Following years of suing individuals for sharing music on peer-to-peer networks, the music industry has decided to try a new tactic. They'll try to have your Internet service cut off, instead. The Wall Street Journal reports that music biz trade group the RIAA will shift its anti-piracy strategy from individuals to ISPs: According to the WSJ, the RIAA has filed some 35,000 lawsuits against private citizens since 2002. Despite the shift in strategy, the organization says it plans to continue with those suits already in progess. Source I actually think that this is very smart on their part, since people do care about their internet, and attacking individuals will never amount to anything.
Dude, i'm so good that the Great God himself couldn't catch me at work. Anyway, it's really, REALLY hard to like get caught with music sharing. I mean, I realize that torrenting (which ya'll should do), rapidsharing (not much experience) and Limewire (dumb, very dumb) is illegal and all, but I mean ****. You really have to TRY, and I mean, try your hardest in order to be caught with that. Unless your a dimwitted twat, who downloads things that have a tracker with the link like (RIAA.ORG) obviously, you don't download that type of ****.
Indeed, but I look at the +'s in this. Those who do get caught by this new approach A) are dumbasses that I enjoy seeing **** up, and B) their internet will be gone, so we don't have to listen to them *****
What will the RIAA do next? Who knows. This new plan is evil, but it will not solve the "sharing" on the internet.
They have given up. Theres no more plan for them. Its just hey we can't stop the intarnets, might as well join in.
I don't see what the huge problem with music sharing is , I see how bands won't make as much,, but why not just play for fun and not just to make money. Really if they are good enough they will make enough to survive through concerts. Matt and Kim for example let people download their songs free off the Internet. They just play to have a good time.
Try asking your parents how they would feel about working for free... Yeah, I saw this in the Wall Street Journal the other day.
Just because they arn't making money from cd's/downloads doesn't mean they arn't making anything at all. They still have concerts,products,ect.
I don't understand why the RIAA is so against music downloading. No one buys CDs anymore, and I still buy several songs off of iTunes occasionally. If I like the band and they don't have crappy music, then I'll go ahead and support them with my money. But I still want to listen to some of their songs before I buy the album.
Thats what RIAA feels like is the problem, not enough people buy their CD's anymore. It's all money. Thats what its always going to come down to.
Not at all true. Many people still use CD's for their cars, and many people still have old sound systems that haven't really went all digital.