First, their member's sales are down because their offering sux. Where is the next "The Who?" God I miss Molly Hatchet. Pull out something new for the love of Mike!
Second. I bought my last CD from any member of the RIAA last year. I own a radio, but most of the music is so poor, all I ever listen to is WJBO. Rush plays decent music sometimes. How sad is that? Ten or twelve FM stations, and I am back to AM radio. Thirdly, and lastly, this tactic is doomed. Ford tried it already way back when. If you sue your customers you wind up with competition where none existed before. I think you will see record labels coming out with a version of the GPL. Buy it once, use it, share it, throw it a away, resell it, we don't care. That is when I will start buying music again. Well, except for the Marine Corps, and the US Army. That money ALL goes to charity. Totally off the subject, but speaking of charity, the OLOL's Chilren's Miracle Network is campaining again. They really helped a friend's child last year. They are a good cause. If you have five or ten bucks, send it to them. I ate a 7-11 hotdog for lunch yesterday, and sent them the money I would have blown on a bunch of good hot wings from Pluckers. And yes, I had the hotdog for lunch, and it had me for the rest of the day. All beef, sure. Doug --- Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://classic.winamp.com/news.jhtml;$sessionid$CY3CKHJAXTCHY5YAAAARCZY?articleid=10061 > > RIAA Takes Lunch Money from 12 Year Old > By Mike Darrah <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Published September 10, 2003 @ 12:17 AM > > The RIAA has announced that it has reached a > settlement with 12-year-old > Brianna Torres for $2000. In addition to the fines > the RIAA forced her > mother to confess of her daughter's immoral file > sharing sins publicly. > The fine is estimated to around 1,000 days worth of > lunch money for > Brianna (estimating they are $2 each). > > "We understand now that file-sharing the music > was illegal, You can > be sure Brianna won't be doing it anymore." > Sylvia Torres (mother of > Brianna) was quoted as saying in an official > statement distributed > by the RIAA. > > Brianna (an honor student living in a housing > project on the upper > west side of NY) was quoted as saying "I am > sorry for what I have > done. I love music and don't want to hurt the > artists I love." > > Brianna was under the understanding that because she > paid money to > obtain the software she then used to search her > favorite file sharing > network, she was legally obtaining music. > Apparently, the RIAA feels > strongly enough that Brianna has done wrong they had > to issue a lawsuit > against the child for trying to listen to her > favorite musicians on-line > while in the safety of her own home. > > The RIAA hopes that this and several hundred other > pending lawsuits will > discourage further file sharing activity and spur > what they feel are > sluggish CD sales. We remain suspect > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
