RIAA lawsuits, Unfair, unjust, and communist. Options

[sikdragon]

I just did some research finally and found out that the RIAA is only sueing people who shared more than 1000 files.
I was under the impression if it was people who had a lot of music on their computer. Don't you feel a lot safer now?

[queen]

its not stolen because people arent taking credit for the music themselves. the way music has become so overpriced has made people not want to pay for it, hence, downloading.

it's still a violation of copyright law. under the digital millenium copyright act of 1998, it's forbidden to duplicate digital audio (the original copyright laws already protect any audio and video from being duplicated without permission, the dmca just extended that protection onto the internet). any .mp3 or .rm or any other media filetypes for that matter are simply DUPLICATES.

and there ARE people out there who dl instrumentals just to record their own uglyass vocal chords on top of them. it's great to express your creativity in that way, but it's still a disrespect to the music artists out there.

it's a very delicate issue since americans want freedom of speech AND protection of their works.

...and isn't there already a topic about this under debate? ;o