Get the album when it leaks and preorder it...that's my policy.

Get the album when it leaks and if it's good, preorder/buy it. If it sucks, which many do, just delete the damn thing. That's my policy ;)
This Message Edited On 01.30.08

Yay for Canada and the blind eye to piracy!

*salute*

in all areas of reality, (excluding, "legal rights") they have no fucking right to claim that much money over any one person.
I swear, if I was a violent person, I'd spend whatever life I have to kill those crooked fuckers.
they're just about the only inspiration I would ever have to become a lawyer.
I almost hope they do try to file a lawsuit against me, just so I can spit in their piece of shit faces.

seriously...maybe once record labels start putting out quality music, I'll stop my pirating ways. legally, I'm a couple billion dollars in the hole...sweet deal! keep it coming.

...that is ludicrously overkilling on the value of one item...I don't think human lives are valued at that these days. I can't believe they're not being prosecuted as criminals, where do they get that number? did they sit around a table and brainstorm until they arrived on, "ok, so if we prove somebody is in the wrong just ONE time, we have rights over every penny they've saved and every penny they work for from this point on"
...I don't understand what gave them a right to arrive on that sort of fine. get real, bank robbers are my new heros...

"Hilary Rosen, the RIAA's president and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2003, was an outspoken critic of peer to peer file sharing[citation needed], and under her direction, the RIAA waged an aggressive legal campaign trying to eliminate file-sharing worldwide. Rosen has since expressed "concern that the lawsuits have outlived most of their usefulness," and that music devices should try "to work better together."

"In November, 2006, a Judge in a Brooklyn Federal court upheld the legal theory behind a defense claiming that the RIAA's damages theory — which calls for aggregating statutory damages of $750 per song in its lawsuits — is unconstitutional, since the record companies' actual damages are less than $0.70 per song."

so if i steal some music compilation in the local store and give it some friend of mine, i have committed a 1,5 million dollar crime

WTF???

How would they know if you did or not

write your congress on this one fella's

i wrote one of my senators for gov't and this was my topic.

these people are fucking evil

are the RIAA ran by old white men? because if so they have just found another way to make more money. they just care about what's best for them, and that is to take everybody's money

While the RIAA has a death grip on a few classic artists, come on, most of their music sucks. You should be fined for downloading that crap!

[quote=kmagnum]Yay for Canada and the blind eye to piracy!



*salute*[/quote]
:chug:

So I guess the way they see it is if you steal a cheeseburger's worth of money from people who do nothing but sit on their asses all day (sorry, I'm not quite aware of what record company execs do), they have the right to take every penny out of your pocket?

I'm in a band and I support piracy. Shut the fuck up, you pricks.
That's it, I'm moving to Sweden.

Well with EMI (i believe) pulling out i guess they're getting desperate.
It is unconstitutional, and they've been doing things that way for a while now.
It's only a matter of time before they run themselves into the ground.

Most bands don't give a **** if people download their stuff illegally. Why? Because only the greedy record companies profit from the actual music. I buy cd's, just not that often. The exception is if the band needs the money and self release their stuff.

You want to support a band? Go see them live and buy their merch. That's what I do. F*ck the RIAA.

Wow....I'd be a few billion in the red by now....

Gotta love canada

the actual chances of them winning a 1.5M lawsuit, are very, very slim.

it would have to be against the inventor of Torrents or the people who host servers to soulseek, something like that.

Guys.
Just check this site before downloading anything and you're all set
http://www.riaaradar.com/

To me this is just a desperate gesture from a shrinking industry. They really should have just started selling CDs for much cheaper...

I think we're looking at the last days of the RIAA. This move is bound to infuriate people and sound the deathknell.

Even if the RPO-IP act passes, I'd like to see them enforce it without having to bribe a judge first.