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As most of you know, I am rather sensitive to the subject of poeple posting copyrighted material here on BCF. It may at times seem silly, but copyright violations can have serious consequences. This case (link below) is about music downloading, but music isn't the only thing that is copyrighted on the internet. For those who may be tempted to engage in "file sharing," you might want to reconsider:

https://www.breitbart.tv/html/6396.html
 
Yep! Story was on the news this morning...has to pay a cool $222,000!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif
 
I hope the RIAA police don't check my iPod /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
This is certainly an interesting topic amongst the music community...

I feel that the traditional music industry needs to learn how to work with the internet and music-sharing, their heads are stuck in the sand and if they don't watch it some likely won't survive. All companies need to learn how to conduct business in this new era, it's changing everything, the ones who don't adjust well are in real danger.

And I do know that many musicians are embracing this new era, and learning how to work with it. Apparently the band Radiohead released their new album on their website for download, allowing people to give whatever they thought was appropriate.
 
It isn't just music. I'm having to protect my stuff more than ever too...slowly but surely. I've had a couple of images get edited over and over again and eventually make it back to me like a bad internet rumor.

A guy on another forum even had an image stolen from his site and used on whatever the name of Algore's infamous movie was. I don't think they've resolved that theft yet... and the latest one with Virgin Mobile in Australia.

Everything I'm selling is going to be watermarked from now on, at least the thieves are going to have to work at it!

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The recording industry could make a king's ransom and then some if they would embrace the P2P movement rather than fight it tooth and nail. If the RIAA could set up a collaboration with their member companies to create a clearinghouse type service for download of music, at even a quarter or two a song, they could make so much $$$ and not alienate their future customer base.

If you remember, back when VCRs and cassette recorders first came out, the recording and movie industries sued the pants off of the manufacturers of those to prevent them getting into the hands of the common consumer. At first, they wanted to prevent the manufacturing of, then wanted to have them sold only to licensed video pros when that fell through.

They fought that, but soon embraced it when they realized they couldn't defeat it. They made a pile of cash on that deal. History repeats itself now.

With that said, I don't download music at all; not too keen on the idea of paying a few thou a tune.
 
The RIAA has missed the P2P boat. There missing the point. A lot of newer artists are bypassing them completely. They are instead compiling thier own companys to produce and record thier own music. Which most offer to the public on thier internet sites by the song for a nominal fee. Instead of having to purchase a cd to get one or two GOOD songs and a bunch of "FILLER" songs that one doesn`t really want. Which, in my opinion is the best thing that has ever happened to the recording industry.
While I don`t condone copyright theft,
people downloading from sites like Kazza are just a "DROP in the bucket" compared to the unadvertised {word of mouth only} downloading sites that exist! At $9,250 a song, the RIAA would be richer than the oil cartel in a hurry.
I will add that, its more than just music bieng served up on these sites!
 
That judgement could easily be overturned on appeal...IMHO. Jury verdicts often are and rightly so.

She doesn't look lke the kind of person who has $220k so a chapter 7 is likely in her future and that will end it all. The RIAA is really a gestapo outfit who scare the heck out of people and usually settle for pennies on the dollar.

ASCAP and BMI make a living out of extorting $$$ from bars, resturants and business' by going in and asking for money if any type of radio or recorded music is being played that can be heard by the general public. My daughter has a two chair beauty salon in a small Michigan town and ASCAP sent her a bill for $50,000 for playing the local top 40 radio station in her salon...what a bunch of crap! She told 'em to stick the bill where the sun don't shine and never heard back from them.

One of the bars I used to perform at quit having local bands because ASCAP wanted a piece of the pie since copwrighted music was being played. Pat, the bar owner, invited them back one night to listen to what was being performed. She had hired a local four piece that only did original music and they said that didn't matter..she still had to pay even if there music wasn't copywrighted !!!

I'm not saying that stealing music is ok...but you can't go out and ruin a person's life simply because you can...any settlement has to be reasonable.
 
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