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RIAA = The Devil
This kinda worries me... i mean really i dont even wanna open my program now... :weep :shrug
taken off Yahoo! News Starting today, the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) begins an unprecedented campaign to track down music fans who trade unauthorized songs on the Internet. The RIAA plans to file ''hundreds'' of lawsuits as early as August. ''Any individual computer user who continues to steal music will face the real risk of having to face the music,'' RIAA president Cary Sherman said. It's the most dramatic step in a shift of copyright enforcement from swap services -- often based overseas and difficult to shut down -- to the millions who trade online. Potential damages could reach $150,000 for each violation. Recent court victories against Verizon have given the RIAA the ability to easily subpoena and retrieve the identities of infringers from Internet service providers. Verizon, with the support of such groups as the ACLU and Consumers Union, is appealing. The RIAA's initial targets will be the ''most egregious'' song sharers, Sherman said, though no limit was specified. File sharing and CD burning are being blamed for lower album sales -- down 8% this year, according to unreleased figures from Nielsen SoundScan. Kazaa, the most popular pirate service, claims 230 million registered users. Legal alternatives such as MusicNet and Pressplay have 300,000 total subscribers. But the success of the Apple iTunes Music Store, which has sold 5 million songs in two months at 99 cents each, has proved there's a market for music sales on the Net. ''We're at the point where the public has been educated,'' Sherman said. ''People understand this activity is illegal, the legal services are getting better and there's no longer any excuse for downloading illegally.'' Wayne Rosso of file-swap service Grokster called the RIAA's actions ''lunacy'' and said, ''It is typical of them to not only alienate their customers but sue them into bankruptcy.'' |
AHH! You beat me into posting about this issue!! lol... oh well... anyways, I heard about this yesterday and I'm quite surprised.. I really hate how the RIAA has now gone to p2p programs in search of DLs, and altho the basic idea of sharing mp3s is kinda wrong, the thought of your ISP giving your name to the RIAA or having them come to your house, destroying your CDs, and fining you in excess of $10000 is totally wrong to me!
For a related article, refer to here: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html For a warning to you all, be careful of using psp programs for the next 2 months, as this will be when they'll be going out looking for people. In DC++, someone said that they're already using that program, disguising themselves as people with [FC] in their nicknames, so my only caution is to be careful.. >.< |
looks like theyre really taking a big step in trying to stp people from downloading and sharing songs. man, if people really start getting fines for this i definitely will stop. gotta inform my bro and sisses about this. they download more than i do. theyre really serious about this. could this be the end of file sharing music?
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:O i agree, it really sucks not to be able to trade mp3 & other things on-line, but we can't really blame them. i think we'd all be ferking pissed if our company lost tons of money through on-line trading software. i don't think it's fair to call them greedy, that's just my opinion. it seems like we're the greedy ones. but... this is a confuzing matter
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I don't get why they're going after us as individuals when they should be attacking the file sharing programs themselves.
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" Potential damages could reach $150,000 for each violation" now multiply that my teh MILLIONS of users.. if u ask me thast a bit greedy... I never seen a member of teh president of the RIAA compose a song.. or sing.. or do anything except profit from others... i dont see anything wrong with sharing songs. okay now bootlegging a full album tahst not out yet.. yes.. but i mean mixes and stuff? no to me theres nothing wrong with you making a selection, *sigh* oh well tho :shrug |
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your'e right: there are two sides to this. i think people normally go & buy the cds after they download some of the artist's songs. good point, jose!
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damn RIAA....c'mon...please give some face to us....anyway...i kinda sense we'll be hard time in some near future....many sites will extinct..and also we'll see a dramatic downturn in the numbers of users on p2p network...damn...i hate this....
anyway..this is really stupid question...: "does this act also apply to any mp3..that has no association with us record industry..as if mp3 from Japan??..." although japan also will follow RIAA soon enough...but i just want to know... why they always have to be representator of the world....*sigh* |
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Arugh..terrible news. But this is always going to happen when the internet is around..People are always going to be swapping files over the net..even thro private IM talks and such. They will truely never stop people sharing.
The fine fee is pretty high and thats terrible..I mean WHO has that type of money? If I had alot of money I'd be buying the CD's but here they cost around $30 to $50 a pop for only 12 songs..Come on it's crazy price to pay! |
Its not like we'll ever NOT buy a CD again because we D/L. Im on KaZaA right now, and ya know, I just cant seem to get pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~ CD's whenever I want. And I'll DL English music too, then, if I like it, Ill buy the CD, and delete the tracks.
