RIAA claims to be about ~94% of the recording industry. I put this together for another forum where we were talking about music downloads etc. It was easy to get these kinds of numbers because RIAA publishes them (the IP address with pdf files are actual RIAA websites linked from their main website).
I'd look at the rest of the music industry but really it would be more tedious and probably reflect the same, I'd say the only difference would be the Indie labels, I'm curious about them now.
Wardriving is driving around till you find an open access point and using their internet connection.
having a computer that logs free information that travels through public airwaves out into the street as you pass by with no intention of stopping and "borrowing" their internet connection is not only not wardriving but is hardly illegal.
It's like having a tape recorder recording short wave radio transmissions, hardly illegal, but possibly unethical.
Use it as you like, no attribution necessary to me, however the sources I listed ask that you attribute the RIAA or cite them so you would need to maintain that I believe unless it's like I said, uncopyrightable.
Year: $ in Millions (revenue)
1992: 9024
1993: 10046.6 (CD players started to get more affordable towards mid-year)
1994: 12068
1995: 12320.3
1996: 12533.8
1997: 12236.8
1998: 13723.4 (Napster sued into bankruptcy)
1999: 14651 (Work made for hire controversy)
2000: 14404
2001: 13700 (Ipod came out October 2001)
2002: 12,614.2 (Price Fixing lawsuit hits RIAA)
2003: 11,854.4 (Grokster lawsuit, "induced infringement" introduced) (Mass lawsuits by RIAA start(AKA: The education campaign))
2004: 12,345.0 [Revenue Digital / Physical] (BMG gets out of the music business, sold to Sony later on: Big 5 becomes Big 4 for RIAA)
2005: 12,296.9 [9%/91%]
2006: 11,758.2 [83.9%/16.1%]
2007: 10,370.0 [77%/23%]
2008: 8,768.4 [66%/34%] (RIAA declares it's going to stop mass lawsuits with member money problems and EMI almost bankrupt)
2009: 7,690.0 [59%/41%] (Massive layoffs hit RIAA around Febuary: Blames piracy)
Even still the joining of so many defendants is ridiculous and over burdensome of the legal system. Essentially the USCG screen scraped a bunch of IP addresses and expects to print out hundreds of pages of IP addresses for a court to sort through. Each defendant will have different reasons for quashing subpeonas and even then may be denied that right because ISP's lack a back bone. Expecting the court to trudge through each action like this is nothing more then a waste of tax payers money and time.
This is compounded by the fact that the evidence is flimsy, I can make a torrent tracker spoof my IP address but in doing so I won't be able to seed but because of the way torrents work I will be able to download and will show up in the logs of peers that USCG has collected. Anyone know the IP block for the RIAA?
Weren't these guys trying to make it a felony (did they succeed?) I think someone needs to let the DA in on such criminal behavior and have someone put behind bars.
yes, having a government mandated protection against others from innovating in the area of digital video surely "promotes the progress of science and useful arts"...
When I was there, the booths were setup with screen recordings of movies that were just in theaters. They were horrible quality mostly but it was nice to have a little piece of your home culture even if sometimes it was accompanied by Hindi / Arabic subtitles.
The small post exchange that was on the main base in Iraq (Camp Victory / Baghdad) would run out of movies within a day of shipment coming in, what would be left would be the "60's classics!" bundles and "Friends Season 47" for $120.
The shops sold DVD's that usually contained 2 movies on 1 DVD for a dollar, and then customs didn't care as long as you didn't bring more than 2 copies of the same DVD back into the country, which is who the MPAA will be hitting up next to enforce their ideals. Look for a story about customs being tasked (Hrm: ACTA perhaps?)
3rd rule is have really cool 3d screen savers playing in the background so it looks like you are doing something others won't understand. Bonus points for physics equations being in there as well.
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I'd look at the rest of the music industry but really it would be more tedious and probably reflect the same, I'd say the only difference would be the Indie labels, I'm curious about them now.
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Re: break and enter laws
Wardriving is driving around till you find an open access point and using their internet connection.
having a computer that logs free information that travels through public airwaves out into the street as you pass by with no intention of stopping and "borrowing" their internet connection is not only not wardriving but is hardly illegal.
It's like having a tape recorder recording short wave radio transmissions, hardly illegal, but possibly unethical.
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Re: Wishful thinking
Year: $ in Millions (revenue)
1992: 9024
1993: 10046.6 (CD players started to get more affordable towards mid-year)
1994: 12068
1995: 12320.3
1996: 12533.8
1997: 12236.8
1998: 13723.4 (Napster sued into bankruptcy)
1999: 14651 (Work made for hire controversy)
2000: 14404
2001: 13700 (Ipod came out October 2001)
2002: 12,614.2 (Price Fixing lawsuit hits RIAA)
2003: 11,854.4 (Grokster lawsuit, "induced infringement" introduced) (Mass lawsuits by RIAA start(AKA: The education campaign))
2004: 12,345.0 [Revenue Digital / Physical] (BMG gets out of the music business, sold to Sony later on: Big 5 becomes Big 4 for RIAA)
2005: 12,296.9 [9%/91%]
2006: 11,758.2 [83.9%/16.1%]
2007: 10,370.0 [77%/23%]
2008: 8,768.4 [66%/34%] (RIAA declares it's going to stop mass lawsuits with member money problems and EMI almost bankrupt)
2009: 7,690.0 [59%/41%] (Massive layoffs hit RIAA around Febuary: Blames piracy)
Source:
http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html (statistics from 90's to 2001)
http://76.74.24.142/81128FFD-028F-282E-1CE5-FDBF16A46388.pdf (Statistics for 97 to 2007)
http://76.74.24.142/A200B8A7-6BBF-EF15-3038-582014919F78.pdf (2008-2009)
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Re: Not sure why this is noteworthy.
Speeding tickets weren't given out as much back in the day as much as Reckless driving tickets.
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At the risk of invoking Godwin...
Destroyed his PR campaign though, just sayin'
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As a resident of Marshall Texas...
yet another shame on my state.
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This is compounded by the fact that the evidence is flimsy, I can make a torrent tracker spoof my IP address but in doing so I won't be able to seed but because of the way torrents work I will be able to download and will show up in the logs of peers that USCG has collected. Anyone know the IP block for the RIAA?
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Live by the lobbying, die by the lobbying...
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Your Class A 16.5 million options are reduced to what your system announces directly over the network which is easily listened in on.
Use encryption, because really, you have no idea what you are talking about.
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The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement act of 1999, staffer added a "Technical Correction" which pretty much redefined work for hire.
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My experience in Iraq
The small post exchange that was on the main base in Iraq (Camp Victory / Baghdad) would run out of movies within a day of shipment coming in, what would be left would be the "60's classics!" bundles and "Friends Season 47" for $120.
The shops sold DVD's that usually contained 2 movies on 1 DVD for a dollar, and then customs didn't care as long as you didn't bring more than 2 copies of the same DVD back into the country, which is who the MPAA will be hitting up next to enforce their ideals. Look for a story about customs being tasked (Hrm: ACTA perhaps?)
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How is this a violation of copyright law?
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Re: Funny
3rd rule is have really cool 3d screen savers playing in the background so it looks like you are doing something others won't understand. Bonus points for physics equations being in there as well.
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Really, I can't tell weather you are trying to be funny or what.
When you think of ACTA don't think Americans back it, or at the very least it's safe to assume that anyone that reads Tech-Dirt doesn't back it.
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