RIAA Now Decides That Not Enough People Have Heard Of Project Playlist
from the reverse-attention-whores dept
There they go again. The RIAA and MPAA keep picking totally random, mostly unknown, startups and suing them -- giving them all sorts of free publicity. They did it years ago with Napster and more recently with The Pirate Bay. And yet... they keep doing it. In the latest example, the RIAA is suing a company called Project Playlist, which offers apps for MySpace and Facebook that let you play music found elsewhere online. There are a bunch of similar offerings out there (some of which I think are even more well known). If this case goes forward, it could be quite interesting, as again it's hard to see how Project Playlist is the liable party. It just lets users point its player to mp3 files that are found on other sites. Those files may be infringing, but Project Playlist is just the player. It would be like suing Sony for making a Walkman on the assumption that most tapes used in Walkmen include infringing copies of songs.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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AMAZING
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it amazes me that the RIAA hasent been banned from the courts
is there anything the wont sue?!
maybe they should try the car manufactuers for helping transport illegal copys.
or maybe the bands themselves for makeing music that is potentially copyable!
blanket ban on microphones?
when will the stupidity end?!?!
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thanks
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Nice app
The project seems to be jusdified by the 'Google' argument that by merely linking to copyrighted material doesn't automatically make a search engine or index site illegal.
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Why they sue unknown companies...
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Communist
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Yet people keep buying music to fuel the RIAA.
Next on the list: Suing companies for not initiating tougher DRM of their players to prevent copies of songs.
Listen, folks. You can fight back. How? STOP BUYING MUSIC!
Spread the word. No iTunes, no CDs to burn, nothing.
Want your music? Share with your friends but just don't buy it. Illegal? Yes, as if racketeering isn't illegal but "overlooked" in the music industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080427/161528962.shtml
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I know! I know!
The RIAA aren't quite as worried about the fact that there's pirated music out there, just so long as hardly anybody knows about it. But when someone points out that it's happening, and where it's happening, then they become angry.
So the offence here is not piracy per se, but publicizing the fact that piracy is going on. They're not going to stand for that, because it makes them look like dorks.
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Hang on...
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This isn't new
And look at that market now. Nobody buys movies anymore. they just line up for hours outside theatres or wait for them to come on TV. Maybe if they had made movies for some kind of "direct to video" sales instead of just having to use them to watch things you were out of the house for.
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So please do get rid of it :P
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citizen for smart web
answer- they represent recording companies. its there job. recording companies make them do that. so for every time they take company too curt, we shame record companies they associated with and there artist. so record companies and the artist who be a shame to be associated with this type of cases will respond. just a thought.
...citizen for smart web
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diff between games and avittars
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Project Playlist
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STOP BUYING MUSIC
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Boycotting mainstream media does not mean live in a box, far from that. And indeed quite the contrary. You have much more time to go out to concerts and to discover alternative artists when you're nor listening to the major's shit at home.
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i want to report ALL my friends. i am a BMI songwriter and i resent youre actions as they promote piracy. thans to you, The Pirate Bay is a household word, LimeWire is on every home computer i know, and artists are so unhappy with the way you spend the money you take in they now support downloading.
spend all this time and money working out a paradigm, or there will not be ANY paradigm.
so buy a list of musicians here in Nashville and start with that. youll find piracy rampant with those folks. and then there is me--of course i dont traffic in pirated material, but i could be convinced.
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Anyone else notice a shrinking CD section?
Think about it-- The return per square foot, potential inventory velocity (turns) and cost barriers associated with a entry into the space make it real unappealing investment for a new retailer.
There are many other products that require lower investment, less loss-prevention, and operational requirements than filling the same square footage, display requirements, for a comperable margin on CDs.
That $/sq foot metric is a real nail biter.
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Actually, they DO have a clue, because most of the time these companies settle and the site goes poof. Even though this site is totally legal, it is not long for this world. Remember I said that.
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Project Playlist Article
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nice article!
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