The RIAA is in quite a bit of hot water right now because of its legal tactics over the last few years. Namely, sue first, intimidate second, ask questions later. They sued a 60-year-old woman who didn't even know how to download music because they claimed someone from her house was downloading music illegally. She was the only one who lived there, and didn't have any kind of network or anything for anyone not living there to gain access to. But, that didn't stop them from suing her, trying to force her to settle, and successfully bilking her out of multiple thousand dollars. That's just one example. Throw "RIAA lawsuit" into google or some other search engine and you can probably find plenty of others. So no, I wouldn't be overly concerned if someone from the RIAA showed up at my door, because at best their track record has been questionable. And if just one of the things I supposedly downloaded proves to be inaccurate, they effectively have no case. Every day now I hear of another court case that gets tossed out because the RIAA basicly had no leg to stand on but was kind of hoping their victims would crack before that could be established. And yet, every day, the RIAA keeps going on and on about how it's got an extremely high success rate at restoring the billions upon billions of dollars stolen out of the pockets of musicians by the wicked evil music downloaders. Because, you know, they're just looking out for the artists after all. Nothing to do with the fact they get pretty much all the money generated by CD sales anyway.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Sent: April 18, 2010 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: It's Still Stealing The websites that allow you to download music and other copyrighted material are illegal in the United States. Many of these sites are not in the United States and there have been situations where The the United States have put blocks on these out of country websites. The RIAA is going after people all the time and arresting them and fining them for all the material they downloaded illegally. If you do a lot of illegal downloading you could well find someone from the RIAA at your door someday. If you pay for a CD or an MP3 song you can make as many copies of it you wish as long as you and only you use it for yourself. If you give a copy of that CD or MP3 song to someone else then it becomes illegal. Books from the NLS is a completely different situation. The copyright holder of the books gives the NLS permission to reproduce their books in a special format. That's why the NLS books that are on cassette are recorded in order, track one, track three, track two and track four. The idea was that when recorded in this format the books could not be played on a standard cassette recorder. The NLS cassettes are also recorded at half normal cassette speed. This is also the reason digital books from the NLS are in a special format. The NLS had to insure the copyright holders of books that they would be used only by blind people and other handicapped people who could not read a normal print book. Tom ** Message From: DJ DOCTOR P ** >Ok, so you say, "it's still stealing." >Then you tell me, why are there still some websites that lets you download >music and audio books without having to pay anything for it? >Yes these sites still exist, and people are downloading music and audio >books without having to pay a dime for it. >Explain that one to me, if you can! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
