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Stopriaalawsuits.com :aliensmile:
Gotta love that riaa radar deal to check if the disc your buying is a major label rip off. Site has some great links, the printable handouts are a cool thing
This is awesome…death to the music industry up with the independent labels.
I cannot count the number of albums I have purchased because someone gave me a snip-it and said "check this band out".
On a local radio station here they have started a new scheme to boost ratings. They have set up an hour long "The Daily Ten Most Requested Songs Block". They will then play the 10 most requested songs of that day later that evening. Funny thing is, they only play about ten songs repeatedley throughout the day anyways. Now it’s just an excuse to play the same mix of ten songs once again!!!!
SUXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-My ears are bleeding from hearing the same worthless crap over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (you get the idea) :slap:
I also heard Howard Stern commenting of this issue yesterday morning…how filesharing is killing the music industry. His main gripe concerned pirated films and bootlegs of unfinished films, but he also mentioned mp3 sharing…
I have news for ya…CD prices and the music industry are to blame for declining sales…no one can afford to buy a disc anymore…
seriously, $18(
) for that new CD or $18 in your gas tank? You figure it out :slap:
The FBI joins the fun (from CNN.com), an FBI label on a cd, that will surely frighten the people
:aliensmile:An interesting research report from Harvard and the university of North Carolina:
http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39119638,00.htm”>http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatc … 638,00.htmCanadian p2p users had a big win in court today, court said it is not illegal to upload/download songs. He said uploading songs does not equal distribution of songs, downloading was always legal here
CRIA is not very happy… 
The RIAA at it again…
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Tech&cat=Digital_Music”>http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&t … ital_Music
File-sharing systems in legal win
Fans of file-sharing have been handed a significant victory by a US court.
Federal appeal court judges have ruled that the makers of peer-to-peer software are not responsible for what users do with their network.They said the structure of the networks made it impossible for the system’s creators to exert control over users.
The decision is a blow to the US movie and music industries, who were seeking damages for copyright infringement from file-sharing firms.
Control system
In their ruling, the judges said the case had parallels with older cases which said video recorders should not be banned just because some people put them to illegal ends.
"History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine, or an MP3 player," wrote the judges in their opinion.
"Thus, it is prudent for courts to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories."
Fred von Lohmann, who represented StreamCast in the case, said: "The same principle that people who make crowbars are not responsible for the robberies that may be committed with those crowbars."
[Sounds a little like the NRA saying "Guns don’t kill people" – den Buck
]The ruling was the latest in a case brought by US music and movie makers against the Grokster and StreamCast file-sharing systems.
It was made by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld a decision made in a lower court.
The judges said it should be up to Congress rather than the courts to change copyright laws.
One factor that led the US court to rule in favour of Grokster and StreamCast was the lack of central servers that co-ordinate file-swapping activity.
In the past Napster’s use of central servers led the same court to call for that network to be shut down.
Reviewing options
The decision means that instead of suing the creators and operators of file-sharing networks for copyright infringements, record labels and movie makers will have to take the more cumbersome route of finding and suing individual file swappers.
The US record industry has already filed lawsuits against more than 3,400 people and 600 of those cases have been settled for about £3,000 each.
Following the ruling, the Motion Picture Association of America said it was reviewing its options about what to do next.
"Today’s decision should not be viewed as a green light for companies or individuals seeking to build businesses that prey on copyright holders’ intellectual property," said Jack Valenti, MPAA chief executive.
Mitch Bainwol, head of the Recording Industry Association of America, said the decision did nothing to stop firms such as Grokster and StreamCast doing something about illegal use of their networks.
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