RIAA wins case in Minnesota?

You know. Stealing is wrong. I understand this point.

What I don't understand is how the RIAA is going to survive just suing people into the ground. It creates nothing but bad press for the industry as a whole. I can guarantee you a lot more people have looked into independent music that isn't under the branches of the top record labels. I know I have.

Besides, when's the last time anyone has heard anything new and decent on the radio anyways? Most of the radio stations might play one or two new songs total in any given month, and the rest is just early 90s alternative like Pearl Jam and Nirvana. RIAA needs to slow down with the piracy nonsense (since OBVIOUSLY suing people hasn't slowed down piracy, infact it has only increased), and work on rebuilding the image of the music industry as a whole.

PS. I'm an iTunes downloader, not a file-sharer. Last thing RIAA should look into doing is making iTunes go away by getting greedy and demanding more money for the music.

Originally Posted by Slash

Now I don't know why but I've been following this story since it first hit and I'm absolutely shocked that the RIAA won. Was the jury just stupid or what?! She should totally appeal for a reversal because 10K a song is just ridiculous.

Wasn't there a case the RIAA won where they got like $3 a song, which equated to the price of a CD single for each song? :P

How ya doing, buddy?

If this is indeed true, talk about someone that should have settled. Takes one idiot to ruin it for everyone else, eh?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That said though Slash, you are still responsible for securing your own router and connection.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

What I would like to see is how these records are being obtained though. Since the RIAA has no authoritative clout, how do they just get the right to scan computers? And under what criteria do they get the computers they choose to investigate?

If the RIAA ever came and knocked on my door, and said "Hi, can we look at the files on your computer?", even though I don't even have any like 2 or 3 perhaps 'illegal' songs (and even that could be debated since I don't know if the bands in question are produced on major labels), I'd be like, not without a couple of court dates first.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Or buy the music you want to buy.

Like I said people, stealing is still stealing. iTunes is great, and I don't mind paying 99 cents a single. But again doesn't mean I support the RIAA or frivolous lawsuits either.

I was speaking idiomatically.