5 Reasons Not To Be Afraid Of The Riaa

The matter with the student wasn't that he possessed 1 million mp3's but that he created a search engine that allowed the various students that were on the campus to locate any shared files including mp3's.
That pretty much sucked as Grokster and Morpheus were not held liable for the uses of their software and this student was.
THe RIAA wants to stop file sharing of music and as is is not illegal to possess a copy of a song that u do not own the only way that they can curtail this trend is to stop the "illegal" distribution of copyright material via law suit which unfortunately they are allowed to because digital media is not considered in the same context as analog media.
Analog media may be copied as per fair use and as long as it is not sold...ie competition with the RIAA, may be traded ro given away. This is why a radio station may transmit a signal and have it copied by the listener and not invoke the RIAA's wrath.
Digital media is relatively new to the consumer and hasn't the growth period for the political landscape to understand what it truely is. The RIAA has taken advantage of this and basically snowballed the government into believing that a mp3 at 128kbits is an identical copy(perfect replica) of the analog song and can be replicated indefinately with out quality loss.
As anyone with a good ear can tell u a 128kb mp3 is NOT identical to the CD quality song and is much closer to the quality u would recieve from the radio.
In essense the same rules that applied to cassettes should apply to mp3's but since the RIAA have gotten there first we poor humble music lovers will have to wait and hope the polliticians finally get it right.

You do, of course, realize, that with Bush the Thief in office, all the RIAA has to do is offer to back his re-election campaign, and he'll be glad to accuse France of terrorism, and attack them, subsequently imposing martial law and removing France of all file-sharers, delegating them to live in slavery on an Alaskan fur-trading outpost.

This may seem excessive, but hey, I&#39;m going with the flow. The way people react to the RIAA, I feel that such actions are what people expect these days. <_<

there is one way to stop it , start donating money to the actual musicians
bypassing the riaa same with the movie companys if the movie is good they get direct donations for that movie if it sucks the get almost nothing, same with songs
you pay the musician directly even pay pal would work , If I downloaded a really good song I would not have have a problem sending a buck to the artists
but Im not gonna give them 14.99 for a full album the I only want 1 song on
the artist only gets a buck for each album anyways
then the riaa will go out of business when the artist realize they dont need them

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watch a tv show til the very end and you will see a little copyright sign. This means that only whoever copyrighted it and only them can decide when it is copied and shown. where the riaa fits in, no clue, I think they are just pissed at the blaten disregard of copyright law all around.

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you can record a TV show off of your VCR legally can&#39;t you? what&#39;s the difference between recording a TV show, and downloading one??

Technically it&#39;s illegal to record off TV <_< Still doesn&#39;t matter they can&#39;t stop it.

i got caught by the MPAA :( i have more than 200 movies and last month i recieved an email from my isp sayin that if i dont stop using bittorent they were gonna cancel my account, and after that email they showed me the proof that i download 2fast 2furious from bittorent .. showed my IP and everything, so i dont wanna d/l movies from bittorent&#33;

it kinda sucks

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Originally posted by Paul+21 July 2003 - 09:48--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Paul &#064; 21 July 2003 - 09:48)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-opivy@21 July 2003 - 05:16
Why do you people keep saying there invading your privacy? thats like saying that if you robbed a bank and stashed all the money in your house the police couldnt search your house. You steal music and I steal music the secound you do it you give up your right to privace because you broke the law.

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The police does need a search warrant... [/b][/quote]
The police only need a reasonable suspicion to do just about anything. If they see you go into your house with a big garbage bag full of marijuana. You are not safe just because you are in your house. Search warrants are for times when the police have no proof or are not sure what you are doing. Which is not the case if they get a copy from your ISP saying that you are downloading copyrighted files. People are so deluded about this subject. Yes reproduction of copyrighted materials is a crime. No you will probably not get caught, but if you do you will pay for it. I doubt anyone was sharing 1 million mp3s this is just a rumour and it makes small time sharers feel more comfortable so it has spread. I seriously doubt that if "they" catch you pirating copyrighted materials either to someone or from someone that they are going to say "oh well he/she is only sharing a few files. Better let them get away with it." The bottom line is this the ship is sinking and if we want to keep our grubby hands on free media we will have to either revolt (which is highly unlikely from most of the spineless posts I have read on this site) or we will have to evolve and I think we already may be (earthstation 5 seems like it may be a better bet than most of the stuff out there so far). Anyways don&#39;t get me wrong I like free media as much as the next guy but i think the idea of paying the artists directly is a good one. Now we have to get it out there.(who will go to the bargaining table for the thieves?) Probably through the media (the other biggest criminal force in history) call your local newspaper and tell them that there are alternatives out there to piracy but no one is looking into them. If you want the politicians to do something they work a lot faster with a few newspapers (covering a popular story) breathing down their necks. Anyways I don&#39;t leave a lot of posts on here and I do apologize for the length of this one (I&#39;m sure someone will pick some minor detail from it and get everyone off topic anyway). But in closing I would just like to say "ME AM GRIMLOCK LEADER OF DINOBOTS&#33;&#33;&#33;"

living in the uk its much more likely that i&#39;ll hear from my isp first before i start getting letters from people like the riaa & mpaa.

simple answer.......... change your isp.

& anyway... until the new copyright laws are passed by the european parilment in october the british copyright people (i forget there name) arnt doing anything. :D

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Originally posted by puk:))@11 August 2003 - 15:55
living in the uk its much more likely that i&#39;ll hear from my isp first before i start getting letters from people like the riaa & mpaa.

simple answer.......... change your isp.

& anyway... until the new copyright laws are passed by the european parilment in october the british copyright people (i forget there name) arnt doing anything. :D

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i&#39;ll drink to that god bless the UK :beerchug:

i dont know how possible this is but my idea would be to start a group (think of how many p2p members there are) of the p2p users who are competent hackers to threaten that any attempt at hacking into their systems would result in a more devastating attack (and if you attack their chipsets the hardware would need replacing just change the settings of the power levels and de-activate the fans in the bios and fry the cpu) i wonder what the riaa would say to that

a good letter would be,

Dear sir/madam

a recently passed bill (assuming it is passed) has given you permission to hack into our systems and delete/corrupt files,

The people here at (whatver you call the group) are giving prior warning that any attempt to do so will result in retaliatory attacks upon your own systems from each member of the group.

yours sincerely

(whatever the group name is)