Comments | honsou87: Freakin RIAA

honsou87

Freakin RIAA

Apr 13, 2005 21:11

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. Rather than working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers can take advantage of file-sharing technology and pay a fair price for the music they love, it has chosen to sue people like Brianna ( Read more... )

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blackcat2086 April 14 2005, 14:03:11 UTC

Hey, it's clearly ILLEGAL to download music, so really no one has the right to complain when they're punished for it. If people are such huge fans of the artists, then why are people stealing the music?
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a better way to solve the problem (because there really should be), but I hate hearing people complain that they get in trouble for something that they knew was illegal to begin with.

honsou87 April 14 2005, 22:18:10 UTC

It's more of the fact that the artists who had their music "stolen" don't get ANY of the money made from the settlements. So the RIAA still isn't helping the artists, except for using the random suing as a scare tactic.

blackcat2086 April 14 2005, 23:54:03 UTC

Yeah, I agree that they should find some other way to fix the problem. I've just been hearing a lot of people complaining about how they're making a big deal about pirating music and it's just so annoying. And then they come out with things like Ipod that incourages illegal downloading. I dunno, it just kinda looks like someone is wanting to pull an ass-load of money in from the file-sharing blackmarket.
CONSPIRACY I SAY! AAAAHHHH!
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