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RIAA Wins $1.92 Million In File-Sharing Lawsuit
Thrillho:
The RIAA may be assholes, but what a lot of people tend to miss is that they have a point.
Illegally downloading is breaking the law (hence the 'illegally' part) and yeah, they come on too strong. I'm not siding with the RIAA here, but if you break the law and you get caught, then you're probably going to prison. And if you try to defend your actions, you don't have a leg to stand on. It's not like you're stealing bread to feed your family or something. This is why I've stopped doing it and I'm steadily buying up the stuff I had illegally.
KharBevNor:
Laws are so silly.
gospel:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 20 Jun 2009, 04:38 ---The RIAA may be assholes, but what a lot of people tend to miss is that they have a point.
Illegally downloading is breaking the law (hence the 'illegally' part) and yeah, they come on too strong. I'm not siding with the RIAA here, but if you break the law and you get caught, then you're probably going to prison. And if you try to defend your actions, you don't have a leg to stand on. It's not like you're stealing bread to feed your family or something. This is why I've stopped doing it and I'm steadily buying up the stuff I had illegally.
--- End quote ---
It's always good to have a backup plan.
EDIT: It's okay, we have Moby on our side.
Thrillho:
I'm not saying laws can't be bullshit, I'm just saying if you get arrested for downloading 100,000 songs I'd expect to go to prison.
I don't think it's the ownership of the song itself necessarily, so much as the ownership of that recording of it. I mean I can see why when you've put a lot of hard work into a recording to get fuck all in return for it.
Although come to think of it, it's not like it's the sequence of notes that is everything. Songs with lyrics people put their heart and soul into them to try and make something unique and I think it's fair enough if they don't want that to be open source.
E. Spaceman:
It is important to note though, that in this case no artist is suing this lady and no artist is benefitting from this move.
What we have here is a third party that sues someone in order to profit from somebody else's work.
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