Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:18AM EST
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At last, the music industry admits what we've known for years: That filing music-swapping lawsuits against teenagers, little old ladies, and corpses is a fool's errand (not to mention an expensive headache for the defendants). But don't worry—the RIAA has something new up its sleeves.
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Hate to be a nitpicker, but could the picture be any more ridiculous? Connecting the headphone jacks of two MP3 players won't share a thing, that should be obvious.
If the masses are stupid enough to follow this rule and stop downloading music it would just show how dumb our society is. if everyone keeps d/l music and everyones internet gets cut the isp's will be out of business so why would they do that, this is just a scare tactic all you have to do is not be scared keep doing what your doing, maybe a couple people will get there internet cut off, but as long as we keep doing it they will get there service back trust me everything is about money sadly! and isp's can't afford to cut everyone off
One thing hasn't been talked about and that is why even download buy one cd and have other's buy a different one,have a group of people all buy different ones. Pass them around let the people upload them into their own computer. Then they can make their own. If not the cd's then put them on these 2 to 8 gigs sticks and pass them around you get quality music not some with what you don't know pops and hisses. This way nobody knows what you are doing. No ISP'S involved
All simple, it will not work, just a scare tactic. There is always a way, and as long there is CD's then people will always burn and share. I personally don't have a MP3 player, but common sense will always work over greed. I think that music companies are setting people up, finding ways to sue people. If the government could do something they would have done so, a long time ago. Don't be tricked people, your tax money has already paid for it!
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1 Posted by hotel528 on Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:02PM EST Report Abuse
They finally start to make some sense. The giver pays, the receiver takes. You go after someone who shares, you don't go after someone who downloads. If someone is so generous to share, that someone pays for everything. Just like TV, you can watch the show for free because someone sponsored. They don't go after the watchers.