I am not sure I will ever buy another CD after watching the disgusting tactics of the RIAA. Lawyers supporting multi-millionaires suing 12 year olds for doing something that has been done since music was first recorded! Unbelievable.
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I like this summation from Google Groups:
I don't think protecting a copyright is wrong, but I do think it's wrong
when the music industry's expensive lobbying over decades has resulted in
laws that allow them to do things that other industries cannot do. They
don't even need a judge's permission to force an ISP to cough up your name
if they *suspect* you of copyright violation, a clerk of the court can
rubber stamp their fill-in-the-blanks piece of paper and the next thing you
know they're pulling your file. And they're trying for more power, like the
legal right to hack into any computer they suspect contains copyright
violating material without liability for any damage they cause. They even
want a law forcing electronics makers to build-in much tougher
copy-defeating features, ignoring the Supreme Court's 1984 Betamax ruling
that there is such a thing as "fair use" copying of copyrighted material.
Meanwhile, they're screwing the public with price-fixing on CDs, they're
screwing their own artists in a dozen ways that any musician with a
recording contract can tell you about, they're blood-sucking ***** from
the ground up. And what really offends me is they are so dumb about this,
the rest of the world saw the internet coming a mile away, but these
arrogant ******* thought they could deny the technology and keep things fat
and greasy the way they like them. Now, having created their own financial
woes by recording fewer new artists and pushing mediocre crap that the
public has lost interest in, they are trying to do with lawyers what they
failed to do in the operation of their business, offering a good product at
a fair price.
They have run their business badly, they are corrupt and greedy, and now,
having had the deck stacked by their bought and paid for political flunkies,
they're trying to use goonsquad tactics to save themselves from the
consequences of their own stupidity. That, I suppose, I do think is wrong.
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