Posted December 19, 200816 yr At last, the music industry admits what we've known for years: That filing music-swapping lawsuits against teenagers, little old ladies, and corpses is a fool's errand (not to mention an expensive headache for the defendants). But don't worry—the RIAA has something new up its sleeves. The new strategy (as reported by the Wall Street Journal): If the music industry finds out that you're swapping music files online, it'll send an e-mail to your ISP (agreements have already hashed out agreements with "some" unnamed service providers, apparently), which will in turn forward the message to you—probably with a little "P.S." asking you to stop. [update: CNET has a copy of the RIAA's form letter to ISPs.] If you don't stop, well ... your service provider probably won't sue you, but it might slow down your broadband connection, or cut off your service altogether. So, why has the RIAA changed the play? Well, maybe it's been looking at reports like this one from the NPD Group, which shows that U.S. CD sales continue to slide, while the number of tunes shared via P2P sites continues to increase, despite all the litigation. And then there's the disastrous headlines, as the RIAA relentlessly tracked down and sued tens of thousands of alleged music pirates. Among them: Kids, octogenarians, and a few dead people. Reaction to the news? Mixed. Engadget's headline reads (in part): "RIAA finds its soul," with the story noting that while the RIAA reserves the right to go after "heavy uploaders or repeat offenders ... it appears that single mothers are in the clear." All Things Digital has a darker outlook, speculating that ISPs—which "care about the cost of moving lots of data around … [and] want to make money by selling, renting, or just offering up Hollywood's movies and TV shows to subscribers"—might be more than content to "cut off file-sharers … [or] simply [charge] heavy file-sharers a lot of money." And here's another possibility, courtesy of yours truly: Say your ISP catches you sharing tunes via P2P. No problem—download away! But when you get your next cable bill, you'll find the itemized songs added to your monthly charge, kind of like an iTunes bill. Call it the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy. P.S. Make no mistake—just because the RIAA has stopped filing new music-swapping lawsuits doesn't mean that it's dropped the existing ones, according to the Journal. Quite the contrary. be careful
December 19, 200816 yr yeah if itunes wouldn't fuck you out of your songs, i wouldn't have to use fucking torrents.
December 19, 200816 yr my family works for the RIAA, pm me your info + valid CC and I can take you off the list.
December 19, 200816 yr i buy giftcards... i get the 200$ ones, and i get like 3 of them, so I know i'm safe for a while.
December 19, 200816 yr slQ;600419']my family works for the RIAA' date=' pm me your info + valid CC and I can take you off the list.[/quote'] lol, beautiful. Anyways, the RIAA is filled with idiots.
December 19, 200816 yr HAHAHAHA drive by internet banning drive by and connect to people wireless unprotected network download a bunch of music and get them banned from the web
December 19, 200816 yr Myriad;600428']HAHAHAHA drive by internet banning drive by and connect to people wireless unprotected network download a bunch of music and get them banned from the web lol in relation to this, I haven't paid for internet since I moved off of dialup in 2001 and bought a wireless adapter. NOT EVEN DSHOCKER COULD GET MY TRUE DOX LOL
December 20, 200816 yr like I care...I actually pay for music and want musicians to prosper...rich or not rich, its their songs and hence their money.
December 20, 200816 yr Author the thing is though, even if i didnt have the internet, i wouldnt buy their albums anyways. so i dont consider it stealing.
December 20, 200816 yr the thing is though, even if i didnt have the internet, i wouldnt buy their albums anyways. so i dont consider it stealing. Same. People can't be bothered to spend £12-15 on average per CD whether they have the internet or not. There are always other people who can make the CDs for dirt cheap as well. Reminds me of that episode of South Park where Metallica joins them in protesting against music downloading. Made me lol. Edited December 20, 200816 yr by DirgeForNovember
December 20, 200816 yr they still make tons of monies going on tours and shit, and i know everybody goes to concerts.. how much are those tickets on average, 100 bucks? multiply that by how many people are there. im sure thats a shitload of money. then subtract some for the people who set it up. also, dont forget that people buy shirts and shit. what about all these artists getting into the acting scene.. its very common nowadays. its not like their fucking broke any time soon. their are people out there that are perfectly happy with < a million bucks.
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