Pirates, buccaneers, privateers & other low-life types

September 11, 2003 8:28 AM

Can the RIAA grab money from a 12 year old if the industry is using P2P network data in their business models?
posted by magullo (10 comments total)

Yes they can and they did and we tolerated them because I see no riots ongoing on streets. It's people (consumer in the eye of RIAA) that can scare the hell out of RIAA. A number of them.
posted by elpapacito at 8:38 AM on September 11, 2003

Yes.
posted by valerie at 8:45 AM on September 11, 2003

Well, that's interesting. Gotta love that. So, in theory, shutting down Kazaa and the like is bad for business?
posted by djspicerack at 8:47 AM on September 11, 2003

People, people. It's not P2P technology that the RIAA is against, it's the downloading of illegal copies of music. That P2P technology facilitates this moreso than other technologies is simply a sidebar in the argument.

But, continue railing as you were, don't let facts and argument get in the way.
posted by xmutex at 8:48 AM on September 11, 2003

But this is about using that technology more or less as a marketing tool, so by definition the data used in these analyses is going to regard illegal dl's of commercial music.
posted by scarabic at 8:51 AM on September 11, 2003

Gotcha, valerie. Can it fit under new developments?

Right, xmutex
posted by magullo at 8:59 AM on September 11, 2003

It's not P2P technology that the RIAA is against . . .

"The record industry's lawsuits against file-sharing companies hang on their assertion that the programs have no use other than to help infringe copyrights."[1]

Don't let not reading the linked articles get in your way either.
posted by yerfatma at 9:07 AM on September 11, 2003

It's not P2P technology that the RIAA is against, it's the downloading of illegal copies of music.

So they are perfectly cool with me downloading copies of music that I already own but haven't taken the time to rip?

Or for CD's that I own and got scratched before I could make a back up of?

Heck, if they offered that kind of service themselves their argument would get a whole lot stronger and they might be able to justify a $20/cd price tag.

This story reminds me of the kind of thinking that got Mr. Burns shot.
posted by wah at 9:50 AM on September 11, 2003

Every time you buy a CD by an RIAA artist, you are paying a lawyer to sue a little girl.
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:00 AM on September 11, 2003

posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 11:20 AM on September 11, 2003