I guess that is a good way to promote file sharing, by posting content on websites that require peer to peer file sharing to download.

The first part of your reply only clarifies what the parent poster is saying; file sharing is not having effect on record sales or movie sales, so further participation for the express purpose of destroying the industry is pointless.

Besides, no matter how much you tell everybody about the actions of the RIAA and the MPAA, most people will not care. We live amongst an extremely apathetic population, the majority of which don’t even vote. If you tell potential customers why they should not purchase material, simply because the companies that make or promote it are dishonest, that doesn’t stop the majority of informed people from purchasing anyway. We live in a culture of instant gratification; as long as people get what they want, they couldn’t care less how it came to them.

For example, most (if not a majority) of my college peers feel that the drinking age should be 18 and not 21, yet you don’t see any rallying of college students in the United States to repeal this limit. Most just either drink illegally or not at all. People want quick short-term solutions to their problems that can be “solved” easily, as opposed to long-term solutions that require a lot of time and effort to come to fruition.

My proof is the court records giving the RIAA permission to depose a little girl now 10, who was 7 at the time of alleged infringement. My proof is in the song, “Me so Horny,” in which part of the lyrick say, “I’d fuck my own child.” Yes, songs like this are promoted by the record companies.
Both instances meet the dictionary definition of molest: 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. I could go on and on about why and how these people are child molesters. If you include the movie industry, watch the movie, “pretty Baby” (A stark naked 12 year old girl acting as a child prostitute meets child pornography definition) and Hound Dog (12 year old raped) when it comes out. Yes, these monsters are child molesters, no the FBI isn’t even remotely interested in going after them. The media cartel is a multi-billion dollar industry.

“Further, placing derogatory labels on CDs you haven’t purchased is considered defacing and more than likely could land you in jail or liable for damages. While the clerk might not care, if the store owner caught you it could be bad for you.”

I totally agree with you here. It is defacing. If one gets caught, one could be liable and sent to jail. We are supposed to live in a land that is ruled by law. Unfortunately, the law is only selectively enforced, and only the rich or those who are lucky enough to get pro-bono lawyers have access to the court system. In the Police States of Amerika, we live under a system of fascist anarchy where the law and (much of the time) the court system is manipulated soley for the purpose of those with extreme amounts of money - the constitution or rights guaranteed by it be damned. It was mass disobedience that brought down the brutal rule of the Soviet era, and it will be mass disobedience that will bring down the rule of the cartels. What I use is very easily removed. However the clerk or proprietor must see the label to remove it.

There are much better ways to voice your complaints than to engage in illegal activities that don’t really hurt the organization you’re targetting. The person that will be hurt is the record store owner who may not be able to sell his legal wares.

How? Despite all of the internet campaigns, there are still people walking in to buy CD’S and DVD’s from the stores. Yes, I know that they are free to do so, but I wonder that if they were informed of choices, would they decide to exercise them? But maybe you are right. Some kind of other guerilla advertising can be made to reach the people who don’t use the Internet to get information. As far as the record store owner is concerned, the owner is usually a multi billion dollar corporation. I wouldn’t do this to an independent store. You see, that is the problem, the chain record store is part of the industry that is selling the corruption.

Maybe I wouldn’t be so pissed off if they weren’t trying to intimidate little girls who they cannot obviously believe were involved in infringement. I have little respect or tolerance for child molesters or bullies. These people are both. Boycotting a multi-billion dollar industry rarely works, especially industries that act like the mob.

Further, placing derogatory labels on CDs you haven’t purchased is considered defacing and more than likely could land you in jail or liable for damages. While the clerk might not care, if the store owner caught you it could be bad for you.

There are much better ways to voice your complaints than to engage in illegal activities that don’t really hurt the organization you’re targetting. The person that will be hurt is the record store owner who may not be able to sell his legal wares.

I fully support the Jon and his support of those who are being targetted by the RIAA. The one thing that we want to do is to sway public opinion in our favor. Certainly engaging in flagrantly illegal activities will only cause derision in the public arena.

I was truly hoping that the cartels would make about 25 to 35 cents song that was bought over the internet. I would have been willing to pay this price for music that I like. However, this is no longer the case. I DON’T want them to receive a SINGLE CENT for any of their stuff. I truly hope that “piracy” puts the media cartel out of business. You see where I go to church, they actually pointed out, how much illicit sex, violence, blasphemy, drug use, and other filth was being promoted by what is called entertainment today. In addition, when I see these crooks go after a little girl simply because her mother wants to prove her innocence, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

You see most Republican organizations and even the Christian Coalition side with the entertainment cartel and against file sharers. They typically believe the industry line that file sharers are thieves and criminals. This is simply not true. I do agree with them that file sharing is destroying their business. That is because they refuse to change with the times and set up a new business model for doing things. In my opinion, this stubborn refusal to change with the times is a good thing. It will hopefully destroy an industry that helps corrupt people around the world. The media cartel is the devil’s favorite tool, and I, for the life of me, cannot see why the Christian Coalition, the Democratic Party, and the Republican party are so happy to support it.

