RIAA suing file swappers

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there's a lot of musicians who couldn't make money off of the terrible contracts with labels, but DID make a living from the road.
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I don't know about that. Apparently, the Allman Brothers were hurting so bad they had to get guys up on stage to play with them for free.
 
The RIAA sees the face of evil, and it's a 12-year-old girl
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Posted: 09/09/2003 at 13:54 GMT


The RIAA has nailed one of the most prolific file-traders in the U.S., filing a lawsuit against 12-year-old Brianna LaHara.

When not at the playground with her friends, "Biggie Brianna" is trading music files from her home in New York. The little girl received one of the 261 lawsuits filed by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) on Monday, according to the New York Post. She may look like a sweet and innocent child, but the RIAA says it's only going after major copyright violators at the moment. So you make the call.

"I got really scared. My stomach is all turning," Brianna told the Post. "I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"

It turns out that Brianna's mum paid a $29.99 service charge to KaZaA for the company's music service. Brianna, however, thought this meant she could download songs at will. How naive!

When reporters charged into Brianna's home, she was helping her brother with some homework. She is an honors student at St. Gregory the Great school.

Brianna could face charges of up to $150,000 per infringed song. but we have a feeling this might be a tad unrealistic. We suggest the RIAA take all of her toys instead.

"Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation," RIAA president Cary Sherman said in a statement. "But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action."

Go get her, Cary. ®
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32731.html
 
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Yeah ... it was pretty funny. It ranks up there with the anti-weed commercials our government puts out.
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Yeah, the "drugs support terror" campaign was hilarious...until they realized that SUV's support terror about 1000fold more and pulled the plug...
 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96890,00.html



ridiculous. taking $2000 from a 12-yr old honors girl who's so poor she lives in the projects.


I'm personally not going to buy another music cdrom for another 5 years. hey come to think of it, it's been about 5 years since I bought the last one.


agree re above, going to see artists' concerts, is the best way to directly support the artists ..


boycotting the riaa here :p
 
Legally it's not right to file share, but this is like prohibition: they're fighting a losing battle. $15-18 for a CD is ridiculous and 99.9% of the population feels the same way.

They need to offer download services and sell singles for a quarter and bypass the label execs. Good songs will get 10 million downloads and the band will make a half million plus per song. And noone will file share cuzz it'll be easier to go to the site and just pay the quarter to get the selection and the latest and greatest.

It'll take a decade, but "I have a dream..."
 
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Legally it's not right to file share, but this is like prohibition: they're fighting a losing battle. $15-18 for a CD is ridiculous and 99.9% of the population feels the same way.

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Please, two bucks for a gallon of gas is bullshit too and 99.9% of the population feels the same way. Let's just steal from the gas stations; it's the same thing as downloading.
 
I'm not advocating stealing. But something can be legal and be unfair and the music industry is an example. Capitalism is a great system, but this is a case of the executives lagging their own culture. Isn't it a little odd that virtually every industry has been revolutionized by the net and IT except the music industry? It's because they're living in the vinyl era.

It's time for them to give Joe Consumer what he wants: cheap, easily purchasable singles. I'm just agreeing with whoever said above that their business model is flawed. Their business model is not going to work long term or even medium term. I'm a teetotaler, but I still recognize that Prohibition wasn't going to work. You can't just pretend that 50 million people are going to stop drinking instantly...
 
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