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RIAA will start sueing individuals (pg. 4)
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| Galapidate |
| true, and as long as RIAA does not know about all of them we are safe :D |
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| DoctorLW |
In my case, MP3's have caused me to spend MORE money as opposed to less.
Before I was able to download MP3's I listened to the radio, and for the most part didn't even care what I listened to since I thought music was a waste of money.
With MP3's I discovered trance, which also gave me a great love for music, and now after I hear a tune I like I buy the vinyl or if a mix is really good, I'll buy that CD. Either way, I'm probably spending close to 20 times more money on music than I had before file sharing. |
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| Galapidate |
| 20 times? damn, I spend maybe 100 dollars per year on music max. except this year im getting an mp3 player :D |
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| b1_ |
I also would not have found trance if not for the file swapping community. Trance is not played on the radio where I live, and I'm not a clubber. I have bought a few Trance CD singles because I simply had to have the CD quality sound for these awesome songs.
We are living in a golden age for music lovers. I desperately hope we don't revert back to a situation where you must buy music before previewing and most of the time get let down by filler songs. I realise that realistically atm the majority don't bother to buy but there's got to be a way to get my money to the artists I love, rather than most of it to a corporate monster. |
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| DaveSaenz |
| quote: | Originally posted by vito
no, there is password protection
this is getting old, do they have any proof downloading significantly harms any artists that concern us?
ISPs also advertise broadband as being able to download music faster:rolleyes: |
So they can't hack into the hub? What about your hard drive? That sounds like invasion of privacy to me. Who would be doing that? The FBI???? :conf:
I don't think I'd be into trance/prog if not for mp3s to be honest. I can't even imagine my life withough being able to preview a track/cd before buying it...:(
Yeah, I'd say I've spent maybe....$1500 on music the past two years..... |
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| whitesmoke |
| thankfully a majority of the music i listen to and have on my comp (trance) is not under the jurisdiction of the RIAA. you think they would take someone to court that had music from outside their domain...i highly doubt it. just keep pop crap off your comp (you little sis downloaded it...blah blah blah...right) and you will be fine. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by DoctorLW
In my case, MP3's have caused me to spend MORE money as opposed to less.
Before I was able to download MP3's I listened to the radio, and for the most part didn't even care what I listened to since I thought music was a waste of money.
With MP3's I discovered trance, which also gave me a great love for music, and now after I hear a tune I like I buy the vinyl or if a mix is really good, I'll buy that CD. Either way, I'm probably spending close to 20 times more money on music than I had before file sharing. |
that's definately me too! but i spend like 100 times more money on music than i did before! i spend almost all my money on CDs and that is due to napster/audiogalaxy/soulseek/direct connect/whatever p2p program!
i think these RIAA people are lame! the people who just download music and don't buy it wouldn't buy it even if they couldn't download the mp3s! so nobody loses there. and people who buy music buy it no matter what, mp3s are just an easy way to prelisten tracks for them. this may sound stupid if you haven't thought about it, but i think that p2p-programs encourage people to buy more music. people get an easy way to hear loads of music and they get to know stuff that they really like. and if you really like some stuff, then of course you want to buy it, don't you? but if you are stuck listening to radio, you might never hear music that you really dig, so why the would you buy a shakira CD then, i know i wouldn't!
all this RIAA stuff is just stupid and is hurting people and now innocent individuals. they are IMO hurting their own business too, they ,for some reason, just don't understand what's good for them. attacking your customers is the stupidest thing you can do. someone should really get them to understand that not everyone likes the stuff on the radio etc. some people like more underground music, that isn't predigested.
i should stop ranting, because these posts have probably never done any good in the first place. they just start flame wars!
RIAA: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip:
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| vito |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSaenz
So they can't hack into the hub? What about your hard drive? That sounds like invasion of privacy to me. Who would be doing that? The FBI???? :conf:
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isn't hacking illegal?
if the hub has one of those disclaimers of internet privacy and states that fbi etc are not allowed to enter, i think its alright
even if they could get in, why would they
the hub is a relatively small community sharing underground music, the RIAA is out to save a few more millions for britney, madonna etc.
they say that, but we all know the vast majority ("less savy") of users wouldn't even know what that is |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by TwoPlow
the RIAA is a giant hemmoroid on the of the world.
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in werd!
how about this: some of the people i know actually used to go to music stores and steal cds. HOW ABOUT YOU WATCH OUT MORE FOR THAT KIND OF STUFF, EH?
good thing we have the hub, although we should keep it on the low down (or down low, i forgot which one it is :D :D :D) |
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| serp |
"The RIAA, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to not only alienate their own customers but attempt to drive them into bankruptcy through litigation. So therefore they probably won't be able to afford to buy any music even if they want to," said Grokster President Wayne Rosso, who added he does not support copyright infringement.
how true, it is really stupid isnt it, the RIAA hate it's own consumers! |
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| daffodil |
another story on RIAA:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...ml?nav=hptoc_tn
and a funny quote from that story, "I think this really suggests that the recording industry dinosaurs have completely lost touch with reality," said Fred Von Lohmann, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that lobbies on civil liberties issues related to technology. "Over 57 million Americans are using file-sharing software today. That's more than voted for President Bush." |
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