I’m even considering canceling my satellite subscription to starve them even more. I already no longer buy or rent CD’s, DVD’s or tapes. I no longer go to the theater either. I used to buy about 3 CD’s a month from the record labels as well as rent movies every other day. Now, I do neither. If someone else rents something I want to see, I will copy it, or I will lend a copy to them if I have something they want to see. I will also trade movies and music on a private wireless network.

In fact, I encourage all college students to set up such networks. They are very inexpensive and easy to set up, and they are notoriously difficult for the sue them all people to find and detect. They can be set up anonymously so that all ip’s assigned will not have a user name associated with them. All that is needed to set up such a files haring network is a laptop computer and a wireless router. It doesn’t have to be connected to the Internet. An entire dormatory can be on the network, and when someone introduces a new file, it can be distributed to everyone else. In many cases, people can watch a movie long before it hits the local movie house, and do it for free. This can be done outside of the remote detection ability of the media cartel.

With such a network, the media cartel will not only have to physically send out someone to the area where local file sharing is occurring, they will also have to find a way of matching ip and mac addresses to each computer as well as the user behind the computer. Mac addresses can be easily changed and there is no record or logs to grab. The Media cartel will have to actually physically catch people in the act before they can take any legal action.

I’m all for file sharing and I will teach people about it. I don’t care where they are liberal or conservative. I see an equal proportion of both doing it. The only difference is that the conservatives in general think file sharing is wrong. It is not. It is a community service.

Simple.

Every RIAA label CD purchased puts money in the LABELS
pocket.
Contrary to propogandist beliefs, almost none of that money
ever reaches an artist.
This money is then used to hire legal teams to come up
with brilliant legal strategies, such as suing the dead, suing
people who never had a computer, etc ….

Buy independent NON-RIAA music, or buy second hand CD’s
and run their financial river dry …

Sage advice, don’t you think ?

Hows that?

I am not one for reforming the current media cartels. I’m for DESTROYING them!!! They have corrupted entire generations with their smut. Now that they have a little competition, they resort to extortion, bullying, and child molestation. Reform is not good enough. Decent people would like to see child molesters dead or locked up for life. Since the R.I.A.A. and it masters are child molesting organizations, they deserve to be disbanded.

I love “pirates,” and for whatever reason they choose to download instead of buying, they are doing the world and its children a public service. This includes the “piracy” of family films and music as well. Starve the majors of every single cent because even money gained from “family entertainment” is being used to finance the CHILD MOLESTERS” activities. Anyone want to help me come up with a convincing message that can be placed on CD packages the tell potential customers how their money is being used to support CHILD MOLESTATION???

I don’t know about you but when I see RIAA I don’t think of that acronym in any context but the pet lapdog of “it’s constituents”. It means to me there is no doubt about where the directions to act come from or originate from.

That hardly qualifies as an averted PR disaster. Just as the Sony rootkit was the final straw to ensure I would buy no more Sony electronics products because I will never be sure of what is in them, I won’t buy any major label products because of the actions of the RIAA traces right back to the major labels instructions. The RIAA is not sharing in any revenues from these infringements with the artists by filtering them back to the major labels. Instead they are using the financial gain to fuel more cases. The original funding you can be sure in some form came from the major labels themselves. Either through contributions to the lapdog or through the lack of collections to allow them to keep the funds to continue.

Any lightning strike of bad publicity is directly reflective of the majors. If some how they believe that some front organization shields them from repercussions by the potential customer, they are sadly mistaken.

The sue’em alls are directing the ill will of past customers and a whole new generation which will turn into non-customers for a lifetime. Weighing this $3000-$5000 dollar infringement income against the potential $20,000 or more lifetime spending income is a poor bargain businesswise and will hasten the demise of the major labels. With their present attitude and actions, that is a good thing to happen.

I wonder how Kylee will feel if she says something that will enable these monsters to steal every penny her mother has. If that happens, it will haunt her the rest of her life. It would thrill me to no end to see some crazy go in to the RIAA, MPAA and their lawyers’ offices with a weapon and kill every one of them. That is what quite a few people believe should happen to child molesters. I would consider doing that very thing if these monsters went after my kids.

I hope the bastard RIAA and MPAA lawyers monitoring this site reads this comment. I want them to know that I am teaching as many people that I can about peer to peer software, and how to use it to get content. Someone needs to make an example out of this industry by destroying it. If that happens, maybe other unethical businesses will reconsider their practices. My hope is that these child molesters do not get a single penny for their crap. I also hope that their studios go OUT OF BUSINESS, and I am doing my part to see that it happens. I also hope that Jon clears hius usage logs as well so that some innocent proxy owner doesn’t get screwed for this comment.