Comments on: Pouwelse: witness in RIAA case

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RIAA’s IP Gathering Techniques About to be Busted | TorrentFreak — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:36:30 +0000

[...] Jon from P2Pnet puts it; “Pouwelse’s evidence will be a landmark and it’ll be re-employed by attorneys [...]

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:20:16 +0000

Really? ;p

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:28:03 +0000

I believe Jon is using sarcasm to express the fact that CRIA’s agenda is dictated by the RIAA, id est, Warner, Sony BMG, Universal, Vivendi, et cetera.

Effectively the CRIA is just a puppet for the aforementioned companies. Under the guise of a Canadian organization, thus appearing to defend the rights of Canadian artists.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:09:47 +0000

“CRIA” does NOT stand for “Canadian Recording Industry Association of America”.

Really? heh.

RIAA doesn’t stand for Recording Industry Association of America, either. The Big 4 are EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music. But only Warner can be said to be American, and it’s run by a Canadian.

Cheers!
Jon

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:03:36 +0000

You’re right. Dumb mistake for me, of all people, to have made. I think I was the first one to point out that none of these cases ever reaches court.

Anyhow, I’ve corrected it.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:33:49 +0000

What “show trials”?

I’ve never known the RIAA to actually go to trial.

That would go against Rule Number 1 in dealing with bullies:
“Rule Number 1. Bullies will always back down when when you fight back.”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:26:43 +0000

Just a quick note: “CRIA” does NOT stand for “Canadian Recording Industry Association of America”. (That’s oxymoronic.)

It stands for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

That should definitely be modified. Great story otherwise.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:42:40 +0000

This whole business is out of hand and unfortunate. RIAA needs to put on a better public face and find a way to actually pin down the copyright infringer.

Ambiguity is going to be RIAA’s Achilles heal.

While I think it is wrong to copyright infringe/morally steal someones works with out paying, I also think that business models need to change. That is why I still prefer to purchase CD’s.

Now if we could get our fair use rights back in order and not be treated like a criminal for it…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:48:03 +0000

One needs to bear in mind that some targets of the RIAA have done nothing. That the RIAA has taken money from people where no evidence ever did exists because no downloads ever occured. That the RIAA made up the story, sued in court just to take there money. A certin crime of fraud.