But the way I see it is, then why play songs on that radio? Wouldnt that be like the same thing? :shrug Because its not hard to tape the songs on the radio, and now you'll have them forever to listen to, like BURNING A CD. 8%... I could care less about 8%..... But obviously the music industry doesnt T_T One way or another, there's going to be a way to get music off the internet... |
Thats a thought..Maybe if they made it alot easier to buy international CD's thro your local music shop then people wouldn't download the music so much. I download the music I can't buy..but usually if I can buy it I'll download it first and see if I like it then go buy the album. Some artists I want to support and there are others I don't want to because I may online like one song by them and forkingo ut a big amount of money for ONE song is so crazy.
If the price rates weren't so high when buying an album online I would consider it more..but it's too expensive..$90 for just 2 albums is crazy and is the price I reccently paid! |
Buying CD's online is really expensive... Concidering most the prices are in USD. I just bought a single, it was almost $30! And yeah, buying a CD for one song is crazy. I dont do that, thats the purpose of DL. RIAA are LOSERS.
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I second that RIAA are loosers!!
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that sux :( :(
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a) you normally don't go around making 10s or even 100s of copies for your friends (i'm not talking about pirate moves... that's a bit different :P ) b) with most types of tape media, the quality degrades with wear and time, so in a few years, that same tape would look quite bad Perhaps the RIAA knows about that and doesn't consider that a "threat" to their "empire", but as I said before, p2p programs aren't the only source of DL, and even if they did stop them, as already mentioned, there's still IM programs that'd take care of that for the time being ;). |
There will always be a way to get music and stuff...
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The RIAA are really being stupid and narrow-minded. For one thing, the economy isn't what it was. OF COURSE CD sales are gonna fall; people can't afford to buy a $17 cd when they hear one or two good songs off of it that they like. And plus, american music SUCKS right now for the most part, which is why I listen to jpop. I don't think there are more than 3 or 4 american artists right now that I even LIKE, much less am a big fan of. People who download MP3s also tend to just download songs they've already heard on the radio. The only difference is that now they can listen to the songs on-demand and not wait for the radio to play them, just like if they recorded it onto a tape. Knowing what people are like, they'll get tired of the song and throw away the mp3 in less than the amount of time it would have taken for the tape to wear out, so it's really NOT a threat at all. The RIAA should think of mp3s as a form of advertising; in all honesty, they may be the only thing saving the industry, because if people hear a song or two on the radio by a certain artist they can audition the rest of the album before they buy it. Plus, make no mistake about it, CDs ARE more convenient (which is why people write audio cds to begin with), plus you get the lyrics and nifty pictures and artwork, so if people really like an album they WILL buy it. Actually, I think the RIAA is more worried than anything about the RIAJ getting more attention and taking away from the US economy, haha :P~ If not for mp3s i wouldn't have made the changeover to jpop because I wouldn't have been familiar with it. So there ya go. :P
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wtf ? i mean common everyone does this! EVERYONE seriously... i, myself has over 1000 files in kazaa... so... how much will i b charged?? 150,000,000... ??? omg... if we cant burn cds den whoo invented da cd/dvd burner??
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im sure most of the ones out there downloading are kids. how are they gonna sue us kids if we don't even have anything to fall dead on? All i have are 48 cents. they can take that if they want.. :/
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48 cents? lol.. well, I'm sure they'd figure out a way, either thru some time of "rehab" (lol...), or perhaps going so far as to blame your parents and have them pay... :rolleyes argh... cuz of this, I'm a bit cautious nowadays, since I've read stories about how the cops or FBI would go to people's houses, bust their PC, as well as any HDs/CDs they have.. :caa |
omg.. jose dont scare me like this! what if dey really do... omg! ahhh
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yeah ive heard about that too, well what i heard was that they bring a team to your house and they dio a search on anything relted to pirating. If they find bootleg cds they shred them or take then as evidence. Next they take your compuyter and they serach it over and over. After that I heard they monitor you for like a year or something, its tuff i dunno if its true One thing: What about online radios? like im hearing a station right now * and i cant belive theyre playing ayu!!!!!!!!!!!! and its M *Remix tho* Im pretty sure the RIAA is gunan come after them. Eother way right now im staying away from high profile P2P progz like kazaa.... Soulseek is one im checking out its low profile and only music. I need my music! theyre ruining my flow!!! :curse |
It's about time. Bands/artist have to earn a living just like everyone else. I see no problem with downloading something to see if you like it. But to outright steal from musicians who put their blood, sweat, and tears into their work is just wrong. Besides most bands offer free, legal downloads on their websites.
