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| Juke Joint Jezebel 2021th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):RIAA hijinx"
, posted Thu 26 Jun 10:36:
you took the words out of my mouth. i download a lot of music, but if it wasn't for these "swashbuckling" actions (they used that word once to describe people like us), i wouldn't have discovered so many great bands and artists. i do buy soundtracks, by the way. not as much lately (i put the blame for that on manga and video games), but if i'm like most people, i don't have the attitude "why buy it if i can just download it?" you've gotta support the artists by buying their stuff. otherwise, they won't make it. nobody sane makes goods without getting anything in return
i don't know what those zealots are trying to accomplish by pulling this crap. i usually ignore any RIAA events (all their past "advancements" seemed more like like publicity stunts), but they're being a little too active lately. knowing those people, they will go after little kids. they'll place the blame on their parents, spouting dirty words like "neglect." i've dealt with these kind of people before
this is an old story, but here's an example of how relentless their will is
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maybe that's just it. all the insane, inane, pointless crap they pulled in the past was to build up to this moment. because massive lawsuits bring in massive funds
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| DarkZero
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|  "Re(2):RIAA hijinx"
, posted Thu 26 Jun 11:28
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I think it's crazy. There are too many people doing it for them to sue everyone.
The idea is to sue a small amount of people for very large amounts of money to create an effective deterrent. It's sort of like those anti-drug commercials that are centered around how much jail time you can get if you're caught with drugs; the message is that IF they catch you, however small the chances of that may be, the chances that they will put you in poverty for the rest of your life are 100%. Or, in short, it's intimidation.
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I mean, as much as they want to make file-sharers criminals, most of these people haven't really broken laws outside of file-sharing, if that is really against the law. Are there even any internet laws yet?
Heh heh. There don't have to be any "internet laws" for this to be prosecuted. Sharing copies of copyrighted works, for free or for money, is illegal in most developed nations (US, Canada, first world Europe, Japan, etc.). If you share files or CDs of copyrighted works other than ones that have been released to the public (like the stuff you get from Overclocked Remix), you can be prosecuted by its copyright holder. Also, when it comes to individual file sharers, this law is almost absolute. The actual P2P services have a legal defense because their service can be used in legal ways, such as sharing copyrighted works that have been released to the public by their creators or public domain works that are available for free to anyone (such as Shakespeare's works, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, etc.), but someone that is specifically sharing a copyrighted song on a P2P network has no such legal defense. They are breaking the law and the internet does not change that law in any way.
This isn't to say that I don't think that file sharing should be legal and that consumers should have more control of the things that they've paid good money for, but the law is pretty clear here. These people really are breaking the law and the RIAA could successfully prosecute them.
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