RIAA To Drop Lawsuits!!

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Frankly, I think it was a good idea and they should have continued the practice!

If nothing else it put the pirates on notice that they could be hit, and in the few caases they did hit then it cost the pirate money in defense of the practice regardless of the RIAA winning or not.

Now it is once again open season for wannabe DJs and others to downlaod again at will!
 
Finally they figured out they can't win....Mabye now the record companies will embrace technology and our governments will create some fair use laws.

And mabye artists will come out with more than one decent song per album

And mabye I am just dreaming......
 
According to an article that I was reading instead of going after grandma and dead people they will be sending letters out to your ISP's and in turn the ISP's will be forwarding the letters to you pirates as follows:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10127050-93.html

I don't think any real solution is here and fact need to be faced: 1. Pirates will pirate no matter what. 2. and so will all those cheap assed DJ's who think it's okay or don't think at all. (which makes them pirates anyway).

Good luck RIAA you're fighting a war that you can't win!
 
The real problem is the record labels themselves for refusing to move into the 21st century and adapting to the customer.

1) Bring back the single so people can sample an artist without buying the whole album.
2) Release Albums that have REAL hit music not just 2 songs and the rest mediocre filler
3)"Mass production will bring down the price of the CD." SO, when is that going to happen we've been doing this now for 20+years!
4)Invest some money into A&R, find real talent, not the latest clone of the month.
5)Once you find and develop talent, DON'T enslave them.
6)The record labels ARE A CONVENIENCE to talent NOT A REQUIREMENT. This is now a proven fact. An artist can do it all themselves with today's technology and make MORE money.
7)Labels have vaults full of hits that could be re-released to the public, while it's not mega bucks, it's still a revenue stream that sells itself. Work out a reasonable plan and do it and you'll always have a revenue stream.
 
From what I am hearing (from some of the bands I am still in contact with), the ISP's are going to be taking a 3 strikes policy.

After three warnings, they are going to shut your service off, and will not turn it back on.
 
Suffice it to say it will get ugly again! The labels need to adapt and move on!
 
patrickrlewis said:
From what I am hearing (from some of the bands I am still in contact with), the ISP's are going to be taking a 3 strikes policy.

After three warnings, they are going to shut your service off, and will not turn it back on.
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I can see that policy going very bad, very fast. So you shut off a pirate at his home now he goes to the nearest unsecured wifi network and starts downloading again.... which leads to the question.

How is the ISP going to determine that the subscriber is the actual offender and not some internet signal thief?

I can see this as a real big problem for hotels as we have no control over what our guests do on the network.
 
jokerswild said:
How is the ISP going to determine that the subscriber is the actual offender and not some internet signal thief?
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This practice is what put the RIAA in the hot seat to begin with. They were going after the wrong people and got their ears pinned back in the courts. The fact that they were running an extortion racket on college students didn't help.

The RIAA has never had a workable business plan in place. Everything they do is reactive. They do not act. They react.

Agreed, if the ISPs start disconnecting service on a whim from the RIAA you're gonna see the Feds get involved. There simply is no way the RIAA can nail pirates from the comfort of an office chair.

Doug is right. If you want to negate pirates, remove the incentive for pirating. Get proactive. Instead of providing reasons to steal, provide reasons to buy.

But we don't know what we're talkin' about. :(
 
Ok I have a question to see who(m) can answer this one....



I am a downloader that downloads files
WHAT are the files they think I am downloading
and are they ones that they can PROVE that are illegal

especially when the name has nothing to do with what they are looking for and are password protected

eg: my_familymusic.rar p/w suckthis etc ?

now work out can they actually know what I am downloading unless they open up my rar without the password!!

have a nice day........................................................................bah humbug
 
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