than me on this. but when i watch cribs on mtv i see lots of music people and they have big houses and escalades and ferarris. if you ask me they are doing a pretty damn good job.

iJon

 

[pseudobrit]

Originally posted by iJon
that comment kind of makes me thinkg sometimes. you say they get 1-2%, which is probably right, you know more than me on this. but when i watch cribs on mtv i see lots of music people and they have big houses and escalades and ferarris. if you ask me they are doing a pretty damn good job.

iJon

The houses and furniture are rented, the Furries and Lambos have abysmal depreciation and they'll be flat broke in 15 years.

It's probably about $0.40 per CD that the artist actually gets paid.

 

[iJon]

Originally posted by pseudobrit
The houses and furniture are rented, the Furries and Lambos have abysmal depreciation and they'll be flat broke in 15 years.

It's probably about $0.40 per CD that the artist actually gets paid.

ok thats fine, i didnt know. i was just saying what they had on cribs. i guess 40 cents a cd would really suck. but hell all they are doing is singing some songs.

iJon