Preserved Topic: This is heavy

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/06/1075854063514.html

Money can buy anything, even judicial orders. I hope this never happens in my country.

holy crap! damn that sounds harsh...

well whaty can I say...if Kazaa falls....something else will take its spot...

Personally I hope the RIAA overstepped its bounds on this one and Sharman sues their asses off.

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That's not even the RIAA there...that's a body formed by the ARI (Austrlaian Record Industry) and all their bitches..err...affiliates. They;re just taking their queues from the RIAA. They may be associated with them, however. I think the RIAA may be trying different avenues of attack, coming in by different names.

I totally understand the whole copyright infringement laws and the concern about using the internet to swap music files... I also understand that people have been sharing music since cassette recorders came out... The internet just takes it to an amazing volume...
They can shut down Napster and Kazaa, and, like Ruski says, someone else will take it over...
This whole thing is getting ridiculous... You'd think these people would be able to find something worthwhile to spend our tax money on...



Cell 617

And of course, even if they manage to ebb the flow of internet swapping, that won't stop people from doing it the old fashioned way.

Maybe if a CD didn't $23 a pop....people would buy more of them....

I'm biased, but I think that things like Apples iTunes Store are a step in the right direction, you'd think by now the RIAA and their counterparts would take a hint.

Xel, I think you are exactly right. They need to stop fighting the technology and work with it, it's the only way unless they want to try and police it forever. And they will have to if they don't figure out a compromise. You can't fight the future. This whole deal could have been avoided in the beginning had they embraced the technology and been willing to involve themselves, they are clinging to the past. Sure, there would still be theft, but on a much lesser scale I think.

I think it scares the hell outta them for one very big reason, with the internet, artists don't need them as much, and without the artist they RAPE they would be nothing.

50 cents a song is my buying price, no more. Paying 99 cents a song you might as well buy the CD.