*beats head against desk*
www.msnbc.com/news/943564.asp
Rant time!
See the above link, okay I’m all for protecting copyrights, as an artist myself I don’t like the idea of somebody snatching my work, how I am making a living, without providing SOME form or compensation to me, weather it be cash, a link or just a credit as the original artist. However I think this is getting a wee bit too far. Now they are going after individual people, those with something like 1400 to 2000 songs on their PC and allow others to download them via one of the many peer to peer networks out there.
Okay I think they are going a wee bit too far here, they seem to forget that the majority of these users are college age, cute little high schoolers and such…not a good rep for the RIAA dragging kids into court and slapping them with law suits, fees (at 500.00 to 125,000.00 per song) and even jail time…oy!
The REALLY sickening part to this? I can see the RIAA’s POV, for years illegal copies of albums, ‘bootlegs’ were out there. But you needed to put out a large amount of cash to make the copies then go though the troubles of selling them fast. With the dawn of the internet, MP3 file, and Napster making bootleg copies of albums suddenly got a whole lot easier, and easier to distribute, pretty soon any yahoo with a computer and software could give copies of an album to not only his friends, but hundreds of others too. Major pain in the pocketbook.
At first I don’t think the Music Industry was too worried, it took one Recording Studio Tech, his laptop and a brilliantly STUPID idea to bring it all crashing down. You see he was there when a new single was being recorded that day and the band made six 30-40 second samples of the song to get an idea how the final one would sound. The Tech decided to download those samples on his laptop convert them to MP3’s and make them available on Napster.
The song? I Disappear. The band? Metallica.
Messy enough? It gets worse…MUCH worse, you see Metallica doesn’t own I Disappear, they were paid to write and perform the song as part of an exclusive deal with the Producers of Mission Impossible 2. So you see though Metallica was pissed that was NOTHING compared to the pure wrath of the Movie Industry who has taken a VERY active stand against Illegal copying over the years.
NOW the RIAA had to do something to save face QUICKLY and joined the Anti-Napster brigade…when the lawsuits and the dust settled Napster was gone (I personally think they screwed themselves over with that mess, but that’s a rant for another day) and the newer sharing networks were living on borrowed time. The ones that remain are located overseas and thusly not touchable to the RIAA’s cease and desist orders. So since they can’t shut down those networks the RIAA is trying to push into law a bill that would make it a federal felony to even make a copy of ONE song and send it to anybody via the net. Period, no arguments and almost 1000 subpoenas have been issued to individuals once the RIAA got the personal data from these individuals ISP’s charging them with Copyright Infringement and Illegal Distribution of Copyrighted material.
Yep…you heard me, your ISP is handing over your personal data to the RIAA’s lawyers so they can come to your house, and charge you with a crime. End results could be your PC taken, fines levied, maybe even jail time.
Blech. ~_~
I’m all for protecting copyright, but if they don’t start putting down the sledgehammer and picking up the olive branch they are gonna be shooting themselves in the foot before it’s all over.
SW
Rant time!
See the above link, okay I’m all for protecting copyrights, as an artist myself I don’t like the idea of somebody snatching my work, how I am making a living, without providing SOME form or compensation to me, weather it be cash, a link or just a credit as the original artist. However I think this is getting a wee bit too far. Now they are going after individual people, those with something like 1400 to 2000 songs on their PC and allow others to download them via one of the many peer to peer networks out there.
Okay I think they are going a wee bit too far here, they seem to forget that the majority of these users are college age, cute little high schoolers and such…not a good rep for the RIAA dragging kids into court and slapping them with law suits, fees (at 500.00 to 125,000.00 per song) and even jail time…oy!
The REALLY sickening part to this? I can see the RIAA’s POV, for years illegal copies of albums, ‘bootlegs’ were out there. But you needed to put out a large amount of cash to make the copies then go though the troubles of selling them fast. With the dawn of the internet, MP3 file, and Napster making bootleg copies of albums suddenly got a whole lot easier, and easier to distribute, pretty soon any yahoo with a computer and software could give copies of an album to not only his friends, but hundreds of others too. Major pain in the pocketbook.
At first I don’t think the Music Industry was too worried, it took one Recording Studio Tech, his laptop and a brilliantly STUPID idea to bring it all crashing down. You see he was there when a new single was being recorded that day and the band made six 30-40 second samples of the song to get an idea how the final one would sound. The Tech decided to download those samples on his laptop convert them to MP3’s and make them available on Napster.
The song? I Disappear. The band? Metallica.
Messy enough? It gets worse…MUCH worse, you see Metallica doesn’t own I Disappear, they were paid to write and perform the song as part of an exclusive deal with the Producers of Mission Impossible 2. So you see though Metallica was pissed that was NOTHING compared to the pure wrath of the Movie Industry who has taken a VERY active stand against Illegal copying over the years.
NOW the RIAA had to do something to save face QUICKLY and joined the Anti-Napster brigade…when the lawsuits and the dust settled Napster was gone (I personally think they screwed themselves over with that mess, but that’s a rant for another day) and the newer sharing networks were living on borrowed time. The ones that remain are located overseas and thusly not touchable to the RIAA’s cease and desist orders. So since they can’t shut down those networks the RIAA is trying to push into law a bill that would make it a federal felony to even make a copy of ONE song and send it to anybody via the net. Period, no arguments and almost 1000 subpoenas have been issued to individuals once the RIAA got the personal data from these individuals ISP’s charging them with Copyright Infringement and Illegal Distribution of Copyrighted material.
Yep…you heard me, your ISP is handing over your personal data to the RIAA’s lawyers so they can come to your house, and charge you with a crime. End results could be your PC taken, fines levied, maybe even jail time.
Blech. ~_~
I’m all for protecting copyright, but if they don’t start putting down the sledgehammer and picking up the olive branch they are gonna be shooting themselves in the foot before it’s all over.
SW