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voidmain:
If ya do the crime ya gotta do the time. I think it's funny and I hope they go to jail. Listen to your damn selves talking about killing people because your illegal activity might finally be catching up with you. There are of course, alternatives. Maybe you don't find the alternatives as pleasing. Well then fucking pay up, how hard is that? If you can't afford it, tough shit. Use the alternatives. If you break the law, then be prepared to take responsibility for your actions. If you really want to hurt the bastards, then don't use their products.

[ November 26, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Kintaro:
good point

rtgwbmsr:

quote:Originally posted by cahult:
Neither APG nor their swedish counterpart really has any legal right to do like this. In Sweden they are fighting a losing battle because of a court ruling two years ago when one of ministers in our government burned a CD and gave it to one of her nieces as a christmas gift.

Also, in Sweden all companies must pay taxes, but it

Kintaro:
Really, well you can vote a new moderator, see my sig.

Doctor V:
I think fining someone $14,000 for downloading MP3s is like giving someone 20 years prison time for jaywalking.  The RIAA is guilty of pleant of crimes of their own.  Collusion is illegal isn't it?  Yet somehow the price of CDs has risen to nearly $20 dispite the cost to make them diminishing.  The RIAA's trade agreements also see to it that they do not compete at all for the artists.  Instead artists are forced to choose between bum deals that screw them over from one of several colluding labels.  I don't understand why someone should go to jail for downloading an MP3 dispite the RIAA people not going to jail for collusion.

New technology has made the current record labels less of a necessity to society.  Now, they no longer serve the public, but only serve their own interests at the expense of the public.  They are using every vehicle at their disposal to keep the system of the past in place.  And it hurts everybody but themselves.

Also, lobbying by the RIAA has pushed the law so heavily in favor of the labels and against the public, they are IMO illegitimate.  They have even lobbied laws that make a division of their own organization have complete control of all audio webcasting, even when there is a contract betoeen the webcaster and an artist who has produced his own cd.

Opressive laws should be fought against.  Opressive laws are followed by cowards and the best word to describe a person who publicly breaks one is: Hero.  A couple of names come to mind, Rosa Parks, and Ghandi.  --Should the owner of the bus company be able to say who sits where?  Its his bus company right, he can do whatever he wants.  If he wants all black people to sit in the back, then they either should or they can walk to work everyday.--  Sorry, not going to go for it.  Boycotts don't always work, sometimes the people have to take action.

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