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September 16th, 2003, 01:33 AM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
He is lucky, he lives in France. 
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September 15th, 2003, 07:57 PM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
The RIAA can not possibly go after even 1% of the Users that have illegal mp3s. To do so would bankrupt them with legal fees. All they can hope to do is to (what should be) illegaly acquire the personal information of major mp3 distributors and sue them. This of course will do nothing to stop piracy, as you still have millions of Users worldwide sharing a small number of mp3s each, as well as all the non-American major distributors that the RIAA can not touch.
Unless you share 10000 mp3s on a high bandwidth pipe, your chances of being sued by the RIAA are probably less than winning the lottery.
[ September 15, 2003, 18:58: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]
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September 15th, 2003, 08:22 PM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
I just wonder... what would happen if a small/independent recording co. started printing a small label on the back of their CDs : "We are not affiliated with RIAA. We do not support RIAA policies." Could turn out to be good advertisement.
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September 15th, 2003, 08:54 PM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
That's what I'm waiting for, Erax.
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September 15th, 2003, 10:17 PM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
That would indeed be good advertisement.  |
September 15th, 2003, 10:52 PM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
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Originally posted by Erax:
I just wonder... what would happen if a small/independent recording co. started printing a small label on the back of their CDs : "We are not affiliated with RIAA. We do not support RIAA policies." Could turn out to be good advertisement.
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Well, but how can you get people to forfeit their royalties ?? We all know the modern musicians to it for money and money only. The 60s will never come back 
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September 15th, 2003, 11:52 PM
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Re: OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits
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quote:
Originally posted by Erax:
I just wonder... what would happen if a small/independent recording co. started printing a small label on the back of their CDs : "We are not affiliated with RIAA. We do not support RIAA policies." Could turn out to be good advertisement.
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Well, but how can you get people to forfeit their royalties ?? We all know the modern musicians to it for money and money only. The 60s will never come back
Why would they need to forfeit their royalties? Just because you're not affiliated with the RIAA doesn't mean you don't make money. I mean, it's not like it's some socialist state-run record company, it's just a very successful corporate bully. |
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