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I know this topic has been discussed a few times on here.. but come on.. "We're going to sue HUNDREDS of people!"



Yeah, 261. I suppose they didn't lie. But come on. They were making it sound like they were preparing to unleash a landslide of twenty or thirty hundred lawsuits at the very least.



Just goes to prove these people are just putting on a show. Morons, all morons. I think it's a huge publicity stunt the longer it goes on. All a ploy to keep those sales rising on and on. "Artists Against Piracy" tours? What? Why would you base a tour on that? Especially when the anti-piracy lingo is choking us as it is? Just another fad. Just another phase I can't wait for to pass.



Come on now.



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Record companies say file sharing cost the industry more than a billion dollars in lost CD sales between 2000 and 2002. File sharing cost the industry $700 million alone in 2002, according to a report released last week by the Boston-based Forrester research group.





The RIAA has focused most of its efforts on shutting down peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, but a Los Angeles federal judge in an April ruling said that the sites have legal uses and should not be shut down.





The ruling came a day after another federal judge ruled that the RIAA could force Verizon Communications Inc., to hand over the names of two of its high-speed Internet service customers who were illegally trading large amounts of copyrighted music on the Kazaa network.



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come on now.

comon.. they're good guys. they are letting you turn yourself in!



http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/08/music.downloading/index.html



:cheesy:

They're offering total amnesty...lol What they don't promise is not revoking that amnesty and suing you if you don't sell out bigger fish.

I alread sold reckless and speed out, they told me I could keep d/l'n if I gave them 3 names....not sure who else I want to give em :D

ray, duh.

Originally posted by Xetox

I alread sold reckless and speed out, they told me I could keep d/l'n if I gave them 3 names....not sure who else I want to give em :D



I gave them your name, oh the irony!

if they were actually serious about catching the big fish they would get on the actual places the big fish play.. i know for one on DC++ it's not uncommon to see people sharing any hundreds of gigs a piece.. shrug, i just think it's all bogus

Originally posted by Aragon

comon.. they're good guys. they are letting you turn yourself in!



http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/08/music.downloading/index.html



:cheesy:





ahahahaha cheesy is right hahaha



turning in the big dogs indeed

Oh come on, their fight is with the evils of child porn. Hurrr....



http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/technology/07PORN.html



*finger wiggly thingy*

'As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly,' said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment.

...

the federally financed child pornography tip line run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children found that 1.3 percent of the reports of Internet child pornography were related to file-sharing services so far this year, down from 2.1 percent last year. Nearly three-quarters of child pornography reported is on Web sites."

Originally posted by Aragon

ray, duh.



ok mr. 'i remote to your computer to download bone thugs music, but don't worry about the RIAA'