Ha ha RIAA! Take that you filthy, filthy power mongers!

May that be the first of many setbacks for the RIAA and their "cause."

Hooray for the little guy.

Why do they always say, the RIAA why not call them who they are; SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP & EMI, are all suing ppl to death for profit, sony even considers ripping content you own to a portable device stealing!

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Finally a judge that reads the law!!! not just a rubbber stamp. YES!!!

Originally posted by nobrainer:

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Why do they always say, the RIAA why not call them who they are; SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP & EMI, are all suing ppl to death for profit, sony even considers ripping content you own to a portable device stealing!

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Because "RIAA" is on the official court papers. But, you are right... a lot of people don't know who the RIAA are. A lot of people seem to think they are the government, and a lot of other people think they "sell CDs". In fact, it's an organization that represents the music companies... The music companies are members or the RIAA.

And, I'm pretty sure the RIAA is a non-profit organization (helping it's members make a profit.) If that doesn't make sense, you've probably never taken an accounting class...

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...there is no law that authorizes the type of subpoenas used by the RIAA

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Well, that won't last long. Congress will just make a new law. Congress (and most of the American people*) believe in copyrights, and they don't want to "block" investigations.

* That may not be true of the people here on this forum, and I'm not trying to start an arguement. I'm just saying that we do live in a democracy and if most Americans wanted a free-for-all with no copyrights, we could have it.

Ah, democracy! The form of government where any popular misconception can become law!

Hot-Damn!! Thats Great news. About time!

Originally posted by nonoitall:

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Ah, democracy! The form of government where any popular misconception can become law!

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haha so true

Originally posted by nonoitall:

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Ah, democracy! The form of government where any popular misconception can become law!

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I have to correct you on this. we are led to believe that this is a democracy, but in reality we live in a capitalist society masquerading as a democracy. Who influences our government? corporations and industry with their political "donations". do you actually think that the tobacco industry would "donate" large amounts of money to campaigns if the candidates they are "donating" to will pass laws that will reduce the sales of their products. Would the oil industry do the same if the government was actually seeking "alternative fuel"? sorry to get off topic.

to Ballpyhon
Actually what is really the sorry state of the Capitalist society masquerading as a democracy is how few of the adults of age to vote, ever do so. As contested an election as GW Bush’s was, only 11% of the over 18 were registered and actually voted. It is really a very damning indictment of the American society that so few consider it an earned privilege to actually pay attention to news and vote.

Originally posted by nobrainer:

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Why do they always say, the RIAA why not call them who they are; SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP & EMI, are all suing ppl to death for profit, sony even considers ripping content you own to a portable device stealing!

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another lets hate sony post eh?

and FYI, sony has an app with all SE walkman phones with is called dics to phone, which rips a dics, and moves the files to the phone.

theres your theory down the drain.

I guess I am going back to college.

Haha...we should all start going back to school, free, fast bandwidth, plus no smelly laywers doing smelly stuff!!!



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The judge asked the RIAA what the did the 5 fingers say to the face. SMACK!!!! They deserve this for bending laws and making their own laws.

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The judge asked the RIAA what the did the 5 fingers say to the face. SMACK!!!! They deserve this for bending laws and making their own laws.

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nice!! lol

Ahhahahaha!

Sweet. In any case, I've been thinking that they wouldn't have anyone left to sue if the students and other downloaders just switched to private and encrypted file-sharing programs such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com

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Ahhahahaha!

Sweet. In any case, I've been thinking that they wouldn't have anyone left to sue if the students and other downloaders just switched to private and encrypted file-sharing programs such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com

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They will find a way to either shut this down, or get into it somehow and find the sharers. As we have pointed out here this is a capitalist society and everything has it's price.

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Ahhahahaha!

Sweet. In any case, I've been thinking that they wouldn't have anyone left to sue if the students and other downloaders just switched to private and encrypted file-sharing programs such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com

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They will find a way to either shut this down, or get into it somehow and find the sharers. As we have pointed out here this is a capitalist society and everything has it's price.

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I know what you're saying, BUT, the whole point of private file sharing is that you're only sharing with people you know, where you have to invite them one by one onto your network, and these networks are often limited to a few dozen users each. And as far as I know, it's legal to share CDs and books with people you know, so I can't understand why private p2p file-sharers would be prosecuted. Besides, the only P2P apps I ever hear about (lawsuit-wise) are Kazaa, eMule, Limewire, etc... The RIAA is far too busy dealing with widespread sharing than a bunch of micro networks of friends swapping in digital format what they can swap in physical format anyways... As true capitalists, the DiaRIAA is better off chasing those who do actual "damage" to their dinosaur business model, not the little guys copying between friends.

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I know what you're saying, BUT, the whole point of private file sharing is that you're only sharing with people you know, where you have to invite them one by one onto your network, and these networks are often limited to a few dozen users each. And as far as I know, it's legal to share CDs and books with people you know, so I can't understand why private p2p file-sharers would be prosecuted. Besides, the only P2P apps I ever hear about (lawsuit-wise) are Kazaa, eMule, Limewire, etc... The RIAA is far too busy dealing with widespread sharing than a bunch of micro networks of friends swapping in digital format what they can swap in physical format anyways... As true capitalists, the DiaRIAA is better off chasing those who do actual "damage" to their dinosaur business model, not the little guys copying between friends.

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Sharing and copying are two totally different things. you can share a CD physically by loaning it to someone. you are talking about copying it. physically sharing it means there is only one cd, and only one person can have it at a time. copying it means that there are more than one cd and more than one person can have it at a time. this is where they start to cry about it. if there a copy of a cd that is $15.00 (or however much cds cost) they did not get for the cd. when you copy it thousands of times, it is $15.00 times 1000 ($15,000). this has been covered thousands of times already.

Didn't take them long to get rejected :)