Comments on: RIAA adopts new antipiracy strategy

By: sasa

sasa — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:49:08 +0000

Thank God I do not have to worry about these draconian laws as long as I live in a FREE COUNTRY. GOOD RIDDENS USA.

By: clueless

clueless — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:52:47 +0000

is this just in the U.S. or elsewhere

By: A Large Hadron

A Large Hadron — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:32:19 +0000

It definitely is a case of quantity over quality.

Just recall a time long past, when you’d buy a vinyl album which had great cover art, lots of information & extra photos in sleeve, sometimes even a folded up poster.

They were cheaper than the current price of CD’s which have less dynamic range, very small sleeves and therefore NO inherent value for collecting and owning.

I mean it’s come to the point where you don’t even WANT to clutter your house with CD’s, since they take up room and MP3s (which often don’t have much quality difference) don’t take up any room at all and are more convenient.

You’re not *missing out* on anything by grabbing MP3s instead of a CD. That’s the bottom line. So yes, CD sales will continue to plummet, as they are slowly but surely becoming an obsolete technology.

Does the RIAA, in their projections, take into account that CDs are not being sold much because less people want them since iTunes and iPhones etc. are much more convenient?

If they sold merchandise which had *actual value*, as vinyl releases used to, they’d have a product. At the moment, they simply don’t have a viable product for the long term.

They just can’t admit it – yet. If they’re really trying to achieve anything, it’s to buy time while they think up a solution.

By: NikiLLxD

NikiLLxD — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:32:27 +0000

It seems like everytime they find a new way, people downloading is always one step ahead of them, if not more .
When i download movies, i do it because, like some tv shows, fx one i watch , 24, airs everywhere in the spring, and it airs where i live in fall . Can’t wait that long .
But sitll i buy the box set and watch it on tv when it does come . the same with movies, can’t wait until they get to my country, but still buy the movies and watch them in cinema .

Have a feeling it’s gonna be an endless war .

By: 3R4ZOR

3R4ZOR — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:00:26 +0000

No one can see my ISP information without my permission. That is in my contract. Just with a court request.
I do use ED2K and Torrent and all p2p software i want and i dont’t care!
I buy it if i like it and if i have the money.
Riaa=dirty money=plutocracy -> F..k off!!
Long live P2P file and all other kinds of sharing that this rotten selfish society needs!!!!!!!

By: Dexter

Dexter — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:18:58 +0000

CD sales actually rose in Australia this year. S0 that blows their little case out of the water.

The anti p2p industry is now a full time concern.Raking in millions a year from record companies.Now who is ripping of who?

By: wEEEE

wEEEE — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:16:49 +0000

Simple Solution.

Uninstall any P2P automatic sharing software ares, limewire…etc

“Buy” Youtube Get, any song u want u’ll find it there eventually, download it from there.

In that way, u won’t be sharing any music, u’ll just keep it to urself.

By: Zaide

Zaide — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:51:48 +0000

I love how they keep blaming CD sales on their campaign. CD sales were steadily rising until the iTunes store opened up in 2001. That really can’t be coincidence. Even if piracy ended today, CD sales would never go back up.

By: screw you rls log

screw you rls log — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:39:34 +0000

wow, one of your banners just tried to infect me with a trojan, screw you rlslog, you have just lost a longtime visitor.

By: @34

@34 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:17:10 +0000

your fault if you believe your ´´safe´´ behind PG but it’s surely better than nothing. btw if only 75% of the IPs it blocks were harmless (thus 25% harmful) we would be soooo fcked PG blocks 2,4 billion IPs = more than half of all available IPs -> 25% of that = 600 million RIAA agents

@32 chumley

if it’s not illegal it’s not illegal.
until this year it was legal for me to download and share stuff for private purpose, just like using a VCR is. why shoudln’t i be mad if something natural that has always been allowed is suddenly declared illegal?

By: busted

busted — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:16:26 +0000

@tadler correct like i said i was using peerguardian and still got busted PG doesnt work

By: Tadler

Tadler — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:25:43 +0000

@29 Adolf

The award goes to you for dumbest statement of the day!!!

PeerGuardian is nothing but a usless tool for slowing down torrent speeds (75% + of the IPs they block are harmless or completely legit), while giving completely FLASE reasurance of protection from being busted… if you think PG2 is hiding ANYTHING you download… you are a fücktard and deserve the trouble you are going to get into!!!

By: newt182

newt182 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:09:07 +0000

“Those people who ignore repeated notices would face the possibility of having their service reduced and possibly suspended”

My ISP wouldn’t be getting any money from me if they reduce my service in anyway. They had better have a hard think about what they are doing since most web traffic is people who are file sharing. Plus we all already know the whole thing is a load of BS and if they did decide to check or monitor what data i am downloading, they would be breaking the law.

By: chumley

chumley — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:51:49 +0000

“afriend” it has nothing to do with “american bullys” a lot of these tough laws come from other countries. Besides this free stuff we keep getting cant go on forever. I think its ridiculous that you think it should and that you get mad when people try to stop you from doing illegal things. You have to understand where theyre coming from, just look it as sport if anything and brush it off when they get mad but dont get mad yourself when youre the one stealing and they find away to stop you.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:47:11 +0000

Come on, do you people that live else where have to put up with this crap? Or is just NY that bugs and taxes the crap out of you ?