lol their sales are declining because nobody likes the RIAA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Yes! Fight the RIAA!
> "Facing the threat of a legal crackdown against people who swap songs > online, the head of the parent of file-sharing software Morpheus on > Thursday promised to launch a lobbying campaign in Congress. > > Based on the continued popularity of Morpheus, Kazaa and other > peer-to-peer systems, the Recording Industry Association of America on > Wednesday announced it would take the unprecedented step of suing people > who distribute illegal copies of songs online. > > Privately held StreamCast Networks distributes the Morpheus software, > which a federal judge recently found does not violate copyright laws, in > a ruling that marked a major legal setback to the recording industry. > > The skirmishing over file sharing comes as the early success of Apple > Computer's iTunes online music store has suggested that legitimate > services could begin to woo people away from the peer-to-peer sites, > which the record industry blames for three years of declining CD sales. > > "The record industry called (peer-to-peer) users pirates, but what these > people are are hundreds of millions of voters," said Michael Weiss, > chief executive of Los Angeles-based StreamCast. "At the end of next > month, we're going to be involved in helping to mobilize P2P users > around the world and ultimately around the globe to ensure that their > voices are heard." " > > Bunch of blasted fascist corporations, legitimising their anti-consumer > business model through legislation! > You know...we heard very little of the case that found the RIAA guilty > of Price-Fixing! > > And we've yet to see clear evidence that P2P Sharing has impacted CD > Sales at all! Especially when all the independent polls taken of P2P > users show that, according to those polled, they still buy the CDS with > music they like to listen to, and that P2P Sharing has even introduced > them to new music and new artists..which they then buy. > > And Apple's I-Tunes had over a million downloads in less than a month > (that would be songs purchased), so it proves what Non-RIAA analysts > have been saying all the time. People WILL pay for music that can be > downloaded, but the RIAA probably would find it difficult to FIX pricing > for those songs...so they don't want to go that route yet. > > *grumble* *mumble* > > http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1021641.html?tag=fd_top > > -Gel > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
