RIAA Shuts down its Law-suit machine

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Posted by La5eR on Dec-19-2008 21:43:

RIAA Shuts down its Law-suit machine

RIAA shuts down its lawsuit machine

Most talked-about tech story today has to be the RIAA's surprise announcement that it is halting its long-running campaign of suing people for sharing music files online ... after already suing 35,000 of them since 2003.

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If RIAA agents notice that you're sharing music without permission (usually by conducting its own P2P searches), it will e-mail your ISP alerting them to that activity. Depending on the nature of the agreement, the ISP will either forward the e-mail to you or send you another communication to the effect that your music sharing is not permitted. If you continue to share, you'll receive one or two additional warnings, after which the ISP will slow your connection. If the allegedly infringing activity persists thereafter, you may find your internet connection stops working altogether.

SAUCE:http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/...from=blog_last3

Posted by Trancealot on Dec-20-2008 04:44:

feels like they went from the head of the police to meter maids.
Never got involved with that and never will

viva la napster & audio galaxy

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-20-2008 15:16:

Maybe they're all retiring.

Posted by PETRAN on Dec-20-2008 16:27:

Freedom to music!!

BUT...

I'm always wandering though how these artists and labels would end. its very difficult to get hold of some music these days, especially not the one that comes from big stars or even EDM artists (who, if they play the "in", "trendy" sound they would have a higher chance to receive support from the equally trendy djs) but from more independent efforts. I always find it very hard to get hold of some more independent genres like post-rock, electronica or ambient because the small labes can't survive in this music-free world. The artists would eventually end-up selling their music on their own, through s website, or maybe through a very small label with the same procedure. Its a pitty, because i consider a lot of this music to be of the highest quality, at least compared to what is out these days.

It is actually very bad because during the 80s and 90s one could get a cd-copy of even the most underground music. You could just browse thorugh Amazon (during the early years) and find almost everything, even the most obscure, underground thing would be available. Because if that obscure, underground thing was of high quality, it would probably get signed to a label that specialises in such music and a specific target group of people would support the label and the artist by simply buying the cd. Today this whole thing is a far cry from what it was a few years back. We are also not talking about very underground stuff today. Some very melodic stuff which is very nice but a bit more complicated than the perceptual capabilities of the average joe would dissapear in oblivion. Probably a cd available fro the short-term, only to dissapear and never to be heard of again. Maybe this is a big subject probably deserving a thread of its own, but where does this (musical) world go!?

Posted by elFreak on Dec-20-2008 16:41:

sue me.

http://www.sushipunk.net/TA%20Stuff...%20Zaggazaw.mp3

Posted by PETRAN on Dec-20-2008 16:46:

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Originally posted by elFreak
sue me.

http://www.sushipunk.net/TA%20Stuff...%20Zaggazaw.mp3

I'll Sue you for making me listen a few seconds of it

Posted by elFreak on Dec-20-2008 16:57:

oh what a riot.