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[quote="Eight Ace":23b3a]

Originally Posted by Noctis

The FCC sent me a letter in the mail following the CARP ruling stating that I owed $52,840 and $3,780 per month afterwards in royalty fees or I could just shut down. Assholes.

tough call....so, which way did you decide to jump?[/quote:23b3a]


probley rounded down to an even 3, and went that route

[SoLiDUS]

I can already see it: statutes forcing a mandatory purchase of two compact
disks per month, every month.

oOo:

Brave New World + 1984 + Farenheit 451 = Near future.

[Zoner]

Good call on the Brave New World...heh. Awesome album.

I just bought St. Anger and Life is Killing Me, so the record industry can kiss me arse.

[Eight Ace]

...even better book.

[Strik0r]

the riaa is gonna get me, i'm sooooo scared, please somebody save me oOo:

[Zoner]

HAW HAW HAW!

/me steps in front of Strik0r and puffs out chest threateningly.

I wouldn't mind if it was the artists that kept the profits, not some fat dumbfuck CEO who sits at a desk all day.

CEOs need to be introduced to 16" medicine [img]http://www.afn.org/~scotsman/photos/uss.iowa.jpg[/img]

[Simo Häyhä]

i hope all the assholes in riaa slit their throats..yeah they may have won the fight with napster but they are pissed even more because kazaa is is growing stronger each day.

Mp3 pIrAcY 4 LyFe DeWdZ!

[pest]

Cool pic Sgt Stryker. I like how you can see the shock waves on the water.

A few things -

1- It is stealing, it is costing the recording industry money, They are doing what needs to be done. You do not have the moral high ground if you are downloading files.

2- Saying "they have plenty of money so its ok" is not a good justification. A bum could say that I have plenty of money so its ok to break into my house. I would still be very pissed and I would, at the very least, call the law.

3- If the above dont bother you, then do whatever you feel is cool, but keep a realistic point of view about what you are doing.

4 - Dont be dumb. Dont share 800 files on napster. I dont play nice, I dont share with strangers on the well known networks. I like kazaa, it keeps the attnetion focused on the noobs and away from me. Keep a low profile. Remember, they are after the dealers, not the users. The free-for-all days of music downloads are probably coming to an end in the not so distant future. Find differnt sources or methods if you must. It probably wont be too long before many of these file sharing sites go offshore, if there is any money in it.

[Simo Häyhä]

napster was able to crumble because all the files were shared on one single network. its alot harder for riaa to taget networks like sharezza,kazaa,aimster, imesh, ect ect because there is no one central downloading place all the users are their own database for songs to download.
but i mainly download alot of old songs anyways

[Strik0r]

irc + proxy

they'll never run out of college kids

[pest]

Originally Posted by Strik0r

irc + proxy

they'll never run out of college kids

You're smarter than you look, duffman. :P

[ED]

I dont care. The product nowadays (Justin Guarini, American Idol cD's, Madonnnas American Life, etc.) are shit - this is why noone is buying. Linkin Park didn't have a problem selling 8 million cds. Eminem doesnt have a problem clearing 8 mil. There are TONS of CDS released last year that past the 3 4 and even 5 million marks. They want to sell more CD's - improve the product and the price and you'll get buyers back in the stores.

[O71394658]

Ha. I say consumers start filing countersuits for price inflation. $18 for a fucking CD. It costs 25 cents to make, and the artists only get a dollar. Thats a $1.25 Where does the other $16.75 go? Fucking assholes.

[ED]

Originally Posted by O71394658

Ha. I say consumers start filing countersuits for price inflation. $18 for a fucking CD. It costs 25 cents to make, and the artists only get a dollar. Thats a $1.25 Where does the other $16.75 go? Fucking assholes.

Uh okay your understand is way off.

ARTIST are paid based on a DOLLAR scale - but its what percent of that dollar that they get.

An artist like Eminem probably gets 70 cents to a dollar maybe -

Someone like Kelly Clarkson - 15-20 cents.

In any case, let them start suing, that'll alienate the MILLIONS of cd buyers - because downloading music or buying a cd is not exclusive of each other - out there, and further degenerate profits. As soon as the RIAA starts changing the way they distribute CD's, you're gonna have piracy. And this only applies to the n00bs who dont know P2P exists beyond Kazaa and other COMMERCIAL FILE SHARES.