[real-eyes] Re: Fw: [OTR_and_Music] RIAA to halt lawsuits
- From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:40:34 -0500
The thing is, the record companies price cd's so high that it is ridiculous.
That's why people download music.
Duyahn
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> If people just pay for music and get it legally, they have nothing to
> worry about.
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>
> RIAA is giving up on it's futile attempts to bring about lawsuits
> against music swappers, but they have another plan of action.
>
> RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:18AM
> EST
>
>
>
> At last, the music industry admits what we've known for years: That
> filing music-swapping lawsuits against teenagers, little old ladies, and
> corpses is a fool's errand (not to mention an expensive headache for the
> defendants).
> But don't worry-the RIAA has something new up its sleeves.
>
> The new strategy (as reported by the Wall Street Journal): If the music
> industry finds out that you're swapping music files online, it'll send
> an e-mail to your ISP (agreements have already hashed out agreements
> with "some" unnamed service providers, apparently), which will in turn
> forward the message to you-probably with a little "P.S." asking you to
> stop.
> [Update: CNET has a copy of the RIAA's form letter to ISPs.]
>
> If you don't stop, well ... your service provider probably won't sue
> you, but it might slow down your broadband connection, or cut off your
> service altogether.
>
> So, why has the RIAA changed the play? Well, maybe it's been looking at
> reports like this one from the NPD Group, which shows that U.S. CD sales
> continue to slide, while the number of tunes shared via P2P sites
> continues to increase, despite all the litigation.
>
> And then there's the disastrous headlines, as the RIAA relentlessly
> tracked down and sued tens of thousands of alleged music pirates. Among
> them: Kids, octogenarians, and a few dead people.
>
> Reaction to the news? Mixed. Engadget's headline reads (in part): "RIAA
> finds its soul," with the story noting that while the RIAA reserves the
> right to go after "heavy uploaders or repeat offenders ... it appears
> that single mothers are in the clear."
>
> All Things Digital has a darker outlook, speculating that ISPs-which
> "care about the cost of moving lots of data around . [and] want to make
> money by selling, renting, or just offering up Hollywood's movies and TV
> shows to subscribers"-might be more than content to "cut off
> file-sharers . [or] simply [charge] heavy file-sharers a lot of money."
>
> And here's another possibility, courtesy of yours truly: Say your ISP
> catches you sharing tunes via P2P. No problem-download away! But when
> you get your next cable bill, you'll find the itemized songs added to
> your monthly charge, kind of like an iTunes bill.
>
> Call it the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy.
>
> P.S. Make no mistake-just because the RIAA has stopped filing new
> music-swapping lawsuits doesn't mean that it's dropped the existing
> ones, according to the Journal. Quite the contrary.
>
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