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If I were in RIAA, which I'm not.*looks around frantically at everyone*I would be telling the artists to make better music and more of it!In Japan people pop out music like a drug addict would pop pills but here in America, the artists push albums out in the period of time a baby is developed.At least Britney Spears has died off for the time being!
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Let's put the shoe on the other foot for a second, shall we? Suppose you owned a business and someone stole from you and your profits because as you say ''they couldn't afford it''. Would you not prosecute them? The real issue is, theft is theft. Period, point blank, end of discussion. Somewhere along the lines you people are forgetting that the idea of a business is to make a profit. You know that is what business do. The RIAA is a business, not a charity. They owe you (or anyone) nothing. Quote:
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Those bastards!!.....I mean a lot of people found out about Ayu cause they downloaded an mp3 and after that they started to like her and buying her albums and stuff...Without that Ayu would probably lose a lot of non japanese sales<------Suck on that RIAA!
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I think this really sucks balls. I mean, MP3 is just free promotion the way I see it. Record companies don't have to advertise at all and still ppl get to hear all the music which, in many cases, STILL encourages them to buy CDs (I always buy CDs, except when things are impossible to come by; it's impossible to get good gamesoundtracks here for example).
I mean, come on, the most important reasons for record sales going down are 1 - music is getting worse by the day 2 - CDs get more expensive by the day Let me tell you what the average Pop CD costs overhere. 22!!! That's almost $25! Thank god I don't listen too much pop, cuz most records I buy are around 15, which is about $17. That's the second most important reason. Have you seen MTV these days? I can tell you, here in Europe, about 70% of what's on tv is total crap. So if 1: Record companies would stop releasing this crap they 2: could make CDs cheaper cuz they wouldn't have to spend loads of money on advertising total nonsense. MP3s are the best. I love em to death. When I d/l MP3s I like I go buy the album anyways. It's been three months since I first downloaded an Ayu song. Two weeks ago I ordered five Ayu CDs. So back to you, record companies :P You all suck balls! Quote:
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Perhaps you're missing my point, then... I'm not saying that it's right, but the RIAA wants to charge thousands, if not millions of dollars on people for getting a few of an artists' songs. The amout they're charging people is what's getting to me, not the idea that they're looking for people with mp3s. Yes.. you're right.. if I was the artist, i'd be pretty upset too, but just think: without mp3s, most no-name artists wouldn't be where they are now, and altho some people still won't go and buy CDs, those that do would have a better understanding of what they're gonna get, rather than spend $15+ on a CD which they might as well throw out the window... Also, imagine what would happen at jail and such... you'd be meeting guys who've stolen cars, robbed banks, and even killed people, but I'd imagine that if those who get charged by the RIAA don't pay up, it'd be quite a sad story to tell other inmates: Inmate 1: So.. what'cha in for? Inmate 2: I DL'd some MP3s Inmate 1: whoa.. that's hardcore.. not! :roflmao :roflmao |
People who don't buy the CDs now wouldn't buy them anyways :rolleyes
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lol okay, so it may be concidered stealing. fine. but i think those fines are a little outrageous. okay, like me and trinity. were basically kids here. we've got like no money to pay for those fines. and i know that maybe we shouldn't be downloading in the first place, but hey, because i downloaded, I'm now a fan. and because I'm a fan, I'm going to buy. I had no idea that the world of jpop existed, until i downloaded.
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But will they do it, they've been saying they would scince Napster came out. I havent heard it happening once. Its like satelite, they close shops all the time that fix satelite cards, but they just re-open again. And police dont do anything about it. Im not worried about it at this point. And for that I'll go download 20 different things off KaZaA.
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I was in the shower this morning and I thought of something.
