[real-eyes] Re: Fw: [OTR_and_Music] RIAA to halt lawsuits
- From: "Jim Ellsworth" <jellsworth1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:41:59 -0500
Hi Ray,
I completely agree with you. Automobiles are expensive to buy as well but
it's against the law to steal them and if you get caught you can be in lots
of trouble. At places like Amazon.com you can buy entire albums pretty
cheaply and get them almost instantly by downloading them. I have purchased
brand new albums for as little as $1.99 and most albums are $9.99 or less.
Thank you,
Jim
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Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: [OTR_and_Music] RIAA to halt lawsuits
If people just pay for music and get it legally, they have nothing to
worry about.
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[mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reginald George
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Subject: [real-eyes] Fw: [OTR_and_Music] RIAA to halt lawsuits
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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