We Must Not Allow The Riaa To Do This!!!

[Psycho1]

On September 8, the major record labels sued 261 music fans and customers for using filesharing programs. These lawsuits are a desperate act by a failing industry. There is little evidence that filesharing has anything to do with the decline in record sales over the past three years and the record industry's effort to eliminate filesharing has been a pathetic attempt to slow innovation so they can continue to force bad deals on musicians and music fans. On Friday, October 17, the RIAA sent letters to 200 more families demanding that they pay settlement costs or face lawsuits.

The vast majority of those sued are families with young children. Many of these people are big music fans who've bought hundreds of CDs from the same record labels that are now attacking their families. For most, mounting a legal defense against 5 corporate giants is financialy out of the question, and the $3,000-$10,000 cost of settling the lawsuit presents an enormous financial burden. The cost of settling will force many families into debt.

The major record labels think they can push Americans back into record stores by financially attacking families. Unless we speak up now, these lawsuits will continue. We need to tell the major labels that their new strategy of bullying families is wrong and must end. Companies like these don't pay any attention to the public voice until it starts costing them sales. With this boycott, we can send a strong message in language the major labels will understand: "Stop suing families, or you'll start losing customers."

For more information go to www.stopriaalawsuits.com This is the main page of the "Coalition Against RIAA" wich includes over 100 websites and growing. It has links to all 100+ websites,and if you own or run a website of any kind (including this one) you can join this coalition.

Another site thats better for just average internet users (that don't have a website) is www.downhillbattle.org it is a member of the coalition but i thought i would mention it too.

Also the FEE has a petition on their site against the lawsuits.

People give me feed back and their opinions please.

Psycho

 

[Kalamos]

Suing money out of families leaves them with less money to spend on cds...

Yet, budding artists can't bear to be ripped off their due earnings.

Making cds content-rich, with merchandise and gifts - like videogames used to be before PDF handbooks - would make buying them worthwhile.

Yet, most artists claim earning much more from live concerts and royalties - than from sold cds.

So who's problably getting the worse of it are major labels and agents.

Times are changing: once ppl claimed public libraries would spell the end of press.

Maybe they'll make up a web tax and let ppl download just anything they can find online.

And that's one of the less insane proposals I've read so
far.


Reg's!

 

[tummynavelboy]

On September 8, the major record labels sued 261 music fans and customers for using filesharing programs. These lawsuits are a desperate act by a failing industry. There is little evidence that filesharing has anything to do with the decline in record sales over the past three years and the record industry's effort to eliminate filesharing has been a pathetic attempt to slow innovation so they can continue to force bad deals on musicians and music fans. On Friday, October 17, the RIAA sent letters to 200 more families demanding that they pay settlement costs or face lawsuits.

The vast majority of those sued are families with young children. Many of these people are big music fans who've bought hundreds of CDs from the same record labels that are now attacking their families. For most, mounting a legal defense against 5 corporate giants is financialy out of the question, and the $3,000-$10,000 cost of settling the lawsuit presents an enormous financial burden. The cost of settling will force many families into debt.

The major record labels think they can push Americans back into record stores by financially attacking families. Unless we speak up now, these lawsuits will continue. We need to tell the major labels that their new strategy of bullying families is wrong and must end. Companies like these don't pay any attention to the public voice until it starts costing them sales. With this boycott, we can send a strong message in language the major labels will understand: "Stop suing families, or you'll start losing customers."

For more information go to www.stopriaalawsuits.com This is the main page of the "Coalition Against RIAA" wich includes over 100 websites and growing. It has links to all 100+ websites,and if you own or run a website of any kind (including this one) you can join this coalition.

Another site thats better for just average internet users (that don't have a website) is www.downhillbattle.org it is a member of the coalition but i thought i would mention it too.

Also the FEE has a petition on their site against the lawsuits.

People give me feed back and their opinions please.

Psycho

This should be moved to the general Discussion forum. But also the RIAA will do whatever they won't to. There more power then any of us. so we can protest and make Websites all we won't but they are gonna do what they wanna do. i to wish and pray that the RIAA will stop making law suits against people for downloading music and all that. But there gonna conuinte i think untill people get the messege and stop Downloading music off p2p websites that are not legal sites. i still use Kazaa Lite ++ to download tickling clips off of but thats really pretty much all and a few songs her and thier. But if the RIAA wants to find me or anybody else and sue them they can and will. Because they just think this p2p programing/downloading thing is getting out of hand and they wanna see a stop to it! because so they say that aritists are hurting and the cd sales in stores are Droping. because of people downloading music online. Weather thats wrong or right though thats up to the person to decied

 

[cosquillero1]

Besides this thread is repeated, check it : Thread repeated!!

 

[nessonite1]

Arggg...I am not ashamed to admit that I participate quite a bit in music sharing. I'm sorry but I can't just plop down $18 for a cd with maybe 1 song on it that I want. And paying $1 for a song to download legaly is...well...a rip off.
And I think you're right...musicians get very very little of the retail price of a CD. I think it benefits them a lot more for their music to be out there with their fans, even those who can't afford to amass a giant cd collection. Unless of course you're Metallica or something and just enjoy shitting on your fans.