Someone needs to buy MTV and restructure it completely. MTV need to play videos and nothing but videos. Become MUSIC tv again. No commercials. Because you know what? The VIDEOS should be the commercials. Commercials for the artists and their songs! Shows should be separated by genre so people can tune in and watch rap, pop, hard rock, classic rock, techno, or international videos when they want to. The record labels would pay MTV to play their videos and thus promote the artists on their labels. Also, the industry here needs to be based on single sales. At the moment it's based on radio and video requests. This is WRONG WRONG WRONG all WRONG. Asking the radio to play your song, for one thing, is almost as bad as mp3s because you get to hear the song all you want without paying anything. Also, if one song is more popular than another, it pushes out other artists that could potentially surface and become popular. An artist or a song's popularity should be determined by how many copies of the single it sells, not how much it's played on the radio and shoved down unsuspecting people's throats. If the industry worked this way in america CD sales would go up and less money would actually have to be spent by record labels for an artist's studio time. In a single-based market, artists release songs as they are completed. As a result songs are tailored to perfection one at a time and less time is spent actually recording; more time is spent mixing, brainstorming, and writing. In the USA, an artist will write 45 half-assed songs, then record 30 songs in crappy "demo" form, then perfect maybe 20 of those, and then finally only release 12 on an album. Then, executives above them choose 4 songs to release as singles; the most sure-fire hit comes first. With more songs released as singles, artists get more exposure of various songs of theirs. By the time the album comes out, people KNOW if they'll like it or not cuz they've already heard the four or five songs from it that were already released. People this way aren't as likely to get ripped off like they are here when they buy a cd with one good song on it and then the rest is horrible. Plus, in a single-based market, you buy the SINGLE if you like that one song, and the album if you like all the singles. CD rentals aren't a needed thing in this system and that's why the japanese market isn't doing as well as it should recently. Mp3s ARE hurting jpop, not american pop. American pop suffers cuz there's not enough advertising or variety. US record labels spend ALL their funds on recording and promotion of image instead of promotion of the various wonderful music that is in fact out there. It'll be hard to find more obscure artists if MTV and the Radio don't play them. I found Tori Amos and Curve because I saw one of each of their videos on late-night MTV years and years ago, back when they actually played videos at least half the time. |
mtv does need to play videos- that was what it was created to do.
---- on mp3s the biggest problem about mp3s is they are free. who would buy something if they can get it for free? so many people think im crazy buying cds when i already have the burned copy. personally- cd prices need to come down. i'd buy a lot more cds if they werent so expensive. |
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well i think itd be cool to do this,.. instead of buying teh album, u can email otr call in and request a mix, like from teh same artist, ya know? almost liek customized cds, and its got the label lyrics and everything, i think people would like that, cuz thinka bout it, alot of times when u BUY teh cd its cuz u just like teh little booklet u know all that fancy stuff, if you had all that plus a cd that YOU want that has the songs YOU want, i think more people would buy... but then again tahst my crazy idea lol... MTV: yeah u know i really get annoyed how MTV is nowadays..i dunno if its just me or i turn on teh tv at bad times but i always catch it when its some stupid show about teen life drama or some crap... so much for MUSIC television... remember THE BOX? now that was pure music vidoes... until of course myv bought em off and had teh GENIUS idea of calling it MTV2... oh well ive given up on tv anyways. why bother when i can DL everything lol... |
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But then again..It wouldn't really work :( |
Did you know they have something like that here in Holland? You can go to some recordstores and compile your own CD there. The disadvantage is that they have a limited number of tracks and I don't think that they include much of a booklet either.
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come to think of this matter....
