OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits

Unknown_Enemy · #1 September 16th, 2003, 02:00 PM

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I can see it now. The French people stand up and march in the streets and there government surrenders to them. Just like old times.

I read somewhere that the word surrender was described simply in a german WWII handbook as "French."

Sounds true enough. j/k

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Mephisto · #2 September 16th, 2003, 05:20 PM

I�m amazed that so many people think of the French as �cowards� or something like this. There are few countries with a more glorious military history. BTW, the joke with the rifle you can buy, dropped only once, is quite an old joke and originally about the Italian WWII-Army. Just FYI.

Erax · #3 September 16th, 2003, 05:39 PM

French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, near-defeat in WWI and defeat in WWII was the result of outdated military doctrine. Which may say something about the rigid thinking of their generals but has no bearing on the prowess and courage of the individual soldier.

Ruatha · #4 September 16th, 2003, 09:04 PM

Here in sweden it's still legal to download music from the net, to burn those on a cd and to give them to your friends, as long as there is no commercial gain.
But it's not legal to share the songs on the internet, to upload them to a server or by sharing them through p2p, only downloading and posession is legal.
There was some discussion about if this was legal or not some time ago so one of our ministers downloaded some songs, burned them to cd and gave to a friend and filed a report to the police about it, the prosecutors did an investigation and came to the conclusion that there was no law against it. (Not the same minister that was killed a week ago (Anna Lind) but another one (Margot Wallstr�m)).

The same goes for movies but not for software, downloading software is illegal.

The law will propably change soon to include movies but music will propably not be included.

[ September 16, 2003, 20:09: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Baron Munchausen · #5 September 17th, 2003, 04:35 AM

Artists are starting to speak up:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news...77730564461625

They don't like the suits either, and they know very well this lawsuit bull**** is not for their benefit.

And Orson Scott Card, a fairly prominent Scifi/fantasy author, also knows what copyright is really about:

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2003-09-07-1.html

Fyron · #6 September 17th, 2003, 08:36 AM

Strike one against RIAA:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/p...YT01/309160363

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 September 17th, 2003, 09:35 AM

it doesn't matter if it's the wave of the future, it doesn't matter if it'd be hard to stop, it doesn't matter if the recording companies are engaging in unjust business practices, piracy is piracy and another's actions do not justify your own.

i know i normally don't take a serious stance like this, but it seems like there's to much justification going on.