Comments on: Cornell and Ohio: in thrall to the RIAA

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:24:14 +0000

And Bill of Insomnia, you just sound like a moron. The court system has moved at a glacial pace precisely to be fair to all parties, while musicians have been screwed bigtime for years. Subpoena power was achieved via a court case of its own. The valid proof has held up in case after case after case. WTF are you talking about? You don’t appreciate DUE PROCESS? The punishments began very lightly and have risen with time just like every other crime paradigm. Jammie Thomas’s conviction and her $225,000 fine was by a JURY you nitwit, not some vigilanti judge. Do your homework. You can be certain that if extortion and felonious behavior REALLY becomes part of our justice system we’ll ALL be among the first to hear about it. Until then, steal my stuff and take your chances. I hope the RIAA catches you and fines your thieving ass right off the network.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:29:21 +0000

I never said nor implied the RIAA’s attempts to stop law breaking were popular with the ones who are breaking the law. I’m just saying the law is clear and in a well sorted out culture we follow the laws or change them legally, through your congressmen and senators. Don’t make a big deal out of law enforcement. A safe society needs it. If you want your criminal activity, just do it. But STFU if you get caught, busted, tried, found guilty and punished.

Buncha pussy whiners. “We want our “right” to steal!!” Whaaaaa! whaaaaaa!

By: Bill Of Insomnia

Bill Of Insomnia — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:19:08 +0000

Hey Gregory, how about your mafiAA paymasters STOP extorting money ILLEGALLY through the court system, of innocent people against whom they have NO valid proof of wrongdoing? Last I heard: extortion was a FELONY, and according to Joel Samaha’s “Criminal Law” what you assholes are doing is a TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE of litigation extortion.

Literally textbook. Not joking. It even gives court case example.

By: Dreddsnik

Dreddsnik — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:12:48 +0000

” You all need an ethical wake-up call. ”

Yes,
you and your RIAA pals do indeed.

By: Paulus

Paulus — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:24:13 +0000

It is back now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:50:28 +0000

Here’s something, Jon. An hour or so back I found this story on Google by searching ‘RIAA’. It was there by itself, complete with the picture.

I just went back to see if any other RIAA stories had been added and now your story has totally vanished and so has the picture. It won’t even come up under ‘Cornell and Ohio: in thrall to the RIAA’, Cornell, Ohio, or anything else.

Intersting, Google doing no Evil and all

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:48:43 +0000

Illegal downloading is illegal. Filesharing is illegal. Copyright infringement is illegal. Tell the students to act with morality and within legal behavior and suddenly the “disruptions to class” disappear overnight.

Holy smokes, people. If this many kids were shoplifting this many music cd’s off the record store shelves, would we even be having this discussion? Police actions and shoplifting arrests suddenly “disrupting class” is the problem?? I don’t think so. Since when did the format of stolen property redefine it as not stolen?

You all need an ethical wake-up call.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:44:15 +0000

please don’t give them anymore ideas on how to sue innocent people. as the one lawsuit in duluth showed that they need no evendence

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:25:02 +0000

Why do they stop at 30,000 people?
Why doesn’t the RIAA simply send notices to every person in the USA? I bet most will ignore them and they will become rich beyond their wildest dreams.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:58:18 +0000

Is this saying that by ignoring them, instead of having to pay 9000 per song, you would only have to pay 750?