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RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead

12/19/08 7:05 pm | #1

RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead

Quote:"At last, the music industry admits what we've known for years: That filing music-swapping lawsuits against teenagers, little old ladies, and corpses is a fool's errand (not to mention an expensive headache for the defendants). But don't worrythe RIAA has something new up its sleeves.
The new strategy (as reported by the Wall Street Journal): If the music industry finds out that you're swapping music files online, it'll send an e-mail to your ISP (agreements have already hashed out agreements with "some" unnamed service providers, apparently), which will in turn forward the message to youprobably with a little "P.S." asking you to stop.

12/31/69 7:00 pm | #2

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12/19/08 7:59 pm | #3

Quote by xxMISS MALICExx:

This is just as insane as Time Warner Cable wanting to get a bill passed in Congress that would give cable companies the right to charge its HSI customers with Band Width packages.... which by the way, someone using Xbox Live would have to pay for two BW packages a month. This just shows how whiny corporations get even though they are still racking in billions.

paying for band with usage will suck, but i feel it is inevitable, just like you have a meter for electricity, water, gas, etc., you soon will one day in the future have some sort of metering on your band with intake. :growl:

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12/19/08 8:38 pm | #4

Quote by Xc Livewire cX:

paying for band with usage will suck, but i feel it is inevitable, just like you have a meter for electricity, water, gas, etc., you soon will one day in the future have some sort of metering on your band with intake. :growl:

:growl:

yea but im kinda hoping that wont happen anytime soon :no:

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12/19/08 9:22 pm | #5

It's about damn time.

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12/19/08 10:35 pm | #6

I wish I could buy CDs... I never understood why someone who was able to buy them didn't.

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12/20/08 2:58 am | #8

Quote by MDub93:

I wish I could buy CDs... I never understood why someone who was able to buy them didn't.

Lol, because downloading is free vs paying money. I never use CD's, too much effort to RIP them & stick it on my ipod. No offense i'd rather be done in 5mins vs 20mins of ripping the cd, and then putting it on your ipod.

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12/20/08 5:33 pm | #9

Quote by zombie dork:

Lol, because downloading is free vs paying money. I never use CD's, too much effort to RIP them & stick it on my ipod. No offense i'd rather be done in 5mins vs 20mins of ripping the cd, and then putting it on your ipod.

um actually there are some CD's that i bought that I couldnt RIP them onto my Itunes.
The encryption on the CD's didnt let me, so not all the CD's u buy can be put on a program.

oh and Nemesis i would not buy music off of itunes or anywhere, because of the amount of music i have. for instance, i have around 4800 songs on my ipod and like 60 movies/music videos as well, the songs alone would run me 4800$ and the movies/music videos would run me between 5-10$ on itunes each.

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12/20/08 5:36 pm | #10

i pay for all of my music.

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12/20/08 9:55 pm | #11

I'd still rather have CDs, but I just can't. Once I get my car and can discreetly buy/store them I'll be good.

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12/20/08 10:06 pm | #12

Quote by MDub93:

I'd still rather have CDs, but I just can't. Once I get my car and can discreetly buy/store them I'll be good.

i don't understand why you can't have cd's. no cd player?

Re: RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead

12/20/08 10:08 pm | #13

Lol no. My grandma thinks any music that isn't praising jesus is sinful and my mom thinks music is stupid.

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12/20/08 10:16 pm | #14

Quote by MDub93:

Lol no. My grandma thinks any music that isn't praising jesus is sinful and my mom thinks music is stupid.

that is..............wait for it...........wait for it...............SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what is going on down there in kentucky that music appears stupid?
what did you sayt? what's the last great band that came out of kentucky? that's easy- joe bob jim and the whiskey jugg blowers, may be that's why? :baffled:

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Re: RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead

12/20/08 10:17 pm | #15

Hey now... we produced Billy Ray Cyrus, so that ALSO means we co-produced one Hannah Montana! And there's also Tantric and Black Stone Cherry

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