Posted by FatKat on 08/07/06 01:16

RIAA Rulez wrote:
> "CMR" <crazymanrobert@comcast.net> wrote in
> news:3rKdne9jsqA6PEjZnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
> >
> > "RIAA Rulez" <yeyriaa@riaarulez.com> wrote in message
> > news:Xns9817234634missnwitham@81.174.50.80...
> >> "Patient Zero 2.0 ...Prophet of Dugganomics" <noonan24_7@hotmail.com>
> >> wrote in news:pngBg.2216$Lh4.1020@trnddc02:
> >>
> >>> Both Demolition and my psychic call girl Ginger told me about
> >>> them...
> >>
> >> Yeah, they're "douchebags" because they don't want their member
> >> companies' products being traded for free.
> >>
> >> Why don't you work for free, douchebag?
> >>
> >>> Criticism
> >>> Critics of the RIAA have claimed that the RIAA's attacks against the
> >>> sharing of music files has failed to stop the sharing or protect
> >>> their sales.
> >>
> >> Yeah, RIGHT. The fact is, it's much harder for the average person to
> >> illegally trade music than it was in Napster's heyday. Doesn't matter
> >> if a technically-inclined minority can still do it with ease.
> >>
> >>> They note the increase in CD sales during the Napster era and
> >>> the subsequent decrease during the RIAA's crackdown on peer-to-peer
> >>> network users[citation needed]
> >>
> >> [citation needed]? Oh, this is some Wikipedia garbage.
> >>
> >> No need to read further, the source is worthless.
> >
> > well with your point being made, They are assholes. Think about it.
> > They are going after companies and others are are LEGALLY getting
> > music by paying for it. I have limewire. I pay for the pro. I
> > download freeware applications and shareware of stuff I need instead
> > of searching all over the damn net. Because I have limewire and I
> > have music, I was contacted by one of the companies cause they saw I
> > searched for ac/dc. I proved to them that I only searched and had not
> > downloaded as I wanted to know a name of a song. I get all my stuff
> > legally through rhapsody. I get coupons a lot to download free music
> > instead of paying 99cents or whatever they are charging. I don't know
> > cause i get the coupons that give 1 to 2 downloads for free or I drink
> > pepsi to get free music. They backed off. How long until they go to
> > sue Pepsi or Rhapsody for selling music cheap? If sales are down. . .
> > why don't they blame the artists? Music today sucks ball sacks.
> > Theres maybe 1 song I like from various artists and I am not gonna pay
> > 20 bucks for a cd when I can either pay a dollar for a pepsi or wait
> > for rhapsody to send me a coupon to get the song for free?
>
> There are plenty of good bands out there. The real problem is the
> scumsucking pirates who have ruined it for everyone.

Too right - fuck those pirates. Yo-Ho my ass!!!

> They've made it so
> that the music industry can't afford to take risks, and all the only
> things that get the marketing push are the bubblegum proven-sellers.

....which doesn't begin to explain decades of shite heaped on us before
the technology for peer-share even existed.
>
> Limewire is a wretched hive of scum and villainy and anyone who defends
> it as a legitimate service is probably a thief.

....and speaking of theif, does George Lucas know that you're ripping
him off? Shocked, shocked to find that intellectual property is being
violated!!!

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