...the deadly fine and jail penalty....i think it's just another way to stop people sharing music...i think the modus operandi r like this...they go find some target that can afford to pay the fine and make them pay for it...then go find another target and collect from them...and not to forget...each time they grabbed some poor guy and made him paid or jailed...put it on medias..newspaper, national tv..etc...to show what these RIAA guyz can do to u...and to struck terror to the public, sharing community and offenders...the point is to struck terror...so people stop sharing goods...there's no way to stop this sharing matter..but RIAA saw a way to curb it.... ...so what u can do is...i think..stop sharing for a while...and get yer files off the net...u can always unshare or share which files u want in p2p programs...u dun hav to delete yer files...although they can still hack into yer pc to see wether u got mp3 or not...regardless the fact u r sharing it or not....so i think another way is to modify the *.mp3 extension...into something else... ... i think they dun sue underage offenders....but maybe the parents have to pay for it...this is also another way...for RIAA to rally people to enforce this matter...if the parents would be responsible of the kids doing..then many parents would be aware and start to monitor their kids net activity...so...RIAA got themselves unofficial enforcement at home...and same goes to college students....maybe the institution would have to take responsibility....and the institutions will start to monitor their students net activity tooo....so the problem would be curb from the root.... just from my point of view....i think... |
everywhere i go already had restrictions on the comps. you cant download anything not even zip files. complete restriction. i tried to search a topic on biology and it wouldnt let me because of questionable words! what the f.... anyway the RIAA can do what they want. my parents already scout the computer, its not like me and my siblings fo anything that was wrong anyway.:rolleyes
ive done with restrictions before and i can do with em now. but its just the thought of them trying to stop people from sharing. isnt that what we learned when we were little? to share? i mean not share illegally...of course not. theyre just mad people dont deem their music worthy enoughto buy. or maybe thats just me. |
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hahahaha if they ever tryed suing me id do use that in court aagaint em haha yeah its all greed really, would they really do this to anyone underage tho? i mean its been said before that most people who download are like young, below 18 really, If i veer saw on teh news "RIAA sues 13 year old" id be extremely shocked Most music today aint worth 15 bucks. For example Rap.. some rap i like.. some very little.. why?.. because its all the same thing same same thing, if mabey artists came out with MORE original songs, and original styles id buy. usually its only 2 songs that pick u up ya know, and teh res its just thrown on there to make a cd look long. Theres two rivals JayZ and Nas for example.. Jayz Comes ouyt ityh a double cd.. Nas comes out witha d ouble cd.. xcept Nas had only three tracks on teh second cd and they wanted to charge 25 bucks! im like WHATT!!... well lol thats just a small example of how overcharging for CRAP is making the RIAA loose money, oh sure blame it ALL on people sharing.... |
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music like jazz is what gets me going. rap has turned into an evil monster. not that i dont still listen to it occasionally but its not worth it anymore. i wake up one morning and i see David Banner on my screen. when did he become an artist? ugh. The RIAA, i think, should figure out that, yes most of the downloaders are young children and that suing them is not going to solve the problem. making their parents pay is not going to do it either. theres so many solutions that are available to them. i wish i could sit here and name some but i cant. im tired. If the RIAA stops and thinks for a moment theyd probably figure out that most of the decline in sales probably takes place in the rap category. nobody wants to buy CDs like that. everywhere i look i see my friends burning rap CDs. not anything else. rap CDs. okay thats enough from me right now. -Ty |
i dont like how they are going to do that, and they might even destroy our computers and make it cost hundreds of dollars to fix and they wont even be paying anything but if you think about it file sharing is always going to find a way to be around like how they tried to shut down all the file sharing networks but LOOK they are back!!!! so maybe thats whats going to happen here hopefully at least but that sucks about how they will do that errrr!!!!
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well, not to get OT, but yeah.. I think that the majority of today's music is, simply put... pure garbage, frankly... most of these "no name talents" haven't got a clue as to what people like, and think that rehashing the same ideals of boy bands and such will get good sales... but sadly, most people are brainwashed to liking this "stuff", so until the day that new, original music comes along, people will be forced to liking this stuff, DLing mp3s, and continuing this cycle of things... |
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I dont see many good songs at all now, i agree with Cientific, I used to only listen to rap.. but then it just turned.. liek freakin stupid, The only rap i listen to now and i admit is good.. is teh old stuff rom Outkast.. and Jurrasic 5, tahst about it... its getting really sick and stuff i mean at first a few curse words okay ni biggie.. now its liek... *BEEP* BEEP BEEEEEEEP OKAY!! BEEP BEEEP* okay wtf if ur gunna sing.. then sing, u dont gotta curse out teh listener!.. anyways tahst y ive given up on rap, it just isnat what it used to be... its gone from rhyming to pathetic attempts of being a bad@$$ |
I for one am getting pretty tired of being called a thief. It's a completely wrong generalization to say all artists expect their work to be paid for. There are several that love having their music heard. I know I'm not everyone, but I for one download an album, and still go out and buy it. Having it on your computer is one thing. Having the actual CD and official merchandise is another.
