Comments on: Kazaa deal paid for RIAA victim? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:06:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475#comment-130697 Reader's Write Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:24:24 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475#comment-130697 This is nothing more than a post from a record company troll. As Kazaa has shut down all infringements what infringements can they be talking about. You simply cannot have it both ways invoke the settlement but not the consequences of the settlement This is nothing more than a post from a record company troll. As Kazaa has shut down all infringements what infringements can they be talking about. You simply cannot have it both ways invoke the settlement but not the consequences of the settlement

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475#comment-130603 Reader's Write Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:49:13 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475#comment-130603 Dear all, The Kazaa get out of jail free defense is a smokescreen. Even if a judge accepted the premise of that idea (which would be extremely unlikely) the defendant would have to deal with the actual legal issues of the fact that the induced Kazaa infringments were from many years ago due to the length of settling legal proceeding. The infringements in this new case are likely for a period after the infringements of the Kazaa case. New infringments that couldn't have been induced by Kazaa. Dear all,
The Kazaa get out of jail free defense is a smokescreen. Even if a judge accepted the premise of that idea (which would be extremely unlikely) the defendant would have to deal with the actual legal issues of the fact that the induced Kazaa infringments were from many years ago due to the length of settling legal proceeding. The infringements in this new case are likely for a period after the infringements of the Kazaa case. New infringments that couldn’t have been induced by Kazaa.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475#comment-130457 Reader's Write Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:44:13 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10475#comment-130457 Interesting. The cartels will either have to fight this one for all they are worth or meet it yet again in the next round. And it may turn out that the winning of the Kazaa case might not have been in their very best interests. I am sure their short term sights are set on eliminating the competition so that they can dominate on the internet just as they have the merchant world. This would in effect make going after file sharers not worth it financially. The costs of court action alone being far more than they could hope to recoup in damages. Even if the victim had to pay the court costs, there would still be little advantage to go after the file sharers that didn't do it for profit motive. They have opened a can of worms with sue'em all. One that will sooner or later blow up in their faces. That they are already uncomfortable with the notorious branding of their legal actions is already coming to surface with the press conferences dealing with "Why are we being termed the bad guys?" While the employees that might work at the **AAs may be good folks on a family setting, in the corporate world they are anything but. It was once said that corporations have all the advantages of being human without the benefit of a conscience. It is this lack of moral guidelines that are turning the mega-corporations into entities Joe Public is learning to hate. It is a short step from distaste to turning away from being a customer. Those same corporations would do well to remember it is the customer from which their financial well-bring springs from. Interesting. The cartels will either have to fight this one for all they are worth or meet it yet again in the next round. And it may turn out that the winning of the Kazaa case might not have been in their very best interests.

I am sure their short term sights are set on eliminating the competition so that they can dominate on the internet just as they have the merchant world.

This would in effect make going after file sharers not worth it financially. The costs of court action alone being far more than they could hope to recoup in damages. Even if the victim had to pay the court costs, there would still be little advantage to go after the file sharers that didn’t do it for profit motive.

They have opened a can of worms with sue’em all. One that will sooner or later blow up in their faces. That they are already uncomfortable with the notorious branding of their legal actions is already coming to surface with the press conferences dealing with “Why are we being termed the bad guys?”

While the employees that might work at the **AAs may be good folks on a family setting, in the corporate world they are anything but. It was once said that corporations have all the advantages of being human without the benefit of a conscience. It is this lack of moral guidelines that are turning the mega-corporations into entities Joe Public is learning to hate. It is a short step from distaste to turning away from being a customer. Those same corporations would do well to remember it is the customer from which their financial well-bring springs from.

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