RIAA at it again

[The Real MC]

I don't patronize businesses with questionable or immoral tactics.

I bought zero CDs last year, and it will remain zero until they change their tune.

[Dean Roddey]

There's absolutely nothing moronic about it. People are just spitting on their rights, and they are fighting back, as they should. And the whole article of course is just the usual anti-industry scare mongering, making out like you are going to get five years in jail for 10 viewings of a Youtube video. That won't happen any more than you'll get five years in jail for stealing a tube of toothpaste. As with all such laws you can get 'up to' whatever it states as the maximum. The ten viewings would set the point at which it could be applied at all, but the odds of any law enforcement operation spending the money to do that is about zero.

What it does is provide a means for law enforcement to after the folks who are really causing the problem, instead of requiring that the IP owner continue to try to sue people which just isn't remotely practical and provides no real disencentive for other people to stop ripping stuff off. Copyright law provides certain rights to the owners of IP, those rights have not been being enforced, and now the government is finally waking up and seeing what has been happening, and it's started to do something about it. The wild west days of the internet are hopefully coming to an end.

If anyone thinks that 'innovation' basically involves anyone being able to take whatever they want, it's just not going to ever be that way. Too many people work too hard to create all the music, movies, software, and books out there, and they aren't going to sit around and do nothing while their industries are being destroyed. It's just not going to happen. It's also not going to be earning partial pennies on the dollar either, which is about the best that many of the 'innovations' anyone has come up with yet can offer, if even that. And I believe that the many letters that lawmakers have gotten from the trenches on up have finally got them moving.

And, BTW, I imagine that there are a lot more organizations involved than the RIAA in pushing for these changes in the law. The MPAA I'd imagine would be very much for such a thing, because the movie industry probably stands to lose even more than the music industry long term.

[sdrr00]

Originally Posted by Dean Roddey

There's absolutely nothing moronic about it. People are just spitting on their rights, and they are fighting back, as they should. And the whole article of course is just the usual anti-industry scare mongering, making out like you are going to get five years in jail for 10 viewings of a Youtube video. That won't happen any more than you'll get five years in jail for stealing a tube of toothpaste. As with all such laws you can get 'up to' whatever it states as the maximum. The ten viewings would set the point at which it could be applied at all, but the odds of any law enforcement operation spending the money to do that is about zero.

What it does is provide a means for law enforcement to after the folks who are really causing the problem, instead of requiring that the IP owner continue to try to sue people which just isn't remotely practical and provides no real disencentive for other people to stop ripping stuff off. Copyright law provides certain rights to the owners of IP, those rights have not been being enforced, and now the government is finally waking up and seeing what has been happening, and it's started to do something about it. The wild west days of the internet are hopefully coming to an end.

If anyone thinks that 'innovation' basically involves anyone being able to take whatever they want, it's just not going to ever be that way. Too many people work too hard to create all the music, movies, software, and books out there, and they aren't going to sit around and do nothing while their industries are being destroyed. It's just not going to happen. And I believe that the many letters that lawmakers have gotten from the trenches on up have finally got them moving.

And, BTW, I imagine that there are a lot more organizations involved than the RIAA in pushing for these changes in the law. The MPAA I'd imagine would be very much for such a thing, because the movie industry probably stands to lose even more than the music industry long term.

the ****s, fascists, and francos would have applauded you sir. anything created is universal.. we all have the right to enjoy it without having the ****ing RIAA or any other form of bullshit disguised as a protecting organization putting us in there iron sights. let the industry die, so we dont have to deal with any of this shit anymore

[Dean Roddey]

Originally Posted by sdrr00

the ****s, fascists, and francos would have applauded you sir. anything created is universal.. we all have the right to enjoy it without having the ****ing RIAA or any other form of bullshit disguised as a protecting organization putting us in there iron sights. let the industry die, so we dont have to deal with any of this shit anymore

Your intelligence speaks for itself, I don't really need to add anything to this statement.