Yes, it's fine and dandy that people do their best to make music. They can pour their "blood, sweat and tears" into anything. But, I ask; remember the days when we made mix tapes by recording songs from the radio? What is that? Same concept; "stealing". Did the RIAA ever go after the people who did that. No. They didn't. It's the same concept, and no law-suits ever happened. The facts are that record sales are as high as they've ever been. Singers/artists are still hitting multi-platinum and diamond marks. Sure, people download songs. So? The RIAA should be focusing their attention on the several P2P programs available for download. They should have Microsoft and Mac and other OS's remove the support of music formats. They should crack down on providers of music-playing software which enables you to play mp3s and WMAs and the like. Going to an individualistic level is time-consuming and costly. One individual person is not going to be able to pay $100-$1000 per copyrighted song. They shut down Napster. They shut down Audiogalaxy. How is going after the individual going to change things? |
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I think the problem with rap/hiphop is the same as the problem with music in general. I mean, there's good rap. I LOVE Aesop Rock, The Pharcyde and Black Star. But there's just too many crap, and that crap out there is what makes all the CDs cost so damn much! There's 1000s of CDs with thos 'Pimpin' hoes and bitczhehs wud get da dough' lyrics, who's gonna buy all that crap? NOONE. Jeez, ppl should get real and realize customers aren't THAT stupid that they'll be everything released. But as I said, it's the same with most music (most mainstream music actually). There's good R n B (I guess, I wouldn't know cuz I have but one R n B record, Melky Sedeck's debut which is a great album btw) and there's loads and loads of bad R n B. There's good punkrock and there's bad punkrock. If record companies would just get real and stop releasing all the bad crap maybe things'd get better! Oh yeah, and the fact that they shut down Audiogalaxy pisses me off cuz it was the best ever! |
Urgh, these ugly money minded monkeys made me sick.
We are just sharing, and we did buy our fave artists' CDs! It's no big deal at all, so why the hell they're kickin' such a big fuss out of it? Thanks to MP3, i get to know ayumi, and all other japanese artists. If their music is really good, why bother them being downloaded and ripped by the publics? There will be people buying and you can still make money. And if they're still scared of it, just put your songs on your website and start selling like Apple's iTunes did. No problem at all. I say that they are losing even more money by sueing us. So either way they are walking towards bankrupt. ROFL! |
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I even found the soundtrack to Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage there, which isn't available on CD or anything and I'd been looking for it so long! I'm so happy with that, and you can't say it's wrong to download that cuz it's not even available on CD! Which is weird, it's a great soundtrack and the composer is Stewart Copeland, the famous drummer of, among others, The Police!
I really miss audiogalaxy! :cry |
yea audiogalaxy... i remember dat... dey had like soo many songs! whoa u could find like everything! deyeven use to have a forum... damn i miss audiogalaxy too!!! http://www.ahsforum.org/forum/images/smilies/cry.gif
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heres another good qiestion: why isnt teh RIAA going after companies who make MP3 PLAYERS?! what good is an MP# player if you cant get MP#'s UGH! another reason showing that the RIAA is targeting the wrong people.. or forgetting about other problems..
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Here's a paradox for ya --
Sony Entertainment Group is part of the RIAA. Sony also makes portable CD/MP3 Wow. Just wow. How does that even begin to make sense. They put copy software on CDs so you cant rip MP3 even if you actually BUY the album. And now you can't download the music. Then WHAT'S THE POINT OF MAKING MP3 PLAYERS?! ARGH! |
The point of having an MP3 player is so the CD's you buy can be put on your computer and played with ease. Have you ever noticed if you've got a CD playing on youer puter and your doing alot of other things it kinda gets jammed or slows down?
Also..if you only have one CD-ROM player but want to listern to your music and your CD player is not in your room or close to your computer..you can A) Turn up the music very loudly or B) Rip it to mp3 format and play it from your computer. Plus you'll free up the CD-ROM for if you want to use it. Also.. Portable MP3 players have been made so the people who have paid all that money for a CD can format it to MP3 then place it on their Portable MP3 player. Not to have it shared on P2P programns like winMX or Kazaa Lite. You have the right to copy all your music (because you own the ogginal one) if you own the CD your just not allowed to distrube the CD by selling it, lending it or giving it away. Your ment to use it for your own purpouses not help others. *Gets off soap box* |
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all i knwo is i have to stop thinking about this.. cuz for some weird reaosn i had a dream that the RIAA was at my door * NO LIE!!* and they looked liek teh agents from teh Matrix... ugh... Mabey thats cuz i rented teh game.. but anyways this things been on my mind too much
*just thought id share lol* |
*Laughs* Oh boy..the RIAA are really on your mind,huh?!
