Comments on: RIAA training video farce: update http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ravensky http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332926 ravensky Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:39:46 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332926 I have a copy of this and think its a huge joke, how many people go to a crackhouse to get a CD... From where they make the jump to cd piracy to drugs and terrorism is beyond me. It has no connection that I am fundamentaly aware of. Maybe its like cigarettes a gateway drug to pot and cocaine. But as far as I am aware when my daugter downloaded her copy of britteny spears new album I am certain that I recall she didnt have a line of coke next to the keyboard. If anything the only connection between drugs and music is from the artists using it themselves. If anything people like Robert Downey JR are constantly strung up on cocaine and whatever else they can get. Maybe if anything the MPAA are a gateway to drug usage and selling. The companies make people a star, ever work them, they get addicted to meth and they release the movie to theatre and video so who are the real criminals? The MPAA and RIAA make money off of the sensationalism of their contracted artists. Amy Whinehouse or however you spell it, its not like they are not aware of her drug usage and are saying "" WAIT!!! we cant support this artist.. she/he is on drugs , getting the money from legal sales of it to buy illegal product."" the industry will never say that or admit to the world that they like it when a few celebrities are cranked out or messed up. Sadly to say sometimes people are popular for the decisions they make, many do drugs and are famous because of the contraversy they provide. And large companies and corps give leway to these artists/people because of the money they/it brings in. Anyhow thats my 2 cents I have a copy of this and think its a huge joke, how many people go to a crackhouse to get a CD…
From where they make the jump to cd piracy to drugs and terrorism is beyond me. It has no connection that I am fundamentaly aware of. Maybe its like cigarettes a gateway drug to pot and cocaine. But as far as I am aware when my daugter downloaded her copy of britteny spears new album I am certain that I recall she didnt have a line of coke next to the keyboard. If anything the only connection between drugs and music is from the artists using it themselves. If anything people like Robert Downey JR are constantly strung up on cocaine and whatever else they can get. Maybe if anything the MPAA are a gateway to drug usage and selling. The companies make people a star, ever work them, they get addicted to meth and they release the movie to theatre and video so who are the real criminals? The MPAA and RIAA make money off of the sensationalism of their contracted artists. Amy Whinehouse or however you spell it, its not like they are not aware of her drug usage and are saying “” WAIT!!! we cant support this artist.. she/he is on drugs , getting the money from legal sales of it to buy illegal product.”" the industry will never say that or admit to the world that they like it when a few celebrities are cranked out or messed up. Sadly to say sometimes people are popular for the decisions they make, many do drugs and are famous because of the contraversy they provide. And large companies and corps give leway to these artists/people because of the money they/it brings in.
Anyhow thats my 2 cents

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332803 Reader's Write Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:46:23 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332803 Am I to believe that the Police Academy movies are a sober and accurate representation of the US legal system as well? They might as well threaten the Taliban with an endless string of telemarketer calls while their at it. Am I to believe that the Police Academy movies are a sober and accurate representation of the US legal system as well? They might as well threaten the Taliban with an endless string of telemarketer calls while their at it.

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332613 Jon Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:48:51 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332613 ^^ Thanks. Fixed. Cheers! ^^ Thanks. Fixed.

Cheers!

]]> By: meth0d http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332606 meth0d Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:45:29 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332606 jon, the link doesn't work jon, the link doesn’t work

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332543 Reader's Write Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:40:13 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332543 Drug dealing and music piracy...boy that's a stretch. Last time I knew, drugs cost money. File sharing doesn't, which I am sure is the RIAA's bottom line in where they are headed. So how does one go from no money transfered to paying for drugs? Don't tell me that even the RIAA is fool enough to suggest that their "product" is worth enough to trade straight up for these sort of drugs? Somehow I doubt any drug dealer would be in business for long if they accepted that sort of "currency". Of course this is nothing short of propaganda trying again to push the idea that infringement is the equivalent of major criminal activities. But then again, I haven't watched the vid and have no plans in doing so. I can get better material to waste my time on by reading some sci-fi novel. At least that might have an entertaining theme. On the face of it, I see nothing entertaining in the supposed theme of the vid offered. Other than that of the slap stick comedy sort. As far as this "Frank Walters" goes, the music industry long ago proved if you throw enough money at it, some one is bound to step up to offer to take it. Further proved long ago is that if they push long and hard enough, someone will buy the tripe put out as being real and will actually do things on their own without payment. In all this, these major labels have done their best to equate piracy as in the selling from bootlegs to equal file sharing. In spite of all their efforts, including gaining access to schools both in the uni level and the lower grades to preach copyright without paying attention to both sides of the equation, the message they are putting out is more one of farce where they lack the honesty to realize fact from fiction. *note: I nearly deleted this post because of the false message of posting too quickly continually appears at first post atttempt. Drug dealing and music piracy…boy that’s a stretch. Last time I knew, drugs cost money. File sharing doesn’t, which I am sure is the RIAA’s bottom line in where they are headed. So how does one go from no money transfered to paying for drugs? Don’t tell me that even the RIAA is fool enough to suggest that their “product” is worth enough to trade straight up for these sort of drugs? Somehow I doubt any drug dealer would be in business for long if they accepted that sort of “currency”.

Of course this is nothing short of propaganda trying again to push the idea that infringement is the equivalent of major criminal activities.

But then again, I haven’t watched the vid and have no plans in doing so. I can get better material to waste my time on by reading some sci-fi novel. At least that might have an entertaining theme. On the face of it, I see nothing entertaining in the supposed theme of the vid offered. Other than that of the slap stick comedy sort.

As far as this “Frank Walters” goes, the music industry long ago proved if you throw enough money at it, some one is bound to step up to offer to take it. Further proved long ago is that if they push long and hard enough, someone will buy the tripe put out as being real and will actually do things on their own without payment.

In all this, these major labels have done their best to equate piracy as in the selling from bootlegs to equal file sharing. In spite of all their efforts, including gaining access to schools both in the uni level and the lower grades to preach copyright without paying attention to both sides of the equation, the message they are putting out is more one of farce where they lack the honesty to realize fact from fiction.

*note: I nearly deleted this post because of the false message of posting too quickly continually appears at first post atttempt.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332451 Reader's Write Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:53:48 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332451 "Frank Walters, a former Maryland State Trooper turned RIAA investigator" You mean turned terrorist and traitor for helping and assisting foreign corporations of parasites to terrorize the world citizen! We did not send the right guys at Gatanamo. We can change that! “Frank Walters, a former Maryland State Trooper turned RIAA investigator”

You mean turned terrorist and traitor for helping and assisting foreign corporations of parasites to terrorize the world citizen!

We did not send the right guys at Gatanamo. We can change that!

]]> By: Paulus http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035/comment-page-1#comment-332402 Paulus Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:15:49 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15035#comment-332402 That is Walters on the left? ;) That is Walters on the left? ;)

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