RIAA to stop suing music fans

**TransfuSe** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 1203 Location: Alberta, Canada

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/riaa-says-it-pl.html

thoughts?

**iSlak** · Joined: 01 Jun 2008 Posts: 334

Fuck, finally.
Cool. It's illegal to be musically inclined without budget to pay for CD's.
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**KrakenEater** · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 1053 Location: Seattle, WA

I'm very sad to see this. I hate being in the minority of people who don't like stealing (I consider taking something that someone is selling without permission stealing, I know some people don't agree).

[Edit] Reread, it's good that they are going after the uploaders, but I don't think they should just ignore people who download.
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**MisterMcLov1n** · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:52 am Post subject:

It's good to see that they're going after the people who are at the heart of the piracy problem: the big uploaders. There's a difference between downloading a few CD's and uploading an entire tour.
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**Ogris** · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 344

I'm quite surprised that a company finally realized how to sort the problem out, instead of going BAWWW BAN EVERYONE WHO EVER DOWNLOADED ANYTHING ILLEGAL.

Everything P2P is handled by uploaders, if you cut off all the uploaders, there will be no more music left to download for people who pirate it, sorting it out... I'm quite surprised they managed to come up with something this effective.

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**Twang** · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:08 am Post subject:

I hope they realize that some albums are out of print and can ONLY be heard by pirating them. Otherwise, it's fine with me that they're fighting piracy.

Well, maybe not FINE with it...I still like to torrent movies, because I don't have anywhere to put them, what with my CDs taking up all the shelf space. I also only download ones that really get my attention. I don't generally watch movies, so when I do download it's something highly notable, or ridiculously obscure (Fight Club and Cannibal Holocaust, respectively). Then I delete it right away after watching it.

Same with old school games. I'm not gonna go out and buy Civilization 2 or Lemmings. You can't even buy NES' and SNES' any more, let alone games for them, so I got me some emulators.

/justifying bad habits

**DanHetfield** · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:14 am Post subject:

I think this is brilliant, such an effective way to cut off people who steal all of their music.
I personally think that it's cruel to the artists who are out there trying to make a few bucks for all of the hard work that they do and not making enough because half of their fans download all of their music.
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**Josseppe95** · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 1045 Location: Philadelphia

I still don't like the fact that someone else can watch what you do on the internet...but hey, its better than getting sued. I don't know about this whole piracy thing though, I mean, if you buy a CD, you should be able to do whatever you want with it considering its your property.
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**brandonbb13** · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 862 Location: Chicago, Illinois

I am one of the few people I know that download music off iTunes. I don't know, I just feel weird downloading from sites like Lymewire and such.
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**xXryannn** · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 576 Location: pittsburgh

**AppleNick** · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 120

The RIAA is a conglomerate of professional bullies. I believe that fair licensing rights should be respected; however, suing a 12 year old girl is ineffective. Running over somebody's life like that is horrible.

**lazor** · Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 1079

Charge reasonable prices for CDs, then I'll talk about buying them.

How about listening to this advice

Also,