MP3 Lawsuits
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From: Canada
Jaraxle: I just donated a p233. If your not joking and I come across an old 56K modem I think I'll just mail it to you if you want (I get things like that sometimes for nothing...and I'll share the wealth)
Chado
Chado
Lead Driver
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From: Oak Harbor, OH
Here is the problem with the law as is it currently written: "Reproduction of any kind" Says nothing about the media that it is recorded on, has to do with the content. So remember next time you put that cd or tape in the tape deck or cd deck that YOU my friend when you hit play are REPRODUCING THE CONTENT, therby commiting a federal offense. When the lawyers realize this the cases will all be dropped until a better law can be written.
5th Wheeling
Joined: Jun 2003
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From: Kundabung, Australia
The record companies also screw us with these Greatest Hits CD's, your reward for buying an artist's first 6 or more CD's is to have to buy them all again to get one good song, look at Alan Jackson's new CD which I just 'borrowed' from a mate. I wonder if the artists have any say in this or if it is all the suits idea.
Chardo - what is Toby Kieths Bus song, I have every CD Toby has released in Australia & I have not heard of it.
Pete
Chardo - what is Toby Kieths Bus song, I have every CD Toby has released in Australia & I have not heard of it.
Pete
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From: New England
Chado: It could be a 560K modem, & it wouldn't be any faster...the bottleneck for me is the fact I'm on ancient (1930's) phone lines. Even my friend's V92 modem in his laptop only runs at ~25-28K. I only wish I was joking.
Dude, I need a Dell.
Dude, I need a Dell.
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From: 5600 feet high
I am looking forward to getting a DSL connection so i can pay the monthly fee and download all the songs I want. $9.95 a month? YOU BET, I'll gladly pay it.
I will be worth it to get high-bit files with guaranteed content.
As far as the RIAA and the rest of the industry, their scare tactics are obvious; bullying people indiscriminately is no way to get people to agree with you. Sure people have complied for fear of being sued, but what the
? I think it's going to hurt the music industry in the long run, because now the pay-per-download services are going to exploit the music industry for profit. Pooed in one hand and peed in the other'n.
BDV
I will be worth it to get high-bit files with guaranteed content.
As far as the RIAA and the rest of the industry, their scare tactics are obvious; bullying people indiscriminately is no way to get people to agree with you. Sure people have complied for fear of being sued, but what the
? I think it's going to hurt the music industry in the long run, because now the pay-per-download services are going to exploit the music industry for profit. Pooed in one hand and peed in the other'n.BDV
Elder User
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From: American by birth, TEXAN
i will just keep hopping services as they sprout up and are eventually blocked... went from napster to kazzaa to kazzaa lite now on soul seek
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Tuned
Joined: Jan 2002
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Waaaaaa. Song writers and record producers are grossly overpaid. Meanwhile, I am slaving away at a national auto parts chain and going to college full time and struggling to make ends meet. I guess I could care less if a record company CEO doesnt have the money to make his 100,000 mortgage payment. And it doesnt bother me if an "artist" doesnt have the money to add seven more exotic sports cars to his three-acre, airconditioned garage. Napster is robinhood and our hero on campus. When the economy gets better, we might buy your crappy 28 minute cds (with one good song on them) for twenty bucks. In the mean time, waste your money on frivilious lawsuits
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From: Byron GA
KaZaA has been downloaded around 250 million times just from www.cnet,com that’s not including other sites that provide it. Then there are the other P2P services that all connect to the same underground network. All in all there are about 80 million people on the network at any one given time, and that it just in the USA. There are about the same number of people connecting in Europe. Soon the role of jail and freedom will reverse those who are in the slammer will be considered free and they will just let the real criminals out.
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