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?

[*kryogenix*]

That is soo wrong... Metallica only sued cuz the album that was stolen wasnt even out yet, they didnt even have all the songs down.




Whistle all you want. Kazaa takes that one copy on the sharers computer and copies it, when you click download it sends you the copy. Then they copy another one after that so on and so forth. besides kazaa is run by ads so they arent doing anything worse than those who charge for music. Thus lawsuits are aimed at those who put the files shared on. It's all a matter of fear put in the hearts of the young to further increment youth enslavement.

Downloaded music isnt stolen, one party sold it to another and then let another party borrow it. The artists aren't losing money, if someone isnt willing to buy it in the first place then the artist wouldn't gain anything but a deaf ear. With free music on the internet people are listening to more than their single and are enjoying the music to the point of being moved to buy their next album. RIAA is criminal, but yet we do live in a capitalist country and they have found a new way to make money. Although i do not agree with their motives nor their actions, i must applaud them. they have made court cases that have no bearing on race or gender cards being played on good employers.

No, according to the DMCA, if you download an unauthorized copy off of a file sharing network, you've broken the law.

DMCA Violations

You could violate federal copyright law if:

    * Somebody e-mails copyrighted material to you and, in turn, you forward it to one or more friends.
    * You make an MP3 copy of a song from a CD that you bought (purchasers are expressly permitted to do so) but subsequently make the MP3 file(s) available on the Internet using a file-sharing network.
    * You join a file-sharing network and download unauthorized copies of copyrighted material you want from the computers of other network members.
    * To gain access to copyrighted material on the computers of other network members, you pay a fee to join a file-sharing network that is not authorized to distribute or make copies of the copyrighted material. You then download unauthorized material.
    * You transfer copyrighted material using an instant messaging service.
    * You have a computer with a CD burner that you use to burn copies of music you have downloaded onto writable CDs which you then distribute to your friends.

Source: http://iatservices.missouri.edu/dmca/

So it is against the law.