[real-eyes] Re: Fw: [OTR_and_Music] RIAA to halt lawsuits
- From: "Fettgather, Jim" <jfettgather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:37:24 -0600
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[mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Beach
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I agree with Jim on this. Just because we think record companies are
charging too much for their product, doesn't give us the right to obtain
the product in a not so legal manner. If this were the case, then we
should be getting cars, gas, and other products in such manners, without
the companies being able to do anything about it.
Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
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>>> "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1/14/2009 10:31 PM >>>
Plus at www.cdbaby.com you can buy albums in mp3 format. But, Also, on
the other hand, record companies charge to much for music, this is why
people download it.
Duyahn
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From: "Jim Ellsworth" <jellsworth1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:41 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: [OTR_and_Music] RIAA to halt lawsuits
> 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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> If people just pay for music and get it legally, they have nothing to
> worry about.
>
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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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