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The thing is, CD pressing companies are putting software on their CDs so you CAN'T copy them to your computer.
If you can't rip your cd's to mp3 format anymore, and it's illegal to download them, then what's the point of having an MP3 player? |
Yeah that's definitely stupid, but can't you just put audio straight from CD to MP3 player? That's how my MD works :shrug
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The RIAA can't honestly expect to track down every single person in the world who download's MP3's.
I haven't downloaded an english MP3 for at least 2 months now, all my stuff is Japanese. Now, if Japanese cd's were available in the UK, i'd purchase them, but there's no way i'm gonna spend upwards of £40 to buy a cd i may not even like. I've downloaded 2 full english albums, which were Pink and Shakira's albums and, ooh look, i seem to have BOUGHT them since then. Come on, if you expect us to pay for your 'music', make sure it actually is music! In response to earlier posts, Rap is bad in my opinion. I mean real bad. Why do they seem to think that the only thing people want to hear is *******, b**** etc... Or are these the only word's in a rappers vocabulary? |
Buuh that's something that lots of ppl think about rap and sadly it's the image that rap has nowadays. Just a lot of swearing and hoes and dough. I hate that crap, but there's good rap/hiphop too.
I LOVE Aesop Rock, The Pharcyde, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Cannibal Ox and many more. And these ppl are poets, not some st00pid ppl that can only rhyme b**** and itch. 'All I ever wanted was to pick apart day Put the pieces back together my way' - Aesop Rock 'So much on my mind that I can't recline Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine' - Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Common 'Life's not a b****, life is a beautiful woman; you only call her a b**** cuz she won't let you get that ***sy. Maybe she didn't feel ya, y'all didn't have any similar interest, or maybe you're just an *ssh*le who couldn't sweettalk the princess.' Pure poetry! There's good lyrics and good music in the hiphop, ppl are just too ignorant so it will remain underground. :rolleyes And if you're offended by the use of swear words, well, swearing is a part of life. And it's emotion. |
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and sxesven: mos def, talib, common are great! Talib's latest single is such a good song. and Boku youre having dreams about RIAA? maybe you should stop thinking about it. itll only get worse. |
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Alright, I don't like hearing this.
Leaving a CD for a friend is one thing. If they burn the CD, it is NOT your fault. If you tell them not to, they can anyway. How is that in ANY way YOUR fault. |
Because you are the owner of the CD..thats it plain and simple.
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i like that! all those taht u named good stuff! dont forget Jurrasic 5! im so glad i changed... Cientific: i cant i try i try! theyre everywhere! :weep |
Yup, Jurassic 5 too! That's all just real hiphop, and that's what I love!
And Cient: not really your fault. :) |
You're saying that someone borrowing your stuff, and then turning around and letting someone else use it is YOUR fault.
