Comments on: RIAA: Rampaging Idiots Against America

By: RIAA, Howell, WashPost, et al. « Changing Way

RIAA, Howell, WashPost, et al. « Changing Way — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:43:53 +0000

[...] 3 is true, and Fisher’s article has subsequently been blogged about by many, including me. Assertion 2 has been challenged by many, including Greg Sandoval, blogging at CNET and inviting us [...]

By: ns07

ns07 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:07:23 +0000

This is pretty much the most ridiculous thing I have heard. This is comparable to me taking professional photographs of me and keeping them scanned on my computer as a backup. I guess I should be sued for copyright infringement?

The RIAA is making a huge mistake. It is fighting the very customers who fuel their business in the first place. People will not stop downloading. I don’t do it anymore, but that’s because I listen to a lot of music on my computer through Pandora.com and other such websites.

But the people that want to download will download music.

RIAA will waste their time.

In the end, no one will win.

Poor trees…they would be sad to know they are being wasted on court documents for pointless cases.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:27:16 +0000

It seems an absolutely absurb way to try and enforce the use of their IP. It’s the RIAA suing people for the notion that, if those MP3s reside on one’s computer, it logical follows that you’re distributing those MP3s to the rest of the world. Which is, of course, patently absurd.

They haven’t stated outright that this is their strategy, of course, but it the only logical explanation I can come up with for them taking music fans – the very consumers they rely on to make them money – to court. If that is indeed the case, then it flies in the face of the notion of innocence before guilt… Doesn’t it?

By: Eroq

Eroq — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:34:09 +0000

So this would mean that all of the CDs I ripped onto my iTunes are actually illegal copies…great. The extreme end of this scenario is that packs of RIAA lawyer-thugs will soon be walking the streets of major cities and universities confiscating any and all mp3 players from passers-by under the ‘reasonable assumption’ that it contains at least one illegally-copied song.