American Public Responds To RIAA Lawsuits By Sharing More Music
from the whoops dept
Not really a surprise, but the RIAA's sue-them-into-submission strategy continues to backfire in almost every possible way. Instead of scaring the file sharing public into shutting down their file sharing applications, it appears it's acting as something of an advertisement for file sharing. The latest reports suggest that more people were sharing more files this week after the lawsuits were announced. The article says it's because of the publicity, but I'd bet a lot of it has to do with people being back in school. All those university kids have access now - and despite whatever "copyright infringement is bad" classes they had to take, those kids are going to be sharing files.
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Re: File sharing
Your attitude is as bad as the RIAA's, or perhaps worse. How do you expect people to write music when they're too busy flippin' burgers because no one bought their music? Idiot. SOMEONE has to buy the music or, ideally in a world where the CDs were just freebie ads for the live concerts we pay to see, someone still has to spend the money to go to those concerts.
Either way, the band needs to get their bread money, or they'll not be able to perform full-time, and you have no more 'MP3zzzz' because your favourite performers have real jobs instead.
Thanks for showing us the extreme other side of the argument, so that we know when we've gone too far. You're now the RMS of the music world, a foil against whcih we all can compare ourselves and know we're not talking crazy yet.
(I can't believe I spent this much time respondong to anyone who uses wanna-be-gangsta-speak witht he 'z' and all)
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Re: File sharing
Your 50 minutes are up, please pay the secretary on your way out the door.
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No Subject Given
http://www.eff.org/share/petition/
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http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
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MP3 Thieves!
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Re: MP3 Thieves!
New Groups SUCK!
Why pay for SHIT!
And rap,you can just shove that shit right up your ass cause I dont care to even get it for free!
Bring music back and I'll pay for it.
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