You're saying that if someone gets shot, the shop owner who sold the shooter the gun is at fault. You're saying that if a car gets stolen, the person who sold the victim the car is at fault. I don't think I need to go on. |
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Samurai Hamasaki is busy working at his office when a DHL delivery man shows up at his cubicle. "Mr. Samurai Hamasaki?" asked the guy promply. Samurai turns to his back on his rotatable chair slowly, and had a good look at the guy, after a second he answered, "Yup, that's me..." Without any delay the delivery man passed the receipt form for him to sign as to confirm his acceptance of the envelope. Samurai signed the envelope and the man leaves his cubicle after saying, "Have a nice day." While Samurai was pondering on who might send this envelope to him, he swiftly tears open the side of the envelope and a Nokia 6610 mobile phone slides out of it, landing steadily on his right palm. Still puzzled, the phone rang. Samurai shaken for a little but eventually he answered the phone. "He.. Hello?" "Hello, Neo, do you know who is this?" a low voice with dignity on on the line. "I...Isaac?" "Yes.... unfortunately I can't talk to you much longer." "Why?" "They are coming for you, Samurai." "Who's after me?" "Look over from your cubicle.... slowly..." With a careful stance, Samurai did what the mysterious voice had told him. He peered through the edges of his cubicleand found himself looking at a group of polices, headed by 3 nicely-suited men who wore sunglasses. When one of the men stared at his direction, Samurai quickly dives back down to his seat. "What are they going to do to me?" "I don't know but I suggest you better get out of there." "Damn.... I don't like this....." "I can guide you but you must do exactly what I tell you to do." "O... OK...." The mysterious voice told exactly what Samurai had to do, but in the last step heading towards to the top floor, he got stuck on the side of the window and get caught by the agents. Inside the FBI interrogation room, Samurai was confronted by 3 men who previously shown up at his office. A man, with a cold expression, sat down opposite of Samurai and slams a thick pile of records on the table. He begin to unfasten the ropes that has surrounded the records and browse through them slowly. Finally he began, "Mr. Hamasaki.... you have been leading a peaceful yet chaotic life. You are now a computer engineer working for a leading software company, you paid all of your bills right on time and hardly ever offended and law, and..." He paused for a while before continuing, "You clear your landlady's trash can every night." "On the other side," he continues, "You live off as an Ayumi fan known as Neo who deliberately rips all CCCDs using illiegal means, causing billions of dollars of loss of several major music companies." "Recently an individual known as Isaac has established a direct contact with you. I don't know what do you think of him but this man is a highly dangerous terrorist." "If you can co-operate with us, we can write off your previous records and you can get a fresh start." He finished by pushing aside of Samurai's huge pile of records. "Wow, sounds like a great deal..." Samurai moved his body a bit, "but I got a better idea." "How about... I give you a finger, and you let me make a phone call?" He shot up his middle finger with his right hand, a typical obscene handsign. "Mr. Hamasaki.... that would be a pity if...." "Stop giving me all of these crap." He retorted, "I want my phone call." He stressed. "Mr. Hamasaki," The man seemed unaffected, ''What is the use of having a phonecall if you lose the ablity.... to... speak?" He deliberately slowed down the pace. Instantly Samurai's mouth was as if being sewn, in panic, he tries to escape but was pinned down on the table by the other agents. "Mr. Hamasaki," The agent said while took out a piece of old electric plug fromhis pocket, "You are going to help us no matter you like it or not." The plug transforms into an ugly srawl and dives right into the stomach of Samurai.... |
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAA omg lolololol that was great! ima think about this all day now *ahh even some more RIAA dreams lol* they are after me arent they!... for some strange reason i feel like attempting my flying move haha that was great! :thumbsup see see im newo oh yeah lolol |
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Now that is just sounding stupid. But really..I ain't going to continue this..I was just stating what I know..What I have read. Geez! |
"MR. Samurai....Suprise to see me????"
(taken from The Matrix Reloaded) |
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:roflmao :roflmao :roflmao That's hilarious, Issac! I knew you were one of the "outsiders" ! Oh no.... what's this... there's agents at my door!! ahhh!! Issac, gimme me that pill now!! ... Hey! Ya there?! *notices a hand lodged in my chest* AHHHH!! *changes* Now I am an agent.... we will track you down, Issac. You cannot escape that which is... the Matrix.... :cool |
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You obviously don't get what I'm saying. You can't pass the blame along until you run into a dead end. The person that did it is the person that's at fault. The person that commited the "crime" is the one that should get charged. |
No, I see what you are saying!! I'm wanting to drop this topic but why bring it up again? Can't you just understand..I'm only repeating what I have LEARNT!!
It's not like I follow the rule or I'm forcing that rule on anyone..No-way...Just saying what I think. |
guyz...i think u two dropped something......oh...it's the topic....c'mon...*forget about it* (taken from Donnie Brasco)
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I was just saying how I feel too. No need to get defensive!
It's just that, what you said was like what I described in my mind. So I said it. I'm not mad! No worries! |
Since I'm little, I tend to have "feelings", sometimes my body will tell me seconds before something bad, which is definately not early enough to be my warning.....
alright, I think that we should get back on da topic.... meanwhile, I'm sorry for causing fuss.... damn I can't help it! I'm sleeping head to head with omega (a scene that neo was lying down unconciously, with one of the infected fighters on opposite of him ) OMG!!! |
There are alot of bands against it too, that have taken song downloads, for just listening too off thier websites.
Bands and Downloading *rollseyes* |
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