RIAA takes college student's entire life savings

[MuadDib]

Read it here :http://www.techtv.com/news/politicsandlaw/story/0,24195,3444548,00.html

Discuss how we all hate RIAA....

[NightWalker XI]

OMG thats fucking out of order!

The network existed! all he did was makew a search engine he had no power as to what was oln the network...wow those RIAA guys are a bunch of thieves!

[Spider]

I guess if the guy had a communoty like ours he would already have hos money back :brow:

*thinks of the time psu needed money and got 2 grands or so in less then a day!*

[Hamma]

The RIAA is on crack. They must understand, there is NOTHING they can do to stop it.

[EineBeBoP]

damn, that sucks. Only makes me wanty to download more music than ever before... not that i do now or anything... :rolleyes:

wow, life really sucks for that guy. :(

[Seer]

The RIAA has seen the future, and they aren't in it.

[NightWalker XI]

Originally posted by Seer
The RIAA has seen the future, and they aren't in it.

LoL hope not...if they manage to clsoe down KaZaA I might have very serious withdrawal symptoms

[Happy lil Elf]

I propose we found an association. MBAA, the Music Buyers Association of America. Basically by becoming a member you agree not to buy anything released by any studio associated with RIAA until the RIAA is disbanded and ceases any and all further intimidation acts such as this one (there have been others sadly).

I can almost promise this would never work, and it would hurt the musicians as much or more but it'd almost be worth it just to watch the music industries profits plummet like a rock :p

[MuadDib]

Originally posted by Happy lil' Elf
I propose we found an association. MBAA, the Music Buyers Association of America. Basically by becoming a member you agree not to buy anything released by any studio associated with RIAA until the RIAA is disbanded and ceases any and all further intimidation acts such as this one (there have been others sadly).

I can almost promise this would never work, and it would hurt the musicians as much or more but it'd almost be worth it just to watch the music industries profits plummet like a rock :p

Litlle known fact most of a musicians income comes from touring and merchendice NOT Cd sales

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by Hamma
The RIAA is on crack. They must understand, there is NOTHING they can do to stop it.

Indeed.

[Khronos]

:'( thats awful.

He had no control over what people had on the network, but then again i guess he shoulda thought about piracy before he created the search engine.

:(

[MuadDib]

Originally posted by Khronos
:'( thats awful.

He had no control over what people had on the network, but then again i guess he shoulda thought about piracy before he created the search engine.

:(

Considering you can do the SAME EXACT THING with windows as you could do with the search engine. So if they follow this line of thinking the RIAA should face Mircosoft and it's legions of bloodsucking lawyers. But since they could actually lose the case they go after the poor college student who has no resources to defend himself. The RIAA is acting like a schoolyard bully......

[Bighoss]

its ridiculous that its illegal to steal sound

[Doobz]

fuck RIAA, i have almost a gig of downloaded music

[powdahound]

I'm going to that college next year. :lol: I'm also going to be majoring in the same thing he was...

[KeviN]

WTF, "Oh, we're sorry, we'll go away and not press charges, just give us 12K, thanks!"

[Onizuka]

Poor poor Jamie

EDIT: hehe i meant poor poor jordan... oh whatever

[OutlawGummy]

RIAA are a bunch of evil bastards, no doubt about it. Its kind of hard to actually DO anything about them though. I'd say they were like cancer, except people actually have a chance of beating cancer. For the mean time, we're just stuck with the RIAA. :mad: :(

[BladeRunner]

Originally posted by {}Muad'Dib{}
Litlle known fact most of a musicians income comes from touring and merchendice NOT Cd sales

I knew that.. My band barely made enough off CD sales to cover the cost of the CD. Almost entirely, money is made from merch and shows (tours).

Therefore, I'd wager that most of RIAA's money comes from CD sales. Bastards.

[Ryuuji]

Thats fucked up... I'de sue